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April 12, 2024
Helping Students Feel the Love
As local students try to complete their education, the impacts of gun violence and the COVID-19 pandemic are making it difficult for them to succeed.
According to Chalkbeat, 199 students were shot in Philadelphia in 2023 and 33 died as a result.
To help students navigate their trauma and access conflict-resolution tools to de-escalate potential violence, local programs are stepping in to support them.
PJC partner Love Now Media released the second story of their three-part “A More Loving Philly” series. This one explores how the Youth Violence Reduction Initiative and YEAH Philly are providing mentorship and peer mediation training to youth and connecting them to therapy, employment, and safe spaces.
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School Groups De-escalate Youth Violence by Meeting Students Where They Are
These days, people are embracing a healing approach to daily life. There seems to be a significant shift in the commitment to navigating trauma in a loving way.
It is something people say they want young people exposed to while in Philadelphia schools. ?If you work in the schools with students every day, your charge is to help keep them safe, and you are invested in their well-being. So you share their pain when young lives are lost.
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“I always think about how I can do more,” says Kevin Rosa.
But Rosa is already doing his part to quell the recent rise in gun violence that threatens the lives of so many young people. He runs the Youth Violence Reduction Initiative (YVRI) at Bartram High School, the only program of its kind in Philadelphia’s public schools. It’s a federally funded pilot program that aims to reduce violence for at-risk students through a series of programs and strategies.
Partner Spotlight
WURD Radio is the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in ?Pennsylvania and one of few in the country. Started in 2002, over the years WURD has evolved into a multi-media, multi-platform communications company that reaches deeply into the Black community through radio, events, digital and social media.
The station recently aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on their show “Reality Check” hosted by Tonya Pendleton, discussing themes such as student loan debt, maternal mortality, and multicultural identity. Click here to listen.
WURD Radio, in partnership with Kouvenda Media and the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative, will be hosting a free conversation and mixer with the creators and selected guests of the PJC podcast On Being Biracial on April 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Temple University.