A ssistance C ounseling E ducation and Employment .
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The acronym P.E.A.C.E. stands for Prevention, Early Intervention, Assistance, Counseling, and Education and Employment. . The death by gunshot rate for African American males ages 15 to 25 years in America is more than thirty times the rate for white males. This statistic, a death by firearms rate of approximately 158 per 100,000, means that Black males ages 15 to 25 living in America's major cities today are more likely to die from a gunshot wound than an American going to fight the war in Vietnam as a ground combat soldier. . The nature and severity of the problem of interpersonal violence among young people remains more acute, with greater negative impact, in African American and Hispanic American communities than in any other. The increasingly common appearance of young, paralyzed Black and Hispanic men in wheelchairs in urban rehabilitation hospitals, and in the streets of communities already suffering from severe structural socioeconomic problems, adds to the ambience of desperation and despair in these locations, creating momentum for the cycle of frustration, failure and more violence. .