Jason McBride is a youth and community leader who has worked with the courts to help young people at risk of incarceration fulfill a plan of action designed to stop them from reoffending.
In McBride’s line of work, he pretty much expects bad news every day. As a youth violence intervention specialist, he works with young people who have a history of firearm offenses or have been initiated into gangs and gun culture, and tries to give them a future away from a life of crime.
This work is not easy. He remembers the night Davarie Armstong was killed. At 3 a.m., a friend called to say there was a shooting and one of the people who shot Armstrong was young. Very young…