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Community Violence Intervention

A collaborative approach to addressing community violence.

What is Community Violence Intervention

What is Community Violence Intervention?

Community violence generally happens outside the home in public spaces. Most community violence involves a relatively small number of people as victims or perpetrators. Still, its effects impact entire communities, eroding public health, causing economic disruption, and contributing to lasting individual and community traumas. Mitigation efforts typically focus on high-risk individuals, gun violence, specific violent crime problems, as well as the historical and structural challenges that often result in community violence.

What is the Impact of CVI?

Leaders and community advocates share their perspectives on the critical role of community violence intervention (CVI) in building safer neighborhoods. Through a series of interview clips, they discuss how empowering individuals with lived experiences, fostering leadership and implementing grassroots efforts can lead to meaningful change.

Strategies

Community violence intervention (CVI) is an approach that uses evidence-informed strategies to reduce violence through tailored community-centered initiatives. These multidisciplinary strategies engage individuals and groups to prevent and disrupt cycles of violence and retaliation and establish relationships between individuals and community assets to deliver services that save lives, address trauma, provide opportunity and improve the physical, social and economic conditions that drive violence.

Guiding Principles

Community Centered

The CVI approach must be informed by and tailored to community residents and stakeholders, and everyone involved must prioritize the community's needs. This means social service partners are engaged to align and collaborate with residents and law enforcement partners to reduce violence and build community.

Evidence Informed

Each CVI strategy should be built using evidence generated by multiple disciplines and a variety of methods. Evidence used to support a CVI program may include findings from research and evaluation, case studies, expert opinions, or documented lessons learned from the field. Ideally, a CVI program will engage in research and evaluation to help build the evidence base for what works.

Equitable and Inclusive

Care must be taken to guarantee the community members most affected and most disenfranchised are included in creating CVI solutions and benefiting from them.

Effective and Sustainable

 CVI programs must demonstrate measurable impacts on violence and community wellbeing, and they must have access to resources that enable responses to new and ongoing challenges over time.

OJP Support

In FY2022, the Department of Justice launched the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), a historic federal investment in community violence Intervention programs. This initiative seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers and other community stakeholders.


The Office of Justice Programs and several of its program offices—the Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and Office for Victims of Crime—are taking a collaborative approach to help ensure jurisdictions have access to expertise and resources to address community violence.

OJP Funding

In FY 2022 and FY 2023, OJP awarded nearly $200 million in CVIPI grants, which are funded in part through dedicated resources from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

Notice: Community Violence Intervention Funding Opportunities Closed

We appreciate your interest in the Community Violence Intervention funding opportunities. All 2024 CVI funding opportunities are now closed.

For a comprehensive list of grant awards since 2021, please visit our grant funding site.

 

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR
Acenda, Inc.NJ2022
Alliance of Concerned MenDC2022
Black Mental Health AllianceMD2022
Building Opportunities for Self SufficiencyCA2022
Centro C.H.A.CA2022
Children and Youth JusticeCenterWA2022
Circle of BrotherhoodFL2022
Community Network ServicesVA2022
Connie Rice Institute for Urban PeaceCA2022
Exodus Transitional CommunityNY2022
Getting Out & Staying Out Inc. NYNY2022
HMH Hospitals CorporationNJ2022
The Living Classrooms FoundationMD2022
Metropolitan Family ServicesIL2022
NCYouth Violence Prevention CentNC2022
New Kensington Community Development CorporationPA2022
Newark Community Street TeamNJ2022
Nonviolent PeaceforceMN2022
Osborne AssociationNY2022
Prevention Education, Inc.NJ2022
Reclamation & Restoration MinistriesLA2022
ROCA, Inc.MD2022
Taller Salud, Inc.PR2022
Advance PeaceCA2023
Center For HopeMD2023
Cleveland Peacemakers IncOH2023
Community Of Change,IncVA2023
Emory UniversityGA2023
Fresno County Economic Opportunities CommissionCA2023
Greater Baybrook Alliance, IncMD2023
Jail to JobsTX2023
Michigan Public Health InstituteMI2023
Opportunities For Individual Change,IncorporatedOH2023
Peace For DCDC2023
Prisma Health-MidlandsSC2023
Providence Health System-Southern CaliforniaCA2023
Roca IncMA2023
The Reverence ProjectCA2023
UTEC, IncMA2023
Adult Friends for YouthHI2024
Center for Family Services Inc.NJ2024
FORCE DetroitMI2024
Heal MemphisTN2024
Life Camps Inc.NY2024
Northshore University Health SystemIL2024
Oklahoma County Diversion Hub, Inc.OK2024
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.OR2024
Power4STL Inc.MO2024
Promise Neighborhoods of Lehigh ValleyPA2024
Selma CenterAL2024
St. Joseph's University Medical CenterNJ2024
The Connie Rice Institute for Urban PeaceCA2024
Youth Alive!CA2024

