Community-Based Violence Intervention: Overview and Best Practices
This webinar is part of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA)’s Reducing Violent Crime in Our Communities Webinar Series produced in partnership with LISC Safety & Justice.
Overview
This webinar covers the basics of street outreach, violence interruption models, and hospital-based intervention. Speakers describe the origins of these intervention strategies, the agencies that typically coordinate these programs, key partners, applicability to small cities and rural areas, how programs have evolved over time, and engagement with criminal justice agency contacts. The presenters also address some of the challenges organizations face in this work, such as balancing relationships with law enforcement and court agencies while working with individuals in the community who are justice involved and/or have been a participant in, victim of, or witness to violent crime.
Presenters
- Christopher Ladwig, Assistant US Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- PJ Fox, Former Executive Director, Nonviolence Institute