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 ...

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 ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath. Here's a brilliant idea to stop gang violence: Just get the rival gang members together in a nice kitchen and have them bake bread. Are you ...

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 ...

When it comes to fighting gangs, there's the New York City approach, and there's the Los Angeles approach, according to the Justice Policy Institute. And one statistic dramatizes the difference: Two ...

In December, Santa Rosa’s Violence Prevention Program and police officials rang the alarms: children as young as 10 were showing interest in the gang lifestyle and someone needed to get through to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Inside the Juvenile Justice Center, they know all too well that life can be the furthest thing from a game. “For us, it’s really important that we teach them how to find ...

Would you hire a gangbanger to run your business? Would you trust someone with a criminal record to handle your money? The Rev. Greg Boyle has done that. Boyle is a Jesuit priest and the founder 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 ...

Several intervention academies have sprung up, and city leaders have sought to hold peacemaker agencies accountable by using "evidence-based" tracking of gang-related violence andreferrals into job ...