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A nonprofit organization in Butler County is using mentorship and after school programs to reduce incidents of gun violence among youth.
Hamilton Young People Empowered began six years ago, with its goal being to help teens become involved in the community and learn skills such as personal development, financial literacy and job readiness, said Pastor Shaquila Mathews, who founded the organization.
Since then, the nonprofit has evolved to offer sports, music, study and mentorship programs, becoming a refuge for teens who want to get away from negative home environments.
Mathews said many of those programs came from noticing needs in the community and noticing that teens don t really have a place to really be, because a lot of organizations they age out at like 12 and 13, so there s nowhere else for them to go.
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Marcella Thompson believes what happened to her son in the early evening of June 12 could happen to any child on any street in any Cincinnati neighborhood.
She believes the stray bullet that struck 8-year-old Marcellus, a third-grader who loves Disney movies and Pee Wee football, could have found another mother’s son, and turned another family inside out with grief and worry.
But Thompson, who lives in East Westwood, also believes not everyone shares that risk equally. The way she sees it, her city is divided between places where the violence that seriously injured her son is tolerated, and places where it is not.