by December.

First of this year.

Some Lexington nonprofits trying to put an end to youth gun violence now have more support for their efforts.

Mayor Linda Gorton announced 15 grassroots nonprofits that will receive $100,000 in funding through the one Lexington Gun Violence prevention program.

That announcement came this afternoon.

These organizations are involved in programming that is directly focused.

>> On our young people, including mentoring art, coaching education wellness, counseling, and much, much more.

Now for the 3rd year in a row.

Our government is providing 15 non-profit organizations with funding.

So they can continue to uplift our young people.

>> 2022 was a rough year for our city.

We an all-time high shootings and homicides.

But last year we we saw a stiff beachline.

I'm almost 50% first time in almost 6 years that we saw below 100 shootings.

And then this we've seen that progress continue.

Now, I think we're only a 6 homicides almost halfway through the year.

How are we focus in on the line the root causes of gun violence so that we're not back here.

5, 10, 20 years from now.

And so I say that to say the recipients of this grand are going to look different now that we're not in the crisis that we were in 2 years ago.

And that's a beautiful thing because now we can see some of the innovative idea is that create opportunities for young people that will KET them out of the cycle of violence.

>> It is the 3rd year in a row that the grants have been