Gang Prevention
PARENTS ON A MISSION
Turning the hearts of parents towards their children, and the hearts of children towards their parents as the best practice for preventing children from joining gangs and other negative lifestyles.
POM is a Train the Trainer curriculum that gives community practitioners the practical tools to empower parents to prevent their children from joining gangs even in the midst of a gang-infested environment! This training is specifically designed for local Public School Personnel, Law enforcement, Community-Based Practitioners, and Faith-Based Leaders dealing with gangs, gang members and their families.
Many practitioners confuse “intervention” with “prevention”. For example, when a child begins to act out, or commits their first misdemeanor or crime, practitioners begin to employ their strategy to “prevent” that youngster from joining a gang or continuing down the negative road he has started on. However, in my view, this is not “prevention”, but rather, “intervention” to stop the youngster from committing further violations of the law. Of course this type of work is necessary in helping youth turn from a lifestyle of committing more crimes and getting caught in the web of the Juvenile Justice system. Yet, I suggest, we need to take the issue a step further. We need to work on root issues that will “prevent” a child from ever going down the road of delinquency and joining a gang. This is my view of prevention and I believe many parents prefer this, rather than assuming, guessing and hoping that their son or daughter never becomes a gang member in a gang neighborhood.
Conventional Wisdom Says…
* Employ the heavy hand of law enforcement
* Create more community-based programs
* Spend millions of dollars on research
What Are The Results of this Wisdom?
“After a quarter century of a multi-billion dollar war on gangs, there are six times as many gangs…in sum, despite decades of research into gangs and violence, there is no single, definitive formula for success…there are no quick fixes…for the problems youth gangs create or the problems that create youth gangs.”
- LA Advancement Project, 2007
POM suggests communities adjust their focus from the problems that gangs create - to the problems that create gangs. POM advocates for communities to:
- Recruit and train more parent leaders in the home - Not more policeman on the streets
- Recruit and train more parent mentors - Not only youth mentors
- Direct more investment of funding in prevention - Not more in suppression
POM Certified Trainers Receive:
A comprehensive Trainer Manual ($1,500 value!):
* Six easy to follow written sessions on Parent Leadership
* Provided illustrations to enhance the teaching material
* Two FREE copies of my newest companion book on Gang Prevention ($33.94 value)
* SPECIAL BONUSES INCLUDE:
* FREE Monthly Coaching Tele-seminars for three months following the training ($300 value!)
* Access to email and direct line for Q&A and parent group troubleshooting
Content Overview:
Session 1 - POM Orientation
The orientation serves to introduce participants to the core values and concepts of Parents on a Mission. In addition, the orientation serves to give parents a brief understanding about gangs and their growing influence throughout the country. However, POM is not a gang awareness curriculum. This session is not designed to give an in-depth teaching on the gang sub-culture of graffiti, hand signs, colors and other information and data usually given by law enforcement presentations. Should participants desire this kind of knowledge, the instructor can invite a guest law enforcement (or other subject matter expert) instructor to give a presentation. POM is designed to focus on the problems that create gangs, and not on the problems that gangs create.
Session 2 - Parental Personal Growth
The purpose of this first lesson is to help parents understand the importance of their own emotional growth and maturity as leaders in their home. The material guides parents to an inside-out approach to personal growth and how it relates to their ability to nurture the growth and maturity of their children. The lesson is based on the three principles of: 1) Examining our thoughts about ourselves and the affect our thought life has on a healthy self-esteem, 2) The power of choice and our capacity to choose our thoughts and responses to past or present circumstances. Through learning to understand the power of choice, parents gain a sense of how to overcome past difficulties and gain control of creating their own future, 3) The power of forgiveness in restoring personal peace and reconciliation of broken relationships.
Session 3 - Parental Authority & Gang Prevention
Parental authority is by far the most overlooked principle to gang prevention. Because of the importance of this issue, two sessions have been devoted to the topic of parental authority and discipline. The lesson on parental authority emphasizes why parents must win the battle of child obedience and provides principles for accomplishing this at an early age. Parents will learn the importance of the “twelve year home field advantage” and how to maximize this vital time frame in preparing our children for dealing with peer pressure in the neighborhood and school campus.
Session 4 - Authority & Discipline
Parental authority and the use of discipline is a controversial topic. Many parents are confused and afraid to exercise their right as the authority figure in the lives of their children. This session will define the true meaning of discipline and give guiding principles on how to properly exercise parental authority. This session will also address the controversy over the issue of spanking. While POM does not advocate the rightness or wrongness of spanking, we do recognize that many parents do choose to spank their children and thus we provide guidance on its proper use vs. the illegality of physical abuse. While many argue that parents should not spank their children for any reason, POM respects the choice and right of parents to spank, but to do so properly and wisely. Finally, this lesson will help participants make the crucial link between gang prevention and child obedience.
Session 5 - Community Building
Citizenship and the instruction of the individual’s role in the family and community is the purpose of session five. Parents gain insights on the family unit as a microcosm of society and how they guide their children from dependence, to independence, and finally to interdependence as contributing members of their community. Suggested activities are given to assist parents in how to build community in their home.
Session 6 - Trust & Loyalty
One of the key elements of becoming a gang member is the willingness to pledge loyalty to the gang above everything and everyone else. Because of the youth’s willingness to make this pledge, many families have suffered the agonizing loss of their child to prison or the grave yard. This begs the question; why would any young boy or girl want to give away their loyalty to a street gang? This session examines how parents are losing this battle to their competition (Gangs), and provides guidance on how to overcome and win the battle for the trust and loyalty of their children as the best practice for gang prevention that any community can invest in.
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"I am a single mother with three children. ...POM works for me because it taught me to accept responsibility for my family." - Claudio Sanchez, Office Manager, Phoenix, AR -
"The best Gang Prevention strategy I have ever come across in 12 years of Urban Youth Work." - Jerry Torrez, Program Director, Life Development Institute, Denver, CO -
"This POM program has opened my eyes to how important parents are in children's decision making. I would definitely recommend this (training) to other parents..." - Jose DeHoyos, Center of Hope Men's Home, Denver, CO -
"POM is an excellent opportunity to reach out to the community in a truly meaningful manner. I can't stress the quality of this program enough." - Gary Crandell, Center of Hope, Lakewood, CO -
"Wow, the POM sessions have been amazing... I have learned the importance of discipline and authority with a strong hand, yet with a loving backing to it." - Manuela Sheehan, Program Director, The Jeremiah Project, Phoenix, AR -
"I was a gang member and served five years in CYA...POM touched on all the components that were missing in my home and why I gave my loyalty away... POM has identified where the problem lies and how to get started with addressing it." - Darwin Ramirez, Mentor, KEYS Center, Phoenix, AR -
"I'm a retired school teacher and school administrator. I've done many trainings and parent trainings, but the POM training we have experienced for the past two days has been outstanding. It has been an inside-out process." - Vanessa Rolf, retired school teacher and administrator, Phoenix, AR -
"I have a 19 year old son who is gang affiliated!... This POM has helped me greatly understand how my son is where he is now in his life and what my contribution was to his being where he is... Thank you for this training of POM." - Rose Ann Petty, Denver, CO