Cure Violence Global CVUPI CBO Capacity Building Initiative

Cure Violence Global (CVG) and its project partners, Cities United, First Degree Consulting, and Roca Impact Institute, are joining together to provide comprehensive community violence intervention (CVI) and organizational capacity needs assessment, training, technical assistance (TTA), organizational capacity building, and subawards to five community-based organizations (CBOs) seeking to implement or already implementing the CVG community violence intervention (CVI) approach and Roca’s Rewire cognitive behavioral theory (CBT). They are targeting communities that have been historically underserved and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization in Charlottesville, Virginia and Gainesville, Florida. Additionally, the project will employ a community health development framework (CDH) to engage multisector stakeholders in a comprehensive community-driven coalition-building and strategic planning to develop and implement a CVI framework in each locale to ensure that CVI strategies are locally tailored and successfully and sustainably implemented. The goals of the project are to: increase CBO’s capacity to implement, financially support, and sustain CVI strategies; increase collective community capacity to implement and sustain evidence-based CVI strategies; decrease the incidence of violence through the implementation of evidence-based CVI strategies, tailored to each community’s context; and increase the availability of tools and resources for implementing CVI strategies, with the ultimate goal of preventing and reducing violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community violence intervention and prevention programs.