In July, WHQR reported that New Hanover County Schools and the University of North Carolina Wilmington couldn’t locate the results of a federal grant worth over $10 million, from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Education, to study violence prevention in the mid-2000s. But more recently, evidence of the grant has come to light.
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In the mid-2000s, New Hanover County Schools and UNCW received over $10 million in federal grant funding to study approaches to violence prevention in schools but almost all evidence of the grant, and the research it funded, has gone missing. WHQR spoke to the former program evaluator, who fears key insights from the project may have been lost.