Beaming families gathered inside the House of Joy Church on Friday to watch around 30 kids graduate from the Cincinnati Police Department’s CITI Camp program.
CITI Camp, or Children in Trauma Intervention Camp, is a six-week program, CPD Capt. Joe Richardson said, meant to build character and teach life lessons to youth who have experienced trauma.
“There’s a lot of character building, there’s a lot of education, there’s a lot of physical fitness,” he said. “Really, when you boil it down, it’s crime prevention through social development.”…