COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A youth violence prevention organization that started in Birmingham, Ala.
Not only is Charlotte seeing crime impact children at younger ages, but it is also victimizing minority youth more than others.
The uptick in youth violence comes amid a jump in homicides across the city, with 26 homicides in the first six months of 2026 compared to 18 at this point in 2025.
A CU Boulder-led initiative to reduce youth violence in hard-hit Denver neighborhoods was associated with a 75% decline in arrests for murder, assault, robbery and other youth crimes in recent years, .
In 2020, the cost of youth violence in the United States was approximately $122 billion, according to new research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Advance Peace is a program that has been effective in cities at preventing youth violence.
LandPaths takes at-risk youth out of their concrete, urban environments and into the natural one, offering many their first encounters with the land .
Within a few months of returning to in-person classes when the COVID-19 pandemic eased in mid-2021, San Francisco public schools found themselves in serious trouble.
As part of my amends to victims, I have an obligation to break cycles of gun violence, and that is what California's Thrive Act would do.