Students from the Dayton Job Corps Center hosted a peace walk this morning to celebrate International Day of Peace.
The walk was part of the national Job Corps student-led anti-violence initiative Youth 2 Youth: Partners 4 Peace.
The walk coincided with the Y2Y mission to promote anti-violence initiatives both on- and off-center.
Students started Youth 2 Youth, or Y2Y, with three basic aims: to talk about violence and aggression in their communities, to empower one another to prevent violence and aggression, and to share their stories and talk about solutions, according to a release.
Founded in the spring of 2015, Y2Y is a violence-prevention initiative created by and led by Job Corps students nationwide.
This initiative is the first national, student-created and student-led effort to curb youth violence on Job Corps centers, in their surrounding communities, and in the hometowns of students and graduates.
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