Vital City: Breaking Through With the Next Generation
By Nina Vinik For cities to thrive, families and kids need to feel safe. Today, in too many American cities with high rates of gun
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By Nina Vinik For cities to thrive, families and kids need to feel safe. Today, in too many American cities with high rates of gun
By Celia Fuentes, Project Unloaded Youth Council August 15, 2025 Read the piece:
Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune Naperville resident and civil rights attorney Qasim Rashid said he was 16 years old in 1999 when the Columbine High School
Women are buying guns at record rates. They’re also winning elections, passing state laws, and organizing against gun violence like never before. Where we go
Young leaders running school-based NAMI chapters will use the toolkit to educate their communities on why young people’s mental health journeys are safer without a
By Nina Vinik For cities to thrive, families and kids need to feel safe. Today, in too many American cities with high rates of gun
By Celia Fuentes, Project Unloaded Youth Council August 15, 2025 Read the piece:
Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune Naperville resident and civil rights attorney Qasim Rashid said he was 16 years old in 1999 when the Columbine High School
22 young people ages 15-20 serve a one-year term as organizers, advisors and creators with the goal of mobilizing their peers to decide against owning
by: Marisa Rodriguez, Jewell Hillery CHICAGO — Dozens of teens from the South and West sides were in the Loop Friday, pitching social media campaigns they created
An anti-violence group is breaking through to teens with a message about the dangers of guns and gun ownership through a new social media contest.
Groups of teens pitched their ideas in a competition on Friday. The winning message, meant to encourage young people to turn away from guns, will
To turn the page on gun violence, we must tell a different story about guns. With your help, we can grow our work and save lives.