THE AWAKENING

The goal of this program is to have an incredibly open, honest, practical, impactful and different conversation about addressing community gun violence. This program is designed to offer and equip each participant with a different outlook on addressing community gun violence and the inspiration to help end it.

Main Principles

AWARENESS

Awareness will address the actual analyzing of gun violence, the things that provoke it, social media, manhood, absent guidance, present parenting. A statistical outline of the gun violence the victims and the numbness associated with the gun violence.

UNDERSTANDING

Understanding will focus on the origin/core of gun violence from and individual perspective, state of mind, the cycle of gun violence, and the acceptance of gun violence.

INTERRUPTION

Interrupters will focus on the value you of life, participants and others, generational gun violence outline the gun violence before you-the gun violence currently-the gun violence behind you, manhood equated with gun violence and the actual interrupters: death, prison, and change.

SOLUTIONS

Solutions will be the outline that the participants will create that they believe will bring progressive change to the gun violence in our communities from responsibility and accountability to education employment, community investment, community building, peace initiatives, and social activism.

Course Details

Through the course of the program Participants will go through trainings, Conflict Resolution, Mental Health, and Restorative Justice they will receive Certificates in these trainings and one for the completion of the program. There will also be guest speakers, individuals that have participated or been a victim of gun violence.

Week 1

introduction: Outline the goals/objective of the program and expectations of the participants. An open discussion about gun violence in the community. Identify and define the four principles: Awareness, Understanding, Interruption and Solutions.