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Village Project outlines youth-violence intervention services and outcomes
Summary
Village Project said its mentoring-based youth-violence intervention worked with roughly 65 youth and families in the grant period and described services including in-school advocacy, court support, reentry assistance and planned gardening and independent-study programs.
Ronan Harris and Elijah Vilanga of Village Project presented an overview of their grant-funded youth violence intervention program to the Seaside City Council on March 20, summarizing services, participant demographics and future goals.
Harris said the program provides mentorship, in-school advocacy, legal advocacy including court support and probation compliance assistance, behavioral interventions for truancy and substance use, and life-skills enrichment. "We work with youth, families, schools and other organizations to implement strategies to intervene…
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