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Participants who commit to an 18-month fellowship are paired with a mentor who helps them set personalized goals.

Participants who commit to an 18-month fellowship are paired with a mentor who helps them set personalized goals.

More than 117,000 people are shot in America annually, and gun homicides disproportionately are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in impoverished and underserved communities of color.

Advance Peace Fresno pairs former convicts and gang members with underage shooters who are paid $1,000 a month to stay out of trouble

Created: July 29, 2021 05:52 PM ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — A new program is being considered by the City of Rochester to try to get shooters to stop pulling the trigger. Advance Peace offers those who are likely to shoot or be shot a fellowship that includes monthly stipends and travel as a way to deter violence. Free the People ROC has been pushing for the City to consider bringing this program, or one like it to Rochester for months.   Advance Peace does not involve law enforcem...

RELEASE: 20+ Cities Launch National Offices of Violence Prevention Network, Building on the Movement To Reimagine Public Safety Date: February 2, 2021 Phone: 202.481.8145 Washington, D.C. — Today, 21 cities across the country joined with the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR), Advance Peace, and the Center for American Progress to launch the National Offices of Violence Prevention Network, a coalition of local governments committed to reimagining public safety. The newly...

That shows its actually paying people not to shoot each other. joining me is the founding director of that program, devone boggan. >> thanks for having me. >> you guys are literally paying people not to commit violent crimes. >> yes, and no. let me first say that if were going to seriously end gun violence in this country, guys like the young men were working with have to be seen as part of the solution to the equation. certainly were paying them if you consider putting an 18-month nonmandated f...

Lot of outreach apparatus in other cities, we dont have a whole lot of turnaround. these are men who themselves have had backgrounds like some of the other young men we are engaging. and they are now vested city employees. and they are the most stable consistent part of our work. theyre champions. theyre heroes in these communities. and they have a great deal of credibility and legitimacy because theyve been stable and consistent over the last four or five years. >> devone boggan talking about r...