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.
Chicago Was a Pioneer in Violence Interruption. Cities Across the Country Are Now Evolving the Approach
Attempts to break the chain of violence have been around as long as violence itself – that is to say, just about forever. But over the last quarter century, those efforts have been formalized, quantified and studied in a way that hadn’t been seen before, driven by a set of best practices adaptable to different communities and a mindset that violence should be treated like a public health problem.
Roca training St. Louis violence interrupters on new strategies
Roca working with violence interrupters Show Me Peace in the first phase of several initiatives underway through the Save Lives Now regional plan in St. Louis.
7 years into Roca, an update on how intervention is saving the lives of Baltimore’s young people
Homicide and non-fatal shootings in Baltimore recently reached their lowest rates in a decade, a welcomed sign of success for the city's anti-violence programs. While a nationwide fall in violence suggests wider factors at play, city agencies and nonprofits dedicated to violence intervention say their work is making a difference.
Mass. individuals are building stability and achieving goals after experiencing violence and trauma
In Chelsea, Roca supports young people experiencing hardship by using what it calls "relentless outreach."