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The Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV), originally known as PAX, [1] was a non-profit organization co-founded in 1998 by Daniel Gross and Talmage Cooley, seeking to end gun violence in America. In 2011, PAX changed its name to The Center to Prevent Youth Violence. [citation needed] The organization merged with the Brady Campaign in 2012.
Stop The Violence has prevention programs that proactively mentor youth and work with families. They also intervene and mentor youth after they have been arrested or gotten in trouble at school.
The city is also pursuing a more comprehensive approach to violence reduction by redefining which programs are considered part of efforts to reduce youth violence. Previously, youth services ...
Operation Ceasefire was responsible for a 63 percent reduction in youth homicide victimization and is now implemented in dozens of cities as the NNSC's Group Violence Intervention (GVI). [3] The NNSC has used GVI's framework to develop strategies to address overt drug markets, intimate partner violence, prison violence, and individual gun violence.
Strengthen responses for victims of violence. Integrate violence prevention into social and educational policies and thereby promote gender and social equality. Increase collaboration and exchange of information on violence prevention. Promote and monitor adherence to international treaties, laws and other mechanisms to protect human rights.
Kansas City’s new 24-hour youth violence prevention hotline is live. Young Kansas Citians in need of help are encouraged to call or text 816-799-1720 to chat with trained anti-violence ...
The Do the Write Thing Challenge (or DtWT) is a writing program for junior high students organized by the U.S. National Campaign to Stop Violence. [1] [2] [3] Intended to reduce youth violence, the Do the Write Thing Essay Challenge Program began in 1994 as a local program in Washington, D.C. and expanded in 1996 to other cities.
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