In a move to help reduce the cycle of violence gripping the city of Chicago, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has awarded the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago $425,000 in grants to support several community organizations offering multi-faceted approaches to violence prevention. Funded through the Shure Charitable Trust, a supporting organization of the Jewish Federation established in memory of Sydney and Rose Shure, the grants will support the work of Sinai Health System ($175,000), the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ($150,000) and the United Way Neighborhood Network Initiative ($100,000), with United Way serving as administrator of the funding. Funding will support neighborhood-specific initiatives in each of the organizations, including the Sinai Health System’s work to build a comprehensive behavioral health system for children and youth in Southwest Chicago and their citywide Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative; The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago’s programs that bring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles, practices and teachings of nonviolence to the Austin and Back of the Yards neighborhoods; and United Way’s work training community leaders and institutions to provide trauma-informed care in Auburn Gresham, Cicero, Little Village and South Chicago.