Funding Safety: Crises and Opportunities for Violence Prevention Efforts
October
12:00pm EST
Community violence interventions (CVI) aim to reduce violence by preventing and disrupting cycles of retaliation and by delivering supports and services that save lives, address trauma, provide opportunity and improve the conditions that drive violence. Since 2020, local, state and federal agencies have made unprecedented investments in CVI as a component of a shifting public safety ecosystem, raising questions about how cities should balance CVI work alongside policing and other long-standing public safety institutions.
In this webinar, researchers from NYU and the University of Baltimore School of Law will discuss recent papers on strategies to sustain and expand funding for CVI and related programs, including improving access to victim compensation for underserved victims. These papers contextualize recent funding within the long history of public support for violence reduction and explore how coalitions of practitioners, policy advocates and other partners can leverage existing and potential resources, drawing lessons from efforts to reform access to public funding for survivors of violence through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Crime Victim Compensation Program.
***This discussion is part of the Joyce Foundation's monthly virtual Lunch & Learn webinar series. All the webinars in this series are free and open to the public.***