YCW Anguilla
YCW Bangladesh
JCC Brazil
YCW Cameroon
YCW the Gambia
YCW Ghana
JCC Guinea
JCC Haiti
YCW Jamaica
YCW Liberia
YCW Nepal
YCW Nigeria
YCW Pakistan
JCD Panama
TID Romania
YCW Rwanda
YRP Russia
YCW Sierra Leone
YCW South Africa
YCW Uganda
YCW Zambia
What is crime, violence, and drug education?
Education is the third of the nine basic Youth Crime Watch components. It may involve things such as public service announcements, music, posters, forums, and many other approaches that you might never have thought of as teaching but which serve to "spread the word."
Your educational plan will be based, in part, upon what you want to accomplish. Your goals might include:
- Helping people to understand a problem (such as a sort of crime) and so that they can take action to prevent or stop it. Building the skills and knowledge of your audience.
- Having everyone take a single action such as never letting their book bags out of their immediate sight.
- Getting youth or others involved in an activity such as Crime Reporting.
Knowing about the problems of drug-abuse, violence, and crime is vital to convincing people to get involved in your YCW's prevention efforts. So whether or not prevention education is a formal component of your Youth Crime Watch, you will find that it is an integral part of your work every day: in Core Group meetings, at assemblies and meetings; and through action projects.
Most Youth Crime Watch programs are not based on a formal curriculum. But that does not diminish the critical importance of a prevention education effort. That is how your Youth Crime Watch program will change attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors in your school or community.
