How would I go about setting up an organization that walks kids in bad neighborhoods home from school in Chica?|158761

I was doing some volunteer work in Chicago Public Schools and was suprirsed to see how much gang violence there was. Lots of kids are scared to walk home from school b/c of being beat up, harrassed, etc.

I was thinking about trying to put together some type of group that walks kids home from school or walks kids from school to a local boys and girls club or something like this.

Looking for advice as to how to go about this.

Thanks.

I think last school year there were parents and groups doing stuff like this? Here is an article on it

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/27c��


There might be some names/depts mentioned there that you could speak to. Or CPS probably has some kind of safety/security department? They might know more about how to work this.

That or the individual schools you_d like to work with can probably help you figure it out at least partially? Some schools that had the programs last year are named in the article, you could always try contacting someone at that school and see if they can give you some help?