Communities Partnering 4 Peace led by the MPInitiatives is one of many violence prevention efforts across the city working to address the sharp increase in gun violence that Chicago, along with other major cities, experienced during the pandemic.
It was while Billy Deal was releasing music as “Bo Deal” — a career that led him to work with artists like Waka Flocka and Chief Keef — that street outreach work started to fall into his lap, he said.“I started bringing artists to the hood, just motivating the kids in the hood, giving them words of encouragement,” Deal said. “I didn’t come to them in a corporate way or talk to them in a way that was above them. I met them where they were at.
Today, Deal works as a field manager at Metropolitan Peace Initiatives, where he helps coordinate with street outreach workers and organizations on the West Side to help facilitate a collaborative, citywide violence prevention effort called Communities Partnering 4 Peace, or CP4P. Teny Gross, executive director of Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, says the partnership means there’s a network of outreach workers, victim advocates and case managers who can communicate with each other to help resolve conflicts that occur across neighborhoods.
attempt to prevent violence from occurring through intervention methods like de-escalating tension and mediating interpersonal conflictsat Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research finds the number of fatal and non-fatal gunshot injuries of outreach participants across CP4P organizations was 20% lower in the 18 months following participation.
The shooting occurred in South Chicago, which is one of the neighborhoods that Galvan now oversees in her work as field manager.
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