Design Elements

Collaborate with community stakeholders to build trust and help communities heal after experiencing trauma.

Maintain relationships with neighborhood associations, schools, faith-based groups, and other community partners.

Develop effective collaborative partnerships though strategic messaging and continuous communication.

Violence prevention and intervention with adult and juvenile high-risk offenders is key to sustaining violent crime reductions.

Partner with community stakeholders and service providers to address specific violent crime issues, including domestic violence, reentry, at-risk youth, and victim support.

Understand the problem by analyzing and identifying violent crime drivers and obtaining community input.

Leverage technology with a Crime Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC) or the ATF’s National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN).

Develop evidence-based strategies to address the problem in a Target Enforcement Area (TEA).

Acquire a research partner to support with the quantitative and qualitative requirements.

Collect data and develop metrics to understand the impact of strategies, including the extent to which they reduced violent crime.

Conduct on-going assessment and evaluation.