AT News and Events

  • ‘This should never happen again’: Gang slaying victim Chris Mohan to be memorialized in gang violence forum
    • (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[Read more...]
    • Published on May 9th, 2012
  • Register now to attend the upcoming Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum
    • 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. Registration for Parents Forum Registration for Youth Forum Registration closes on May 20.[Read more...]
    • Published on May 9th, 2012
  • Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum: Youth Registration
    • Please register as a youth attending the Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum, to take place at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School on May 26. Attendance is free but seating is limited. Registration closes on May 20.[Read more...]
    • Published on May 6th, 2012
  • Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum: Parent Registration
    • Please register as a parent attending the Chris Mohan Memorial Youth Forum, to take place at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School on May 26. Attendance is free but seating is limited. Registration closes on May 20.[Read more...]
    • Published on May 6th, 2012
  • Student Makes News in New York
    • By Dr. Gira Bhatt, Principal Investigator / Project Director for Acting Together: Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) and Kwantlen Psychology faculty member Around 11 a.m., an email from an MSNBC producer would go out to two dozen or so newsmakers with a “rundown,” a detailed plan for the nightly political news[Read more...]
    • Published on April 13th, 2012
  • Acting Together becomes success story for federal funding program
    • The Acting Together project has all of the riveting details a good story would require: crime-fighting, exploration, discovery and teamwork. It’s no surprise, then, that the story of the project’s successes would be rippling throughout Canada. The project’s funder The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has[Read more...]
    • Published on April 3rd, 2012
  • Jasbir Sandhu, MP, drops by to learn about AT-CURA’s gang prevention work
    • The Acting Together SSHRC-CURA team recently welcomed a special visitor to its CURA Centre at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. NDP public safety critic and Surrey North MP Jasbir Sandhu visited the office on Mar. 16 to greet the team and learn more about AT-CURA’s gang prevention project, after staff had extended[Read more...]
    • Published on March 25th, 2012
  • Kwantlen to host research celebration
    • One of Surrey’s leading gang prevention initiatives, Acting Together, will be featured in an upcoming Kwantlen Polytechnic University event aiming to spread the word about the exciting research being done at the school. The Celebration of Research will open with a keynote address from the Acting Together SSHRC-CURA (AT-CURA) project’s[Read more...]
    • Published on March 24th, 2012
  • Why do kids join gangs?
    • As gang violence in B.C. continues to surge, possible links between youth alienation and gang recruitment are being explored by Acting Together SSHRC-CURA (AT-CURA) researcher Indira Prahst. Prahst, an AT-CURA co-investigator, shared some of her discoveries in a talk entitled “Seduced into Gangs: Youth and Alienation” at Langara College on[Read more...]
    • Published on February 11th, 2012
  • Murdered gangster’s son speaks out about gang violence
    • Derek Woo, a Kwantlen Polytechnic University student, lost his father William Woo to gang violence last October. The targeted killing — and his memories of a father who was generous and caring — led Derek to partner with classmate Scott McIndoe in an anti-gang violence campaign. “Gang violence is not[Read more...]
    • Published on February 8th, 2012
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