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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA (Laureus USA) has been recognized by the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, and Chicago White Sox through their Chicago Sports Alliance initiative to reduce gun violence. Funding will support Sport for Good Chicago, a coalition of more than 100 organizations working towards a Chicago where every young person has access to high quality, youth-centered sport programming in their neighborhood. In a city where perpetrators and victims of violence are getting younger and younger, we need additional investment into innovative violence prevention efforts that reach kids before it's too late. Sports-based youth development is perfectly positioned to interrupt this cycle of trauma and violence. Through sport, young people have the opportunity to make connections with friends and caring adults who help them build skills in support of their overall physical and mental well-being. Sport creates space for young people to experience empowerment, healing, and collective joy in the face of overwhelming stress and trauma. I'm reminded of an insightful conversation that I had with LaVonte Stewart, MPA nearly a decade ago. He told me that every kid needs community and will find it somewhere. The question is whether they will find it through a positive team (such as his Lost Boyz Inc program), or a harmful team (such as a street organization). The problem -- too many kids don't have that positive option available to them. Through this investment, Chicago Sports Alliance has made sure that more young people will have the opportunity to choose the positive team.
Together we stand against gun violence. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Vcn2oT
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On National Gun Violence Awareness Day—June 7, 2024—we will #WearOrange to bring awareness to the gun violence crisis, which takes more than 120 lives and wounds hundreds more EVERY SINGLE DAY in this country. Learn more at https://ow.ly/HJ4t50RYXMg.
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On National Gun Violence Awareness Day—June 7, 2024—we will #WearOrange to bring awareness to the gun violence crisis, which takes more than 120 lives and wounds hundreds more EVERY SINGLE DAY in this country. #GunViolenceAwarenessMonth
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In 2022, nearly 27,000 lives were tragically lost to suicide using firearms. Self-directed gun violence is fueling our nation’s suicide epidemic. We #WearOrange to reduce and prevent suicide. Learn more about NAMI's policy positions on gun violence: nami.org/GunViolence
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The myth that mentally ill people are inherently violent is harmful stigma - the data shows most gun deaths are actually self-directed violence (suicide). And because federal funding for research on this public health crisis has been restricted for decades, we've been left in the dark about what inherently drives gun violence and how to prevent it through evidence-based solutions. From what I understand, by prioritizing this as a public health crisis through funding a scientific study, we can better understand how to save lives. #mentalhealthawareness #gunviolenceawareness
In 2022, nearly 27,000 lives were tragically lost to suicide using firearms. Self-directed gun violence is fueling our nation’s suicide epidemic. We #WearOrange to reduce and prevent suicide. Learn more about NAMI's policy positions on gun violence: nami.org/GunViolence
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Another day in America, another shooting and another loss of life as a result of gun violence. What do you think needs to be done to control gun violence in the US? #GunViolencePrevention #EndGunViolence #GunReformNow #StopGunViolence #GunControlNow #EnoughIsEnough https://ow.ly/x2Bk50TsyUt
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🧡✴️🍊It’s June and you know what that means: #WearOrange Gun Violence Awareness month. This month we honor all of the Victims and Survivors of gun violence and all of the dedicated Peacemakers working to end gun violence. Learn more about how Wear Orange started: https://lnkd.in/eGcap3DF
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We are not powerless when we work together. This National Gun Violence Awareness Day, let's get involved and support each other, so—as a community—we can end gun violence. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e-R9ujY6 #NationalGunViolenceAwarenessDay
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On National Gun Violence Awareness Day we #WearOrange to bring awareness to gun violence. Every day, more than 𝟏𝟐𝟎 Americans are killed by guns. What 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 can we take? Learn more: nunsagainstgunviolence.org or wearorange.org
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This: RIGHT HERE is THE SOLUTION to gun violence in the US. The rate of gun violence in the US is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE greater than gun violence in the next nearest country. We aren't doing all the things that other countries - the ones that have less gun violence - are doing. We need to start doing those things.
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