This project is a testament to the efforts of local activists, social workers, and organizations in Chicago Latino neighborhoods working on enhancing community safety. This compilation of stories published in La Raza newspaper highlights the voices of those directly involved in creating solutions for a safer community and explores the broader connotations of community safety, emphasizing the importance of a compassionate, comprehensive, and collective approach to addressing and solving problems and saving lives. Through insightful reporting and storytelling, La Raza aims to inform, inspire, educate, and empower the community towards positive social change, underlining its commitment to high-quality Spanish journalism that serves the Latino and immigrant population in Chicago
The organization Increase the Peace focuses on pulling young people away from gangs, offering them educational and future job opportunities, and reducing violence in neighborhoods such as Back of the Yards, Little Village, Pilsen, Gage Park, and Brighton Park, among others. Its founder, Berto Aguayo, managed to escape from a gang, is about to graduate as a lawyer from Northwestern University, and was a fellow at the Chicago Community Trust
With the help of Youth Transforming Justice, a nonprofit in San Rafael, young offenders and the people they harmed seek reconciliation without criminal prosecution.
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