A wave of violence threatens to transform Visitacion Valley, a small community in southeastern San Francisco, into a war zone. California Connected’s McCrae Parker returns to his hometown with Youth Radio reporters to meet with the families, teachers, students, police officers and community groups who must now respond to the terror wrought by a long string of killings and assaults.
- Visitacion Valley, Youth Radio
- Being a friend to those hurt by violence: Visitacion Valley effort now reaches out citywide, San Francisco Chronicle
- Community Leadership Academy and Emergency Response project, San Francisco Urban Institute, SF State
- Visitacion Valley Middle School
- Heading off homicide: S.F. police say a surge in killings has slowed because they’re jailing ‘the baddest of the bad’, San Francisco Chronicle
- San Francisco Gang-Free Assessment Report, 2002, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (PDF)
- Forgotten Valley, Asian Weekly
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