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Fund for Safe Communities Awards Grants to Foster Resilience

The Minneapolis Foundation named Urban Youth Conservation among 18 organizations receiving support for community-rooted violence prevention and resilience work.

GVI Vanguard Award nomination

UYC’s archive records a nomination recognizing work that went beyond the call of duty in youth violence prevention.

Black Businessman of the Year

The archive records Ferome Brown’s Black Business Ball recognition and a Black Business Enterprise Magazine cover feature.

Three Black Business Ball nominations

UYC’s archive records nominations for Humanitarian of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year and Youth Violence Prevention of the Year.

Renting can be tough for reformed gang members

Libor Jany reported on housing and reentry barriers affecting people trying to step away from gang involvement, including Ferome Brown’s perspective from Project LIFE.

Michelle A. Brown-Williams at North Dakota State University

A preserved UYC record connects Michelle A. Brown-Williams—“Lady Bug”—with Black Lives Matter and the organization’s 8:46 social-justice awareness work.

Original source materials are not currently available online. This title and description are retained as part of UYC’s historical record.

Trauma and crime: The hidden epidemic

FOX 9 featured Ferome Brown and Project LIFE in reporting on trauma-informed approaches to violent-crime intervention and Group Violence Intervention.

With trust and street cred, organizer works to change lives in north Minneapolis

Libor Jany profiled Ferome Brown’s community outreach, mentoring and violence-interruption work across North Minneapolis.

After positive results, Minneapolis looks to extend anti-violence program

The earlier UYC website preserved this coverage headline in connection with Minneapolis violence-intervention work.

Original source materials are not currently available online. This title and description are retained as part of UYC’s historical record.

Urban Youth Conservation program steers kids from gang life

Dan Olson documented UYC’s early gang-diversion work, its former-gang-member outreach model and the demand from young people seeking another path.