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The Office of Violence Prevention and Portland Ceasefire implemented a community violence intervention (CVI) strategy using a public health lens, formally adopting the Ceasefire strategy in June 2023. Core programs include Street Level Outreach, Intensive Case Management, hospital-based Healing Hurt People, Trauma and Violence Impacted Families, and Gun Violence Reduction grants. Additional initiatives include Safe Blocks (built environment improvements) and Rose City Self-Defense. Historical annual spending averaged $3.275M from 2019–2022, drawn from General Funds and supplementary grant sources.

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Portland Ceasefire and OVP formally adopted the Ceasefire strategy in June 2023 based on NICJR recommendation. (p. 1096)
Core interventions include Street Level Outreach (SLO), Intensive Case Management (ICM) grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, hospital-based Healing Hurt People (HHP), and Trauma and Violence Impacted Families (TVIF). (p. 1096)
Contracted Community-Based Organizations employ frontline workers with lived experience to implement CVI interventions. (p. 1096)
Safe Blocks Program implements place-based interventions in high-violence areas including lighting, murals, gardens, CPTED assessments, and community engagement. (p. 1096)
Rose City Self-Defense provides free self-defense classes and personal safety workshops to girls, women, LGBTQ+ community, and communities of color. (p. 1096)
Historical spending for OVP programs averaged approximately $3.275M annually from 2019–2022, funded by General Funds and supplementary grant sources. (p. 1096)
A significant minority of serious violence and homicide victims are unhoused; OVP has partnered with Street Services Coordination Center to develop culturally competent interventions for this population. (p. 1096)

💰 $3.275M · 📋 Street Level Outreach · Intensive Case Management · Healing Hurt People · Trauma and Violence Impacted Families · Gun Violence Reduction · Safer Portland · 🏛️ Office of Violence Prevention · Portland Ceasefire · Community Safety Division · Street Services Coordination Center

3. Certain locations seem particularly prone to community violence. Changing elements of the built environment can reduce the likelihood of violence.

Source: PDF p. 1096 · raw: 1096

Breadcrumb: 5 ps › OVP-Ceasefire-Budget-Note---Final › Response memo to FY2025 Budget Note: Budget and Reporting Structure Analysis for Office of Violence Prevention and Ceasefire › Overview of the Community Violence Intervention strategy › 3. Certain locations seem particularly prone to community violence. Changing elements of the built environment can reduce the likelihood of violence.

2 2. A significant minority of victims of serious violence and homicide are unhoused . The focus of current CVI programming is ill-equipped to serve the unhoused. Although a strong partnership has been developed with the Street Services Coordination Center to help address unhoused victims, there is a need to continue to build CVI-specific, culturally competent interventions focused at reducing this less structured violence. 3. Certain locations seem particularly prone to community violence. Changing elements of the built environment can reduce the likelihood of violence. The Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) and Portland Ceasefire, based on NICJR’s recommendation, developed a CVI approach using a public health lens that intentionally focuses on individuals at the highest risk of engaging in and perpetuating community and gun violence. This CVI approach embraces the implementation of national best practices, including formally 3 employing the Ceasefire strategy in June 2023. These national best practice interventions comprise Street Level Outreach (SLO) to contact and engage these high-risk individuals and connect them to long-term Intensive Case Management (ICM) services that are grounded in the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the hospital-based Healing Hurt People (HHP) program that connects with gunshot and other wounded victims directly in the hospital and provides them with long-term life coaching services, and the Trauma and Violence Impacted Families (TVIF) program to assist families following shooting incidents. These interventions are implemented by contracted Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) that employ frontline workers with lived experience. Additional community violence prevention programmatic components of OVP include the Gun Violence Reduction and Safer Portland grant programs, the Safe Blocks Program, and Rose City 4 Self-Defense . The Gun Violence Reduction and Safer Portland grant programs prioritize gun violence prevention efforts including mediation and mentoring, arts and cultural programming, and capacity building. The Safe Blocks Program focuses on areas suffering from historic disinvestment including high rates of both social vulnerability and gun violence by implementing place-based interventions and activities designed to reduce the impact of violent crime on public health, social well-being, and the local economy. Activities include installing increased lighting, street murals and community gardens, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) security assessments, and community engagement sessions. Rose City Self-Defense provides free empowerment-based self-defense classes and personal safety workshops to girls, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, with a focus on engaging communities of color, people with disabilities, folks with unstable housing, as well as safety for sex workers. Historical, spending for these programs has come from ongoing and one-time General Funds along with modest supplementary funding from local cost sharing and other grant sources, averaging roughly $3.275MM in spend annually from 2019-2022. Specially appropriated one-time 2 Information available through Ceasefire Shooting Reviews allow for the estimation of fatal and injury shooting victims identified as unhoused, based on knowledge gained by officers and detectives doing the investigations. 3 Ceasefire is a nationally recognized and data-driven CVI strategy that embraces a community-law enforcement partnership to prevent retaliatory gun violence by identifying the highest risk individuals for engaging in gun violence to connect them to essential services (i.e., Intensive Case Management) or enforcement interventions. 4 The Safe Blocks Program and Rose City Self-Defense moved to the Community Safety Division around the summer of 2022 and then formally moved under OVP in summer 2023. 3

Parent: Overview of the Community Violence Intervention strategy · PDF: p. 1096