Saving Our Cities News Today

In a month-long series, we spotlighted people in Northern California who are working to make our communities safer and help our youth thrive.

Every morning, 60 members from Sacramento’s Downtown Streets Team fan out across the city, buckets and trash grabbers in hand.

For the last three decades, Victory Outreach in Stockton has worked to help those feeling lost find themselves again.

Three years after Kelly’s death, her brother started Kelly’s Angels, a nonprofit organization focused on helping children impacted by homicide.

Not all jobs require you to get your hands dirty, and most would agree that the Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps is a bit more trashy than others.

Avery Pepin is a Vacaville High School graduate who never dreamed of being a firefighter growing up, but you can now find her every day at a fire station.

A woman who moved to Del Paso Heights in Sacramento launched a foundation to help reduce crime in that neighborhood.

The Wraparound Program helps Sacramento victims of shootings, stabbings and assaults ages 13-26 who are admitted to the UC Davis hospital.

"By bringing the kids together from different backgrounds and neighborhoods it creates something amazing where we are getting to learn from each other."

For the peacekeepers in Stockton, their job is personal and means everything to them as they work to help prevent the next senseless shooting.