Registration has opened for the free Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum on May 26 at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School in Surrey. Seating is limited so please register now to reserve your spot.
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Innocent gang violence victim Chris Mohan is being memorialized at an anti-gang forum on May 26.
(SURREY) An upcoming anti-gang forum is seeking to educate parents and empower youth in memory of innocent gang execution victim Chris Mohan.
The Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum will be an all-day event taking place at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School in Surrey on May 26, with a morning session geared toward parents and an afternoon session geared toward youth.
Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts will provide the opening remarks, and parents will hear from Eileen Mohan about the life and legacy of her son Chris, whose birth anniversary of May 31 is marked by the event. Then, the forum will begin, featuring Supt. Tom McCluskie, head of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s Gang Task Force; Kim Bolan, crime reporter for The Vancouver Sun; and Eileen Mohan. The forum will be streamed at vancouversun.com so that parents everywhere can watch and pose questions online.
“I want Christopher’s legacy to be looked on as, ‘This should never happen again. Innocent life should never be taken. You must always choose life before death,’” said Eileen Mohan. Read more…
As the Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum quickly approaches, the media are getting the word out about the forum and its aim to help educate parents, empower youth and avoid the loss of more lives to gang violence.
Chris Mohan was an innocent victim of a gang execution, and the event taking place at his former school Queen Elizabeth Secondary in Surrey marks the anniversary of his birth. The day-long event welcomes adults to its morning session with speakers that include Mohan’s mother Eileen, Surrey’s Mayor Dianne Watts, and Supt. Tom McCluskie, who heads the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s Gang Task Force. The afternoon session is geared towards youth and their interactive forum will feature peers who have navigated life’s challenges to become successful young adults.
Space is limited, but registration is free.
Eileen Mohan to speak at anti-gang forum, published by The Surrey Leader on May 16. Page A1/Front.
Mom of slain man speaks out against gang violence, published by The Surrey Now on May 17.
B.C. gang violence victims cited in awareness campaigns, published by 24 Hours on May 15.
Gang slaying victim Chris Mohan to be memorialized in gang violence forum, published by The Indo-Canadian Voice on May 12.
Anti-gang forum organized in memory of Surrey Six victim, published by News1130 on May 7.
Acting Together (AT) is a federally funded project aiming to identify factors that protect youth from gang involvement and to support community resilience-promoting initiatives. The project, led by Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., Canada has brought together 12 community partner organizations and nine academic researchers from four post-secondary institutions.
If you are a parent, teacher, teenager, high school or university student, service provider, policy maker, law enforcement agent or community activist, and are concerned with the issues of gang involvement and youth violence, you are invited to participate in the project’s various activities, including research. Please contact us for more information.
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