Positive young role models from across Greater Manchester feature in the I am greater campaign
As part of the ongoing violence reduction campaign, I am greater, three new videos have been launched to inspire young people to be greater than violence. The videos feature young people from across Greater Manchester, including Rachel, a successful radio presenter from Manchester, Ramario an inspirational future music producer from 84YOUTH and Hamelton from Oldham […]
Students from Oldham College graduate from StreetDoctors StepWise programme
On the 1st December, 21 young people from Oldham College graduated from Street Doctor’s StepWise programme – a six-week youth engagement and education programme that enables young people affected by violence to learn, share, and teach emergency lifesaving skills and find out more about healthcare careers from inspiring role models. The programme at Oldham College […]
Prevention of gun and knife crime tutorial launched in Greater Manchester
Partners from across Greater Manchester have worked together to create a free tutorial for young people about gun and knife crime. The tutorial, designed to help prevent young people being persuaded into criminal, individual or group activity involving use of a violent weapon, covers a number of topics including the social pressures and challenges facing […]
Young reporters put the VRU team in the spotlight with some big questions thanks to new partnership
We are delighted to have joined forces with young reporters from Media Cubs pop-up TV studio and newsroom to give them the opportunity to ask big questions to members of our team. Young reporters from age seven up to 18 have already been busy in the newsroom and have conducted their first interview with Bev […]
Young people in Greater Manchester to design logo for Mentors in Violence Prevention programme
The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) programme was the brainchild of US educator Dr. Jackson Katz who developed MVP in the mid 1990’s whilst a student at Boston’s Northeastern University. At first, MVP was developed to engage male sporting leaders to help them discuss a variety of issues such as: domestic abuse, forms of sexual […]
Next in our community alliance spotlight series is Odd Arts. Part of the Manchester community alliance, Odd Arts is a Manchester charity delivering innovative and creative programmes, across all art forms, with vulnerable and excluded groups. Specialising in delivering theatre-based programmes that challenge and change attitudes and behaviours, Odd Arts work with participants to devise […]
For the past 12 months, the Violence Reduction Unit have worked in collaboration with the Bauer Academy to engage young people in workshops to address the key issues and the consequences of knife and weapon crime. Over 200 young people from 28 schools and colleges across Greater Manchester have been engaged in online content creation […]
Actions Have Consequences programme delivered to students across Greater Manchester
Supported by the Violence Reduction Unit, the National Offender Management Service event, Actions Have Consequences, was delivered to pupils at schools in Oldham, Rochdale, Salford and Bolton by a Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) officer, dog handler Paul McGovern MBE. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were there to support the event. Prison Officer Paul McGovern MBE, from […]
In 2016, a group of mothers who had started their journey of recovery from domestic abuse and violence, expressed that they wanted similar help and support for their children but could not find anything suitable. From this request, the Healing Together program was born. The Healing Together program is powered by Innovating Minds, a multi […]