The Second Chance Outreach programme invited families who lost a loved one in recent gang violence to participate in a \u201cRestoring hope for our future leaders\u201d event held in Cafda Village on Saturday 30 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
William Cupido, CEO of Second Chance Outreach in Retreat, says often families and victims of violence do not receive the appropriate trauma counselling after a horrific event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA lot of youth had family members who were killed; brothers and sisters got killed and then they come to me. When someone dies or someone is shot, they just leave the children and the children don\u2019t even receive trauma counselling and that is what I am here for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cupido says a social worker at Second Chance works with victims of violence and those struggling with substance abuse or gangsterism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt breaks my heart to see young people go astray. I do drug counselling, gender-based violence (GBV), domestic violence, bullying, family violence. I take youngsters out of gang-infested areas and place them in safe havens but sometimes it is so heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says he has one social worker working with him because he had a problem with government social workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey work with a client for three or four months, even a year, then they can\u2019t help a client. Then after that, the client is sent to me. This is the last option. That is why it is called Second Chance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe work with rehabs, just to help that client because if you lose that client, you lose them forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He adds that anyone and everyone is assisted, from victims of violence to gang members or drug addicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnyone is assisted and I don\u2019t charge people. My passion is about the victim, the drug addict, the gangster. A life that gets destroyed, everyone around that drug addict or gangster is hurt because he is hurting everyone around him. If people need assistance, they are referred to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Mark Killian from Eagle Life Apostolic House says it is often the parents who assist their children in hiding guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany times, as parents, we turn to other ways and other means. It will not take away your pain. I want to tell our young people and parents, it is your sons and your daughters who are committing these evil deeds. It starts with them sitting at the street corner. It is the mothers and sometimes the fathers who hide the guns and warn them when the police arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy for a father or mother to lose a son or daughter at a very young age. Last week, I buried a 15-year-old boy who was brutally shot and killed on the field at the back. Many of you have lost a loved one, nobody understands your pain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark Nicholson, a community leader from Lavender Hill, says the event will take place in a different community each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFamilies of those who lost loved ones through gang violence, suicide or cancer, anyone can attend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEvery month, we will take the programme to a different area so that we can highlight the plight that our coloured people are going through. It\u2019s all about how our people are suffering in silence as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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