Experts discuss how parenting issues impact youth violence in Harrisburg in Tuesday’s “Save Our Children” webinar
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
The City of Harrisburg had more homicides in 2020 than at any time in the past 30 years. And many of them involved youth.
PennLive and The Patriot-News is sponsoring “Save Our Children: A Harrisburg Community Forum” to explore reasons for the increased violence among youth and what can be done to stop it.
A panel of experts will discuss parenting in the next online forum at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26. The event will examine the special challenges of single mothers, grandparents raising small children and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on parenting.
Despair plus guns equals death for too many youth in Harrisburg | Social Views
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Too many youth in Harrisburg have simply given up. They’ve lost trust in a society they see as racist, that they believe wants to crush them, handcuff them, throw them in jail or worse – see them dead in the street before they’re 18.
It’s a sad but true consensus among those who should know that too many youth in Harrisburg have no hope of ever achieving the dream that is supposed to be guaranteed to every American.
Nativity School Headmaster Lavelle Muhammad put it bluntly: too many Harrisburg youth see only two alternatives: “fight or flight . . . and they’re choosing to fight.”
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