Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence

Cranston Herald: Police Get $245K to Fight Gang Violence

October 2, 2009

By Meg Fraser

Cranston Herald

The Cranston Police Department received a major boost this week when they announced that they are on the receiving end of $245,995 in grant money from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Program.

The grant will allow the department to purchase seven new police cruisers, but will bring with it another addition as well – the city’s first civilian worker.

“I believe it will broaden our range of service to the community in that this is the first time we’ve used a civilian to address the problem on a social level,” said Chief of Police, Col. Marco Palombo.

The problem at hand is Cranston’s growing gang population.

WPRI: Providence Gets 10 New Streetworkers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - A local organization is getting 10 new streetworkers to help make neighborhoods safe.

BankRI donations help Nonviolence Institute, other organizations

BANKING
BankRI donations help youth organizations
By William Hamilton
PBN Staff Writer
Sep 16, 2008

PROVIDENCE – Bank Rhode Island recently provided a $30,500 helping hand to 15
youth organizations during summer vacation and assisted youngsters in other ways, too.

Youth organizations and events receiving support from BankRI this summer included: 

• The March of Dimes 2008 Citizen of the Year event to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

"In the inner city, a summer job can be a lifesaver"

In the inner city, a summer job can be a lifesaver

The Providence Journal

Friday, July 11, 2008
By W. Zachary Malinowski, Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE

A part-time summer job may have saved Anthony Ericastilla’s life.

The teenager struggled through his freshman year at Hope High School. He skipped school, hung out with gang members and was disrespectful to his parents, immigrants from Guatemala who had moved to the city’s Silver Lake neighborhood in search of a better life.

Anthony’s mother, Corina Barraza, was at wit’s end. She turned to the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, in South Providence, for help. The institute welcomed Barraza and the staff expressed concern for her plight. They assigned three streetworkers to her son and helped him get a job in the agency’s Beloved Community Summer Jobs Program.