Streetworker Program
Program Type:
The Streetworkers Program operates 24 hours a day on the streets and
in the high schools. Streetworker work 9-5 during school year and 12-9
during summer months (while being on call 24 hours a day), staff conduct
gang and youth outreach activities engaging gang members in the streets
and through home visits. The streetworkers advocate for gang members
in the courts (when appropriate), help the probation department with
supervision, mediate disputes and gang truces, and refer gang members
and their families to existing government and community programs. Streetworkers
also have played a critical role in Operation Ceasefire (see website
links) inviting gang members to meetings (forums) with Federal, State,
and local law enforcement agencies to communicate a message of zero
tolerance for firearm homicides.
Goal:
To bring the juvenile homicide rate to zero. Maintaining the zero
juvenile homicides and building a repot with the gang involved youth
to stop violent recidivism.
Target Population:
High-risk youth and young adults, especially those not currently receiving
services, those who been in juvenile hall, youth ranches and California
Youth Authority for weapons charges.
Setting:
High-risk neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Project Startup Date:
2004
Information Source:
The Aquarius Project
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