The most successful programs aimed at encouraging high-risk young people to attend college go beyond financial aid and often provide tutoring, offer mentors, and involve partnerships with ...
Amid racial injustices laid bare in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, police violence and community turmoil, governments started to invest in a different kind of public safety strategy. This approach ...
Federal officials, community leaders and researchers are gathering in St. Louis this week to discuss a key component of the Justice Department's plan to combat violence in the U.S: community violence ...
Sustained engagement with hospital-based violence intervention programs was associated with lower violent reinjury and violence perpetration.
When we're married or in a long-term romantic relationship, we may eventually come to take each other for granted and forget to show appreciation. A new study from the University of Illinois ...
Hello! I cover the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Eileen.Buckley@wkbw.com A new state audit paints a troubling picture of the access to important services for ...
Our city is no stranger to violence. Violence has become so common that we have begun to normalize it. In the past six years, we have seen a fundamental shift in our city’s approach to public safety.
In the early 2000s, Chicago was at the forefront of a novel and promising violence-interruption effort called CeaseFire, which relied on community members—many of whom were former gang members—to ...
In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the programs may have the unintended consequence of reinforcing gender gaps, a new ...
The story of what is at stake in Connecticut’s Birth to Three system begins, as so many do, with a family facing the unimaginable. One family we serve welcomed their son, Maveryk, seven weeks early.
WASHINGTON — A major shakeup could be coming to D.C.'s approach to preventing violence as Councilmember Brooke Pinto introduced her "Peace DC" plan Monday. The project would consolidate the District's ...
Chicago’s sharp drop in shootings and homicides came alongside fewer arrests and a smaller police force. Community violence ...
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