Exposure to chronic violence has
devastating effects on children, families and their neighborhoods.
These effects include an increase in truancy, violent crime, substance
abuse and domestic violence. The results are neighbors feelings disconnected
from each other and individual families trying to raise their children
on their own. Everyone deserves an opportunity to learn to heal from
the traumatizing effects of violence so children, families and neighborhoods
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Our History
Peaceful Posse
began in 1995 as a collaboration between Philadelphia Physicians for Social
Responsibility and two public housing communities in the East Falls section
of Philadelphia. With those communities and others, we have organized
mentoring groups for boys and girls that now reach up to 150 children,
ages 10-14. Peaceful Posse has also developed a targeted intervention for
children from homes where there has been family violence and runs a Training
Institute through which staff members of child-serving agencies can learn
more about using the Peaceful Posse approach in their work. |
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Contact Peaceful Posse at:
215-765-3771 (phone) 215-765-5852 (fax)
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