The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project in Chicago

going to stop this. We’re going to help the police, probation. We’re going to stop theviolence.”I guess she could also target certain kids and families for special help. Butshe has to be careful about which kid she tries to help. She gets too identifiedwith some of them, the wrong ones. We tell her not to help the hardcore guyswho have been arrested four times, twice for shootings, two times for a stolen car,and we think he did a murder. That’s not the kid she as a neighborhood organizershould try to help. Let’s get to this other kid. He’s only been arrested once, fordisorderly conduct. He’s in the gang but he’s on the edge and figure out how thecommunity can pull him out. The neighborhood organizer should do moreprevention, and help the community do more prevention.G.S.She takes it on herself to worry about these kids, but she picks the wrong ones.R.C.She also believes everything that the kids are telling her against the cops is true. They’reusing her. She’s also trying to do the job of the youth worker, and doesn’t know how todo it. She’s not supposed to do it.G.S.You need a neighborhood organizer who knows the community, who has relationshipswith the families, who can get access to resources. She should be in a position to mainlyhelp the street workers. She has to provide information about resources to the youthworker. He works with the kids directly. She works indirectly with the kids, helping the6.31