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Sasha Cotton, Director Erin Sikkink, Public Health Specialist Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention

Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention Time Line

January 2019 The Office of Violence Prevention is established by City budget process June, 2019 Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention Fund grantees received awards July, 2019 Sasha Cotton is named Director of the Office of Violence Prevention September 2019 Beginning of Official Strategic Planning with Cities United and New Director November 2019 Josh Peterson is named Manager of the Office of Violence Prevention December 2019 Data Collection to inform the Office of Violence Prevention began

The Public Health Approach – Formal Definition

The public health approach to violence prevention is systematic and scientific, typically incorporating these four steps.

Define the Problem Identify Risk and Protective Factors Develop and Test Prevention Strategies Assure Widespread Adoption

Risk Factors

High level of transiency Involvement with drugs, alcohol, or tobacco Low parental involvement Low commitment to school and school failure Exposure to violence and conflict in the family Diminished economic

• pportunities
• Risk factors can

increase the likelihood that a person will experience harm or engage in violence

Protective Factors

Skills for realistic planning Commitment to school Connectedness to family or adults outside the family Involvement in social activities Parental/family use of constructive strategies for coping with problems

• Protective factors can

decrease the potential harmful effects of a risk factor or the likelihood that someone will engage in violence

Positive social

• rientation

A Word on Risk and Protective Factors…

• The presence of risk factors does not automatically mean

someone will behave violently or experience violence

• The presence of protective factors does not necessarily

automatically protect against experiencing violence or behaving violently

Public Health Approach – Violence is Preventable

• Violence is not inevitable
• Like other communicable

diseases, we can protect against, prevent, and treat violence

Public Health Approach – Many Factors

• Social conditions matter
• Violence is not just the actions
• f “bad” people
• The social-ecological model

considers interplay between all factors that put people at risk for

• r protect from experiencing or

perpetuating violence

Individual Relationship Community Societal

Source: CDC

Public Health Approach – Many factors

• Violence is often a cycle
• How do we support

individuals on a path toward healing and away from perpetuating violence they’ve experienced?

Public Health Approach – Many Approaches

Violence is multifaceted, so the solutions must be too.

Understanding Solutions: Upstream and Downstream

Upstream Downstream

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Approaches that take place

BEFORE

violence has occurred to lay groundwork that can prevent violence from emerging

Early intervention,

• ften at the first sign
• f risk or as a

response to an immediate to the threat of violence

Responses

AFTER

violence has occurred to deal with the lasting consequences and promote healing and restoration

Understanding Solutions: Prevention Continuum

Up Front In The Thick Aftermath

Understanding Solutions: Prevention Pyramid

Long-term response to violence

Tertiary Prevention

Early intervention or response to an immediate threat of violence Secondary Prevention

Approaches that take place before violence has occurred to prevent initial perpetration

• r victimization.

Primary Prevention

Lay the groundwork so violence does not

• emerge. Often involves

infusing activities into the fabric of society. Violence or associated risk factors are addressed in the early stages, perhaps before all symptoms are apparent.

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The Minneapolis Office of Violence Preveniton

Strategic Planning time line 2020

January Online Office

• f Violence

Prevention Survey is released February – April Office of Violence Prevention Focus Groups are conducted

April-May Office of Violence Prevention public reflection sessions are hosted April/YVP Soft launch of Office of Violence Prevention logo and plan April –June Strategic Plan document is developed

June- July Full launch of Office of Violence Prevention plan

Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention

Sasha Cotton

Director

Erin Sikkink, MPH

Public Health Specialist

April Graves

Public Health Specialist

Ellen Sheehy

AmeriCorps VISTA

Jean Sawyer

Program Assistant

Josh Peterson

Manager

Mikayla Ferg Gretchen Musicant

Commissioner of Health

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Next Step: Hospital-Based Violence Intervention

