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Grace & Staff Development Foundation

Grace and Staff Community Development Foundation (GSCDF) is a community intervention programme implemented by a private sector company in Kingston.

GSCDF's intervention strategy is very creative, futuristic and targets not only the current conditions but those of future generations by working with the children of the community along with their parents to develop strong positive values and attitudes.

GSCDF’s objectives are:

It was expected that by pursuing the above objectives, the crime rate within these communities would be reduced and they would become safer. The organisation’s core mandate is to build a bridge of human care and understanding through community involvement and volunteerism, to achieve organizational strengthening and community empowerment.

The activities serve to make the community more organised and more accepting of social order, violence reduction and peace building initiatives. From a crime control perspective, the social intervention programmes may be seen as diversionary. They provide young people, especially teenage males, with alternate after-school activities that are highly structured and supervised by responsible adults.

These activities also serve to reinforce the more conventional work related options and outlines practical steps to achieve upward mobility. They also provide persons in the informal economy the knowledge and means to make more informed livelihood choices, pushing the participants back into mainstream society from which they were once socially excluded.