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Family Guidance Center will lead new Montgomery County community violence intervention program; city and county funding cited
Summary
Family Guidance Center told the Montgomery County Commission it will house a 14-person community violence intervention program at 2742 Central Parkway, hire a program director and begin training with national consultants; commissioners were told the initiative is funded jointly by city and county sources for two years.
Family Guidance Center will serve as the grantee for Montgomery County’s newly awarded Community Violence Intervention (CVI) program and has begun hiring staff and securing office space, agency leaders told the County Commission during an information session.
“We're super excited about it. We know that, violence is in every corner of our city, and it's gonna take all of us, you know, in order for us to change, to make change,” Yolanda Adams, executive director of Family Guidance Center, told commissioners.
Jim Christiansen, assistant executive director of Family Guidance Center, said the program has secured offices at 2742…
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