Roca on the AAA-ICDR Foundation Podcast
Roca's Molly Baldwin and Lloyd Wells join Tracey Frisch from the American Arbitration Association to talk about how Rewire4 is reimagining the future of policing.
Trump DOJ eliminates funding from Baltimore violence interruption efforts
The department cancelled more than 360 ongoing grants totaling more than $800 million for community violence intervention work around the country. Roca's After Shooting Protocol team will not be able to serve as many individuals after the Department of Justice ended the organization's community violence intervention grant.
He lost his legs in a shooting. Now, the Baltimore program that helped him faces Trump Administration cuts.
Marquis Milliner told WJZ that life will never be the same after he was a victim of Baltimore gun violence. "I got shot April 29 of last year. I didn't wake up until June 14," he told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. Milliner, who recently turned 27, knows how lucky he is to celebrate that birthday. "It's a blessing to be here. They told my mother to cut off my legs," he said. "I had a 30% chance of living."
Baltimore’s homicide rate dropped to a historic low last month, defied racial trends
Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory, as looming cuts to federal grants threaten gun violence prevention programs.
WA DCYF Partners With Roca Impact Institute To Strengthen Behavioral Support and Leadership Development At Harbor Heights
The Roca Impact Institute announced a new partnership with the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families to support DCYF’s initiative to strengthen behavioral support and leadership development at Harbor Heights, the new Juvenile Rehabilitation facility.
In Lynn, Roca rises to meet high-risk challenge
The Daily Item spent an afternoon with youth worker Sted Bourdeau, a Lynn native and assistant basketball coach at Lynn Tech, who now dedicates his life to mentoring young men through some of the hardest — and most pivotal — years of their lives.