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Safe & Sound targets eight neighborhoods for its community safety efforts
Crime prevention organization Safe & Sound has adopted a new strategy to create safer communities in Milwaukee.
Measles vaccination rates improving but potential for outbreak remains
Concerned about a possible measles outbreak in the city, Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) officials are mobilizing to get school-age children vaccinated.
Milwaukee teen tells story of Somali’s troubling history in upcoming book
Determined to make a difference, author Zeynab Ali is using her family’s experience with the Somali civil war and refugee camps in Kenya to raise awareness about issues in Africa. These stories and a historical narrative of Somalia will be included in her upcoming book.
Pan-African group helps refugees, immigrants adjust to U.S.
The Pan-African Community Association, an official refugee resettlement agency, offers support and a range of services to about 300 individuals and refugee families a year.
Boys & Girls Clubs leader La’Ketta Caldwell elevates voices of youth
La’Ketta Caldwell, program manager at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, is equally comfortable hanging out with a group of teenagers and expressing herself through film and theater.
Transitional jobs program struggles to find eligible participants
Compete Milwaukee, a Transform Milwaukee Jobs program, is seeking to provide transitional opportunities for individuals who face the greatest barriers to employment. But, for many interested individuals, narrow eligibility requirements are a barrier to participation.
GED challenges both students and teachers
After the first year of administering the reconstructed GED, Milwaukee educators and students are changing their approach in order to pass the exam.
Public health school students trained to tackle deeply rooted social problems
Students from UWM’s Zilber School of Public Health are filtering into the community, attempting to alleviate some of Milwaukee’s most deeply rooted problems.
Amani neighborhood credits drop in crime to ‘comprehensive community effort’
Neighborhood leaders are crediting an increase in youth and family programming, a new health clinic and creation of a neighborhood association with a 32 percent reduction in crime since 2013.
