A new program in Lancaster is getting off the ground, focused on community outreach and diverting young people from gangs.

Hospital-based community violence intervention programs combat cycles of violent crime and retaliation by engaging patients in the recovery process immediately following injury. Only in America: The ...

Louisville officials say community-based intervention programs are helping to reduce shootings and violent crime in targeted ...

Beyond the trauma victims of violence experience, there's also the overwhelming stress of having to handle the aftermath.

Johnson County has made progress in the development of a county-wide community violence intervention program, which aims to prevent violent crimes by providing support and assistance to vulnerable ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The City of Orlando approved over $4 million to renew and expand a program that looks to reduce gun violence. In its first full year, the Community Violence Intervention program has ...

The Youth Safety Advisory Committee involves 20 OKC community leaders researching the root causes of violence for a potential intervention program.

In 1999, an epidemiologist named Gary Slutkin returned home to Chicago after spending most of his career treating infectious diseases in Africa. He soon noticed that patterns of urban violence in the ...

Federal officials, community leaders and researchers are gathering in St. Louis this week to discuss a key component of the Justice Department's plan to combat violence in the U.S: community violence ...

A new bill proposal from Gov. Ned Lamont looks to tackle violence while establishing community intervention programs around the state. Lamont's Senate Bill 16 has several priorities to enhance public ...

For decades, public safety in the United States has been synonymous with policing. Across the country, police budgets have increased in recent decades and the public consistently points to police as ...

Community violence intervention programs are a critical part of a comprehensive approach to reduce the impact of rising gun violence on youth and in U.S. communities. According to a recent Sentencing ...