Dad, Youth Development Specialist, CEO of ACT CIC & Founder of The Serious Youth Violence Network . Empowering & Connecting Communities to End Youth Violence.
Terms like "knife crime" and "gangs" oversimplify & often obscure the complex social dynamics involved. Reducing a range of issues—poverty, structural inequality, trauma, marginalisation, lack of opportunity into a single, stigmatised term "knife crime" or demonising label "gang"
Why does the West Midlands have the worst rate of knife crime in the country?
Teswal White, chief executive of @ACTCIC says deprivation is the problem.
#KayBurley SG
Preping for a session on marginalisation and its impact on communities. It baffles me how many people who support young people impacted by #seriousyouthviolence that dont understand what #Marginalisation is! Today, we will be exploring the following in detail #gangscourse
Publishing at the end of the month!
Reveals powerful testimonies from black voices caught up in the CJ system & involved in speaking out against slavery, & highlights the pivotal role played by black activists during significant periods of British history
https://t.co/jfQvkp7UFw
🚨 PLEASE READ 🚨
An update on a Manchester based trial against 10 of our city’s young people.
This is the brutal, unjust reality of ‘gangs policing’. We hope for justice next week.
Plain text statement: https://t.co/eejj3D5LEu
EXCLUSIVE SET VIDEO!!!!
This a behind the scenes look at MARCUS, our play that we will be screening this coming August!
We hope you are going to enjoy what we make and support us along the journey to get MARCUS made!
#marcus#marcusgarvey#windrush#blackstorypartnership
@NatalieQueiroz1 @ACTCIC 😊 ah thanks Nat, you are the reason we do this work. To help more awesome practitioners that care and really want to make a difference to the young people they serve. So proud of you my cheesey grin says it all 😂 ❤
You three men have nothing to be ashamed of. You allowed my two young black boys to dare to dream and realise anything is possible. No trophy in the world can match this. Hold your heads up young kings, you did this for all of us. PROUD ✊🏿❤️🖤