GREAT - Gang Resistance Education and Training - deals head on with the issue of gangs. It doesn't do it by scaring children. Instead, the program educates children.

And it puts the responsibility for not joining gangs - not doing drugs, or skipping school, bullying, or fighting - where it belongs: On the children themselves.

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