Eunice Alpasan | October 8, 2024 5:47 pm
Empowering young people is an important component in helping to shift narratives about guns and violence prevention, community safety leaders said during a Tuesday panel conversation.
The conversation was the final installment of a three-part series, “Ending Gun Violence in Chicago: Connecting Policy, Practice and Community,” hosted by philanthropic group The Joyce Foundation in collaboration with WTTW and the City Club of Chicago.
Previous conversations held in the series focused on collaboration in gun violence prevention and efforts to stop the flow of illegal guns in Illinois.
The latest discussion, moderated by “Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices” host Joanna Hernandez, focused on narratives around guns and safety and the youth-led efforts on social media to curb violence. The event was hosted in collaboration with Project Unloaded, an organization that aims to prevent gun violence by educating the public about how guns make people less safe.