SL and Youth Violence Results

I'd like to thank all of you who responded to my question about the role of 
service-learning and violence prevention.  Here is a summary of the info I 
received:

There is a Breakaway ASB site in Detroit that works with a program called 
Save Our Sons And Daughters (SOSAD).   As part of their ASB program, they 
train and educate college students about the issues that their children 
face in the Detroit community and provide the students with opportunities 
to work with these children.  You can get more info about the program on 
Breakaway's web site at:

http://www.alternativebreaks.org/members/sitebank/searchdisplay.asp?userID=
83

Street Law's website (www.streetlaw.org) is a great resource for obtaining 
information and ideas about violence prevention and youth participatory 
programs such as their "Teens, Crime, and the Community" Program.

The Teaching Tolerance Website also contains valuable information.  Here is 
a blurb from their website:

Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance 
supports the efforts of K-12 teachers and other educators to promote 
respect for differences and appreciation of diversity. Teaching Tolerance 
serves as a clearinghouse of information about anti-bias programs and 
activities being implemented in schools across the country.  Teaching 
Tolerance also produces and distributes free, high-quality anti-bias 
materials.

Their website is: http://www.tolerance.org/teach/index.jsp

You may also find their partner website tolerance.org useful as well.

I'm still following some other suggestions and one I get that information I 
will post it.

Regards

Warren

Warren F. Passin
MPH/MSW Candidate-University of Michigan
Program Assistant-Community-Classroom Connection
Office of Community-Based Public Health
109 S. Observatory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
734.647.7473 phone
734.936.0927 fax
wpassin@umich.edu
http://www.sph.umich.edu/cbph/

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you
murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely
increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness
cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate: Only love can do that."  Martin Luther King, Jr.