For Derrick Burch, director of development and community engagement with the Mix, violence prevention starts with giving kids ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal officials, community leaders and researchers are gathering in St. Louis this week to discuss a key component of the ...

Amid racial injustices laid bare in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, police violence and community turmoil, governments started to invest in a different kind of public safety strategy. This approach ...

The most successful programs aimed at encouraging high-risk young people to attend college go beyond financial aid and often provide tutoring, offer mentors, and involve partnerships with ...

Individuals from the Prevention Working Group within the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education will explore and examine practices and strategies for developing, ...

Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city's safety-net system, but she was ...

At Summerville Elementary School (SES), students receive extra support in reading, math and language through several intervention programs. These programs include Read 180, reading and math ...

Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention, by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, evaluates two programs developed in response to the rise ...

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Violence intervention programs in some of New Jersey's biggest cities are among the latest New Jersey programs to be hit by federal funding cuts, with the the U.S. Department of Justice cutting $3.5 ...

In the early 2000s, Chicago was at the forefront of a novel and promising violence-interruption effort called CeaseFire, which relied on community members—many of whom were former gang members—to ...