Gangs to Jobs - Softcover

Roger-minassian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971758549 ISBN 13: 9780971758544

Verlag: Alpha Publishing, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

"Gangs to Jobs" is a "how to" book about a program that helped transform the auto theft capital of California into a 2000 All-America City. Awakened by the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Rev. Roger Minassian began a journey from middle class pulpit to "the other America." What the author discovered led to the founding of Hope Now For Youth, an award-winning solution to gang crime and violence that since 1993 has placed over 1200 gang members into jobs at 285 businesses, with an amazing 85% success and only 8% recidivism.

By allaying up front the fear most people have of gang members, the author frees the reader to understand the causes of gang behavior. Minassian then inspires as well as informs through integrating stories of successful ex-gang members with practical steps citizens can follow. This book offers every reader hope while providing activists a proven method of gang intervention.

"Two Steps and You’re Up: a caring relationship and a job lift a gang member from the streets into the American mainstream." This motto of Hope Now For Youth summarizes the solution to gang behavior described in the first half of the book. The last half explains how this highly successful program was started and how it can be implemented elsewhere.

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Rev. Roger Minassian served as a parish pastor in Presbyterian and Congregational churches for over 22 years. Growing up in New York City, possessing a heart for the underdog, and hearing the call of Jesus qualified Minassian in 1993 to found an award-winning ministry to gang members. Over 900 transformed gang members in the first ten years supplied abundant reasons for him to write his first book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alpha Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0971758549
• ISBN 13: 9780971758544
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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