Wear Orange: A Resource Guide to Planning Community Violence Prevention Events
The Everytown Community Safety Fund provides direct investment, peer convenings and capacity building to community-based violence intervention programs nationwide. In strategic partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety, LISC provides training and technical assistance to grantees including the knowledge-sharing materials as part of this Everytown Community Safety Fund series.
Introduction
Every community has its own strengths and challenges, so community-based violence reduction efforts will look different in every context.
All community-based violence approaches, however, benefit from well-thought-out planning and comprehensive execution. This directory compiles resources that will help you navigate the necessary steps to engage your community and plan for Wear Orange Day and other community violence intervention projects.
Community and Municipal Partnerships
No single entity can take on community violence alone. Diverse stakeholders, including community members, must work together when supporting community events. These resources offer information on how to engage, and with whom.
- Engaging community members is essential to the success of place-based crime reduction strategies. It can be hard and frustrating work, but this article provides some tips if you have to go back to the engagement drawing board, or create a new strategy for engagement.
- Safeguarding community by reaching out relentlessly: this article describes three local Community Violence Intervention (CVI) efforts in Chelsea MA, Milwaukee, WI, and Springfield, IL. Q&A with practitioners is also available here.
- This webinar discusses how to take a trauma informed approach to improving community safety.
- Learn how building collective efficacy in a community leads to safer communities, and tips for engaging your community, in particular principles for making sure you have an effective and authentic engagement approach
- Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are one example of the types of local nonprofits that can be critical partners in efforts to improve neighborhood safety. Consider these resources to learn more about how development work can be leveraged to improve safety, what development partnerships for safety look like, and how development organizations can partner with police.
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