Families for Peace Background
Founder: Gleen Reid
Families for Peace is an award-winning organisation that was founded by Gleen Reid who in the year 2000 tragically lost her only son Corey Wayne to gun crime. Families for Peace works holistically in Birmingham to seek peace for families, young people, individuals, and communities that have been blighted by violent crime, offering a coordinated package of training services and activities for young people and families that empower and equip them to turn away from crime and integrate them back into society.
Son: Corey Wayne Allen
Founder: Gleen Reid
Son: Corey Wayne Allen
Families for Peace is an award-winning organisation that was founded by Gleen Reid who in the year 2000 tragically lost her only son Corey Wayne to gun crime. Families for Peace works holistically in Birmingham to seek peace for families, young people, individuals, and communities that have been blighted by violent crime, offering a coordinated package of training services and activities for young people and families that empower and equip them to turn away from crime and integrate them back into society.
Gleen Reid Award Winning Achievements
Lifetime Achievement Award 2007
Community Improvement Award for Outstanding Contribution 2007
Changing Lives Award 2009
Families for Peace – Aim
'Families' and 'Peace'
Building Blocks for Society
Children & Young People about foundational values for life
personally & collective.
Parental guidance. Families for Peace seek to provide skill & therapies,
building successful, lasting relationship, supporting families’
that are victims of gang violence & crime, bereavement & loss.
Develop relationships, encourage wholeness.
'Improve - Preserve Life - Peace'
What The Charity Does
Families for Peace Offers
Leadership and Management Courses
These courses are designed to educate young people on how to
become effective leaders within their homes, schools, colleges,
work, and communities, empowering them to be positive role models
for their peers and society.
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Services To The Community
Families For Peace Annual Concerts
Families For Peace Annual Concerts
Central Birmingham
Giving up to 150 young people the opportunity to communicate
‘Enough Is Enough’
DANCE, MUSIC, CREATIVE WRITING, and lots more.
Families For Peace Awards
'SAYING THANK YOU'
TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
Families for Peace hosting an Award Ceremony In a prestigious Venue.
Honour our Young Peoples with a Black-Tie Event for FREE.
Dine with guests, receiving their certificates.
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