Urban Peace Institute hosted three Harvard Park for Safer Streets walks in August!
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Urban Peace Institute is in our final weeks of the Youth Diversion Provider Trainings in partnership with the new Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development.
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Urban Peace Institute hosted our first annual Peace Walk & Healing Yoga to call for ending gun violence.
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Urban Peace Institute is celebrating the passage of $12.75M for Peacemakers and $13.8M for Youth Centers by the Care First Community Investment (CFCI) Advisory Committee!
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This past year, Urban Peace Institute has empowered 32 leaders who are dedicated to making South Los Angeles a safer and healthier place to live.
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In a call to end gun violence nationwide, Urban Peace Institute joined the Watts Walking Club to #WearOrange with Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety.
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It was a day of celebration last Tuesday as the Urban Peace Institute hosted a ceremony for the latest graduating cohort of the Urban Peace Academy.
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The Urban Peace Institute is heartbroken and enraged by the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo. Enough is enough.
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The Watts Walking Club has started again! Every Friday, community leaders, law enforcement officers, and intervention workers join together in neighborhood walks for community safety.
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Urban Peace Institute was pleased to host a team of school-based intervention workers from Visalia Unified School District.
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The Urban Peace Academy re-launched in February 2022 with 25 participants who are committed to creating peace in their communities through violence intervention.
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Ben “Taco” Owens, a longtime leader in the community violence intervention field, shares his story of becoming a Peacemaker and how he has seen the work evolve.
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Urban Peace Institute and our partners advocated for the establishment of a new Department of Youth Development to transform youth services in Los Angeles County.
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Victory! In February 2022, the Urban Peace Institute proposed and passed an amendment to remove all funding from Los Angeles County School Based Probation.
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The Urban Peace Institute joined its partners in the Los Angeles Youth Uprising Coalition (LAYUP), including the Arts and Healing Justice Network, to make holiday cards for incarcerated youth.
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Chapter T.W.O., the Urban Peace Institute’s longtime violence intervention partner, gave out Thanksgiving meals in four different locations across Los Angeles before the holiday break.
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Urban Peace Institute sends our deepest gratitude for all our supporters and allies over this past year. Thank you.
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The Urban Peace Institute traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with national leaders to educate them on the effectiveness of peacemakers to reduce violence.
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The Urban Peace Institute joined Gabby Giffords and fellow violence intervention leaders at SoFi Stadium to speak about the importance of peacemakers to end gun violence.
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Tina Padilla, a well-respected community intervention worker, shares her story of what led her to become a peacemaker.
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