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Community groups urge council to protect community violence-intervention funding after federal cancellations
Summary
Local service providers and students urged the Long Beach City Council to consider city funding for community violence intervention (CVI) programs after the federal government canceled certain CVI grants; speakers described program impacts and requested that the city include CVI in next fiscal-year budgeting.
Members of Long Beach community organizations, program participants and students urged the City Council on May 6 to protect community violence-intervention (CVI) funding after federal notifications that some CVI awards were being terminated.
Cindy Sagun, CVI program coordinator at Centro CHA, told the council that the U.S. Department of Justice terminated certain CVI and prevention awards…
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