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Summer youth programs unite.

Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)

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Byline: Lauren Gregory

Jun. 19--The Chattanooga/Hamilton County Summer Youth Program is not a new program but a collaboration of existing resources that is designed to help teenagers from a variety of backgrounds, organizers said.

The program has received about $400,000 in grants and donations to help 1,000 of the city's at-risk children.

"They're just committing to a partnership," said Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Beck, who spearheaded the initiative. "It's just a unified effort of us all saying that, yes, we want to do something, rather than everybody doing their own thing and (nobody) hearing anything about it."

Mr. Beck said 35 groups met in the spring at the Chattanooga Police Services Center to discuss options for addressing growing youth-violence problems in Chattanooga and Hamilton County. He said 30 agencies ...

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