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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.