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Kyle Hucke is trained in Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on adolescent development. He has over 10 years of research experience evaluating programs focused on improving health outcomes, education achievement, youth development, and violence prevention in both Louisiana and Illinois. Kyle joined the Center for Violence Prevention and Intervention Research...

The Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act created the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) program, which reinvests a portion of cannabis tax revenue into communities experiencing high rates of gun injury, unemployment, child poverty, and incarceration. These grant funds support programming in five priority areas: civil legal aid, economic development,...

The street-level violence prevention field includes a range of professionals fulfilling specific roles in various programs. This literature review focuses on violence interrupters as a specific type of outreach worker and the programs that utilize them. Violence interrupters embed themselves within specific areas of communities experiencing elevated levels of violence...