Youth Violence
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007What is the cause of youth violence? The political landscape is full of mostly white elected officials who talk a lot about it, but put little money towards solving it. Is it because youth cannot vote? Is it because the majority of those being killed are from districts that do not vote?
Building facilities, locking youth up and letting them out with even less skills than the educational system would have provided has failed. When a system fails it is bad business to continue practices that give bad results.
The business community can force change because they have the economic strength and ability to move quickly and surgically to make change.
Community leaders and the nonprofit community can work with the business community to set goals and measurable outcomes. If the practice set forward does not meet the needed outcomes then change the practice, businesses do it every day or die.
