Fresno
Los
Angeles
Oakland
Oxnard
Richmond Sacramento
Salinas San
Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa
Rosa
Stockton
MISSION
STATEMENT
The
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
(NCCD) and the National League
of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education
and Families (YEF Institute) have
initiated a network of 13 major
cities
in California to combat gang
violence and victimization.
The
California Cities Gang Prevention Network,
the first of its kind in the
nation,
focuses on successful
policies and practices
that
interweave prevention,
intervention,
enforcement, and a community's
"moral voice"
as an alternative to
prison-only solutions.
CONTACT
US
Contact
Fabiana Silva at:
phone (510) 208-0500
x307
fax (510) 208-0511
email fsilva@sf.nccd-crc.org
1970
Broadway
Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
WHAT'S
NEW
An
overview of the Los Angeles
MART Program, which
deploys
children's social workers
with
law enforcement agencies
when they are called
to enter
homes and potentially
arrest
parents, and San Bernardino's
OperationPhoenix, a
collabor-
ative partnership that
provides
a coordinated, interagency,
multidisciplinary team
app-
roach to crime and violence
through prevention,
intervention,
and suppression strategies
in
targeted areas with
high-crime
and high-resource needs.
The 2nd California Cities
Gang
Prevention Network Points
Conference for all city
team
Points is coming up!
This two-
day conference will
be held on
October 29th and 30th,
2008 in
Berkeley, CA. Please
note that
this conference is not
open to
the public and only
registered
participants can attend.
FUNDING
The
California Cities Gang
Prevention Network is
funded by grants from
the
California Endowment,
the
The California Wellness
Foundation (TCWF), the
East Bay Community
Foundation, the Richmond
Children's Fund, and
the
Evelyn and Walter Haas,
Jr.
Fund.
The
California Endowment
is a private, statewide
health foundation created
in 1996 with a mission
to expand access to
affordable, quality
health
care for underserverd
indiv-
iduals and communities,
and to promote fundamental
improvements in the
health
status of all Californians.
Created
in 1992 as an
independent, private
found-
ation, TCWF's mission
is to
improve the health of
the
people of California
by
making grants for health
promotion, wellness
educa-
tion and disease prevention.
PROJECT
GOALS
To
get in front of the gang issue
before policies based
on fear divert
funds from essential
infrastructures
(e.g., schools, police,
services for
children and youth)
to corrections.
To
establish or improve collaboration
in each city that appropriately
blends
prevention, intervention,
and
suppression, and that
involves city
leaders and community
stakeholders.
To
identify and document city
responses to key program
and policy
questions (e.g., essential
approaches
to anti-gang efforts;
what doesn't
work; who must be involved,
etc.).
To
forge a vibrant peer-learning
network among 13 participating
cities.
To
identify state policy and practice
that would support effective
community practice.
