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  • Cleveland's struggle to curb violence brings new approach: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Operation Focus is a nationally recognized initiative to help curb gun violence; however, its effectiveness has proven to not be sustainable. The city of Cleveland has evaluated the problems of the initiative and has put forth a new plan to address underlying issues related to gun violence. Cleveland’s new approach treats violence as a preventable condition.

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  • Pathways to Peace: 11 lessons learned

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland has struggled through the years to reduce youth violence. But important lessons have been learned, here and elsewhere. City officials say they are factoring those lessons into their latest plans to reduce violence among young men in the city.

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  • Voices of fighting joblessness and youth violence: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Some local programs see youth employment as more than just a workforce development issue. They also view jobs as a way to offer stability to young people, especially those from Cleveland area communities with high violence rates. The research bears them out. These are the voices of some of the voices speaking in favor of more jobs and less violence.

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  • More jobs, less youth violence, data and experts say: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Programs run by the Volunteers of America and Ohio Means Jobs|Cleveland-Cuyahoga County focus on employment, not only as a workforce issue, but also as a way to keep young people out of trouble and lower youth violence. Such programs have the research to back them up. An analysis done for The Plain Dealer by Case Western Reserve University shows a correlation between the youth idle rate, based on teens who are neither in school nor working, and youth violence.

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  • Volunteers of America offers youth offenders second chances and more: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    The Volunteers of America's Face Forward 2 program offers a second chance to youth offenders by focusing on education and employment. Destyni Iverson believes the program potentially changed the trajectory of life. She said she felt hopeless when she enrolled, and was on the verge of becoming a high school dropout. Now she is enrolled as a nursing student at Cuyahoga Community College and believes she has a bright future.

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  • Is Better Transportation the Ticket to Diversifying Our National Parks?

    June 08, 2016 |

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    Tourism to National Parks throughout the U.S. has a diversity issue. Although this stems from various foundations, one area the park service has focused their attention is in transportation. From buses to trolleys to boats and ferries, parks across the nation are ramping up efforts to help get a more diverse crowd into nature.

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  • If Universities Made This Course a Pre-Requisite, Campuses Would Be Safer for Female Students

    June 07, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    Rapes at college campuses occur at significant rates, and many proposed fixes are not working. Campus self-defense classes could potentially help women, such as at Stanford where Daly Montgomery (a student) created a self-defense class called "Protecting Your Bubble" to teach women how to defend themselves, hear from victims, and learn that it is ok to take action to protect yourself.

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  • Job center inside House of Corrections gives inmates new opportunities

    June 05, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Job training is an invaluable resource to prisoners who may not have any other resources for such a thing. A new job center, established with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, aims to assist 1,000 Milwaukee County offenders over two years.

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  • Participation in NYC Public Libraries' Tech Trainings Soars

    June 03, 2016 |

    Civic Hall |

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    New York Public Libraries are closing the digital divide by offering tech trainings, that have already been very successful as indicated by their long waitlists. Attention is now turned towards growing these programs, providing free wifi hotspots, and reaching out to demographics that are not well represented in the tech industry.

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  • Legal Aid With a Digital Twist

    June 01, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Software and apps are helping millions of Americans trying to solve civil problems on their own.

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