Symposium Breakout Sessions
June 24−26

The symposium will offer breakout sessions filled with information, strategies, and promising/best practices from multiple perspectives in the field dealing with youth gang issues. Whether you work in law enforcement, state or local government, community- or faith-based organizations, the justice system, or schools, there will be something for you. Breakout sessions are open to all conference participants; preregistration is not required. Space may be limited for some offerings.

• 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