Summary: In part one of this program, Hedrick Smith reports on how the Alliance of Concerned Men stopped a youth gang war in Benning Terrace, a public housing project in the nation's capital that had become a war zone. Alliance members Tyrone Parker and Rico Rush, former felons with new lives and a new mission, negotiate a truce with the rival gangs that ends the killing and brings hope and new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program discusses the effects and repercussions of weapons and violence on campus. Subjects covered include weapons on campus; a safe learning environment at school; penalties for fighting at school; anger and violence; how to avoid a fight; where to turn for help if threatened; punishment for weapons on campus; punishment for fighting on campus; anger management and peer-counseling; where...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The key to reducing violence is understanding its roots. This program offers insights and suggestions that can stop dangerous incidents before they start. Among the topics explored are ways to avoid becoming a victim of campus crime, domestic abuse and the cycle of violence theory as defined by psychologist Lenore Walker, date rape and guidelines for preventing it, the triggers for bias crimes,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006