City Manager De'Carlon Seewood announced D'Markus Thomas-Brown as newly hired Office of Violence Prevention administrator.

A federal program designed to prevent targeted violence and terrorism in the U.S. has lost 20% of its staff after layoffs hit ...

Last summer, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis, and the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act earmarked $1.4 billion in funding for a wide array of ...

Learn how to recognize abuse. Learn about violence and abuse, its different types and the organizations that deal with its prevention. Also find awareness resources to help you recognize and address ...

The city council voted last week to fund $800,000 in violence-prevention contracts at its Thursday meeting despite ongoing concerns about how the money is actually being used. The contracts are ...

“Hospitals should be sites of healing and, critically, employers must do their part to ensure safe staffing and prevent conditions that lead to workplace violence. But as health care employers ...

But after the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) was passed in 1984, the law allowed for mandatory arrests for domestic violence incidents where officers had probable cause to ...

Rev. Jerry McAfee speaks to the media surrounded by violence interrupters and other violence prevention workers after a Minneapolis City Council meeting at the Public Service Center in Minneapolis ...

Jordan Thierry, a consultant for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, speaks at the RYSE Center in Richmond during a training session on the Call for Change helpline in October. Photo by Juliana ...

The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color ... For the past several years, the network has led a campaign to create new ways of addressing intimate partner violence that don’t involve the criminal or ...

In January, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, created an office of violence prevention through an executive order. He also called on lawmakers to pass a “red flag law” that would allow ...