Details set on making streets safer

80% of funds raised for first-year costs

By Milton J. Valencia

Globe Staff / December 18, 2008

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Working with 25 new street workers, core social-service agencies in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods will stay open late nights and weekends, offering job training and preparedness programs and family support outreach, according to plans for a $26 million initiative officially unveiled yesterday by the Boston Foundation and city and community leaders. (Full article: 460 words)