Safe Streets Group In Belair-Edison Receives $100K Grant From Everytown For Gun Safety

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Safe Streets successful Belair-Edison received a $100,000 assistance connected Wednesday from the nationalist weapon power advocacy enactment Everytown for Gun Safety.

The assistance was fixed to the Living Classrooms Foundation, a spouse enactment that helps the section unit involution program’s operations successful East Baltimore.

In summation to funding, the Safe Streets tract volition get to instrumentality portion successful networking calls with adjacent organizations, person grooming and summation entree to information and tools from Everytown for Gun Safety.

“An contented arsenic captious arsenic weapon unit requires a robust, proactive community-based effect that prioritizes information and redeeming lives,” Cheryl Riviere, Living Classrooms Foundation managing manager of assemblage information programs, said successful a statement. “This assistance from the Everytown Community Safety Fund is precisely the benignant of concern we need, and it volition assistance our enactment to trim weapon unit to endure and expand.”

At sites crossed the city, Safe Streets deploys respected assemblage leaders arsenic unit interrupters to mediate conflicts earlier they crook violent. The unit interrupters besides assistance steer residents to services specified arsenic job-training, counseling, transitional housing, and wellness and household services.

In 2020, determination were 661 struggle mediations successful the Belair-Edison and McElderry Park neighborhoods and a 14% diminution successful Safe Street zones from the erstwhile year, according to figures provided by Living Classrooms Foundation. There were 4 homicides successful those zones that year, according to the nonprofit.

Everytown for Gun Safety created a $25 cardinal money to enactment 100 community-based involution programs implicit the adjacent 5 years.

“As cities proceed to grapple with accrued violence, it’s important that section unit involution groups person the resources they request to prolong and standard their life-saving work,” Michael-Sean Spence, manager of assemblage information initiatives astatine Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, said successful a statement. “The pandemic has exacerbated the underlying drivers of weapon violence, and we cognize the solutions to reducing these increases successful weapon unit are coming from organizations with section expertise successful the communities astir affected. Now is the clip to treble down and prolong the promising enactment of programs similar Safe Streets!”

Everytown for Gun Safety besides provides backing for Roca Baltimore, a nonprofit that enrolls at-risk young men successful employment services and therapy.

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