Funding What Works: Ensuring safe communities
Free Press, WHYY, and Reclaim Philadelphia convened community leaders on the frontline of the gun violence crisis to explore funding what works and defunding what doesn’t.
While the city continues to grapple with a gun violence crisis that has claimed 145 lives so far this year, WHYY, Reclaim Philadelphia, and Free Press organized a Community Conversation to discuss ideas, programs, and initiatives that — despite a lack of sustainable funding and local governmental support — advance public safety and community healing.
Panelists included Jacqui Johnson, LPC, CCMHC, PMH-C, and founder of Sankofa Healing Studio; Michael Butler, founder of MannUP; Kendra Van de Water, co-founder of YEAH Philly; and Chantay Love, program director of EMIR Healing Center.
Related Content
4 years ago
Get daily updates from WHYY News!
WHYY is your source for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information. As a nonprofit organization, we rely on financial support from readers like you. Please give today.
Brought to you by Community Conversations
Philadelphia mom has reservations about CDC’s expansion of gun violence data
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using data from vital statistics and local emergency rooms to report gun violence incidents in those neighborhoods.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:34
Sandy Hook anniversary: Biden says U.S. should have ‘societal guilt’ on guns
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the U.S. “should have societal guilt” for the slow pace of action on restricting access to firearms.
2 years ago
State Capitol rally urges action to fight crime, aid victims
A group of crime victims and their allies rallied on the state Capitol steps Tuesday to call for changes, three days after a shooting in Philly killed three and wounded 11.
2 years ago
