Type of strategy Community-based

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Comprehensive Youth Violence Prevention Programs

Comprehensive youth violence prevention programs reduce gun violence by targeting individual, relational, community, and societal risk and protective factors. To prevent youth involvement or victimization…

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Credible Messenger Program

The Credible Messenger Model partners community members who can build relationships with juveniles and adults who are in secure detention or incarceration facilities. Credible Messengers…

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Cure Violence

Cure Violence aims to reduce violence using public health approaches. Cure leverages community partnerships and violence interrupters along with public education campaigns. Violence interrupters are…

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School-Based Youth Development Programs

Youth development program approaches may vary, but typically include a structured curriculum with skill-building activities delivered during school time or by community organizations out of…

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Youth Counseling

Individual-level community-based services aim to target criminogenic risk factors that may lead to gun-involved crime. These services can be provided to at-risk youth prior to…

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Survivors Empowered Rapid Response Team

The Survivors Empowered Rapid Response Team is a public awareness campaign that leverages the first-hand stories of gun violence survivors to educate the public and…

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Street Outreach Workers

Street outreach workers collaborate with law enforcement agencies, often engaging youth in neighborhoods deemed as high risk for violent crime. Street outreach workers are often…

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Promote Safe Storage of Firearms

Public education around safe storage of firearms can prevent accidental gun injuries, particularly among children. A key benefit of this approach is that gun owners…

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Public Awareness Campaigns

The goal of public awareness campaigns targeting gun violence is to increase communities’ knowledge about specific aspects of gun-involved injury. They target the specific needs…

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Police-Community Liaison

A community liaison serves as an anti-violence coordinator in the community. Their responsibilities include oversight of the implementation of community strategies to combat gun violence,…

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Parent/Guardian Counseling

Healthcare professionals can counsel parents and other adult caregivers about gun-related risks to their children’s health and safety. Specific topics for counseling are tied to…

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Parent/Guardian Counseling

Healthcare professionals can counsel parents and other adult caregivers about gun-related risks to their children’s health and safety. Specific topics for counseling are tied to…

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Mentoring

Mentoring approaches to reduce gun violence combine elements of group-based violence intervention (focused deterrence), hospital-based programs, and violence interrupter programs to provide voluntary intensive mentoring…

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Hospital-Policing Partnerships

Hospital-policing partnerships aim to improve law enforcement’s coordination with social services and healthcare partners. Law enforcement agencies can partner with hospitals to provide case management…

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Gun Violence Prevention Hotlines

Gun violence prevention hotlines provide young people with tools to improve the safety of their schools and communities by reporting threats of violence in their…