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Youths Launch Own Programs for Empowerment
A group named Mixed Unity was established in mid-November. Its members, students from Blair, Northwood and Wheaton high schools along with participants from Montgomery College and several nonprofits geared toward teens, began meeting weekly with an ultimate goal of launching a student-driven anti-violence campaign read more...

Montgomery, PG Counties Team up to Fight Gang Violence
View NewsChannel 8's video coverage of Identity's Crossroads Youth Opportunity Center. read more...

Immigration detention sparks inquiry, fears
"How can we as an organization continue to tell young people that we are proud of them to believe in this when I myself right now can't believe in this policy?" said Candace Kattar, director of Identity Inc., a Gaithersburg-based nonprofit that works with youths at risk of joining gangs, and helped the man file his complaint. "I can't, right now, believe that this policy will be respected by officers." read more...

Montgomery baffled by students quitting school
Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jerry Weast said in a memo released Monday that falling graduation rates and rising dropout numbers were "discouraging" and defied easy solutions. Weast wrote that the graduation rates of black and Hispanic students, which have decreased at faster rates than their white and Asian peers, were especially disheartening. read more...

Violence Rising among Young Gang Members
"We're seeing the level of violence get younger and younger," said Montgomery police Sgt. Chuck Welch, head of the county's gang unit, describing the array of cases he has worked on in the past year. read more...

Face to Face with MS-13
A barely audible whisper of "MS-13" in many public schools raises attention in hallway corners, locker areas and restrooms, and elicits a wave of emotion from ire to fear to remorse. However, most of the 23 high school students in Richard Sutton's George Washington University Summer Scholars criminal justice and criminology class had no knowledge of Mara Salvatrucha-13 until they came face to face with one of its former gang leaders last week. read more...

Many County Latino Teens In Crisis, Say Leaders, Survey
"We are seriously at risk of losing half of a generation of Latinos," said Anna Maria Izquierdo, co-chairman of the county's Latino Health Steering Committee, who said the numbers are so stark that when she first saw them, she thought, "Whoa. This is serious." read more...

Accentuate Positives About Hispanics
[W]hile I understand that crimes usually take front page, I believe that more good news is also needed to bring balance in what we hear; this is especially true for minority groups, to avoid creating a negative image that gives fuel to anti-minority groups. read more...

Latino Youth Meet With Chiefs of Police at Forum Hosted by Identity
Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger speaks to a group of Latino teens Monday in Gaithersburg Gaithersburg nonprofit hosted forum in wake of county's new immigration policy. read more...

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