Program equips active offenders resources to redirect lives
Participants who commit to an 18-month fellowship are paired with a mentor who helps them set personalized goals.
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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 enforcement. Mentors, men and women who’ve been involved in shootings themselves in the past, work to get ...