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City's new community-violence prevention manager outlines plan to coordinate interventions and measure impact
Summary
Sanithia White, Community Violence Prevention Manager, described efforts to connect intervention providers, build organizational capacity and develop data-driven metrics; she proposed hiring a services liaison and a family services specialist to improve continuity of care and help organizations document outcomes.
Sanithia White, Community Violence Prevention Manager for the City of Newport News, briefed the council on April 8 about work to coordinate the city's community violence intervention (CVI) ecosystem and to develop data-driven measures of program impact.
White described CVI as "connecting those who have the closest relationships to those who are or present the greatest risk of being impacted by violence or those who are already actively engaged in violence." Her goal is to strengthen organizational capacity, streamline referrals and establish…
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