AT News and Events

  • Vancouver Sun publishes “Academics and community: Two solitudes”
    • An opinion piece exploring the relationship between academics and the community by Dr. Gira Bhatt, the project director and principal investigator for Acting Together SSHRC-CURA, and Charan Gill, an Acting Together partner and CEO of Progressive Intercultural Community Service, has been published by The Vancouver Sun. “Academics and community: Two[Read more...]
    • Published on December 24th, 2011
  • Press Release: Gratitude, humility, and self-esteem linked to lower involvement in violence among youth
    • (SURREY) A study of hundreds of local high school youth has linked gratitude, self-esteem, humility, authenticity, and parental monitoring to a lower level of violence. The preliminary findings are from the Powerful Teen Study, one of several studies undertaken by the Surrey-based Acting Together SSHRC-CURA project involving Kwantlen Polytechnic University,[Read more...]
    • Published on December 9th, 2011
  • Balwant Sanghera awarded for lifelong crime prevention efforts
    • The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General recently honoured Balwant Sanghera, an Acting Together SSHRC-CURA community partner, with the Anthony J. Hulme Award recognizing his outstanding contributions to crime prevention. The award was presented to Sanghera by Shirley Bond, solicitor general and acting attorney general, at an annual ceremony[Read more...]
    • Published on November 11th, 2011
  • ‘Crime is at a 10-year low’; Surrey wins crime-fighting award
    • The City of Surrey’s Crime Reduction Strategy is being acknowledged for its innovative and effective work with a prestigious provincial award. The 2011 Solicitor General Crime Prevention and Community Safety Award in the local government category recognizes outstanding leadership in the area of promoting and implementing crime prevention and community[Read more...]
    • Published on November 5th, 2011
  • AT-CURA to lead public presentation: Prevention of Youth Gang Involvement
    • The Acting Together project is leading a presentation on its research topic, prevention of youth gang involvement, this Friday. The free open-doors event exploring “the why and the how” of the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus, Conference Room C,[Read more...]
    • Published on October 19th, 2011
  • Awards recognize service of AT-CURA partner
    • Community leader Balwant Sanghera, who works closely with the Acting Together-CURA project, is being recognized for his exceptional community service in two new awards from local publications. Sanghera, a prominent multiculturalism and youth violence prevention advocate, heads the South Asian Community Coalition against Youth Violence (SACCAYV) as chairperson. The SACCAYV[Read more...]
    • Published on October 7th, 2011
  • Watch: Surrey teens’ video on gang issues now online
    • The final product of a collaborative project that enabled Surrey students to learn media skills and then use them to create a video exploring gang issues is now publicly available on YouTube and Vimeo. The video “Gangs and Youth Views from a Lower Mainland Symposium” is the result of a[Read more...]
    • Published on September 24th, 2011
  • Balwant Sanghera: The turning point
    • By Sarah Jackson This is the second in a series of profile stories on Acting Together-CURA community partners. Chattering high-school students and few spent-but-gratified Richmond Centre shoppers pile into the No. 2 Road bus on an unexpectedly pleasant afternoon. The awkward squish of backpacks, purses and bargain buys on the[Read more...]
    • Published on September 10th, 2011
  • Press Release: Teen-produced video on gang issues to air on Shaw TV
    • (SURREY) A video on gang issues co-produced by Surrey students is expected to become a model and an educational tool for the community after its airs on Shaw TV this weekend. The video, dubbed “Gangs & Youth Views from a Lower Mainland Symposium”, will appear on Shaw TV, Channel 4,[Read more...]
    • Published on August 8th, 2011
  • Column on riot by Dr. Gira Bhatt hits the Vancouver Sun press
    • An opinion piece by Dr. Gira Bhatt, the project director and principal investigator for Acting Together SSHRC-CURA, has been published by the Vancouver Sun. The article, reprinted below, comes shortly after AT-CURA co-sponsored Anatomy of a Riot, a collaborative town hall discussion held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The discussion featured[Read more...]
    • Published on July 4th, 2011
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