Sheraton Wall Centre: Metropolis Conference

Faculty Of Social Work Dept: That boy is now a 14-year-old refugee living in Canada, who was never provided with any support to deal with the trauma he experienced in his homeland. He is now a member of a gang and was interviewed at a juvenile youth detention centre by Hieu Van Ngo, a PhD candidate with the University of Calgary's Faculty of Social Work, who wrote his thesis on why youths join gangs and the preventive supports necessary to support at-risk and ganginvolved youths, according to Vancouver Sun. "That young person came here with lots of baggage and he acted out. His parents didn't know how to support him. They had to struggle to make a living so weren't at home a lot. They live in poverty in public housing, where youths are exposed to violence and drug dealing in that community," said Ngo and after witnessing the execution of most of his fellow villagers, an eightyear-old boy from the civil warplagued country of Burundi, in eastern Africa, ran for his life with his family. Beside him was another family also dodging bullets, but they weren't so lucky. A woman and the child she held in her arms were both shot and killed -an image that still haunts the boy today. Ngo spoke at the 2011 National Metropolis Conference on Immigration, which was held last week at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver. As reported in the news.
@t hieu van, national metropolis