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR
Alameda CountyCA2022
Buncombe CountyNC2022
City of BatonRougeLA2022
City of ClevelandOH2022
City of FlintMI2022
City of GreensboroNC2022
City of HartfordCT2022
City of JacksonvilleFL2022
City of Kansas CityMO2022
City of Los AngelesCA2022
City of OmahaNE2022
City of Rapid CitySD2022
City of RichmondVA2022
City of SyracuseNY2022
City of TampaFL2022
City of TucsonAZ2022
Contra Costa CountyCA2022
DeKalb CountyGA2022
Fulton CountyGA2022
Harris CountyTX2022
Lake County State’s Attorney’s OfficeIL2022
Leon CountyFL2022
Salt Lake CountyUT2022
Allegheny CountyPA2023
Boston Public Health CommissionMA2023
City of BirminghamAL2023
City of KnoxvilleTN2023
City of New HavenCT2023
City of New OrleansLA2023
City of OrlandoFL2023
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro GovernmentKY2023
Nashville Davidson County Metropolitan GovernmentTN2023
City of AuroraCO2024
City of ChattanoogaTN2024
City of IndianapolisIN2024
City of OaklandCA2024
City of OmahaNE2024
City of TulsaOK2024
County of Los AngelesCA2024
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas CourtOH2024
Milwaukee County, WisconsinWI2024

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR
Illinois Criminal Justice Information AuthorityIL2023
New Jersey Department of Law &Public SafetyNJ2023
North Carolina Department of Public SafetyNC2023
Washington State Department of CommerceWA2023
D.C. Office of the Attorney GeneralDC2024
New York State Department of HealthNY2024
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and DelinquencyPA2024

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR

John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center

Evaluation of Osbourne Association site-based award 

NY2022

RTI International

Evaluation of City of Greensboro site-based award 

NC2022
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral SciencesVA2023
Northwestern UniversityIL2023

Suffolk University

Evaluation of Boston Public Health Commission site-based award

MA2023

Tulane University

Evaluation of City of New Orleans site-based award

LA2023
University of Missouri SystemMO2023
Moses-Weitzman Health System, IncCT2024
Research Triangle InstituteNC2024
University of California, DavisCA2024
University of New HavenCT2024
University of South CarolinaSC2024

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR

Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Sub-award recipients:
Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts 
Homies Unidos Denver
Struggle of Love Foundation

CO2022

Local Initiative Support Corporation

Sub-award recipients:
Cincinnati Works 
Heal 901 
Mute the Violence DC
Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation 
VA League for Safer Streets 

NY2022

Metropolitan Family Services

Sub-award recipients:
Project H.O.O.D. 
Target Area Development Corporation
Think Outside Da Block

IL2022

Children and Youth JusticeCenter

Sub-award recipients forthcoming

WA2023

Equal Justice USA, Inc

Sub-award recipients forthcoming

NY2023

Health Resources in Action, Inc

Sub-award recipients forthcoming

MA2023

National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform

Sub-award recipients forthcoming

CA2023
Chicago CREDIL2024
Cure Violence GlobalIL2024
Research Foundation of the City University of New YorkNY2024
The Medical College of WisconsinWI2024

APPLICANTSTATEFISCAL YEAR
Community Based Public Safety CollectiveNJ2022
Heartland AllianceIL2022
Local Initiative Support CorporationNY2022
Research Foundation of the City University of New YorkNY2023
The Urban InstituteDC2023
Health Resources in ActionMA2024
ICF IncorporatedVA2024
National Opinion Research CenterIL2024
Research Foundation of the City University of New YorkNY2024
The John Hopkins UniversityMD2024

Past Funding Opportunities

FY 2023 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

  • Grants.gov deadline: May 18, 2023, 8:59 p.m. ET
  • JustGrants deadline: May 25, 2023, 8:59 p.m. ET

FY 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

  • Grants.gov deadline: June 16, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET
  • JustGrants deadline: June 21, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET

NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support

  • Grants.gov deadline: May 22, 2023, 11:59 p.m. ET
  • JustGrants deadline: June 5, 2023, 8:59 p.m. ET

FY 2022 Evaluation of OJP Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Projects

  • Grants.gov deadline: June 7, 2022, 11:59 p.m. ET
  • JustGrants deadline: June 21, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET

View all NIJ CVIPI projects 

 

 

OJP Resources

Train

Visit the National CVIPI Resource Center to request training and technical assistance from CVI experts.

 

Connect

Subscribe to learn more about this and other OJP efforts.

 

Listen

Listen to the Community Violence Intervention podcast.

 

Checklist

A step-by-step checklist for community led and evidence informed strategies.

Glossary

Definitions of terms associated with community violence intervention

Learn More

Explore the extensive community based violence intervention and prevention catalog from communities stories, fact sheets, webinars and more.

 

Fecha de Creación: Marzo 22, 2024