MaRhonda Y. Echols, Program Coordinator
The Newport News Youth & Young Adult Gang Violence Initiative is
part of the City’s Strategic Plan to address public safety. It is
locally funded by City Council with oversight from the City Manager’s
Office.
The reduction of violent gang and gang-related crime by youth
and young adults is a critical strategic priority for City Council.
Local street gangs, or neighborhood-based street gangs, across the City
of Newport News are a significant threat to public safety because they
engage in violence in conjunction with a variety of other crimes.
The
City has implemented the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile
Justice Delinquency Prevention Comprehensive Gang Model (OJJDP) as a
strategy to address this threat. The OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
(Model) is an intervention model that calls for five core strategies to
be delivered through an integrated approach from a team of community
agencies and organizations.
Click here for additional information.
Source: nnva.gov
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