On February 22, 2023, the Coalition to Advance Public Safety (CAPS)—a strategic partnership between four nationally recognized and Black-led organizations committed to ending community gun violence—kicked off a new 12-city initiative involving mayors, local community-based organizations, and hospitals all working together with the goal of reducing gun homicides and non-fatal shootings by 20 percent over the next five years.
The organizations that comprise the CAPS coalition—the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (the HAVI), the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR), the Community-Based Public Safety Collective (the Collective), and Cities United—previously served as the training and technical assistance providers for the recently concluded 18-month White House Community Violence Intervention Collaborative (CVIC). The new CAPS initiative will build on the lessons learned and strategies utilized in support of CVIC to expand the ongoing work with mayors and communities across the country and systematically deploy training and technical assistance to cities with high rates of gun violence. The first cohort of cities—Newark, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, and Indianapolis—will begin their work this month with the CAPS coalition to scale up and bring cohesion and additional funding to their local community violence intervention (CVI) ecosystems.
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