"Talking to our community-based violence interrupters to see, do we understand if there any sort of retaliation that might happen that we can get in front of? So, we can stop the violence in the moment? But a lot of the work happens in the days after that, and into this week,"
"Some of the things that we try to do is to make sure that this don't know go farther, like land on the streets. We try to find who the shooter or the victim knows. Maybe somebody older that they listen to that we can go and talk to,"
"I can share a little bit. it is working. We are still working on the whole situation. These types of situations take time. It is just not an overnight fix,"
One student was shot and two suspects were arrested at Skyline High School in Oakland last Wednesday. Violence interrupters responded immediately to de-escalate the situation and to prevent retaliation. Youth ALIVE! coordinates violence prevention and intervention at Oakland schools and assesses potential retaliation to stop further violence. Violence interrupters reach out to victims, suspects, families and peers, seek community leads, and identify trusted elders or influencers to intervene. Doral Miles has worked as a violence interrupter for nine years and describes challenging conversations with affected families. Teams report progress but note that resolving such incidents takes time. The violence interrupter program faces threat from budget cuts.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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