Press Clips

Stars Of WTTW’s ‘Firsthand’ Documentary Urge City To Prioritize Mental Health, Gun Violence

• Publication: Block Club Chicago
• Date: November 13, 2019

Vanessa Perry DeReef calls peace workers she trains ‘superheroes’: ‘When you come here, it recharges your cape’

• Publication: Chicago Tribune
• Date: November 8, 2019

Gun Violence Docuseries Aims For A Humanizing Look At Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators

• Publication: Block Club Chicago
• Date: November 5, 2019

Chicago Gala Celebrates Work of Metropolitan Family Services

• Publication: ABC 7
• Date: November 4, 2019

Help in DuPage

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: November 1, 2019

Metropolitan Family Services offers support to Chicago-area, DuPage County families

• Publication: ABC 7
• Date: October 31, 2019

Rotary Grants Provide ‘What’s Needed’ to Support Communities

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: October 28, 2019

‘Every day I go outside, I feel like I’m going to get killed’: How Chicagoans exposed to violence end up isolated, lonely and with chronic health problems

• Publication: Chicago Tribune
• Date: October 24, 2019

Free Legal Aid Coming to West And South Sides Thanks to Communities Partnering 4 Peace

• Publication: Block Club Chicago
• Date: October 23, 2019

LAS honors pro bono work for those in need, abused

• Publication: Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
• Date: October 17, 2019

School supply drive held for south suburban school districts to help kids restock

• Publication: Chicago Citizen
• Date: October 15, 2019

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Recognized At South Side Community Service Center

• Publication: Chicago Citizen
• Date: October 9, 2019

Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage

• Publication: NCTV 17
• Date: October 4, 2019

Congress Should Treat Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis, Witnesses Testify at Hearing

• Publication: Daily Southtown
• Date: October 3, 2019

Community Organizations Host Light in the Night Events Across the City

• Publication: Chicago Citizen
• Date: October 2, 2019

Decrease in Chicago Gun Violence Continues Through End of September: Police

• Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
• Date: October 1, 2019

Violence Prevention Expert Says Chicago’s Problems Are on the Cusp of Improving Thanks to Concentrated Efforts, but Sustained Support is Crucial

• Publication: WGN TV
• Date: September 24, 2019

Six Join Metropolitan Family Services DuPage Community Board

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: September 23, 2019

Mpower the Night Gala & After Party

• Publication: Better Chicago
• Date: September 23, 2019

Community Group Holding ‘Light in the Night’ Events in Parks on South, West Sides

• Publication: ABC 7
• Date: September 13, 2019

Neighbors Will Act as ‘Lights In The Night’ to Stop Violence in 9 South and West Side Neighborhoods Friday Night

• Publication: Block Club Chicago
• Date: September 13, 2019

CP4P Discusses Collaborative Violence Reduction Work on the Ben Javorsky Show

• Publication: Chicago Reader/Chicago Sun-Times Studios
• Date: September 13, 2019

Communities Partnering 4 Peace, Which is Dedicated to Curbing Violence in Chicago, Hosts Nine Light in the Night Events Around the City

• Publication: Politico
• Date: September 12, 2019

CP4P Light in the Night Interview on WVON

• Publication: WVON
• Date: September 12, 2019

Professionalizing Street Outreach

• Publication: MacArthur Foundation
• Date: August 30, 2019

In the Battle Against Gun Violence the Moment is Now

• Publication: Crain's Chicago Business
• Date: August 29, 2019

Grassroots Organization Uses Street Outreach To Reduce Violence And Recidivism

• Publication: Chicago Citizen
• Date: August 28, 2019

CP4P Executive Director Vaughn Bryant Discusses Collaborative Effort to Reduce Gun Violence with Katherine Newman of the Chicago Citizen

• Publication: Chicago Citizen
• Date: August 23, 2019

Naperville Police Department Delivers Donations to Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage

• Publication: NCTV 17
• Date: August 23, 2019

And Justice for All – Legal Aid Society Executive Director Miguel Keberlein Speaks with Comcast Newsmakers of Illinois

• Publication: Comcast Newsmakers
• Date: August 22, 2019

Strength and Support

• Publication: Naperville Magazine
• Date: August 1, 2019

Is The Answer To Preventing Community Violence In Women And Girls?

• Publication: the glu
• Date: August 1, 2019

Inside the Ambitious Campaign to Push Chicago Homicides Below 400

• Publication: The Trace
• Date: July 11, 2019

Light in the Night hosts free summer activities in Back of the Yards

• Publication: The Gate Newspaper
• Date: July 5, 2019

A Transformed Life

• Publication: Stay Thirsty Magazine
• Date: July 2, 2019

New playground brings a sense of “normalcy” to Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage

• Publication: My Suburban Life
• Date: July 2, 2019

Healing Through Play

• Publication: Naperville Community Television NCTV17
• Date: June 28, 2019

Cookie Monster and CP4P Program Director Vaughn Bryant Speak at Light in the Night

• Publication: CBS 2 Chicago
• Date: June 28, 2019

A ‘space for healing’: Volunteers build playground at DuPage domestic violence shelter

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: June 27, 2019

The Young Fathers Program aims to help fathers become employed, financially self-sufficient and raise healthy children

• Publication: WGN Radio
• Date: June 12, 2019

Restoring Peace To The Streets One Person At A Time

• Publication: CBS Chicago
• Date: June 11, 2019

Metropolitan Family Services DuPage Gala Raises Record Funds

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: June 4, 2019

Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services Free to Fly Gala

• Publication: Naperville Magazine
• Date: June 4, 2019

Metropolitan Family Services DuPage Gala raises record funds

• Publication: Daily Herald
• Date: June 4, 2019

Family Shelter Service Free to Fly Gala features the Golden Age of Hollywood

• Publication: Naperville Magazine
• Date: June 1, 2019

Mayor Lightfoot Tries to Chart a New Course on Public Safety

• Publication: WTTW
• Date: May 28, 2019

Letter: To stop violence in Chicago, we need to be all-in with investment

• Publication: Chicago Tribune
• Date: May 27, 2019

Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot Stocks up on Latino Talent Within Transition Team

• Publication: Negocios Now
• Date: May 27, 2019

With Chicago’s summer violence around the corner, anti-violence groups say they need help from the new mayor

• Publication: Chicago Tribune
• Date: May 22, 2019

DuPage County awards human services grants to nonprofit agencies

• Publication: Positively Naperville
• Date: May 15, 2019