Next Step

Serving victims of violent assault treated at North Memorial or HCMC

• Credible messengers as Violence

Intervention Specialists

• Healing from more than just the

physical injury

• Narrative medicine approach
• Since 2016, nearly 400 participants
• Less than 7% have returned to NMHH
• r HCMC with same or similar injury

Interrupt

Interrupt the cycle of recurrent violence

Support

Support positive development and holistic healing for victims and families who are affected by violence

Reduce

Reduce the rate of violent re-injury/re- hospitalization for victims of violent assault

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Pathways to a New Beginning – Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office

Pathways to a New Beginning

• Alternative sentencing option for individuals

charged by MCAO and convicted of a gross misdemeanor gun offense

• Jail time and traditional probation did not work
• Recidivism was as high as 70% or more
• Many committed felony-level offenses
• Reduce recidivism through community-based

program to address risk factors and individual needs

• Partnership with Urban Ventures; 6 to 9

months of programming

• Recidivism to date has been 22.5% (n=7)
• Only 1 new gun offense

228 cases reviewed 84 ineligible 144 eligible 31 successfully graduated 13 unsuccessful terminations 45 enrolled and set to complete 25 declined program 30 awaiting case resolution

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Project LIFE (Group Violence Intervention)

Project LIFE (Group Violence Intervention)

• Group Violence Intervention is a

partnership of law enforcement, community members, and social service providers that directly engages the small and active number of people involved in violent street groups to deliver a credible moral message against violence

• Project LIFE is a 3 pronged

approach

Focused law enforcement Moral Engagement with offenders Community Moral Voice

Project LIFE - Impact

Year 2016 (GVI not yet implemented) 2017 2018 2019

Group Member Involved (GMI) Homicides 12 9 11 11 Non- GMI Homicides 9 11 1 14 Unknown Homicides 3 1

Gang Member Involved Non-Fatal 93 42 25 27

Non- GMI Non-Fatal Shootings 29 18 43 71 Unknown Non-Fatal Shootings 41 53 3 11

Shootings and Homicides For the Period May 4 – September 21 from 2016 to 2019

Project Life - Impact

• Over 230 total participant intakes belonging to over 35

gangs/groups/cliques since 2017

• 19 Project LIFE participants shot/involved in

shooting incidents

Safe

• 1 Project LIFE participant deceased

Alive

• Just 31 Project LIFE participant probation

violations

Free

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Intimate Partner Violence Intervention

Intimate Partner Violence Intervention

• Intimate partner violence (IPV) accounts for a large proportion of the calls

for service to MPD

• The effects of IPV are profoundly damaging to communities
• 2020 City budget allocated funds for the OVP to work with John Jay

College/National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) to lay the groundwork for an IPV intervention in Minneapolis

• Audit to better asses kind of intervention needed in Minneapolis

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Community Funding

OVP Funded Organizations

• A Mother's Love
• Art is My Weapon
• Domestic Abuse Project
• Growing North Minneapolis
• Guns Down Love Up
• Juxtaposition Arts
• Keeping My Focus
• Lao Center of Minnesota
• Man Up Club
• Minnesota Peacebuilding

Leadership Institute

• Pillsbury United

Communities

• The Camden Promise
• The Ostara Initiative
• YouthLink

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Blueprint Approved In Institute (B (BPAI)

• Capacity building initiative aimed at

strengthening community-based agencies’ ability to deliver effective and community- driven violence prevention work

• Achieved through trainings,

demonstration project funding, hands-on technical support, and establishment of a peer network.

BPAI

• Participation in BPAI lasts for 1 year.
• Organizations complete training sessions to build

capacity around hard and soft skills (grant-writing, evaluation, and fundraising skills and improve

• rganizational development).
• Upon completion, organizations receive a $6,000 grant

and implement a violence prevention program.

• Throughout, they receive hands-on support from MHD

staff and are engaged in a peer network with their fellow participants.

Thank you

Sasha Cotton Sasha.Cotton@minneapolismn.gov Erin Sikkink Erin.Sikkink@minneapolismn.gov