Ramont L. Williams
Ramont L.
Williams Former
imprisoned gang member dedicated to detouring youths from
following in his footsteps.
EXPERTISE:
Gang
Specialist and Criminal Consultant
I grew up gang affiliated and was sentenced to 61 years for
my gang affiliation. While incarceration pursuing my
academics, I realized that I needed to use my influence in
a more constructive manor. So I started encouraging Gang
Members to broaden their horizon by also pursuing their
academics. I realized that youth was our nation’s most
precious resource. I then began reaching out to youth who
were considered at risk or gang involved youth through the
Southern Nevada Region, encouraging them to stay out of
gangs and not to use Drugs. So I made a commitment
before my release to the City of Las Vegas that I would
commit and dedicate my life to helping youth avoid making a
lot of the bad choices that I made in my
life.
BIO
26 years ago Mr. Ramont
Williams was incarcerated into a Nevada State Penal
Institution for gang activity as a 17-year-old youth. For
many years his anger and dissociation from American society
caused him to be placed in a maximum-security
facility. However in a very short time, his
intelligence and oratorical skills landed him a spot on
Montell Williams CBS pilot special; America’s Youth
Locked-Up. Mr. Williams is noted for his
interpersonal relationship skills as it relates to prison
uprisings. He has been asked on several
occasions to go in and bring resolve to inmate riots and
has been 100 % successful in countless endeavors in this
regard.
Since leaving incarceration, he vowed to commit his life to
God and the service of his community. For the
Last 10 years Mr. Ramont Williams has been active in the
community engaging in food drives, clothing dispersal,
litter clean-ups, helping the elderly and insuring that
youth stay in school and go to college. It
is also noteworthy that as a former gang member, he has a
connection with youth in their disenfranchised war torn
environments. He is able to go into this strange
world and bring youth from behind enemy lines so that they
are productive members of society.
The list of his accomplishments are many: He assisted the
North Las Vegas Police Department in the solving of a 2004
murder of a 13 year old girl. He is a consistent
speaker at the Boys & Girls clubs of America and
throughout Clark County School District, both middle school
and high school. He was appointed to the
Southern Nevada Gang Task Force. He is a family and Court
mediator as well as Youth Advocate. He is a
Youth Crime Watch Trainer through Juvenile Justice &
Rally Mountain Expansion Center and is currently the Vice
President of the MLK Neighborhood Committee and sits on a
number of other boards and committees. In addition he has
help employ over 300 youth in and around Las Vegas.
In 2004 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
recognized his talents and recruited him into a program
housed at Nevada Partners called Project Safe
Neighborhoods, Mr. Williams has created his own
organization called H.O.P.E. 2000 (helping our people
elevate) which is one of the most successful youth
mentoring programs in the city. Mr. Williams is also
credited for starting another program for which he manages
called C-Joy (creating job opportunities for youth) which
is a pre-apprentice program were he teaches youth hands on
carpentry skills and helps get them tutoring and prepared
for a accredited apprentice program. To date he has
successfully led approximately 60 hardcore gang members out
of their negative environments to engage in employment and
education, positive decision making.
Mr. Ramont Williams contends that his wife and four sons
are his greatest driving force.
Mr. Williams has also used his initiative to start a city
wide project called the Southern Nevada Youth City. This
initiative will marshal the efforts of youth programs to
bring a “One-Stop-Youth center” to Southern Nevada.
Mr. Ramont Williams is also working with the Coordinator
for the Reentry Program for the state of Nevada to help
inmates to become productive members of society to avoid
recidivism. Because of Mr. Williams’s success with moving
X-felons to productive lives through community mobilization
and his own upward mobility, Senator Steven Horsford, asked
him to testify on behalf of “Senate Bill 360” before the
state legislature. He’s consistently assisted Nevada
department of Prisons with their Going Home Prepared
Program. Helping felons prepare for the free world.
The distinctive positive community accomplishment of Mr.
Ramont Williams brings credit upon himself, the City of Las
Vegas and the United States of
America.
CONTACT
DATA
Please contact Ramont L.
Williams, directly:
Company name: H.O.P.E.
2000
Phone:
702-478-6466
Cell phone:
702-348-8311
Fax:
702-538-8191
Email: ramont_williams@yahoo.com
8414 W. Farm Rd. Suite
# 180-514
Las Vegas
NV 89131
Started speaking to
groups: 1996
Started receiving payment
as an independent speaker: 2004
Reference #1
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ORGANIZATIONS
ADDRESSED
All Southern
Nevada Law Enforcement
University of Las Vegas Nevada
University of Phoenix, Clark County School District
Boys & Girls Club, Juvenile Justice System
Youth Authority Facilities
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Churches
Elks Lodges
Numerous non – profit organizations.
AWARDS
1. Community
Enrichment Award
2. Volunteer Vision
Award
3. City of Las
Vegas
4. Savior’s
Day Award
5. Do the
right thing (CCSD)
6. Youth Crime Watch of
America Award
7. C.A.A.N (Caucus of
African American Nevadans) Helping Hand Award, Honored
During Black History Month
8. Rights of Passage Award
9. Numerous of other awards obtained
LECTURE
TITLES
1. 3 Keys to
Success
2. Reality 101
Street Talk (as we know it)
3. The True Meaning of
Gangs
4.
RESPECT
5. How Death
Effects us all
6. Drugs & Teen
Pregnancy
7. The Penal
System
SEMINAR/WORKSHOP
TITLES
1. Truth VS Lies --
Pre-Teens, Teens, Adults, Parents, Schools, Churches, Law
Enforcement, Corporations.
2. Successful Decision Making
-- Pre-Teens, Teens, Adults, Parents, Schools,
Churches, Law Enforcement, Corporations.
3. Overcoming Life’s Biggest
Obstacles “FEAR” -- Pre-Teens, Teens,
Adults, Parents, Schools, Churches, Law Enforcement,
Corporations.
4. Demonstrating how
Spirituality plays a role in our lives. -- Pre-Teens,
Teens, Adults, Parents, Schools, Churches, Law Enforcement,
Corporations.
5. Educate Youth and Parents
on the dangers of GANGS, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, TEEN PREGNANCY. --
Pre-Teens, Teens, Adults, Parents, Schools, Churches, Law
Enforcement, Corporations.
DESIRABLE
AUDIENCES
Pre Teens
Teens
Adults
Parents
Schools
Churches
Law Enforcement
Corporations
10-23-07
