Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention, by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, evaluates two programs developed in response to the rise ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath. Here's a brilliant idea to stop gang violence: Just get the rival gang members together in a nice kitchen and have them bake bread. Are you ...

Tina Padilla, executive director of a Northeast Los Angeles-based gang interventionist group called Community Warriors 4 Peace, is among those pushing for better pay and benefits for workers tasked ...

Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington now has a relationship with a $100 million fundraising campaign to expand an acclaimed Los Angeles gang-intervention program ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Thursday night, four of Knoxville's youth received their certificate of completion for the Renounce Denounce gang intervention program. "We're the little angel that sits on their ...

Father Greg Boyle in his office at Homeboy Industries. (Nani Sahra Walker / Los Angeles Times) Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit Catholic priest who founded the Homeboy Industries gang intervention program ...

Two men connected to a Metro multimillion-dollar violence prevention program beat up another man on a Metro platform, video shows. Under the same program, Eugene ‘Big U’ Henley’s Developing Options ...

Government and tax records show millions of dollars in gang intervention funds have poured into a pair of non-profits operated by an alleged gang leader of the Rollin' 60s Crips, who prosecutors ...

Programs that have helped reduce gang-related crimes in Montgomery County are being threatened as funding dries up. Many of the programs, which focus on youth and gang violence, have been funded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tina Padilla, executive director of a Northeast Los Angeles-based gang interventionist group called Community Warriors 4 Peace, is ...

How much is a life saved in Los Angeles worth? It’s a question that kept crossing Tina Padilla’s mind when she heard officials praise the work of gang interventionists. Described by some city leaders ...