Job Posting: Senior Director, KP Center for Gun Violence, Research and Education

Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education is seeking a Senior Director who will work alongside the Executive Director to implement the KP Center’s strategic plan and oversee operational development, growth, and efficiency.

Job Posting: Senior Manager of CVI Capacity Building, Health & Racial Equity

The Massachusetts Community Violence Intervention Capacity Building Initiative is seeking a CVI Capacity Building Senior Manager to provide violence prevention and intervention technical assistance to five violence prevention grantees across Massachusetts. Senior Manager candidates must be based in or willing to move to MA and have experience CVI work.

Funding Opportunity: Colorado CVI

The Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CPDHE) has established a grant program for organizations to conduct community-based gun violence initiatives focused on interrupting cycles of gun violence, trauma, and retaliation. This year, OGVP will provide funding focused on firearm suicide prevention and community violence intervention initiatives. The overall goal of this funding is to address disparities in those communities at the highest risk.

Funding Opportunity: Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

Join us in a CVI practitioner/stakeholder peer engagement where we dive deep into the CVIPI Checklist Step 1: Engage Community Members and Conduct a Community Violence Assessment. This event is open to members of our CVIPI Community of Practice.

Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence

This webinar from the University of Chicago's Crime Lab will will explore the latest findings on behavioral science interventions and their effectiveness in the fight against gun violence. Speakers will provide an in-depth look at Crime Lab's growing portfolio of research on CVI programs, including evaluation results from behavior-change programs such as Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) and Brightpoint’s Choose to Change (C2C).

Putting Evaluation to Work

The "EvaluACTION" guide from the CDC's VetoViolence program details a step-by-step plan for CVI programs to follow during the evaluation process.

General Capacity Assessment for Violence Prevention

This assessment tool helps violence prevention organizations estimate their organizational capacity for leadership, skills, staffing, resources, and partnerships.

Saving Lives: Ten Essential Actions Cities Can Take to Reduce Violence Now

This report from the Council on Criminal Justice provides 10 recommended steps that cities can implement in order to reduce interpersonal gun violence, with a reform-based approach.

Select, Adapt, Evaluate

This resource is a six-step guide to selecting, adapting, and evaluating violence prevention approaches that fit the needs of a specific community.