One possible solution to preventing teens from gathering in unruly crowds are programs where teens can put their energies to good use by learning skills and even earning a paycheck.
Programs like After Schools Matters and Good Kids Mad City hope to aid Chicago police and parents with preventing teens from forming chaotic crowds.For days we've been talking about how to prevent the kind of violence we saw in downtown Chicago last weekend, where young people were fighting and jumping on vehicles, and two were shot during the chaos.
"We believe if they have something they're excited about they will not get involved in negative activities," said Mary Ellen Caron. A number of city leaders introduced the One Summer Chicago program, which will provide jobs for some 20,000 Chicago teens this summer. The Chicago Park District is offering a variety of jobs, including hundreds of lifeguards which they say are in great demand.Chicago pastors invite 500 Black men to join walk in response to downtown chaos last weekend
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