Preventing Youth Violence

• Create new after-school and social growth opportunities for all youth in the City of Boston.

• Support, fund and re-energize existing youth initiatives and programs.

• Provide education and mentoring focused on the prevention of violence and drug abuse.

• Foster social work programs and offer counseling to troubled youths and their families.

• Develop community policing strategies tailored to each neighborhoods needs.

Articles Related to Boston Youth Violence

- One dead after fight at MBTA station

- Drive-by shooting kills Dorchester teenager

- Bullet ended teen’s dream

- Violence mars two holiday parties

- 2 teens brutally slain: Bloodshed grows despite cops-clergy huddles

- One stabbed fatally as two groups fight

- Reputed gang member held in machete attack

- 2 teens hurt in party melee

- Thugs gun down man in neighbor's yard

- Short skirt, shorter temper prompts teen girl’s tantrum

- Police charge pregnant girl in stabbing of baby's father

- Dorchester activist is fatally stabbed

- Dodge city: Feuding thugs have Hub neighborhood ducking for cover

- Rape fear grips city: Shocking rise in sex assaults

- Man shot on MBTA bus

- Teens assault girl, 17, in basement

- Teen arrested in Beacon Hill rape

- Boy, 15, fatally stabbed outside Dudley station

- Girl, 14, suffers 'savage' beating by other teens, T officials say

- This time, it's about hope

- Shooting getaway suspect arrested

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