Community Responses

Webinar for suicide prevention awareness month with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Site Visit and Training in Lake County, IL with implementers

Visit to CT to meet with various ERPO stakeholders, including law enforcement, POST, judges, court personnel, prosecutors and public defenders

Traveled to Cleveland to visit Partnership for Safer Cleveland to discuss their initiative to connect the community to CVIPI resources.

LISC with national TTA partners CNA and IIR, helped facilitate a Public Safety Partnership (PSP) site visit where 8 federal grantees came to Boston, MA to learn about the evolution of CVI efforts and partnerships. This led to ongoing conversations between LISC, CNA, and IIR around sharing the same story with their strategic site liaisons who indicated they are struggling to communicate what CVI is to their sites. On 7/10/24, LISC participated in the PSP Biweekly Site team meetings and presented the foundational elements of CVI to the site liaisons.

The National CVIPI Center TTA Request tool is critical for our ability to assess community violence intervention (CVI) needs in the field and to help prioritize delivery of TTA topics. During this reporting period, LISC received and responded to 54 TTA requests from the field. LISC continues to track, analyze and report these requests
regularly to BJA.

National CVIPI Center staff attended the 2024 NCJA Forum on Criminal Justice, presenting with OJP Leadership (Eddie Bocanegra) and state leaders (Damon Bocante, NY and Colleen Curtin, CA) on state CVI training and technical assistance efforts. Panel was attended by about 75 participants and was met with great interest from the field. LISC and BJA have discussed potential future efforts to be more intentional about utilizing the CVIPI Center to support state CVI efforts.

LISC attended the 2024 PSP Summit as an exhibitor. There, we engaged DOJ Public Safety Partnership (PSP) grantees from around the country and shared National CVIPI Center resources and explored potential opportunities for future engagement with the National CVIPI Center.

LISC delivered a presentation for Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) to about 32 staff from CVI organizations on federal resources for CVI organizations and discussed capacity building around application development. The symposium was designed to bring together violence interrupters (VI) from various programs across the nation for mutual learning, collaboration, and advocacy.

Site took part in monthly TA calls with LISC to discuss project implementation and explore support and guidance.