Catch up on what’s been happening at Collective Action for Youth! In our July newsletter, we’re sharing highlights from across CA4Y, including updates on our youth programs, community events, partnerships, and the work our young people and team are leading throughout Houston. Take a look at what we’ve been up to and what’s ahead!

Once a week, a team of canvassers receives a list of addresses. Each address is a Kashmere Gardens home. But the canvassers, charismatic and familiar, weren’tknocking on their doors to make a bid on behalf of a political candidate, a lord andsavior, or even an electrical plan.

The homes, according to a nonprofit’s analysis of public records, had likely beenpassed down through a family in a way that put the family at risk of losing it. And they were there to try to sell them on trusting a team, including lawyers, ready tooffer free services to help them stay in their home.

Catch up on what’s been happening at Collective Action for Youth! In our June newsletter, we’re sharing highlights from across CA4Y, including updates on our youth programs, community events, partnerships, and the work our young people and team are leading throughout Houston. Take a look at what we’ve been up to and what’s ahead!

Texas is expanding a task force aimed at targeting repeat violent offenders, building on a program that launched in Houston and is now growing into other major cities across the state.

The expansion comes as policymakers continue searching for ways to reduce recidivism — the tendency of some offenders to reoffend after serving time.