Events
Webinar | Firearm Violence Prevention: Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Approaches
Date
August 21, 2024 02:00pm - 03:00pm
US/Eastern
Community violence interrupters are an emerging evidence-based strategy for Community Violence Intervention (CVI) and firearm violence prevention. Interrupters have relationships with the community and work to intervene, mediate, and deescalate often retaliatory cycles of violence. They are an on-the-ground, trusted presence and can be invaluable in mitigating community violence.
This webinar will explore strategies to engage interrupters in community violence prevention using real-world examples. A Director of Public Safety will discuss his experiences working with community partners to deescalate violence in his community of Chattanooga. Researchers also will speak to developing the evidence base around CVI and interrupters, as well as the value of community partnerships, including law enforcement.
Moderator: Phillip W. Graham, RTI International
Dr. Phillip W. Graham is a Principal Scientist with more than 20 years of experience conducting community-based research and evaluation. His research focuses on evaluating preventive interventions developed to reduce and prevent adolescent interpersonal violence and substance use.
Panelist: Troy Rogers, City of Chattanooga
Troy Rogers is the Director of Public Safety for the City of Chattanooga. He has 30 years of experience during which he has transformed the lives of countless individuals through his innovative approaches to building relationships and solving problems. He has run Chattanooga’s City Violence Reduction Initiative, creator of the Reentry Playbook, created the Juvenile Information Session, was a co-creator of the New Life Job Fair, came up with the “10 Commandments of Mentoring,” and has written multiple books related to crime and socioeconomic issues. He has a master’s degree in leadership from Belhaven, and a master’s degree in ethics from Johnson University.
Panelist: Stacy Sechrist, RTI International
Dr. Stacy Sechrist joined RTI in 2022. She has dedicated most of her professional career to the study of interpersonal violence and violent crime reduction. Her work has included partnerships with law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies at the state, local, and federal levels to provide research and training and technical assistance to help jurisdictions better understand current violent crime dynamics, and then to use data to develop and operationalize strategies to address violent crime and evaluate the impact of those strategies.
Panelist: Anna Yaros, RTI International
Dr. Anna Yaros is the Director of the Mental Health, Risk, and Resilience Program at RTI and has more than 12 years of experience in prevention and intervention research among children and adolescents. Dr. Yaros has substantive interest in risk and protective factors for a variety of youth risk behaviors—such as aggression, violence, delinquency, and substance use—measurement issues in youth risk behavior research, and evaluation of school and community-based prevention programming.
