Marques Watts News Today

Healing Through Justice, a partnership between Communities United and Lurie Children’s Hospital, uses activism to heal trauma and will now be able to help 3,000 more young people.

The group said a change in curfew wasn’t the answer. More resources, like after-school programming and community centers that stay open late, would help prevent gun violence, they said.

They continue to push for civilian oversight of the police department and non-police alternatives to respond to mental health crises and provide public safety in schools.