Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention, by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, evaluates two programs developed in response to the rise ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- At-risk kids who achieved success in a gang-prevention program in Orange County received a special Thanksgiving reward. Anaheim police officers made a series of special ...

New programming designed for young people and additional partnerships in 2026 further ProCivica's mission to support courts, agencies, and participants ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- One local organization is looking to prevent gang violence on the First Coast. The new Boys & Girls Club Gang Prevention Initiative will assist the 1,100 young people who are at ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — A non-profit in Pueblo has spent the last ten years dedicated to reducing gang violence in the Steel City. The Hard Knox Gang Prevention and Intervention Program works with ...

Tina Padilla, executive director of a Northeast Los Angeles-based gang interventionist group called Community Warriors 4 Peace, is among those pushing for better pay and benefits for workers tasked ...

A group of three or more people with a common name who engage in criminal activity is the generally accepted definition of a gang. There’s no such thing as a good gang, because all gangs are composed ...

Less than two weeks after after the City of Seattle announced that it had been granted nearly $1,000,000 in federal funds to help address youth violence in the Rainier Valley, the City Auditor ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A group of mental health advocates will lead a new program in Portsmouth Public Schools beginning in mid-September. The Edward Brown Foundation will begin the Youth Guard ...

CHICAGO — The success of a gang violence prevention outreach program has caused the Chicago Police Department to expand it to other high schools. Since the program’s implementation in the Police ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ State Office of Juvenile Affairs officials would like to revisit next year a decision to stop funding for a gang prevention program in southwestern Oklahoma. When the Board of ...

How much is a life saved in Los Angeles worth? It’s a question that kept crossing Tina Padilla’s mind when she heard officials praise the work of gang interventionists. Described by some city leaders ...