Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence (NUPACE)

to Prevent Youth Violence

OUR MISSION

The mission of NUPACE is to establish the Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence (NUPACE), Youth Violence Prevention to promote an academic/ community partnership that integrates prevention science with community action in order to reduce violence among youth 10-24 years of age in Nashville/Davidson County TN.

• Belmont Block Party & Issue Alley
• Rival gang members form alliance to create an atmosphere of peace - It's not often that members of rival gangs in Nashville come together in one room, which is what makes Stratford High School’s Project Peace group unique.
• 2006 Year In Review: Homicides
  
• 2005 YEAR IN REVIEW: Homicides increase nearly 70% from '04 - The number of homicides in '05 soared to its highest level in 7 years in Nashville, approaching the city's record year in 1997 when 112 people were killed. Those numbers gave Nashville the 10th highest murder rate of the 35 largest U.S. cities; meaning that, statistically, a person was more likely to be killed in Nashville last year than in Los Angeles or New York.