- The Biden White House praised the “$50 million in Community Violence Intervention programs” included in the omnibus funding bill that passed Congress in the final days of last year.
- The newly elected mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, Craig Greenberg, pledged to expand the city’s community violence intervention program now that he’s in office, lauding it as a vital component of his plan to make Louisville a safer city.
- The Medical University of South Carolina has launched a new community violence intervention program with the goal of “reducing overall crime in identified hot spots, reducing interpersonal violence, reducing gun violence and reducing gang participation.” The program also provides targeted assistance—including “food, clothes, shelter, therapy and education”—to people at high-risk of being a perpetrator or victim of gun violence.
