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CeaseFire uses a public health model to stop shootings and killings. We combine Science and Street Outreach to track where violence is heating up and then cool the situation down.

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CeaseFire in Action in Baltimore, Chicago & New York USA Today reporter Melanie Eversley spent time following CeaseFire- replication staff in Baltimore and New York to show the violence prevention model in action. See how CeaseFire gets results.    

The Power of the Third Party When conflicts arise the people in the thick of the action often think and behave differently than they would under normal circumstances.  They give in to emotion. They may become angry or even enraged.  They may feel a sense of competitiveness, a feeling that they will not allow themselves [...]

CeaseFire would like to congratulate Larry Cohen, Executive Director of Prevention Institute, for receiving the Alex Kelter Vision Award from the Safe States Alliance last week (Read more). Larry currently co-chairs Prevention Institute’s UNITY Initiative (Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth through Violence Prevention), a national initiative funded by the CDC and in part by [...]

Culture, Community & Contagion – Recap 3   Last week (April 30 – May 1) CeaseFire participated in a 2-day workshop on the Contagion of Violence convened in Washington DC by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences (read more). Over two dozen professionals and experts in a broad [...]

Institute of Medicine Workshop: Violence as a Contagion – Recap 2 On April 30, the first part of a 2-day workshop on the Contagion of Violence was convened in Washington DC by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences (read more). The IOM workshop brought together over two dozen [...]