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Vinik has spent two decades in the gun violence prevention movement and is the founder of Project Unloaded. In January 2022, the group launched its social media campaign, called Safer Not Using ...
The league is one of many programs that have been created or expanded in recent months as Milwaukee received $12.65 million in federal pandemic aid that’s aimed at violence prevention. And a ...
The 18-month program, announced Tuesday, will include two cohorts of 20 high-risk youths between the ages of 14 to 24.
Violence-Free Zones, or Violence-Free Zone Initiatives, are community-based interventions for gang members and youth.Zones attempt to stem violence by providing mentorship, guidance, social development, job training and an effective environment for learning, among other tools, to help gang members and at-risk youth break free and become successful in life, crime-free and violence-free. [1]
The project's aim is to improve neighborhood safety and decrease gun violence in American communities. Project Safe Neighborhoods was established in 2001 through support from President George W. Bush. [1] The program expands upon strategies used in Boston's Operation Ceasefire, and in Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile.
The effort was congressionally supported as part of the ATF's Project Outreach. The program originally began as a nine-lesson middle-school curriculum. In early 1992, the first GREAT Officer Program was conducted in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1993, due to its perceived success, the program was expanded nationwide.
A new evidence-based gun violence prevention program was unveiled in Milwaukee County on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Meanwhile, domestic violence-related homicides across all of Milwaukee County dropped from 41 to 31 as of Dec. 19, according to the Sojourner Family Peace Center, the largest service provider for ...