These mental health challenges included but are not limited to attention deficit, disruptive behavior disorders, anxiety, manic episodes and depression. This is present where there is a diminish resilience to stressful life experiences. Youth in the inner city are faced with increased levels of loss of loved ones, absent parental figures, lack of money due to loss of jobs pushing them to the street way of life in order to make it. With their young developed minds, proper processing of these life experiences is minimal. Often times their responses are developed from those they see and look up to in the street life who have the “eye for an eye” mentality when experiencing hurt, pain or anger. This is often experience in an increased level of
