INDIANAPOLIS -- Nearly two dozen people came out to the Frederick Douglass Park Family Center Thursday night to talk about youth gun violence. It's all part of the Marion County Youth Violence Prevention Coalition's mission to put an end to youth gun violence in Indy. Family of 14-year-old girl seeks answers after teen killed on Indy’s south side The meeting was called after 14-year-old Deandra Staples was shot and killed and left in the snow in early January. "It kind of hit the community different and made a bigger impact. So we knew that we needed to come together to bring the community together in this instance," said Della Brown with the Marion County Youth Violence Prevention Coalition. Brown said the purpose of the meeting is to not only start a conversation on what's causing the violence but come up with tangible solutions and get to the root causes of how to stop it. "The community should always come together and not just immediately after a situation happens but that ongoing long-term support for the community for families and again especially at times like this," said Brown. The conversation hits close to home for Antonia Bailey, who lost her two children to gun violence back in 2019 when they were shot and killed inside their apartment before school. She now serves as IMPD's non-fatal shooting advocate support specialist supervisor and said meetings like this are what start to make a difference. "Awareness, change of mindset, change of heart, to overall bring about change because our future is looking really bleak right now," said Bailey. Both Brown and Bailey just hope this talk can lead to real action and curb the violence before it gets any worse. Indy man charged with shooting pregnant wife, killing unborn child "When you pull that trigger, you not only lose your life, you lose the life of the person you pulled the trigger on. And everyone deserves to see another day," said Bailey. "I hope we're able to rise above this of course it took a toll on our entire community at large and just use this as a catalyst for change," said Brown.