{"id":1628,"date":"2022-02-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:45:06","slug":"youth-council-swearing-in-event-seeks-to-bring-new-solutions-to-gang-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/youth-council-swearing-in-event-seeks-to-bring-new-solutions-to-gang-violence","title":{"rendered":"Youth Council Swearing-in Event Seeks to Bring New Solutions to Gang Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Makasia Purdy, 14, lost her 13-year-old friend,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alligator.org\/article\/2021\/07\/american-legion-murder\">Christopher Scott<\/a>, at a party in June 2021.&nbsp;Just a few months earlier, she lost&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2021\/04\/26\/gainesville-teen-girl-13-year-old-maliyah-godwin-shot-and-killed-majestic-oaks-apartments\/7382206002\/\">Maliyah Godwin<\/a>, 13, who was killed in the safety of her own apartment. Her friends were killed because of gun violence and gang activity. Purdy is now determined to make a change. Purdy, a member of Pace Center for Girls, was nominated as a representative in this council along with 13 other youth representing different cities and organizations in Alachua County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alligator.org\/article\/2022\/02\/youth-council-swearing-in-event-seeks-to-bring-new-solutions-to-gang-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Source<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makasia Purdy, 14, lost her 13-year-old friend,&nbsp;Christopher Scott, at a party in June 2021.&nbsp;Just a few months earlier, she lost&nbsp;Maliyah Godwin, 13, who was killed in the safety of her own apartment. Her friends were killed because of gun violence and gang activity. Purdy is now determined to make a change. Purdy, a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"post_tag":[57],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pace-alachua"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}