PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30 – As part of her ongoing fight to stop the surging homicide count in Philadelphia, PA, House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton announced $764,886 in funding to help area advocate groups and schools combat the gun violence crisis.
“It pains me to no end to see the city surpass the grim milestone of 400 homicides this year, and the fact is these tragedies could have been prevented,” said McClinton, D-Phila./Delaware. “By securing these dollars to invest in our community-based groups and schools, we give our boots on the ground who are on the frontlines of this public health crisis the best opportunity to find gun violence reduction approaches that work. Build upon them and, ultimately, better protect our neighborhoods – especially our young people.”
During a news conference outside of Church of Christian Compassion, McClinton presented the Gun Violence Reduction Program grants to:
Community of Compassion Inc.: $225,000 to launch its “S.T.O.P.” Anti-Violence Program and utilize the Community of Care Violence Prevention model, which is a faith-based, multi-agency approach to mapping and deploying community resources and responses. Proposed activities include after-school programming, culturally responsive mentoring, education, and law enforcement resources.
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