Mediation Training to Decrease Violent Gang Behavior
Among Youth
Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy

Duquesne University's Graduate Center for Social and Public Polcy, in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Mediation Center, has undertaken a program to reduce gang-related violence through an integrated two-year outreach program of conflict resolution and mediation training and intervention services for:

* Gang Members
* Youth at Risk of Involvement in Gangs
* University Students
* Service Agency Personel, and
* the East Liberty and Hill District Communities at Large

Duquesne's conflict resolution and mediation program will intially work intensively with clients and supervisors of three Community Intensive Supervision Project centers, operated by the Juvenille Secion, Family Division, Court of Common Pleas in Allegheny County, in the Hill District, Garfield and Homewood, that directly serve populations of the two target communities. In the second year and following an appropriate intitial planning effort, attention will be given to a carefully designed infusion of these alternative dispute resolution skills into the two communities.

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