Public Newsroom 81: Report Launch—Youth Voices on Gun Violence
@ Experimental Station, Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Reporting on gun violence often focuses on youth or young adults, but rarely does it center on their voices and perspectives. What strategies could emerge if we surveyed the oft-misrepresented young adults themselves? How could hearing from young adults contribute to community-led strategies to reduce shootings and get more guns off the street?
The Urban Institute, one of the nation’s leading social science and economic research organizations, explores these questions in a survey of young adults in four Chicago neighborhoods experiencing high rates of gun violence: Austin, Auburn-Gresham, Englewood, and North Lawndale.
With the help of community partners, researchers conducted in-person interviews with 345 young adults in November 2017 and February 2018, and their findings are being presented to the public for the first time at this week’s Public Newsroom.
The purpose of the research, funded by the Joyce Foundation, was to learn from these young adults first-hand how they experience gun violence; whether they have carried firearms and why; their views of police; and what they view as the best strategies to reduce gun violence and promote safe communities.
This Public Newsroom will feature a presentation of the new research report, followed by a panel discussion with the community partners who participated in the survey: the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago in Austin; St. Sabina Church in Auburn-Gresham; Teamwork Englewood in Englewood; and UCAN in North Lawndale. Afterward we’ll conduct small group discussions for attendees to dive deeper into the survey findings and their implications for violence reduction strategies in Chicago.
This event is part of City Bureau’s #PublicNewsroom programming, a series of free, weekly workshops and discussions aimed at building trust between journalists and the communities they serve while shaping a more inclusive newsroom.
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