15PBJA24GK03118CVIP

Cure Violence Global (CVG) and its project partners, Cities United, First Degree Consulting, and Roca Impact Institute, are joining together to provide comprehensive community violence intervention (CVI) and organizational capacity needs assessment, training, technical assistance (TTA), organizational capacity building, and subawards to five community-based organizations (CBOs) seeking to implement or already implementing the CVG community violence intervention (CVI) approach and Roca's Rewire Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT).

They are targeting communities that have been historically underserved and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization in Charlottesville, Virginia and Gainesville, Florida.

Additionally, the project will employ a community health development framework (CDH) to engage multisector stakeholders in a comprehensive community-driven coalition-building and strategic planning to develop and implement a CVI framework in each locale to ensure that CVI strategies are locally tailored and successfully and sustainably implemented.

The goals of the project are to: increase CBOs capacity to implement, financially support, and sustain CVI strategies; increase collective community capacity to implement and sustain evidence-based CVI strategies; decrease the incidence of violence through the implementation of evidence-based CVI strategies, tailored to each community's context; and increase the availability of tools and resources for implementing CVI strategies, with the ultimate goal of preventing and reducing violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community violence intervention and prevention programs.

Cure Violence Global

THE COMMUNITY BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION INITIATIVE (CVIPI) SEEKS TO PREVENT AND REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME IN COMMUNITIES BY SUPPORTING COMPREHENSIVE, EVIDENCE-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS, INCLUDING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GANG AND GUN VIOLENCE, BASED ON PARTNERSHIPS AMONG COMMUNITY RESIDENTS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, VICTIM SERVICE PROVIDERS, COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, HOSPITALS, RESEARCHERS, AND OTHER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS. BJA ADMINISTERS OJP'S CVIPI, WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION (OJJDP) AND THE OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME (OVC). THIS COLLABORATIVE APPROACH HELPS ENSURE JURISDICTIONS HAVE ACCESS TO THE EXPERTISE TO ADDRESS COMMUNITY VIOLENCE THAT INVOLVES CHILDREN, YOUTH, YOUNG ADULTS, AND ADULTS, BOTH AS THE INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR PERPETRATING THIS VIOLENCE AND THOSE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF IT. AS APPROPRIATE, AWARDS MADE UNDER THIS SOLICITATION MAY BE MANAGED BY BJA, OJJDP, OR OVC DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF THE FUNDED PROJECT. THIS SOLICITATION WILL SEEK APPLICATIONS IN FOUR CATEGORIES: LOCAL OR TRIBAL CVI PROJECTS LED BY (1) COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (CBOS) OR (2) LOCAL GOVERNMENT; (3) STATE GOVERNMENTS COORDINATING CVI STRATEGIES ACROSS ONE OR MORE LOCALITIES; AND (4) REGIONAL OR NATIONAL INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING TO PROVIDE INTENSIVE TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, OVERSIGHT AND SUBAWARDS TO BUILD LOCAL CBO CAPACITY.

16.045 - Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) [DOJ - OJP]

Chicago, Illinois 60602 United States

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BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based (O-BJA-2024-172063)

Termination This cooperative agreement was reported as terminated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in July 2025. See All