A woman from San Francisco who started a violence prevention program 18 years ago in the Bayview is helping disrupt the cycle of incarceration.
Teresa Goines walks down a hallway of history: framed photos remind her of what she's built. When we met her back in 2008, the former corrections officer had startedShe poured her savings and retirement into the faith-based violence prevention program, training young people out of her Bayview home to do catering and pop-up events, helping keep them out of trouble.
"They're changing their lives. And we're seeing young people who've been incarcerated for years actually breaking that cycle completely," said Goines.
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