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Champaign and Urbana expand city-funded violence-interruption program, post local street-outreach jobs
Summary
City and community partners described a city-funded Community Gun Violence Reduction Blueprint that officials say has coincided with a large drop in shootings; the plan includes five locally hired street-outreach positions trained by Aclavis and embedded funding in the city budget rather than a time-limited grant.
Champaign and Urbana officials and community partners described plans this month to expand a city-funded violence-interruption effort and hire local street-outreach workers as part of a multilayered strategy to prevent retaliatory and community gun violence.
Jorge Elvira, Community Relations Manager for the City of Champaign, said the Community Gun Violence Reduction Blueprint — rolled out in 2022 — has involved more than 30 partner organizations and has tied training, clinical services and rapid-response supports to police notifications of shootings. "Overall shootings, in 2021 ... were 259 incidents. Currently this year, we have 79 incidents," Elvira said, citing city data and describing what he…
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