A vigil memorializing the 26 lives taken in Newtown, Connecticut, is held outside of the NRA Headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, on the 14th day of every month. This one, on April 14, 2018, was different: only the kids – from Parkland, from Newtown, from Gaithersburg, from Alexandria (elementary school students!) – spoke. No other words […]
Lessons Learned: Grim in Baltimore; Hope in Watts
Author’s note: After the grim and disheartening recent days in Baltimore, there is hope. There are cities that once faced the same climate we are seeing in Baltimore today that are now making strides and developing programs that are saving lives and transforming the relationships between the police and those they police — a move […]
“Strength and Compassion” – Louisville Responds to a Crisis
Shock in Louisville Twelve months ago Louisville, , ranked by the FBI as fifth safest among the eighteen cities with a population between 500,000 and 800,00, committed itself to the creation of an ambitious comprehensive violence prevention/community health plan, which would blend prevention, intervention, enforcement and reentry of returning offenders. Led by the Office of […]
Schools as a Violence Prevention Resource
Supported by the California Endowment, this post is part of a series, “Galvanizing the Civic Sector to Reduce Gun Violence.” The series focuses on what several sectors – parents, teens, schools, hospitals, law enforcement, the faith community, the philanthropic and business sectors, civic leaders and others – can do, independent of state and federal legislative […]
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