Da'Nille Lemon is the Peer Mediation Project Leader for the Restorative Mediation Program at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco.  Providing mediations since 2015, this dedicated 8th grader and mediator has been helping her peers for many years. She is also the founder of the No Flex Zone, an antibullying program at her school.  Da'Nille shares, "The main thing I like to do is to help people. If I see something that needs to be changed, I do my best to make that change."

SFSVIP is a collaborative program created to reduce and intervene in youth-related street violence citywide throughout San Francisco. SFSVIP provides a wide range of critical services: street outreach and engagement, public education, food distribution, family support, crisis response, and community mobilization.  Run through the Mayor's Office of Violence Prevention, SFSVIP partners with other city agencies, social service nonprofits, and community stakeholders.  One of its core goals is helping youth build the social and resiliency skills needed to reduce and prevent violence.