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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Helps males ages 14 to 24 who seek to improve themselves to identify support and resources to change their 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.

Organizes the Cheltenham and West Oak Lane communities to reduce the risk factors that contribute to youth violence and substance abuse. Cheltenham CTC creates various strategies aimed at keeping youth safe and drug-free. Strategies applied include programmatic, environmental, and social marketing campaigns. For more information on Cheltenham CTC, visit

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.

Offers structured activities and safe spaces for youth who are at risk, and for those who have come to the attention of the Philadelphia Police after a curfew violation. Provides programs including job readiness training, coding, conflict resolution, violent prevention, mentoring, service linkages, family engagement, and other activities. Transportation home is provided, if needed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.