Beantown Society is a youth-led program founded in 2004 by young people with the support of adult allies. Its mission is to unite youth across race,class,culture,and neighborhood to end youth violence by transforming young people’s oppression, rejection, neglection, and depression into youth power. The program focuses primarily on high school age youth, particularly young people of color in Jamaica Plain and nearby neighborhoods of Dorchester, Roxbury, and Hyde Park.