WORKSHOP SESSION: PLANNING COMPREHENSIVELY TO PREVENT VIOLENCE San Francisco November 18, 2011 Junious Williams, CEO Urban Strategies Council © Urban Strategies Council 2011 THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION CONFERENCE ON VIOLENCE PREVENTION © Urban Strategies Council 2011

 ABOUT URBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL  VIOLENCE PREVENTION APPROACH  VIOLENCE PREVENTION MODELS  CURRENT PROJECTS AND FOCUS  SAMPLES OF DATA TOOLS  STATUS AND CHALLENGES © Urban Strategies Council 2011 OVERVIEW OVERVIEW

About Urban Strategies Council  Community building, support and advocacy organization  Our mission is to eliminate persistent poverty by working with partners to transform low-income neighborhoods into vibrant, healthy communities Economic Opportunity Research, Evaluation & Technology Education Excellence Community Safety & Justice Community Capacity Building

 COMPREHENSIVE, PLACE-BASED INTEGRATED, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY BUILDING  DATA-DRIVEN PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING  EQUITY AS A GUIDING PRINCIPLE AND OUTCOME  LEVERS OF CHANGE (economic development, health and safety, education and human capital development)  PROCESSES OF CHANGE (collaboration, engagement, organizing/base-building) © Urban Strategies Council 2011 VIOLENCE PREVENTION APPROACH VIOLENCE PREVENTION APPROACH

 PREVENTION INSTITUTE’S UNITY FRAMEWORK  FULL SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AND PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS  COLLECTIVE IMPACT © Urban Strategies Council 2011 VIOLENCE PREVENTION MODELS

 Alameda County Violence Prevention Blueprint Implementation  Alameda County Reentry Network  Oakland Police Department Spatial Analysis for Intelligent and Community Policing  The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities and Boys and Men of Color Initiatives  Oakland and Alameda County Full Service Community Schools, Oakland Promise Neighborhoods © Urban Strategies Council 2011 VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROJECTS

 resources/unity-roadmap.html  Organized by Partnerships, Prevention, and Strategy, there are nine Roadmap elements, each selected for its importance in affecting and sustaining efforts to prevent violence before it occurs. © Urban Strategies Council 2011 PREVENTION INSTITUTE’S Urban Networks to Improve Thriving Youth (UNITY)

© Urban Strategies Council 2011 UNITY RoadMap-9 Elements 1. Who: Partnerships High-Level Leadership Coalition & Staffing Community Engagement 2. What: Prevention Programs, Practices & Policy Communication Training & Capacity Building 3. How: Strategy Strategic Plans Data & Evaluation Funding

WHO does it take to prevent violence before it occurs? Partnerships PREVENTING VIOLENCE is a collaborative top-down (high-level leadership) -- bottom-up (community engagement) venture. In the middle is an interdisciplinary coalition and ongoing attention from dedicated staffing. © Urban Strategies Council 2011 UNITY Roadmap

WHAT does it take to prevent violence before it occurs? Prevention PREVENTING VIOLENCE addresses multiple underlying contributors (risk and resilience/protective factors) through programs, practices, and policy. These efforts can be strengthened by persuasive communication that makes a case for prevention and training and capacity building to ensure that people have the necessary and skills to support successful implementation. © Urban Strategies Council 2011 UNITY Roadmap

© Urban Strategies Council 2011 UNITY Roadmap HOW can we maximize and sustain efforts to prevent violence before it occurs? Strategy. STRATEGY leads to better outcomes by promoting approaches that are well coordinated, responsive to local needs and concerns, and build on best practices and existing strengths. Further, the process of strategy development builds a shared understanding and commitment and enables participants to establish working relationships. Strategic plans and ongoing implementation should be informed by data and evaluation and have adequate funding.

WHAT does it take to prevent violence before it occurs? Prevention PREVENTING VIOLENCE addresses multiple underlying contributors (risk and resilience/protective factors) through programs, practices, and policy. These efforts can be strengthened by persuasive communication that makes a case for prevention and training and capacity building to ensure that people have the necessary and skills to support successful implementation. © Urban Strategies Council 2011 UNITY Roadmap

© Urban Strategies Council 2011 ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT A LIFETIME COMMITMENT TO VIOLENCE PREVENTION: THE ALAMEDA COUNTY BLUEPRINT

 PROGRAM AND SERVICE PRIORITIES  RISK AND RESILIENCY  OUTCOMES © Urban Strategies Council 2011 ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT

 © Urban Strategies Council 2011 ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT ALAMEDA COUNTY VIOLENCE PREVENTION BLUEPRINT

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ALAMEDA BLUEPRINT IMPLEMENTATION PRIORITIES 1.PLACE-BASED APPROACHES 2.VIOLENCE PREVENTION TRAINING FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS 3.REENTRY FROM INCARCERATION 4.COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES AND TOOLS

  © Urban Strategies Council 2011 DATA TOOLS

3 Main Components: 1.Content Management System (Blog) 2.Open Data Warehouse 3.Web-Mapping/Data Visualization site © Urban Strategies Council 2011 InfoAlamedaCounty

© Urban Strategies Council 2011 InfoAlamedaCounty Our third generation data warehouse and mapping platform builds an application that utilizes open data

© Urban Strategies Council 2011 InfoAlamedaCounty How to find information? We all do not understand data in the same way.

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OAKLAND GOOD NEWS- WE HAVE MOST OF THE COMPONENTS OPERATING IN OAKLAND, BAD NEWS- WE LACK UNIFIED LEADERSHIP, COORDINATION, VISIBILITY/PRIORITY, ADEQUATE FUNDING AND PUBLIC WILL TO NOT TOELRATE VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY ALAMEDA COUNTY GOOD NEWS- CONTINUING COMMITMENT FROM BOS PRESIDENT MILEY AND NEW, PROGRESSIVE AGENCY LEADERSHIP; BAD NEWS- ECONOMIC CLIMATE HAS REDUCED FUNDING, © Urban Strategies Council 2011 STATUS OF VP N OAKLAND AND ALAMEDA COUNTY

 CONVINCING PUBLIC AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE THAT UNCONTROLLABLE SPENDING TO REPAIR THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE IS BAD PUBLIC POLICY WHEN COMPARED TO INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND PLACE TO PREVENT VIOLENCE © Urban Strategies Council 2011 CHALLENGE OF WORK IN OAKLAND AND ALAMEDA COUNTY