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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.
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May 2, 2024 | 
americanprogress.org | Nick Wilson |Chandler Hall |Matthew Gossage |Hai-Lam Phan
By focusing on the small number of people who are most connected to local cycles of violence, community violence intervention (CVI) programs approach violence reduction by providing specialized support and access to services. Research shows that when properly implemented and funded, CVI programs are among the most effective strategies for addressing community violence and encouraging people to pursue alternative avenues for resolving conflicts.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
americanprogress.org | Nick Wilson |Chandler Hall
On April 4, 2023, the Center for American Progress, along with 47 organizations advocating on behalf of victims, submitted comments to the U.S. Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) regarding the agency’s proposal to replace the existing Victims of Crime Act Victim Compensation Grant Program guidelines to increase equitable access to victim services.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
americanprogress.org | Allison Jordan |Chandler Hall |Devin Hughes
Issues [1] On April 13, 2023, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was sent to pick up his younger twin brothers from a friend’s home when an address mix-up nearly cost him his life. After confusing Northeast 115th Street for Northeast 115th Terrace, located one block away, Ralph mistakenly rang the doorbell of an armed 84-year-old man. The homeowner instantly opened fire on the teen through a glass door, shooting him once in the forehead and again in the arm. Ralph was forced to flee for his life as an...
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
americanprogress.org | Chandler Hall
Despite not having 100 percent of police precincts reporting data, the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) represents the gold standard for analyzing and understanding U.S. crime and gun violence trends. Unfortunately, however, 2023 NIBRS data are not expected to be released until October 2024, so researchers cannot utilize them to understand trends in real, or even close to real, time.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
americanprogress.org | Chandler Hall |Matthew Gossage |Hai-Lam Phan |Nick Wilson
Center for American Progress Community Violence Intervention: Denise Villamil and Southern California Crossroads Share It’s much more than statistics or numbers, it is people who are proud of their community. – Denise Villamil Denise Villamil is the executive director of Southern California Crossroads, an organization that focuses on providing safety and healing to individuals who have been affected by gun violence in their communities. Along with Denise, program staff at Crossroads are...
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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.
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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.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
americanprogress.org | Chandler Hall |Matthew Gossage |Hai-Lam Phan |Nick Wilson
Juan Avila is a chief operating officer at Garden Pathways, an organization that mentors youth and young adults through life-building services in Bakersfield, California. In this video, he shares the story of José, a man who turned away from gun violence to focus on fatherhood.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
americanprogressaction.org | Chandler Hall
Issues [1] Introduction and summary Gun violence anywhere is unacceptable. Yet increasingly, Americans are forced to grieve the unimaginable horrors of school and hate-motivated shootings in innocent communities, in addition to the daily occurrence of gun violence across the United States.1 It is no wonder that Americans see gun violence as a top issue for Congress.2 To stop gun violence in this country, every lawmaker at every level of government must come together to pass commonsense gun...
