Parthi Kandavel finished second in the 2022 municipal election race for the council seat in Scarborough Southwest. He's running in the byelection to replace former budget chief Gary Crawford.
As the city grapples with shocking acts of alleged youth violence, one Scarborough councillor wants to increase the use of school buildings to boost recreational programming that could help prevent crime.Parthi Kandavel, who represents Scarborough Southwest, is bringing an item to the city's July 16 executive committee meeting asking it to direct city staff to boost violence prevention opportunities while young people are out of school.
Kandavel said kids in the city are looking for belonging, and in the absence of alternative programming they are finding it with groups that are bad influences. At a recent update on gun violence in the city, Toronto police's Deputy Chief Robert Johnson said police are seeing younger people involved in crimes.
The leader of the city's community safety plan, SafeTO, said work to identify opportunities for increased summer programming has been ongoing — as is community healing work in the wake of recent tragedies.Scott Mckean, the city's associate director of violence prevention and SafeTO, said increasing the use of school spaces for summer youth programming is something his team is working on.
Mckean said his team is actively working with communities impacted by violence to see what kind of programming they need.Court cases connected to the deadly swarming attack of a Toronto man in 2022 are ongoing. Eight girls between the ages of 13 and 16 stand accused of killing Kenneth Lee, who was 59 and living in the city's shelter system. CBC’s Chris Glover explains where the charges stand.
"If you only give kids the court without any supervision, that may not be the most useful in terms of youth violence prevention," she said. "But if they also have responsible youth leaders or adults around there to be with them, I think that would be actually making the best use of the space." Stephen Mensah, the executive director of the Toronto Youth Cabinet, said while youth do need programming during the summer, the reality is that many of them need to work to support themselves and their families
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