Francisco Perez

Francisco Perez has worked in crisis/violence intervention programs for over 25 years.  Mr. Perez has three degrees including an MA in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago’s, School of Social Service Administration, a BA in Sociology fromNortheasternIllinoisUniversityand an AA fromMalcolmXCollege.  Most of Mr. Perez’s contributions to the violence prevention field have come from the work he has done with Dr. Irving Spergel on several gang intervention models.  He has worked with Dr. Spergel’s Crisis Reduction Intervention Services Program (CRISP), the Little Village Project and the Comprehensive National Youth Gang Model. 

For nine of last ten years, Mr. Perez has been the Director of Outreach Services for the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (CeaseFire).  This past year he became the National Project Director.  The CeaseFire program is a Public Health Violence Prevention Initiative out of theUniversityofIllinois’sSchoolofPublic Health.  At CeaseFire he is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the CeaseFire model in the city of Chicago, other Illinois communities and several national sites including Baltimore, Kansas City, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Newark.  Mr. Perez is a life long resident of the city ofChicagowho has devoted his life to violence prevention and the betterment of his people, community, city and country.