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(Aurora, Colo.) Youth violence in Aurora has a formidable foe now that the city council voted Monday to award just under $200,000 to non-profits working to make youths safer. University of Colorado AIM Project: $40,000. The program uses outreach workers to contact people injured by violence to provide a "teachable moment," to help reduce the likelihood of retaliatory behaviors and engages the patient in potential long-term services," Youth Violence Prevention Program Manager Christina Amparan explained to the council. People who continue in the program are assigned a case manager who will work with the participant for 12 to 18 months.

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(Aurora, Colo.) As much as violence impacts youths in Aurora, the council still can’t agree on what to do about it. A majority of council members who identify as conservatives voted Monday to reinstate the city’s gang prevention program. The previous council, controlled by Democrats, had instead sold the public on a large-scale investment in the city’s youth that would have involved non-profit agencies.

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(Denver, Colo.) The Aurora City Council decided Tuesday to scrap its much-promoted Youth Violence Prevention Program in favor of gang-focused interventions. City Council member Angela Lawson came to the meeting with a proposal. It calls for a new version of the former A-GRIP program, with 80 percent of funding going to intervention and 20 percent to prevention.

(Denver, Colo.) After a divided Aurora City Council did not fund the city's Youth Violence Prevention Project earlier this month, the city will reconsider a gang program canceled in 2018.