The newfound money will rescue the Department of Violence Prevention. What comes next?
But in a climate of high tensions around local crime, the city dug up a solution from the proverbial couch cushions this week — saving the department from an anticipated squeeze on about two dozen nonprofits to which it outsources work.
“These grants do have an end date, and we have to make sure that we are very proactive in doing the fundraising well in advance of approving our budgets so that we can … hopefully expand these programs,” Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said at Tuesday’s meeting. A mural listing names of victims of gun violence along 60th Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Oakland, Calif.
While the city’s shortchanging of the Department of Violence Prevention emerged as the most controversial budget reduction this year, much of the focus around crime reduction has centered on law enforcement. Instead, they came from teenagers and young adults who came up through Youth Empowerment Partnership, a local agency that receives department funding, and the youthful speakers who described how they were rescued from the familiar trappings of poverty: gang violence, sex trafficking and drug use.
Marshaun Farris, an adult counselor at the agency, noted how the teenagers had seemed like they were in “cocoons” when he began working with them, but they gradually gained enough confidence to speak about their experiences in such a public setting.
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