Roca Hartford celebrates 22 program graduates
Roca Hartford, a program dedicated to helping young women break cycles of poverty, trauma and violence, celebrated its 2025 graduating class Monday.
PHOTO: First Graduating Class at Roca Hartford
Roca Hartford celebrated as the first 22 young people graduated.
Boston stays the course, despite Trump yanking violence prevention grants
‘There’s nothing quote-unquote woke about saving lives,’ says city community safety leader
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."