{"id":10426,"date":"2024-09-24T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/09\/24\/new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma\/136738\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:36:24","slug":"new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"New app connects Denver youth to resources they need &#8212; without law enforcement stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20090520__20090521_B08_BZ21APPLESHELFp1-514x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/new-app-connects-denver-youth-to-resources-they-need-without-law-enforcement-stigma-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>A new app created by Denver youth and University of Colorado Boulder scholars allows users to anonymously report safety and wellbeing concerns to community organizations trained to help, without immediately involving law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The app, Power of One, was inspired by the 20-year-old Safe2Tell program that allows Colorado students and community members to report issues to local law enforcement anonymously. The new app offers an alternative for young people reluctant to talk to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome historically marginalized communities have been reluctant to use Safe2Tell due to a strong code of silence, stigma associated with \u2018snitching,\u2019 concerns about possible retaliation and cynicism toward police,\u201d said Beverly Kingston, director of CU Boulder\u2019s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. \u201cWe need ways to reach them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/24\/power-of-one-app-denver-youth-violence-prevention\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new app created by Denver youth and University of Colorado Boulder scholars allows users to anonymously report safety and wellbeing concerns to community organizations trained to help, without immediately involving law enforcement. The app, Power of One, was inspired by the 20-year-old Safe2Tell program that allows Colorado students and community members to report issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2205,2435,6892,9,7300,7276,1,3,881,61,1736],"tags":[4773,2436,6893,7305,7278,3454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}