Also called: Youth Gang Outreach Worker
Helps young people leave gangs or avoid joining them through mentoring, jobs, and support.
Gang intervention workers build relationships with teens in juvenile hall, schools, and neighborhoods, connect them with jobs and tattoo removal, and support families. Programs like Homeboy Industries in LA are famous for this work.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. Lived experience valued; training provided.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Social Work, Sociology.
Growing about average. Approximate.
Low risk for 10 years. Mentoring teens out of gangs depends on trust and relationships AI can't build.
Age 21+. One way to start: Contact city gang reduction or youth intervention programs; they hire adults with lived experience and train them First: Program training and a background check; lived experience and community trust count most
Classes: Psychology, Sociology, Spanish.
Official data: O*NET occupation 21-1099.
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