Since January, half of the homicides in Tacoma have been of young people under the age of 19 — and their deaths are impacting other teens.
VIDEO: Tacoma organization offers mental health services to Black, Latino teensTACOMA, Wash. — The gun violence claiming the lives of South Sound teens is affecting the mental health of the peers they are leaving behind.
Yet when Gianna went to Lincoln High the first school day after his death, she says not one adult spoke his name. It might have been a missed opportunity for the adults in her life if not for the “Gametime” program now housed at Safe Street Tacoma. “We just kind of wanted to create a space, a safe space on a Friday night where they could just come and just communicate,” Stewart added.“And when I broke out into the session with the high school young men, we were talking about anger,” said Bullinger, “kind of how Black men aren’t allowed to love on each other. And how that grief can manifest as rage. And how that creates like violence in our communities and in our homes.
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