National Gang Symposium 2011

Breakout Sessions Presymposium Workshops

2008 Symposium Breakout Sessions

The 2008 National Youth Gang Symposium offered almost 90 different sessions on topics including:

Gang awareness with a national and regional focus
Gangs online
Brown/black gang conflicts
Gangster rap
Gangs in Indian Country
Female gangs
Nation gangs
(Midwest and East Coast)
Mara Salvatrucha
(East and West Coast)
Gangs in the Southeast
Gangs in the Southwest
Hispanic gangs
(East and West Coast)
Truancy programs to address gangs
School-based prevention and intervention programs
Team-based gang crisis response
School policies to address gangs
Evaluation and performance measures
Sustainability and funding
Case management
How to start prevention/intervention programs
Creating a community task force
Working with the media
Responding to emerging gang problems
Female-specific interventions
Gang intervention through targeted outreach
Dealing with grief, death, and dying issues
Community-based intervention strategies that work
Employment programs that work for gang-involved youth
Serving gang-involved families
Gang-focused restorative justice programming
Gangs in custody
Alternatives to incarceration
Partnering with the community
Diversion programs
Creative sentencing
Probation strategies for gang-involved youth
Targeted reentry
Gang prosecution
Gang-infested neighborhoods
G.R.E.A.T. and G.R.E.A.T. Families Programs
Gang prevention through targeted outreach
Street SMART

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