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There are hundreds of programs aimed at helping teenagers, but still, violent crime involving young people continues. He started the non-profit Create Art Not Violence to keep kids off the streets.

Patton served time in prison for weapons and drug charges but since getting out more than a decade ago he is taking steps to make sure kids don’t follow in his footsteps. “When I was growing up, I didn’t have any positive role models to tell me what to do and not to do,” said Patton. He was born and raised in Cleveland’s Central Neighborhood. Walter Patton knows all about the violence on Cleveland streets. “It definitely starts with the parents, the household, whoever is in there making sure they are sustaining whatever we are doing on our end,” Greathouse said. Greathouse said things start in the home. There is too much killing, too much shooting,” said RJ. “It’s a family-oriented building, the culture is loving, they know when they enter, they can let their guard down,” said Greathouse.īut it’s when kids leave that concerns people. He is passionate about helping each child. Joseph Greathouse ll is the director of the Broadway Boys & Girls Club. “To me it’s fun and I feel safe here,” he said. The club on Broadway Avenue in Cleveland is the largest with about 130 kids heading there after school each day.

There are 48 Boys & Girls Clubs across Northeast Ohio. Some in Northeast Ohio, including the head of one non-profit working to keep kids off the streets, believe it is a generational issue, and that parents need to be doing more to foster a healthy environment for our area's youth. CLEVELAND - With all the violence involving juveniles as both the victims and the suspects, why is it continuing when there are hundreds of programs and organizations in Northeast Ohio aimed at keeping kids out of trouble?