VIP Neighborhood Lead Agencies

The Mission of the VIP Initiative is to prevent violence through building and sustaining strong communities where residents are knowledgeable about the root causes of violence and empowered to address them. VIP seeks to reduce community gun violence in city neighborhoods through increased mobilization of community-based organizations and neighborhood residents, increased coordination of city agencies, and increased knowledge of city resources in those neighborhoods.  Through this community engagement and activation approach to violence prevention, VIP Coalitions work to shift the expectation of violence and to address persistent social, environmental and systemic issues that contribute to elevated levels of violent incidents.