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Divert Youth – Youth Endowment Fund
We’re delighted to announce our success as one of the first grantees of the Youth Endowment Fund, delivery DIVERT Youth in partnership with Lambeth Council and The Metropolitan Police plus evaluation support by Manchester Metropolitan University.
November 8, 2019 -
1Xtra Talks: What Is Trauma
Ebinehita Iyere, Youth Project lead at Juvenis, spoke to BBC 1Xtra with a guest panel to discuss how trauma can manifest and impact our lives.
September 17, 2019 -
Winston Goode makes Happy List 2019
Founder Winston Goode is on this year’s Happy List. The Independent’s Happy List celebrates 50 people who enrich the lives of others.
September 11, 2019 -
Custody intervention programme sees just 7% of youths reoffend
A custody programme which reaches out to young adults in a bid to steer them away from a life of crime and into jobs including football coaching has yielded some impressive results.
September 11, 2019 -
Why does no one talk about the impact of youth violence on women?
We rarely hear about the ways youth violence hurts women and girls. For his second All City column journalist and youth worker Ciaran Thapar investigates.
April 28, 2019 -
Special report in knife crime by ITV News
Knife crime has received a lot of coverage over recent weeks. But there is a group of affected people who are often overlooked – the teenage girls who find themselves supporting their male friends caught up in youth violence.
March 22, 2019 -
Grant awarded to Juvenis to tackle youth violence
On the 16th November Juvenis was one of the 20 community-based organisations across London awarded with first round of grants from The London Community Foundation’s programme ESDF Save London Lives.
November 16, 2018 -
Finding A Solution To Youth Violence
The Voice reports back on the launch of Lambeth’s Violence Reduction Unit began with a historic meeting at Lambeth Town Hall last month organised by the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board.
October 21, 2018 -
‘Looking behind the Crime isn’t soft, it’s intelligent policing
The public health approach to youth crime, backed by the Evening Standard as part of a £1 million Save London Lives campaign, calls for trauma-informed approaches to policing.
October 19, 2018 -
A starting solution to youth violence begins with an open mind
Guest authors for The London Community Foundation, Mariam & Kumba, who are also aspiring journalists, describe their experience of the #ViolenceVirus event which was held on 12 September 2018.
October 9, 2018