Boston leaders plan to award $1.6 million in state funding to 19 community groups and public safety organizations to prevent gang violence.
"We know that gang prevention works the best through programming, so we can't do it without our nonprofits in our city-based organizations," said DeMon Bills, project coordinator for the Boston Police Department.
Funded by the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Office of Grants and Research, the Shannon grant is modeled after the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's comprehensive gang model, which focuses on five interrelated core strategies:Community Mobilization — Community engagement and collaborationSocial Intervention — Outreach and provision of services, for gang-involved youth, and their familiesOrganizational Change — Development of policy for effective...
Project RIGHT is among the organizations chosen to receive some of the funding. Co-director Michael Kuzo said it is still seeing the impact of the isolation from the pandemic.
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