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| 1 | 2022 | House | Alma Adams | Adams | Alma | A000370 | Democrat | NC | Commerce Justice Science | Cure Violence Charlotte Implementation | CURE VIOLENCE CHARLOTTE IMPLEMENTATION | General Scope. In 2019, more than 100 homicides occurred in Charlotte — an 80 percent increase over the previous year and the city's highest number of homicides since the early 1990s — and hospital emergency departments treated more than 4,000 Mecklenburg County residents for assault-related injuries. In response to the increase in violence, the City, Mecklenburg County and partners have adopted a new public health approach to prevent violent crime. The success of this project will rely on the selected community organizations and other stakeholders mobilizing community members against shootings and homicides. Program Overview: Violence Interruption is a unique, interdisciplinary, public health approach to violence prevention and an adaptation of the Cure Violence Model (CVM). The philosophy of CVM maintains that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods. Violence Interruption works primarily with high-risk youth, aged 14 to 25, through regular individual interactions, conflict mediation, and community mobilization. Using proven public health techniques, the model focuses to prevent violence through a three-prong approach:Identification & Detection: Violence Interruption is a data-driven model. Through a combination of statistical information and street knowledge, staff identify where to concentrate efforts, focus resources, and intervene in violence. This data guides staff to communities most impacted by violence. It provides a picture of those individuals at the highest-risks for violence and shows staff how to intervene.Interruption, Intervention, & Risk Reduction: Violence Interruption staff intervene in crises, mediate disputes between individuals, and intercede in group disputes to prevent acts of violence. Staff are experienced and well-trained professionals from the communities they represent. These individuals must have credibility and strong reputations in the community. This is often due to having similar lived experience to the individuals they seek to work with. Staff understand who holds the influence in communities and who they need to engage to de-escalate situations before an act of violence occurs. Most program participants are beyond the reach of traditional social support systems. They have dropped out of school, exhausted social services or aged out, and many have never held a legitimate job. Often these individuals next encounter with the system results in incarceration or a victim of violence.Change Behaviors & Norms: Violence Interruption staff work to change the thinking on violence at both the community-level and the society at-large. For disproportionately impacted communities, violence has come to be accepted as an appropriate—even expected—way to solve conflicts. Violence Interruption staff provide tools, at the street level, to resolve conflicts in alternative ways. Violence Interruption looks to shift the discourse toward the view of violence as a disease and placing the emphasis on finding solutions to end this epidemic." | 600 E. 4th Street , Charlotte, NC 28202, NC 28202 | 1000000 |