Our national web panel, Street Outreach During COVID-19: The Essential Work of Violence Intervention and Virus Interruption, convened over 200 partners from across the country working to promote public health and safety during this pandemic.
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UPI is advocating for the immediate release for nearly 600 youth within the nation’s largest juvenile justice system. It is imperative during this public health crisis that all youth are released from unsafe detention conditions that do not allow for social distancing, nor adequate prevention efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
This is the first expansion of the Community Safety Partnership initiative into the Valley region. UPI’s trainings connected officers with community residents, service providers, and gang intervention workers to learn how to create safety together.
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To kick off Watts’ first Walk to School Day celebration, UPI guided children across South Los Angeles to walk to school safely without fear of gang intimidation and violence. Our efforts were part of the national Walk to School Day celebration, where communities across the country came together to encourage walking and biking to school.
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Larry Sanders can often be found joking with youth and managing the grill at Green Meadows Park while working to creating a community of peace, positivity, and laughter in South Los Angeles.
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In August 2019, Los Angeles took a monumental step toward ending youth incarceration.
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In the past three months, UPI has presented introductory and advanced courses for over 267 brave peacemakers working in Los Angeles, Chicago, Stockton, and Sacramento.
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UPI helped convene the eighth annual Gang Prevention & Intervention Conference, organized by our partners Southern California Crossroads and St. Francis Medical Center.
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UPI spearheads efforts to create safe and healthy communities throughout Los Angeles through its leadership of the Community Safety Partnership initiative.
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UPI recently joined with partners in Oakland for a special gathering of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance grantees and partners.
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