Silence the Violence was given $50,000 by the city. The organization asks residents, referred to as safety stakeholders, to describe their skills - and their troubles. This could be a sister experiencing abuse or a parent worried a child is being recruited by gangs that commit violence, in addition to stressors such as struggles with mental health and the lack of employment options.
Violence changes people and it drives them in a way that they will work for free. It changes the way you speak up for yourself. It will drive you in a way that a job or a career can't. When you need a change, when you need to know that when you wake up in the morning something will be different by the time you go to bed, it's different.
Every Wednesday at 6 p.m., there's a training session for safety stakeholders. From May 30-June 1, 2025, the first Silence the Violence summit in Richmond will be held. It will focus, Lee said, on teaching residents the 'full life cycle of safety at household, neighborhood and city levels.'
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