CeaseFire in Action in Baltimore, Chicago & New York

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.    

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The Power of the Third Party

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 [...]

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Larry Cohen, Executive Director of Prevention Institute, receives the Alex Kelter Vision Award

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 [...]

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Culture, Community & Contagion – Recap 3

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 [...]

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Institute of Medicine Workshop: Violence as a Contagion – Recap 2

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 [...]

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Institute of Medicine Workshop Considers Violence as a Contagion

Institute of Medicine Workshop Considers Violence as a Contagion It was clear from the opening remarks shared by Dr. Patrick Kelley, Director of Global Health for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) part of the National Academy of Sciences, that the two-day (April 30 – May 1, 2012) workshop was a historic event. IOM convened the [...]

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Congratulations to Eddie Bocanegra!

Congratulations to Eddie Bocanegra! CeaseFire would like to congratulate Eddie Bocanegra, Violence Interrupter and Northeastern Illinois University Graduate, Class of 2012! While Eddie has spent the past year speaking on violence prevention and his work at CeaseFire on college campuses nationwide as one of the stars of the award-winning film The Interrupters, he told audiences [...]

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Institute of Medicine on the Contagion of Violence

Institute of Medicine on the Contagion of Violence On April 30 – May 1, 2012, Dr. Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director of CeaseFire, has been selected as part of the planning committee for The Contagion of Violence: A Workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, the nation’s highest scientific forum and the health arm [...]

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Frontline Q&A: What’s Behind Chicago’s Homicide Spike?

Frontline Q&A: What’s Behind Chicago’s Homicide Spike? Last year, CeaseFire outreach workers in Chicago mediated 550 conflicts and the violence interrupters mediated 487. In 2011, we worked with 1151 high-risk youth and we organized about 20 peace summits in Chicago. We spent about 28,000 man-hours with 1,151 people that we work with on changing their [...]

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Surviving Our Streets, a UK-based CeaseFire replication

Surviving Our Streets, a UK-based CeaseFire replication Jason Featherstone, London-based youth worker with Safety Box, grew up in Tottenham, where riots erupted last summer. Now, he is working to bring CeaseFire to the UK with a new initiative, Surviving Our Streets.  Read more of Jason’s visit to the States, where he saw the CeaseFire model [...]

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