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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2003;290:585-586.

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San Francisco—When 23-year-old Carlos was murdered, his probation officer and others who had been trying to help the young offender stay out of trouble explored what had gone wrong.

"I set up five job interviews for Carlos," his probation officer said. "He never showed up." "Carlos knew he wouldn't get the job," a street worker retorted. "He couldn't read or write."

That experience put literacy on the checklist for new enrollees in the Philadelphia, Pa, Youth Violence Reduction Project (YVRP). Those who need tutoring get it, Paul Fink, MD, of Temple University School of Medicine and YVRP's consulting psychiatrist, reported at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association here in May.

A MULTIPRONGED APPROACH

The YVRP's multipronged outreach—literacy, substance abuse counseling, job training, and more—aims to reduce homicides, particularly murders, or premeditated killings, of 14- to 24-year-olds in three Philadelphia police districts with the city's highest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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