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Springfield initiative wins $1.6 million federal grant to launch community violence intervention
Summary
City commissioners heard a presentation on a community-based violence intervention (CVI) plan funded by a $1.6 million Bureau of Justice Assistance grant, with implementation planned over the next 18 months and a call for community partners to help reach youth in three high-incident census tracts.
Springfield commissioners heard a presentation on a federally funded community violence intervention initiative that secured $1.6 million to support research, planning and initial activities aimed at reducing gun violence.
The presentation, delivered by Caleb Perkins, the gun violence prevention coordinator for the initiative, laid out a data-driven plan focused on youth and on concentrated neighborhoods: “As a result of those efforts, the group was able to secure $1,600,000 in federal funds,” Perkins told the commission.
The money comes from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) grant program, awarded to a coalition of local stakeholders. Perkins said the Opportunity Industrialization Center (OIC) of Clark County was selected to submit the…
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