Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 November 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The group Moms Bonded By Grief went beyond the support-group work it has done for years for survivors of gun violence homicide victims to take 50 children and their mothers and grandmothers to a Poconos Mountains wate...
1 November 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Chicago is home to multiple street-outreach programs that target the people most likely to be shot or to shoot others, and that provide them with social services that keep them and others in their network safe. Progra...
27 October 2021
Fresno, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Advance Peace Fresno tries to turn youth away from violence through mentoring, job training, and by paying them a monthly stipend of up to $1,000 if they hit certain benchmarks in their rehabilitation. The program has...
20 September 2021
St. Johns, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Unrealistic fears of a wave of youth violence left rural Apache County, Colorado, with an unused, costly youth detention facility. So the local courts decided to refashion the empty jail into the Loft Legacy Teen Cent...
13 September 2021
St. Johns, Arizona, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Apache County, Arizona, once had a costly, under-used juvenile detention center and a traditional philosophy that stern punishment would steer young people away from misbehavior. Now the abandoned detention center is ...
9 September 2021
Salinas, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
For more than 10 years, a pair of programs helped make major reductions in youth violence in Monterey County and the Salinas Valley by targeting the small number of people at highest risk of committing violence. That ...
9 September 2021
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Low-income communities of color have less access to nature, they experience "nature deprivation" at a rate three times higher than white people. Regular access to the outdoors improves respiratory health, physical fit...
7 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down dur...
1 September 2021
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Greensboro's version of the Cure Violence program, called Gate City Coalition, has helped reduce homicides nearly to zero in the two neighborhoods where it operates. At a time of escalated gun violence, the Cure Viole...
1 September 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community Passageways does the kind of violence intervention work that the city of Seattle plans to invest in to expand its reach. Peer mentors reach out to young men at highest risk of suffering or committing violenc...
Reveal
Eda Uzunlar
7 August 2021
Wyoming, United States
Illustrations
Under 800 Words
Neighboring states of Wyoming and South Dakota take starkly different approaches toward youth who get in trouble. Side-by-side comic panels follow two real cases through each system. A South Dakota teen gets help that...
4 August 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV Talk Show
3-5 Minutes
Eddie Bocanegra of READI Chicago describes his group's gun-violence-prevention model. Data from police and hospitals, plus community intelligence, identify those people most at risk of committing or being victimized b...
KXAN-TV
Clare O'Connor
26 July 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Jail to Jobs pays youth while they get trained for jobs in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, and cooking. The youth come from youth detention, the streets, probation, and foster care and their trainers are for...
17 July 2021
Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
"Policing the teen brain" is a training regimen devised by Strategies for Youth that teaches police officers to de-escalate conflicts with adolescents to avoid unnecessary incarceration. Youth detention has dropped si...
14 July 2021
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Bridging the Gap is a violence prevention program at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center that emphasizes treating more than the physical wounds of gunshot victims. Starting in the hospital and continuing a...
12 July 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Denver's school board responded to the 2020 racial justice protests by removing the police officers who were stationed in certain middle and high schools. But the police or the district's growing force of armed guards...
9 July 2021
Bend, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
Youth in Oregon who get court-ordered rehabilitation as an alternative to youth detention might end up at the J Bar J Ranch, which despite its name is less a working ranch than a boarding school with individual counse...
29 June 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
All people between the ages of 14 and 21 in Washington, D.C., who are placed on probation for criminal convictions get assigned a probation officer, social worker, and a "credible messenger" – a mentor, usually with h...
26 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
South Baltimore's Cherry Hill neighborhood enjoyed its third homicide-free year since the violence intervention program Safe Streets began operation. While a formal evaluation of the program's nine neighborhood sites ...
18 June 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the Boston area, the Roca organization intervenes before young men commit violence. Its "relentless outreach" approach is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach that helps people recognize and change th...
16 June 2021
Riverside, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Riverside County launched College Comeback to address the COVID-19 related decline in graduating high school students going to college. Six counselors each spend 25 hours a week reaching out to the high school class o...
14 June 2021
Yolo, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Today for Tomorrow Foundation is a youth-led and youth-serving non-profit that provides safe spaces for talking about sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and other socially taboo topics. Over 40 peo...
12 June 2021
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Rise Up for Youth is a program built into some Wichita schools that works to keep teenagers out of gangs and helps them focus on positive changes in their community. There are two programs — one for males called the B...
10 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Baltimore's Roca program uses cognitive behavioral therapy, and patience and persistence, to work at changing the thinking of young people at high risk of committing or suffering gun violence. Counselors help their cl...
27 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Onerous paperwork and required legal documents keep many youth - especially those not living with legal guardians - from taking part in city internships, so YouthForce NOLA worked with the city to pilot an internship ...
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