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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

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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Youth Violence Prevention
Volunteer Opportunities

Family Services of Montgomery County - Communities That Care

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

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Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
General Crime Prevention Programs
Underage Drinking 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.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Conflict Resolution Training

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

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

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

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
Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
At Risk Youth
Advocacy

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Anger Management
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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Mentoring Programs
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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Youth Violence Prevention
Case/Care Management
At Risk Youth
Juvenile Diversion

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

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.

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

Institute for the Development of African-American Youth - Community Evening Resource Center

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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At Risk Youth
Youth Employment Programs
Youth Centers
Youth Violence Prevention

Community of Compassion CDC - Community Evening Resource Center

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.

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Youth Centers
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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Youth Violence Prevention
Youth Centers
At Risk Youth
Drop In Centers

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

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

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

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