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WATCH: FailSafe-ERA leads regional call to action, sounding the alarm on youth violence

by | Aug 10, 2025 | ALLFFP, Non-Profits, Public safety, Region, Ted Schubel

The phrase “Enough is enough” reverberated Saturday through Lafayette Square in Fredericksburg during the Sounding the Alarm event, a grassroots response to the April shootings that left three young men dead in Spotsylvania County’s Olde Greenwich neighborhood.

Juanita Shanks, founder and CEO of nonprofit FailSafe-ERA, says she was awakened days later with the message: “Sound the alarm.” That call has become the heartbeat of a regional movement to confront youth violence head-on.

 

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