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Jax Journey 2.0 to look at jobs for at-risk kids: “our teenagers haven’t had enough focus”

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She was appointed in the fall of 2008 to lead former Mayor John Peyton‘s ambitious attempt to dethrone Jacksonville as Florida’s murder capital.

She left the job during the tenure of former Mayor Alvin Brown, when the Jacksonville Journey changed focus, and lost funding (the recession also played a role in that, it’s been pointed out.)

But under new Mayor Lenny Curry, Journey Project Director Debbie Verges is back in her old post, as the reinvigorated initiative looks at the best way to apportion public funds around what’s known as the “PIE” of crime reduction (prevention, intervention, and enforcement).

“It’s…

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