It would probably be accurate to say many school-aged young people look forward to the summer months as a break from the rigors of schoolwork. For eight weeks this summer in Lexington, around 40 teenagers took part in the “It Takes a Village” Summer Youth Program.
The Summer Youth Program is under the direction of One Lexington. That’s an initiative out of the mayor’s office working to reduce youth violence. Devine Carama is the director of One Lexington. He said many of this summer’s participants have experienced gun violence.
“We’ve had young people in this group who’ve actually witnessed a loved one lose their life to gun violence. So, it’s been that close, all the way to young people whose houses may have been shot up or the house next door may have been shot up. And so, they’ve been impacted by gun violence in different ways,” said Carama
