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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal officials, community leaders and researchers are gathering in St. Louis this week to discuss a key component of the ...

For Derrick Burch, director of development and community engagement with the Mix, violence prevention starts with giving kids ...

Individuals from the Prevention Working Group within the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education will explore and examine practices and strategies for developing, ...

Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city's safety-net system, but she was ...

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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 ...

Violence intervention programs in some of New Jersey's biggest cities are among the latest New Jersey programs to be hit by federal funding cuts, with the the U.S. Department of Justice cutting $3.5 ...

Bristol Myers Squibb to acquire cancer drugmaker in $4.1B deal FTC suit seeks to block RWJBarnabas acquisition of Saint Peter’s Mount Sinai Hospital swings to a loss in Q1 Local hospitals and health ...

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.