HELP WITH DEVELOPING COMPREHENSIVE PLANS

The California Cities Violence Prevention Network offers training and technical assistance in developing comprehensive community-wide violence reduction strategies that do not rely solely on enforcement efforts.  Communities learn about the benefits of working together to build safe and healthy communities that don’t produce crime and how this collaboration can positively impact their community by developing strategies upon a foundation of shared accountability and shared responsibility.  Cities also learn how cross-sector collaboration can secure specific action commitments from key civic and government entities to help galvanize community engagement, improve police-community trust, facilitate sustainability, enhance funding opportunities, and make positive results in reducing violence, and building vital communities.

Developing a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan

Developing a violence prevention plan requires strong community partnerships that include local government, the police, schools, probation, faith & community-based organizations, public health  and community members.  Together they can develop specific programs in key areas of prevention, intervention, suppression and reentry.  The CCVPN  team has decades of experience in a variety of key topical areas including those listed below.  Working with your city leadership team, CCVPN can develop a budget and strategy to assist in the developing, implementing or refining  a city's violence prevention plan.  See sample Violence Prevention Plans here.

Prevent — Intervene — Suppress — Reclaim

Prevent: By focusing on family support, pre-school education, transportation, school safety, community oriented policing, trauma counseling; peace marches; 

Intervene: By providing mentoring, job training, alternative education, community service, restorative justice, alternative education; 

Suppress: By focusing on hot spot policing, engaging interventionist to prevent retaliation; 

Reclaim: By providing in-prison education; links to out of prison support services; addiction counseling; mentoring and other reentry services.

CCVPN Training and Technical Assistance Services

• Strategic Plan Development
• Community Mobilization 
• Community Partnerships 
• Governance and Leadership
• Police/Community Trust Development
• School Based Prevention 
• Role of Police in Prevention
• Trauma Informed Violence Prevention
• Hospital Based Intervention 
• Public Health and Violence Prevention 

• Youth Engagement
• Street Intervention Strategies
• Reentry Strategies
• Engaging the Faith Community
• Restorative Justice
• Night Walks
• Sustainability and Funding
• Regional Violence Prevention Efforts
• State and National Policy Alignment 
• Employment Readiness and Job Placement