PHILADELPHIA — Two days after a 15-year-old boy was shot outside a North Philadelphia recreation center, city and state officials on Friday announced a new partnership to bring trauma therapy into rec centers and summer camps in some of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.
The Center for Families and Relationships, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit outpatient mental health provider, received a $999,000 violence reduction grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to bring trauma-informed therapy and workshops to six rec centers and 12 summer camps over the next two years.
The grant will pay for two therapists, each of whom will work with three centers, and a case manager, who will help people connect with available resources in the community.
