DENVER—Federal health officials are funding a study of youth violence in a Denver neighborhood.
The Denver Post reports Friday ( ) that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will spend $6.5 million in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood to learn about adolescent violence and test prevention strategies.
The research will begin Oct. 1 with researchers collecting data on violence among people 10 to 24 years old. The research will be done by the University of Colorado’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.
The newspaper reports that Montbello is a neighborhood of many tidy suburban homes. But the newspaper adds that gang violence and fights have snarled adolescents in the area, which struggles with high unemployment rates and poverty.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
