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Baltimore, Maryland Home of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, founding institutions of modern American medicine Home of The Inner Harbor - historic seaport, tourist attraction and iconic landmark Home of The Baltimore Ravens with 7 playoff appearances since 2000

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Page 1: Baltimore,  Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

Home of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, founding institutions of modern American medicine

Home of The Inner Harbor - historic seaport, tourist attraction and iconic landmark

Home of The Baltimore Ravens with 7 playoff appearances since 2000

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Baltimore, Maryland

Where the leading cause of death among Baltimore City residents aged 15-24 years is homicide

Where 30% of children grow up in poverty Where many youth don’t believe they’ll live to be 25, and if they

do for some it will be behind bars Where the juvenile homicide rate is 8.4 times higher than the

national rate

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Violence as a Public Health Issue

• Health problem (disease)• Epidemic• Infectious• Based in behavior

(learned/social norm)• Behavioral interventions can

interrupt transmission by changing norms

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Core Components

• Community Mobilization

• Outreach

• Public Education

• Faith-based Leader Involvement

• Criminal Justice Participation

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· Street Outreach

· Clergy

· Community

· Pub Ed Materials

· Law Enforcement

Norms

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Alternatives

No Shootings

Interveners 3 Variables Behavioral Outcome

Implementing Behavior Change Theory

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Differences between CeaseFire & Safe Streets

CeaseFire

Violence Interrupters

National Gangs

Safe Streets

Outreach Workers

Neighborhood Gangs

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Role of the Oversight Entity (BCHD)

• Responsible for rigorous vendor and site selection process

• Provide implementation technical assistance to sites

• Intensive monitoring of community-based providers to ensure adherence to the Ceasefire model

• Creation of a citywide public education campaign

• Development of an expansion and sustainability plan for the Safe Streets initiative

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Selection Process

• Open Request for Proposals

• Fifteen (15) eligible Community Statistical Areas (CSAs)

• Ten (10) eligible neighborhoods outside the eligible CSAs

• Target areas should have populations between 10,000 and 20,0000 people

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Applicants must:

• Be designated as a 501(c)(3)

• Currently operate in the target community and have an office in the target community

Selection Criteria includes:

• Level of need in the selected target area

• Demonstrated understanding of the Safe Streets model

• Reputation and credibility of applicant in the target community

• Experience providing community outreach services to target population

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Safe Streets East – The Living Classrooms FoundationMcElderry Park

• Main thoroughfare in East Baltimore

• Outreach Workers = Violence Interrupters

• Began working out of a car• Success based on hiring

the “Right” workers

In the first 23 months of implementation there were ZERO homicides

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Safe Streets Cherry Hill –

Family Health Centers of Baltimore

• Extremely isolated area• Historic gang feud• Success based on community

partnerships• Evaluation results show a

approximately 56% decrease in homicide incidents and 34% decrease in NFS

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CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATION

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City Agency = Political Pressure

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You don’t share information with the police?!?!

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The WRONG community partner

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3 contiguous sites – Don’t try at this at home

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Safe Streets - Cherry Hill was associated with statistically significant reductions of 56% in homicide incidents and 34% in nonfatal shootings

Safe Streets - East did not experience a homicide during the first 23 months of program implementation. After pilot of three sites ended, in the initial post homicides were 53% lower than would have been expected without the intervention

Evaluation ResultsKey findings:Safe Streets - Cherry Hill was associated with statistically significant reductions of 56% in homicide incidents and 34% in nonfatal shootings

Safe Streets - East did not experience a homicide during the first 23 months of program implementation. After pilot of three sites ended, in the initial post homicides were 53% lower than would have been expected without the intervention

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Key findings:

Across all sites and border posts - estimates show that the program was associated with 5.4 fewer homicide incidents and 34.6 fewer nonfatal shooting incidents during 112 cumulative months of intervention post observations

Outreach Workers assisted 52% of program participants settle an average of 2 disputes. 28% of these disputes involved guns and 91% avoided violence. Overall, 80% of participants reported that their lives were “better” since becoming a program participant

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Analyses of program implementation data indicate that the sites with significant reductions in homicide incidents had three times as many conflict mediations per month.

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Participants 146Face-to-Face Contacts 4,778Mediations 121Events 40Event Attendance 4,158Public Education Material Distributed 14,727

2010 Accomplishments

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Move longest-running site

Expand to 2 additional neighborhoods

Enhance the current Public Education campaign

Pilot Violence Interrupters

Seek Funding

Next Steps for Safe Streets - Baltimore

Move Longest-running siteExpand to 2 additional neighborhoods

Enhance the current public education campaignPilot Violence Interrupters

Seek Funding

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For Additional Information:

Lori Toscano, Acting Director

443.984.3566

[email protected]

www.Facebook.com/BmoreYVP

For Additional Information:Lori Toscano, Acting Director

[email protected]

www.Facebook.com/BmoreYVP