MPHI is proud to announce that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded a $1 million investment to analyze the impact of community intervention programs that aim to reduce cyclical and retaliatory gun violence. The funding has been provided through the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Assistance program. This program supports the development of strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes.
This investment will support the causal research into gun violence prevention initiatives recently announced by MPHI and its partners. The purpose is to assess the impact of innovative Peacemaker Fellowship strategies on reducing cyclical and retaliatory gun violence in targeted urban cities using a quasi-experimental design that will compare intervention cohorts from three cities with matched control cohorts from the same cities.
The national study will engage at least 100 individuals in three urban areas: Pomona, California; Stockton, California; and Fort Worth, Texas. MPHI will provide evidence-based practices, such as street outreach, mentoring, intensive transformative mentoring, life skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy, and subsidized employment. Alongside these practices, MPHI will also engage in touchpoints with the individuals, such as life management action plan goals, daily check-ins, social services navigation, transformative travel, elders circle, internship opportunities, and life map action plan milestone allowance. Participants in the project will be compared against a control group from the same three urban areas. The project will include a combination of community-based activities and research to generate evidence of program effectiveness.
“This innovative program will help inform best strategies to address gun violence while helping to curb the cycle of gun-related offenses,” said Senator Gary Peters, who helped support the project’s acceptance by the DOJ.
MPHI’s partners on the project are the Center for Global Healthy Cities at UC Berkeley, Advance Peace, and three organizations in the aforementioned urban areas implementing the Peacemaker Fellowship.
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