Indianapolis has launched the IChoosePeace Campaign in honor of gun violence awareness month. The campaign targets the city's youth by giving them opportunities through a new program titled 'Summer in the City.'
“We have several seats that are reserved with names on them. Those seats stand for individuals who have died this year," Mary Alexander, Director of the Gun Violence Reduction Strategy for Indy Public Safety Foundation, said. “I just want to give you an idea of how many people we are missing just in this auditorium who will never be able to fill those seats again.”
“We see a rise in youth violence during the summertime,” Tony Lopez, Deputy Director of Violence Reduction, said. "We're going to have programming each day of the week for three to four hours that youth can sign up for," Lopez said.“They're going to learn physical fitness and health. They're going to do boxing. A little bit of HIT cardio and things like that," Lopez said."Individuals are going to learn the art and skill of barbering, entrepreneurship and learning about the benefits of therapy and mental health treatment," Lopez said.
Lopez says the incentive is a financial literacy class that will teach participants more about money management, banking and savings.
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