OJJDP's State and Community Development Invited Awards program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program has been authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice.
The Baltimore City Health Department will use FY14 State and Community Development Invited funds to increase Baltimore's Safe Streets initiative from four to five community sites working to reduce the incidence of violent crime, change community norms, provide alternatives to violence, and reduce exposure to community violence in the City of Baltimore.
Safe Streets Baltimore uses an interdisciplinary, data-driven public health approach to violence prevention. A replication of the Cure Violence model, Safe Streets Baltimore maintains that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods and proven public health techniques. Safe Streets aims to prevent violence through a three-prong approach: 1) Identification and Detection, 2) Interruption, Intervention, and Risk Reduction, and 3) Changing Behavior and Norms. Through a combination of statistical information and street knowledge, Safe Streets Baltimore has the capacity to identify where to concentrate efforts, focus resources, and intervene in violence.
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