CHICAGO - Could a college degree make your neighborhood safer?

In some Chicago communities, fewer than one in ten people graduate from college. Now, a program is helping local leaders turn their life experience into a degree and using it to fight gun violence head on.

From street rivals to mentors

"I get paid to love on people and bring resources, man," said Sam Castro.

Those resources move through the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago.

Castro and Nekenya Hardy help direct that flow. They grew up on opposite sides of a street war. Today they work side by side.

"This is my purpose to be here, to help the young men and women, not just in the Austin community, but any urban community that was pretty much set up for failure," Hardy said.

Learning on the block

Purpose led them t

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