Explanation
BACKGROUND
The need exists to enter into a new contract with The Research Foundation of the City University of New York on behalf of the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) at John Jay College to work directly with the Mayor's Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) team and other Columbus officials and community leaders to advance the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) implementation and strengthen police legitimacy.
Through regular strategic advising, NNSC will support Columbus' efforts to increase the number and regularity of custom notifications to get the GVI message out and effectively decrease group violence.
NNSC staff will provide:
1. Strategic advising: NNSC will continue to provide strategic advising to guide key Columbus partners and stakeholders; including the city administration, law enforcement partners (e.g., police, probation and parole, and prosecutors), social service providers, and community leaders, in shifting the way they share information, work toward the common goal of public safety, deliver antiviolence messaging, follow through with services as promised, and execute formal or informal sanctions as needed to reduce violence. This strategic advising will be structured with the specific intention of developing accountability processes and mechanisms that empower the project manager and other local operational partners to ultimately own fidelity of the implementation.
2. Site visits to Columbus: NNSC will conduct one site visit to Columbus (in addition to the above-mentioned executive site visit) to meet local stakeholders and support a group audit refresh, including training local partners to conduct group audits going forward. This visit will include two NNSC staff members and will last for approximately three days.
3. Peer support and collaborative learning opportunities: The experience of the NNSC team indicates that practitioners are more likely to embrace innovation when they learn about it from their peers. As...
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