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CeaseFire: Chicago Violence Prevention Program
In Chicago, CeaseFire is reducing violence through street-level outreach, conflict mediation and changing community norms.
Published: July 15, 2009
CeaseFire: Chicago Violence Prevention Program
A Successful Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence
In Chicago, CeaseFire founder Gary Slutkin,M.D., spearheads a new approach to reducing gun violence: "Violence behaves like an infectious disease in every single way. We are applying exactly the methodology for controlling infectious diseases.” CeaseFire engages the community to work with young people at high risk of being involved in violence, provides on-the-spot alternatives to shooting, and works to change social norms about gun violence.
Prior to 2000, when CeaseFire was formally launched as an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, more than 400 people were killed in Chicago every year. According to a Justice Department study, Chicago has experienced a 41–73 percent drop in shootings and killings in CeaseFire zones since that time, with 16–35 percent of the reduction directly attributable to CeaseFire. In addition, there has been a 100 percent reduction in retaliation murders in five of eight CeaseFire neighborhoods.
The program encompasses five core components:
- community mobilization;
- youth outreach;
- public education;
- faith-based leader involvement; and
- criminal justice participation.
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- CeaseFire: Stop Shooting. Keep Talking. Start Living. (Slideshows)
- The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (RWJF Anthology)
- Treating Violence as a Contagious Disease (Grantee profiles)
- CeaseFire: A Successful Model for Reducing Violence Among Young People (Stories and articles)
- CeaseFire Violence Interrupters Integral in Keeping Chicago's Neighborhoods Safe, Report Reveals (Stories and articles)
- Stop Shooting. Keep Talking. Start Living. (Reports)
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Listed below are 2 of the grants that supported this project, totaling $4,849,402.
| Grant | Awarded to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Technical assistance and dissemination of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention model |
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (Chicago, IL) ID#: 55535 Gary Slutkin, M.D. 312-996-8775 gslutkin@uic.edu |
Actual award: $3,023,814 February 2006 to January 2010 |
| Technical assistance and dissemination of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention model |
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (Chicago, IL) ID#: 60697 Gary Slutkin, M.D. 312-996-8775 gslutkin@uic.edu Candice M. Kane, Ph.D., J.D. 312-996-1319 kanecm@uic.edu |
Actual award: $1,825,588 May 2007 to May 2010 |
RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.
CeaseFire: Stop Shooting. Keep Talking. Start Living.
Publication date:
June 24, 2009
Summary:
Setting the backdrop for Stop Shooting. Keep Talking. Start Living., the images in this slideshow help tell the story of CeaseFire—a program with a proven method. Where so many others have failed, CeaseFire is the one program that stops the shooting,...
The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
By:
Diehl D
Publication date:
2005
Summary:
This chapter examines The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the Local Initiative Funding Partners Program.
Treating Violence as a Contagious Disease
Publication date:
June 16, 2003
Summary:
Gary Slutkin, executive director of the RWJF-supported CeaseFire Chicago, takes an epidemiologist's approach to violent behavior on the city's streets. The idea that shooting another person is like an infectious agent, he says ... and he focuses on strategies to nip...
CeaseFire: A Successful Model for Reducing Violence Among Young People
Publication date:
May 2008
Summary:
Violence is the No. 1 cause of death among young people in many cities, and minority groups are disproportionately affected. But violence doesn't have to be part of the status quo in inner-city neighborhoods. That's where CeaseFire comes in.
CeaseFire Violence Interrupters Integral in Keeping Chicago's Neighborhoods Safe, Report Reveals
Publication date:
August 01, 2008
Summary:
Researchers at Northwestern University released an independent study examining the effectiveness of CeaseFire, a violence prevention program aims to interrupt the cycle of violence and change norms by providing on-the spot decision alternatives.
Stop Shooting. Keep Talking. Start Living.
Publication date:
Jan 24, 2009
Summary:
This is the story of CeaseFire, the one program that stops the shooting, keeps people talking, and brings the hope of health and well-being to communities ravaged by the disease of violence.
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