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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.
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.
The team employs three violence interrupters dedicated to developing relationships with youth in specific target zones, canvassing those areas and responding to potentially volatile incidents in ...
How much of a dent local efforts to reduce youth violence are putting in the number of shootings, fights and other forms of violence that young people experience in Tacoma can be hard to see ...
The NNSC uses focused deterrence and problem-oriented policing strategies to identify a particular serious crime problem and design a strategy to respond to it. The National Network’s process recognizes that a small minority of individuals drive the majority of serious violence, therefore law enforcement needs to employ a similarly concentrated response.
The proposed legislation also calls for data-collection from designated geographic areas to assess the needs and extant resources for youth violence prevention and intervention; and authorizes the administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local governments and Native American tribes for the ...
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP, or Working Group) is a group within the executive branch of the U.S. government, and is responsible for promoting healthy outcomes for all youth, including disconnected youth and youth who are at-risk. The Working Group also engages with national, state, local and tribal agencies and ...