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Our Youth Violence Intervention & Prevention Program
At Not One More, we are at the forefront of combating youth violence by uniting community efforts and leveraging educational programs that empower and transform. Partnering with Penn State Berks, RIZE, and the Berks Youth Anti-Violence Coalition, we are dedicated to creating a safer, violence-free future for our youth.
Join Our Effort to Create Safer Communities
Our Youth Violence Intervention & Prevention Program
At Not One More, we are at the forefront of combating youth violence by uniting community efforts and leveraging educational programs that empower and transform. Partnering with Penn State Berks, RIZE, and the Berks Youth Anti-Violence Coalition, we are dedicated to creating a safer, violence-free future for our youth.
Empowering Young Lives Through Support and Peace
Not One More’s Youth Violence Intervention & Prevention Program
The Not One More Youth Violence Intervention and Prevention Program is a collaborative effort between Penn State Berks, RIZE, and the Berks Youth Anti-Violence Coalition. The program serves youth and young adults ages 14-24 using an evidence-based, public health approach to curing violence.
Specifically, the provides intense support for youth with the highest risk of engaging in violence, empowers credible messengers (persons who have influence in the community) and other residents (youth and adults) as peacemakers who are trained to intervene and de-escalate conflicts that could lead to violence, and works to change communal norms that make violence an acceptable response to conflict.
These strategies are employed without the threat of punishment or an increase in policing.
The Not One More Violence Prevention and Intervention Program is funded by by a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
Empowering Young Lives Through Support and Peace
NOM’s Youth Violence Intervention and Prevention Program is Organized Around Three Main Pillars:
Join Our Peacemakers
Recruit & Train Peacemakers Program
Empower the Next Generation
Provide Services for High-Risk Youth
Cultivate Peace
Change Community Norms About Violence
Collaborate for a Stronger Community
Strengthening Community Connections with Not One More
Not One More facilitates the Berks Youth Anti-Violence Coalition, a collaborative effort among youth, community organizations, government agencies, faith communities, and schools to reduce the duplication of services, promote information sharing, and better connect youth to the community resources they need to thrive.
Bringing Everyone Together: We bring together youth, local organizations, government agencies, faith groups, and educational institutions—all dedicated to nurturing our future leaders.
Streamlining Support: Our goal is to minimize overlap in services, making sure help is easy to find and efficient.
Open Communication: By fostering an environment of open information exchange, we ensure that valuable resources are utilized to their fullest.
Direct Connections: We actively connect youth to essential community resources tailored to help them thrive, from mentorship and educational programs to emotional support.
Transforming Lives Through Stories and Engagement
Sharing Stories, Changing Lives at Not One More
Not One More incorporates a large-scale story project to highlight the experiences of residents who have been impacted by violence, and the ways in which the program is helping to transform the lives of individuals and the community.
We also host camps, summits and storytelling events designed to help change norms of violence among community youth.
You Hear the Stories Over and Over
After graduating from college in 2003, Migdalia Garcia moved to Reading to become a part time mentor at the Police Athletic League’s “Mentoring in the Arts” program, supported by juvenile probation. Soon she was running the program. She remembers one of the kids ...
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