violence prevention

Peoria Public Schools is working to improve their arts programs with a new music production lab and new teachers.

Peoria Mayor Rita Ali says she doesn't have any problems with how programs were selected for the second round of violence prevention funding through the city, but she’s open to taking a closer look at the process.

The City of Peoria recently doled out $1.4 million in grants for six violence prevention initiatives, but some members of the Peoria City Council are questioning how those anti-violence dollars are being allocated as the city copes with a wave of summertime unrest.

A new program at Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois Peoria reaches out directly to youth and their families at risk of experiencing violence.

Sexual violence, workplace violence and harassment, self-directed harm and family violence are all areas of concern within the Illinois National Guard, and a new program led by a Peoria resident hopes to accelerate positive, lasting change and find solutions to these issues.

Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness are designed to be tools that anyone — regardless of flexibility, body type, or even financial status — can take part in. But there are several barriers.

One week after a mass shooting at a south Florida high school that killed 17 people, Governor Bruce Rauner says he favors a bipartisan examination of ways…

One of Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s priorities is in a holding pattern while the political stalemate in Springfield continues. Illinois…