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Xiente - Intensive Prevention Services (IPS) - Bilingual / Spanish

Provides a 90-day program for youth exhibiting at risk behaviors at home, in school, or in the community. Includes mandatory twice weekly visits with case managers, twice monthly counseling sessions, and once monthly home visits. Services include case management, referrals for wraparound services, and workshops covering anger management, conflict resolution, college preparation, and more. Uses Positive Action curriculum to deliver workshops.

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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
At Risk Youth
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Mentoring Programs

Institute for the Development of African-American Youth - Community Crisis Intervention Program

Uses a credible messenger model to prevent and reduce gun violence in Philadelphia’s most violent neighborhoods. Provides teams of crisis workers / credible messengers who ride and walk-through assigned Police Service Areas, mediate conflicts, and build meaningful relationships in the community to help prevent violence. Also provides outreach and referrals to resources to victims of violence crime.

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Gun Violence Issues
Youth Violence Prevention
Outreach Programs
Neighborhood Dispute Resolution Services
Gang Programs
General Crime Victim Assistance

Salvation Army - Reading - Violence Prevention Program

Provides therapeutic groups with licensed psychologist, emotional skill building, life skills and case management to children and their parents who have experienced trauma due to violence.

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Youth Violence Prevention

Fulton County Family Partnership - Communities That Care (CTC)

Prevents youth violence, delinquency and drug use, and promotes positive youth development and strong families.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Wellness Programs
Advocacy
At Risk Youth
Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups

Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General - Safe2Say Something

Offers a youth violence prevention program. Teaches youth and adults how to recognize warning signs and signals, especially within social media, from individuals who may be a threat to themselves or others and to say something BEFORE it is too late.

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Youth Violence Prevention

Central Division Victim Services - Positive Alternatives for Trauma & Healing

Provides violence prevention and reductive services for families of youth ages 14-24. Promotes positive alternatives to violence through developmentally based mentorship, outreach, making connections, and providing supportive services.

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Mentoring Programs
Youth
Youth Violence Prevention

Central Division Victim Services - Positive Alternatives for Trauma & Healing

Provides violence prevention and reductive services for families of youth ages 14-24. Promotes positive alternatives to violence through developmentally based mentorship, outreach, making connections, and providing supportive services.

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Mentoring Programs
Youth
Youth Violence Prevention

Juvenile Justice Center Family Services of Philadelphia - Community Evening Resource Center (CERC)

Offers structured activities and a safe space for youth. Activities include academic help, cooking classes, coding, conflict resolution training, family engagement, job readiness training, mental health support, mentoring, sports activities, and violence prevention. Provides referral services for families needing additional resources and services.

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Youth Centers
Youth Violence Prevention
Recreational Activities/Sports
Mentoring Programs
Youth
Prejob Guidance

Institute for the Development of African-American Youth - Safe Pathways and Safe Path Monitors

Provides trained community advocates who work in teams of 2 to 7 monitors near several Philadelphia high- and middle schools to help reduce the rate of violence and conflict experienced by students traveling from school. Supervises areas near schools, supports student safety, de-escalates conflict, and assists school safety officers and school climate staff.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Occupation Specific Job Training
School Related Crime Reporting

School District of Philadelphia - Safe Corridors

Accepting volunteers. Aims to provide extra supervision for students traveling to and from school. Similar to neighborhood watch programs, volunteers can opt to patrol routes around schools at the start and end of the school day or to keep watch from their homes or businesses. Volunteers often work in teams, sharing information and reporting any suspicious or unusual activities.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Youth Violence Prevention

Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network - Community Crisis Intervention Program

Combats violence by intervening where violence is most prevalent. Works to provide those involved in criminal activities with positive alternatives. Responds to neighborhood crises with mediation and resources to support anyone looking for a peaceful alternative.

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Outreach Programs
Gang Programs
General Crime Victim Assistance
Youth Violence Prevention
Gun Violence Issues
Neighborhood Dispute Resolution Services

Institute for the Development of African-American Youth - Don't Fall Down in the Hood Intervention

Offers an intensive, multi-cultural, community-based treatment program designed to reduce juvenile crime. Through case management, works with youth and their families individually, in the community, at school, and at home. Runs 4 to 6 months and covers self stabilization, self development, and ongoing sustainability. Provides a daily meal, and public transit funds. Uses Aggression Replacement Training, restorative justice, and trauma-informed therapy. Connects youth to community resources.

