
Give Youth a Second Chance
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?archive=true&article=57804&paper=60&cat=104
Montgomery Council Seeks Advise on Gangs
http://www.thesentinel.com/print/301968395001416.php
Barrios Unidos - Best of Reston - 7th in Series
http://www.timescommunity.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=3866680&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=576934&rfi=8
Former Gang Member Plants Seeds
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=10673078&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6
Helping Teens Through Barrios Unidos
http://archive.observernews.com/stories/archives/reston/2002reston/041902/pacheo.shtml
Barrios Unidos worker critiques gang policies
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=12334527&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506096&rfi=6
Grassroots anti-gang efforts get under way
http://www.examiner.com/a-86066~Grassroots_anti_gang_efforts_get_under_way.html
Voice for Parents
Fairfax High School organization brings together Hispanic parents.
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=62673&cat=104
Youth take initiative for bringing peace to their community
http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=14735629&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506096&rfi=6
Youth Group Evaluates Teen Programs
http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=15371807&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506096&rfi=6
Youth Workers Help Recommend Gang Prevention Measures (on page 4)
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/retbrd/courier09-02-05.pdf
Barrios Unidos Community Education
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/braddock/Gangsum2.pdf
N.Va. Sheriffs Outline Anti-Gang Strategies
:
Youth Programs Called Key to Prevention
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/18/AR2005051800112_pf.html
NCLR: Peace Signs
http://www.nclr.org/section/ljjn/peace_signs/
Schools, Latino Leaders Disagree on Dropouts:
More than 1,000 Latino students dropped
out from Fairfax County schools last year
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?archive=true&article=47737&paper=81&cat=109
Joining Immigration Dragnets Erodes Local Cops' Anti-Crime Efforts
http://www.americas.org/item_24089
Groups Speak Out against ICE Initiative Operation Community Shield and
Similar Programs
http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/community_shield_press_release.pdf
What’s Important in the Juvenile Justice System: One Survivor’s
Story
: Juan
Pacheco, Barrios Unidos/United Neighborhoods of
Northern Virginia
http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/trainingEvents/jjdp/2004agenda.pdf
Barrios Unidos Reached More Than 2000 Youth at Annual Conflict Resolution
Conference
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/mediapub/pressrel/021304c.htm
http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/5405/
Commencement 2006: Hard Work and Memories for 6,803 Students
http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/8405/
Efforts to Coordinate Gang Prevention Underway
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=430455
After-school programs limited by cost, awareness
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=11131957&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506096&rfi=6

For More Information Contact:
Barrios Unidos - Virginia Chapter
P.O. Box 208, Herndon, VA 20172-0208
Tel: 703-401-2265
FAX: NA
Internet:
juan.pacheco@usa.net