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Portsmouth United program highlights expansion, shifts funding toward intervention
Summary
Safer Communities program manager Shantel Matthews told the Portsmouth Crime and Gun Violence Prevention Commission that Portsmouth United served more than 10,000 residents in 2025 and will shift funds in 2026 from prevention to intervention and crisis‑stabilization, while piloting violence‑interruption and bus‑stop safety programs.
Shantel Matthews, Portsmouth’s safer communities program manager, told the Crime and Gun Violence Prevention Commission on March 2 that Portsmouth United — the city’s branded office of violence prevention — reached more than 10,000 participants across 23 community partners in 2025 and will pivot funding in 2026 toward intervention and crisis stabilization.
“We had over 10,000 participants, and we served Portsmouth citizens ages 4 to 60,” Matthews said, summarizing last year’s reach. She described Portsmouth United as “really becoming a labor of love,” and said the program will increase support for survivor healing, violence‑interruption pilots and targeted intervention work.
The program manager…
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