Eligible Community Safety Program Definitions
- Group Violence Intervention Programs: These programs focus on addressing the small number of residents most directly affected by crime, typically gang members, with services and a strong message of anti-violence through partnership with credible community members and law enforcement. The goal of these programs is to decrease violence by reducing the number of people involved in violent activity.
- Violence Interruption Programs: These programs focus on community-based violence interrupters and outreach workers who provide ground-level intervention and services to reduce retaliation and provide de-escalation services. The goal of these programs is to interrupt cycles of violence and prevent retaliation.
- Improving the Physical Environment of High Crime Areas: These programs focus on reducing urban blight, improving communal spaces with humane design, art, vegetation, reducing underlit areas, and socially designed spaces that facilitate positive community interaction. The goal of these programs is to create safer and more welcoming communities through physical improvements to high crime areas.
- Strengthening Anti-Violence Social Norms and Peer Relationships: These programs focus on violence interruption programs paired with coaching and services that seek to strengthen anti-violence social norms by addressing the underlying social dynamics that lead to violence.
- Engaging and Supporting Youth: These programs focus on out-of-school programming, educational support, summer jobs, access to generally positive opportunities, and other interventions that augment prosocial skills and like self-control and decision making in highest need neighborhoods. The goal of these programs is to provide positive opportunities for youth, reducing their likelihood of becoming involved in violent activities.
- Programs that provide peer support and therapy: These programs focus on providing cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma and culturally informed mentoring, motivational interviewing, and targeted treatment for substance abuse. The goal of these programs is to provide support to individuals affected by violence, helping them to recover and rebuild their lives.
- Mitigating Financial Stress: These programs focus on providing financial literacy, access to and training for stable-safe-and-gainful employment, improving access to income-adjusted affordable housing, and programs to offset financial burdens of basic needs such as food and healthcare. The goal of these programs is to reduce the stressors that can contribute to violence by helping individuals and families to achieve financial stability.
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