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RSS FeedsToronto is falling behind on its own plans to help at-risk youth
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

13 october 2018 05:28:19

 
Toronto is falling behind on its own plans to help at-risk youth
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


When the Toronto Youth Equity Strategy was first introduced on the floor of council in 2014, city staff could not have been clearer about why the report had been put in front of municipal decision-makers.The goal of the strategy, said senior city official Chris Brillinger, is to “no longer see youth die in this city from violence.”Council would go on to unanimously approve the strategy, developed over a year, which contains 110 specific actions to provide marginalized youth with the support, space, training and tools to escape or avoid a cycle of violence that continues to claim many lives.But as violence escalates — with gunfire spiking this past summer — the Star has learned that the strategy is severely and chronically underfunded, leaving staff with few resources. For the life-changing programs that are underway, the funding they receive is tenuous, leaving them constantly at risk of folding.Seminal research presented to the province a decade ago on the roots of youth violence offered clear recommendations on how to tackle the issues. That study formed the basis of the youth equity strategy in 2014. But without adequate funding, the recommendations the study contained have yet to be fully realized. A co-author of that report, city staff and those working directly with youth say the problems have not changed in 10 years. The only issue, they say, is whether there is political will to carry out the plan we already have in place.The stakes are incredibly high.Read more:Expand after-school spaces for youth to stem violence, Toronto councillor urgesIf you shoot someone dead in Toronto — you have a three in five chance of getting away with murderToronto police brass insist guns and gangs unit is a ‘priority’Since the youth equity strategy was first approved by council on Feb. 19, 2014, 144 youth aged 13 to 29 — the strategy’s target age range — have been victims of homicide in Toronto, according to a data ...


 
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