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Pathways to Peace: Philadelphia's Healing Hurt People helps violence victims recover

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Healing Hurt People program, or HHP, is an ER-based violence intervention program that works on the public health-based notion that violence - like other diseases that spread - can be prevented. It targets services to those at highest risk, patients like those in Philadelphia, who are being treated for violent injuries in the city's emergency rooms. Unlike other programs, it recognizes and attempts to heal the underlying emotional trauma that results from, and often predates, violent injury.

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What Cleveland can gain from New Haven's fight against gangs: Pathways to Peace

John Caniglia

June 06, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

In New Haven community leaders and law enforcement joined hands to diminish gang violence. They created Project Longevity, and the research shows the program is successful. Gang shootings in the city have fallen from eight a month, to three.

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Project Longevity's lessons on gangs offer insights for Cleveland: Pathways to Peace

John Caniglia

June 06, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven's Project Longevity has measurably reduced gang violence through an approach brings law enforcement, social service groups, and community leaders together to offer teenagers and young men incentives to stop the violence, and a way out for those who need help. It's a model that may provide a solution for other cities facing gang violence.

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'Pathways to Peace' explores solutions to youth violence

George Rodrigue

June 05, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is responding to its gun violence epidemic with a combination of effective policing, social service agencies, and former offenders deployed to break cycles of violence in their communities.

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Avoiding the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Sierra Mannie

May 18, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

A district-wide approach called PBIS, or positive behavior and instructional support model that focuses on counseling rather than punishment, has curbed behavioral issues at many Jackson public schools, and has even turned many into model sites of positive behavior reinforcement. It has also proven to keep youth from getting stuck in the vicious school-to-prison pipeline.

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Could Baltimore hold the key to solving Cleveland's violence problem?

Leila Atassi

May 18, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Cure Violence is a the national non-profit organization that for 16 years has helped multiple cities adopt strategies for violence prevention that mirror those used in disease control. Programs employ trained “violence interrupters” and outreach workers to identify and mediate potentially deadly conflicts, maintaining relationships with those involved to ensure the conflict does not reignite. Cleveland hopes that replicating the model will help reduce local violence and crime.

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Gun Control Is An Uphill Battle, But Here's One Of The Rare Success Stories

Melissa Jeltsen

May 13, 2016 |

The Huffington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Connecticut

Women are especially vulnerable to gun violence from domestic partners. New state and federal laws are being proposed and passed which require abusers to give up their firearm after a temporary restraining order is filed, others are trying to prevent anyone with an abusive history from being able to obtain a gun.

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Ceasefire in the City? How Police Can (and Cannot) Deter Gunfire

Donna Ladd

May 04, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

In poor, crime-infected neighborhood with limited opportunities, where interactions with law enforcement are often toxic and punitive, and distrust on both sides is rampant. An integrated strategy is at the core of the model that can change this:"Operation Ceasefire," a form of targeted deterrence. The carrot-stick approach is carefully designed to reach men believed to be on the cusp of committing gun violence, let them know the consequences and help them fulfill their needs, thus finding a way to maybe change their trajectory into something more positive.

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‘Police vs. Black': Bridging the ‘Racialized Gulf'

Donna Ladd

May 04, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York Police Department has Operation Ceasefire, in which a mother whose child was a victim of gun violence calls gang members at risk of perpetuating similar crimes. The effort aims to bridge the divide between ethnic minority communities and the police with community pressure on behalf of the police.

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A Hunger to Live: The Struggle to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence

Donna Ladd

April 20, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

After going to prison themselves, John Knight of Jackson and Shanduke McPhatter of Brooklyn are living straight and determined to make changes. They work as "violence interrupters" in their neighborhoods, using an approach called "Cure Violence," developed by Dr. Gary Slutkin. They mentor other young, at-risk men and encourage them towards graduating high school, community service, staying away from drugs, and pursuing honest work.

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