Arnitta Holliman

Jun 25, 2024 | americanprogress.org | Nick Wilson |Arnitta Holliman |Chandler Hall |Matthew Gossage

Employing credible messengers to perform street outreach in order to interrupt escalating tensions and to spread antiviolence messages started in the 1950s and 1960s with youth and street gang outreach programs in major cities across the country.

Dec 21, 2023 | americanprogress.org | Chandler Hall |Arnitta Holliman |Hai-Lam Phan |Nick Wilson

Community violence intervention (CVI) programs have a long and diverse history of performing street outreach or violence interruption work, in which frontline workers leverage their personal connections and visibility in a community to interrupt escalating tensions or stop violence before it occurs. Beyond street outreach, frontline CVI workers connect those most at risk with housing, employment, healing resources, and other social services in order to prevent gun violence before it erupts.

Dec 21, 2023 | americanprogress.org | Chandler Hall |Arnitta Holliman |Hai-Lam Phan |Nick Wilson

Community violence intervention (CVI) programs often rely on individuals from the very communities they serve to deliver core program services, such as outreach, case management, and transformational mentoring. These frontline workers have hyperlocal community knowledge and lived experiences that lend to their credibility, enabling them to reach individuals that police or other public safety workers can’t. Being a CVI worker on the frontlines is a difficult and dangerous job.