The Aquarius Project (TAP) will seek, implement and manage prevention
and intervention strategies to halt youth/gang violence. TAP will implement
the proven collaborative model from the Boston Gun Project’s Operation
Cease Fire, which won national acclaim for halting the juvenile homicide
rate in the city of Boston for two and half years. Using the Streetworker
model, direct intervention with high-risk youth.
TAP will collaborate with city schools, local government entities,
local probation departments, local police departments, local social
service organizations, local juvenile court judges and district attorneys
along with the federal government.
These agencies combined are a powerful influence needed to gather resources
that will be disseminated to local community based organizations and
local anti-gang programs. This collaborative will provide prevention
and intervention strategies to deter gang membership, gang violence
and overall violence along with trainings the public schools on how
to recognize and deal with potential youth/gang violence.
The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Cease Fire was implemented
and achieved success by reducing and finally halting the gang violence
in the city of Boston, Ma. by using the carrot and stick approach. Either
the gangs take the carrots (the resources-Streetworkers-Social workers)
or they get the stick (Local law enforcement-ATF). This collaborative
is guaranteed to work, members of TAP were instrumental in the implementation
of the Boston Gun Project’s Operation Cease Fire, and we have
30 years of experience in working with youth, gang violence, collaborations
and trainings. Members of TAP have consulted with representatives across
the United Sates, including Denver, New York, Providence, and St. Louis.
TAP specializes in collaborative methods to reduce youth/gang violence.
Our staff has experience working with local and state governments, outcome
requirements, monthly reports, quarterly reports, yearly reports, invoicing,
media, presentations, implementations of youth/gang prevention programs
and overall reduction in gang violent crimes in the community as well
as the public school system.
The need for TAP is simple, violence cost the community a great deal.
Not only in lost lives, but also in lost revenue. It costs the tax payers
30,000-45,000 a year to send one person to prison, it cost the public
school money in lost income every day a student isn’t seating
in a seat (ADA). For the cost of highering a specialized group (TAP)
will save millions of dollars not to mention the lives of our youth.
Please refer to the Reducing Gun Violence the Boston Gun Project’s
Operation Cease Fire website.
