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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

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

Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program - YOACAP Violence Reduction Program for Males

Provides services to identify support and resources to change lives positively. Services include case management, assessment, action plan development, and individual and group meetings. Provides assistance with professional development, job readiness, career exposure, and employment.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Prejob Guidance
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Case/Care Management

Philly Truce - Volunteer on the Philly Truce App

Provides volunteer opportunities through the app to help mediate conflict and prevent violence. Available for Apple and Android devices.

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Gun Violence Issues
Youth Violence Prevention
Volunteer Opportunities

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

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

YEAH Philly - Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training

Offers paid training to serve as Teen Conflict Coordinators with YEAH. Training teaches participants the skills to be able to resolve conflicts within their communities, schools, and their own lives.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Conflict Resolution Training

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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Volunteer Training
Youth Violence Prevention

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

Offers a mentorship program for boys and young adult males. 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. Partner schools include Emlen Elementary, Martin Luther King, Jr. High, Roosevelt Elementary, and Wagner Middle.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Mentoring Programs

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

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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Gang Programs
Outreach Programs
General Crime Victim Assistance
Neighborhood Dispute Resolution Services
Gun Violence Issues
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
Recreational Activities/Sports
Youth Violence Prevention
Mentoring Programs
Youth Centers
Prejob Guidance

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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Conflict Resolution Training

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

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

Journeyman Advancement - Alternative Rehabilitation Center

Provides prevention and early intervention on domestic violence related matters and/or bullying in schools. Offers anger management classes, batterers classes, and sexual assault classes with a specialty in coping skills.

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Anger Management
Sexual Assault Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs

Transitions of PA - School Education Programs for Middle and High School

Offers a variety of educational presentations and topics for middle school and high school aged students. Topics and target audiences include talking about sexual harassment, dating violence, dating relationships, drug-facilitated sexual assault, cyber-bullying prevention, bystander Intervention, internet safety, social cruelty, hanging out or hooking up and sportsmanship.

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Bullying Prevention
Dating Violence Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention

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

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.

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Conflict Resolution Training
Youth Violence Prevention

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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School Related Crime Reporting
Occupation Specific Job Training
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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Gun Violence Issues
Youth Violence Prevention

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
Youth Violence Prevention
Case/Care Management

Village of Reading - Youth Violence Prevention

Youth violence preventions program that provides counseling support groups, activities, mentorship and resources.

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Youth Violence Prevention

Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance - Community Evening Resource Center

Offers structured activities and safe spaces for youth who are at risk, and those who have come to the attention of the Philadelphia Police after a curfew violation. Programs offered include job readiness training, coding, conflict resolution, violent prevention, mentoring, service linkages, family engagement, and other activities. Provides referral service for families needing additional resources and services.

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At Risk Youth
Youth Violence Prevention
Youth Centers
Drop In Centers

Philadelphia CeaseFire - Cure Violence

Works to reduce the level of shooting and homicides within selected neighborhoods in the 14th and 22nd Philadelphia Police Districts, using community mobilization, youth outreach, faith-based leadership involvement, police department participation, and public education.

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Gang Programs
Gun Violence Issues
Youth Violence Prevention
Community Crime Prevention Programs