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ONEs office expands violence‑intervention team, reports 90% non‑recidivism among participants
Summary
The city’s Office of Neighborhood Engagement (ONEs) described expanded summer youth programming, a pilot hiring program for high‑risk youth and a violence‑intervention effort that the office says prevented re‑engagement for roughly 90% of participants who accepted services.
Chief Taffney Young, director (interim) of the city's ONEs office, presented the office’s 2024 outreach and violence‑reduction work and described an expanded staff and strategy for 2025.
"Our mission is to improve neighborhood safety through the reduction of gun and other violence among Savannah youth," Taffney Young said as she introduced the ONEs team and new staff additions.
Young said the ONEs team completed 104 neighborhood, school and community meetings and events in 2024, reaching about 1,947 attendees, and that the city’s 100‑Days‑of‑Summer programming reached more than 9,000 youth in 2024 (a roughly 40% increase in pool attendance compared…
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