Community violence interventions (CVI) aim to reduce violence by preventing and disrupting cycles of retaliation and by delivering supports and services that save lives, address trauma, provide opportunity and improve the conditions that drive violence. Since 2020, local, state and federal agencies have made unprecedented investments in CVI as a component of a shifting public safety ecosystem, raising questions about how cities should balance CVI work alongside policing and other long standing public safety institutions.
In this webinar, researchers John Maki, New York University Fellow, and Heather Warnken, Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore School of Law Executive Director, discussed recent papers on strategies to sustain and expand funding for CVI and related programs, including improving access to victim compensation for underserved victims. These papers contextualize recent funding within the long history of public support for violence reduction and explore how coalitions of practitioners, policy advocates and other partners can leverage existing and potential resources, drawing lessons from efforts to reform access to public funding for survivors of violence through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Crime Victim Compensation Program.
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