DENVER (KDVR) — A new study shows youth violence is falling sharply in one Denver neighborhood, but the program credited with driving that change could soon lose critical federal funding.

Between 2016 and 2021, arrests for violent crimes involving youth dropped 75% in Denver’s Northeast Park Hill neighborhood, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. They say the Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver played a key role in that drop through its evidence-based, community-driven prevention programs.

“It’s a significant result, and it’s something that the community should be very, very proud of,” said Beverly Kingston, director of CU Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. “The community looks at their own data, their own needs and then they identif

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