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A Queens nonprofit is combatting gun violence by deploying community outreach workers around local schools to deescalate conflict.
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While local organizations have launched a number of preventive programs and support services in their communities aimed at quelling the violence, they know there are no easy answers to getting a lid on the crisis. The run of recent violent episodes involving teenagers has magnified a longstanding problem.