Community Change Foundation (CCF) works with disaffected individuals, families and communities in a variety of different environments to reduce offending and re-offending rates, prevent school exclusions and avoid young people becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).

1. Adrian Stapleton
and
Warren Williams

2.  14:30 Introductions – What Is A Gang?
 15:00 Our own Gangs – exercise
 15:30 Resilience Mentoring
 15:45 Regression exercise
 16:00
 16:30 End

3. Who we are
• Community change foundation is a charitable organisation
that works with disaffected individuals and families from
local communities to reduce offending and re-offending
rates, prevent school exclusions and keep young people from
becoming NEET.
• The CCF team has extensive frontline experience of working
with disaffected people who exhibit violent and challenging
behaviour.
• Over 10 of these years were spent as specialist violent Gang
Mentors and practitioners working across Manchester.
• CCF has trained Mentors, Mediators and Conflict Resolution
Specialists and we offer these services as part of our core
business.

4. What is a Gang ?

5. • The term gang is applied to many groups,
the media portrays gangs in many
different ways, mainly negative.
• So, there is a clear need for a relevant
definition

6. Definition of a Street Gang
 A relatively durable predominately street based group
of young people who:
 See themselves (and are seen by others) as a
discernible group
 Engage in a range of criminal activity and violence
And/or
 Identify with or lay claim over territory
 Have some form of identifying structural features
 Are in conflict with other or similar gangs.
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7. A Gang Member:
•Is someone who has self-identified themselves as being a member
of a gang (as above), e.g. through verbal statements, tattoos,
correspondence, graffiti etc, and this is corroborated by police,
partner agencies, or community intelligence.
A Gang Associate:
•Is someone who offends with gang members (as above); or who is
associated by police, partner agencies, or community intelligence,
with gang members; or who has displayed, through conduct or
behaviour, a specific desire or intent to become a member of a
gang.

10. In groups think of
Groups/Gangs that
you have been
involved in

11.  Bullying
 Protection
 Status
 Money
 Friends
 Lack of Role Models
 Bereavement/Death
 Prison
 Location
 Perception
 Vision of Self
 Follower
 Negative influences
 Family
 Girls
 Poverty
 Truancy
 Anti-social Behaviour
 Self-fulfilling Prophecy

12.  Serious injuries
 Lengthy prison sentences (IPP)
 Mental illness
 Quality of life
 Family Breakdown
 Death/Bereavement

13. • A non-fatal Shooting Costs £70,000 to tax
payer within 1 hour of it taking place.
• The Gooch Gang murder trial involving Colin
Joyce and Lee Amos cost estimated £5 Million
• £120,000 per year to keep a CAT A prisoner in
Custody.
• Murder investigation costs an estimated £1.4
million to the tax payer.

14. Since 1991, 74 people have been shot dead in
Greater Manchester and Trafford.
43 of these 74 murders were gang related.

15. How We Mentor
The resilience model
• What is resilience
• The concept of resilience comes from
physics and describes a quality of a material
to regain its original shape after being bent,
compressed or stretched. With regard to
children, this can be defined as a child's
ability to cope and do well in life in spite of
having had to face a number of difficulties.

16. Regression
• Regression is an important part of a mentors tool
kit that we at CCF use in our work with the client
group.
• Being able to place yourself in the mentee’s
shoes or to at least be able to empathise with
them to a degree helps in cementing the
relationship.
• Exercise
• I would like you all to think back to when you
were 17 and tell me what was important to you
at the time and what did you think about adults.

17. 6 Functions of
Mentoring
• Establish Trust
• Offer Tailored Advice
• Introduce Alternatives
• To challenge
• To Motivate
• To Encourage Initiative

18. Points to discuss
• Boundaries, understanding the type of role that you
have with your client; influential or enforcement
• Credibility; do you have credibility with your clients
• Understanding; do you know the environment your
clients are living in…
• Needs; what are your clients needs, lifestyle change,
education, employment or training etc.
• Do they want to change; is your client ready for
change?…
• Focusing on positive outcomes

19. Case study
• A. is a high profile gang member
• Involved in serious gang violence
• Perpetrator of domestic violence
• At significant risk in the Manchester area
• In receipt of numerous OSMAN warnings.
• Deemed to be problematic and highly volatile by XTF
• Never previously engaged with any services
• engaged through outreach practices

20. Intervention
• I Engaged A through mentoring contacts, we got to
know each other.
• I had credibility with A as he knew my background, I
had mentored an individual who he trusted and
achieved a positive outcome.
• I had an understanding of the lifestyle that A was
currently living.
• We discussed A’s needs, he expressed his desire to
positively change in his life.

21. Outcome
• I helped A to relocate to another area
• Attended 1-2-1 target mentoring contacts with him
(focussed on change)
• Assisted A to manage/complete his probation
licence.
• Helped A to obtain his CSCS card
• Helped A with job search and took him to job
interview on building site.
• Maintained mentoring contact with A

22. Contact Details
Address: 28 Cornbrook Court, Old Trafford,
Manchester, M15 4EP
Phone: 01618729220
Email: admin@ccf-org.com