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Board directs $5 million referral, moves to create office to coordinate county violence-prevention efforts
Summary
Public health presented a countywide community violence prevention strategic plan and the Board referred a $5 million fund and the proposal to create an Office of Violence Prevention to the 2025-26 budget process; the board also approved integration of the South County Youth Task Force into the effort and directed staffing for community outreach.
Dr. Sarah Cody, County Health Officer and Director of the Public Health Department, presented a countywide Community Violence Prevention Strategic Plan on Feb. 4 that inventories existing county investment and recommends a coordinated public-health-led infrastructure.
The presentation summarized an interdepartmental review showing roughly $740 million in annual county investment across multiple departments, the majority financed from county general fund sources. The department reported that about 17% of current investments are in primary prevention (upstream efforts), while most funding is spent on secondary and tertiary responses (post-incident services). Public Health recommended building coordinated capacity: an Office of Violence Prevention, a flexible Community Violence Prevention Fund and a data-and-evaluation infrastructure to target…
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