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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new state audit paints a troubling picture of the access to important services for children with disabilities. But Black and Hispanic children face even greater barriers. New York State Comptroller ...

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, ...

Many patients with firearm injuries are treated at hospitals with violence intervention programs, but only about 1 in 5 ultimately receive these services, according to a national analysis published in ...

At Summerville Elementary School (SES), students receive extra support in reading, math and language through several intervention programs. These programs include Read 180, reading and math ...

The competitive grants, approved today by the school safety and security committee under the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime ...

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.

State Sen. Judy Schwank, left, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and state Rep. Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz at this week’s roundtable to discuss investments in community-based programs that are making Pennsylvania ...

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 ...