1. City of New Orleans
December 10, 2012

2. New Orleans Working Session Team
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, NOHD
Jonathan Bertsch, KIPP New Orleans Schools
Roxanne Franklin, Mayor’s Innovation Delivery Team
Chris Gunther, NOHD
Johnetta Pressley, Office of Criminal Justice Coordination
Shane Jones, USAO
Tyronne Walker, Mayor’s Innovation Delivery Team
Commander Kim Williams, NOPD

3. New Orleans’ murder rate has been 7-8x the national average for over 30 years

4. Mayor Landrieu: “You can never be happier than your saddest child…It is our responsibility to fix this problem.”

5. “New Orleans middle-school students describe high rates of depression” Times-Picayune, December 3, 2012

6. NOLA FOR LIFE Stop the Shootings Invest in Prevention
Promote Jobs and Opportunities
Get Involved and Rebuild Neighborhoods
Improve the NOPD

7. Embracing the Public Health Approach

8. What does the public health approach bring to the table?
Focus on prevention: preventing violence before it occurs
Data-driven: targeting risk and protective factors
Collaborative: building multi-disciplinary partnerships
Population-based: situating the individual within the larger societal framework

9. Goals
Engage youth, parents, and community stakeholders in the planning process.
Support existing initiatives under the NOLA for Life plan.
Expand the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs.
Coordinate interagency information sharing.

10. Engage youth, parents, and community stakeholders in the planning process
Creating the infrastructure to sustain youth voice
Community listening sessions
Building relationships with community partners

11. Support existing initiatives under the NOLA for Life plan
“Flip the Script” public awareness campaign
Family violence prevention in WIC clinics
CeaseFire New Orleans (Gary Slutkin model)
Group Violence Reduction Strategy (David Kennedy model)
Schools trauma response initiative

12. Expand the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs
Coordinating existing resources
Positive behavior interventions and supports
Character education and social and emotional learning
Drug and alcohol prevention programs

13. Coordinate interagency information sharing
Collecting data relevant to youth violence
Information sharing agreements
Building analytic capacity
Using data to drive implementation

14. Challenges Deeply ingrained culture of violence
Extremely high rates of trauma and associated mental health disorders
Need to work with schools on a “bottom up” approach
Historic distrust of public process
Recent cuts to mental health services
Little data on youth violence and related risk factors

15. Opportunities Committed high-level leadership
NOLA for Life: existing plan focusing on murder reduction
NFYVP: opportunity to focus on prevention earlier in the life course
Education reform movement
Strong support from community partners
Health Department’s transformation toward integrated health, human, and social services