Save Our Streets
A public health approach to ending gun violence.
Save Our Streets uses a public health approach to ending gun violence in central Brooklyn. NIA Youth Center, identified on its website as Neighbors in Action, engages youth and local residents through mentoring, leadership development, and community-led safety programs. Its services include therapeutic support for youth affected by violence, help finding jobs and applying for benefits, and access to basic services. An on-site lawyer provides free legal assistance, while trained residents share legal information about housing, family, immigration, and other issues. Youth programming includes educational, recreational, vocational, and artistic opportunities, along with peer leadership and community organizing. The organization also coordinates street festivals, arts campaigns, and activities that activate under-resourced neighborhood spaces. The program began as Crown Heights Community Mediation Center in 1998.
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A public health approach to ending gun violence.
Mentoring, skill-building, and peer leadership opportunities.
Help with jobs, benefits, basic services, and legal needs.
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