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Juvenile Diversion
At Risk Youth
Case/Care Management
Youth Violence Prevention

Temple Safety Net - Cradle to Grave

Offers a 2-hour long educational session that gives young people a behind-the-scenes look into the physical, emotional, and social realities of firearm injury. During the session, participants explore the real life and death experiences of a Philadelphia teen whose story serves as the backdrop for this unflinching look at gun violence.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Gun Violence Issues

Philly Truce - Philly Truce App

Provides a mobile app that connects Philadelphians with knowledge of potentially violent conflicts in direct contact with trained mediators who are not affiliated with the police. Available for Apple and Android devices.

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Internet Based Crisis Intervention
Youth Violence Prevention

Frontline Dads - Peacemakers

Offers a prevention-based strategy that teaches young people conflict resolution techniques that empowers them to become change agents in their communities and schools by promoting peace. Provides a series of violence-prevention workshops offered in a structured manner so that young people can learn to de-escalate situations that have the potential for violence, thereby, reducing violence.

What's Here

Youth Violence Prevention
Conflict Resolution Training

Xiente - Intensive Prevention Services (IPS)

Provides a 90-day program for youth exhibiting at risk behaviors at home, in school, or in the community. Includes mandatory twice weekly visits with case managers, twice monthly counseling sessions, and once monthly home visits. Services include case management, referrals for wraparound services, and workshops covering anger management, conflict resolution, college preparation, and more. Uses Positive Action curriculum to deliver workshops.

What's Here

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
At Risk Youth

Unique Dreams, Inc. - Community Evening Resource Center

Provides a safe place for teens during the evening hours seven days a week. Reduces curfew violations. Offers full evening programming, family support, nightly meals, snacks, and transportation.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Youth Centers

Philly Truce - Peace Patrol

Promotes community safety through volunteer-run neighborhood patrols. Works to decrease community-level violence by empowering community members to engage in cooperative conversations with their neighbors while on regular patrols during peak times for violence. Volunteers receive specialized mediation training where they learn simple de-escalation techniques. Philly Truce staff supports these volunteers as higher-level backup.

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Community Crime Prevention Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Volunteer Opportunities

The Peace Center - S.A.F.E Counseling Program

Provide individual and group counseling to help men, women, and youth learn how to prevent and stop violence and abuse.

What's Here

Youth Violence Prevention
Anger Management

Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network - Intensive Prevention Services

Provides early intervention programming for at-risk youth. Services include academic support and referrals as needed, social and emotional competency building, mentoring, recreation, work ready programming, and community service opportunities.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs
At Risk Youth
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention

Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network - Youth Violence Reduction Partnership

Provides frequent home visits, drug treatment, organized recreation, job readiness services, school crisis intervention, as well as supported referrals for mental and behavioral health counseling for participants and their parents.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Volunteer Training

Institute for the Development of African-American Youth - Don't Fall Down in the Hood Intervention

Offers an intensive, multi-cultural, community-based treatment program designed to reduce juvenile crime. Through case management, works with youth and their families individually, in the community, at school, and at home. Runs 4 to 6 months and covers self stabilization, self development, and ongoing sustainability. Provides a daily meal, and public transit funds. Uses Aggression Replacement Training, restorative justice, and trauma-informed therapy. Connects youth to community resources.

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Juvenile Diversion
At Risk Youth
Case/Care Management
Youth Violence Prevention

Collective Climb - Restorative Community Project (RCP)

Offers a two-part program focused on cultivating a restorative framework and restorative practices. Part One educates participants about restorative mental models through a 32-hour training facilitated during a nature-based retreat. During Part Two, participants conduct a participatory action research project exploring marronage (a community-based realization of freedom) in 12 sessions over 3 months. Program cohorts contain 10 youth. Participants are paid a $450 stipend.

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Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Conflict Resolution Training
Youth Enrichment Programs

Centre County Youth Service Bureau - Prevention Programs

Provides prevention services in schools as well as at the CCYSB youth centers and street outreach sites. Prevention Programs are designed to address the risks that make it more likely that kids will use drugs and alcohol or make other unsafe decisions. They include educational activities as well as educational presentations for schools, community groups, and parents.

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Bullying Prevention
Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Underage Drinking Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention

Men Who Care of Germantown - Real Talk With Women Who Care

Offers a mentorship program for girls and young adult women. Facilitates candid conversations about life choices and making positive life decisions, and provides advocacy and resources in support of mentees' expressed interests and concerns. Services include large group mentoring with topic-focused break out groups and one on one intervention as needed. Primarily mentors at the high school level.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Mentoring Programs