Philadelphia and Temple University Resources
In this ARCvi section, we have organized CVI-related resources from organizations, institutions, and agencies in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania region. The resources include local CVI and HVIP programs, training resources, as well as gun violence data dashboards and interactive violent crime maps.
Philadelphia Focus
What You’ll Find Here
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Gun Violence Dashboards
Interactive data tools tracking shootings, trends, and outcomes across cities and neighborhoods over time.
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Community-Based Violence Intervention Programs
Street outreach and credible messenger models that interrupt conflict before it escalates into gunfire.
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Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
Bedside engagement that reaches survivors at the moment when connection to services matters most.
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Partnerships & Coalitions
Networks coordinating agencies, hospitals, and community organizations around a shared approach to violence reduction.
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Videos & Webinars
Pre-recorded sessions covering program models, data practices, and lessons from the field.
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Gun Violence Dashboards
The City of Philadelphia Office of the Controller
This interactive tool lets users explore fatal and nonfatal shootings across the city and view patterns over time using up-to-date data with only a two-day lag. It allows users to map individual shooting locations, view a heat map showing the density of shootings, and identify hotspots at the street-block level going back to 2015.
https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-reports/mapping-gun-violence
PERFORM Reports
A product of Independent Variable Consulting, PERFORM Reports is a data reporting platform created by Adam Serlin’s firm Independent Variable to help mission-driven organizations access clearer, more actionable information from public datasets. The tool can be used o support performance management, trend tracking, and community-centered decision-making through interactive reports and dashboards. At the current time, PERFORM Reports is loaded with fatal and nonfatal shooting data and these can be explored across multiple spatial scales, from zip codes and neighborhoods down to street-block grids. Graphs and charts can be directly imported into PowerPoint slides.
Injury Prevention Program
Injury Prevention is part of the Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. The Injury Prevention Program website includes a shooting victims dashboard.
Philadelphia Police Department
Philadelphia Police Department website includes a Crime Data dashboard with homicide rates and an Interactive Map to search by police district or neighborhoods.
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting connects gun violence prevention scholars, journalists, and impacted communities to advance empathetic, ethical, and impactful gun violence reporting. The PCGVR website includes a Philadelphia shooting victims dashboard.
The Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office
The Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office website includes a Future Years of Incarceration dashboard on incarceration rates by year according to the types of offenses. The Philadelphia DAOs website also houses the Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab that includes data reports, research, and other resources related to the Philadelphia criminal justice system.
Everytown
Everytown for Gun Safety is a gun violence prevention organization that works across the United States in government advocacy, gun laws and policy, education, and research and data. The Everytown for Gun Safety website houses a Gun Homicide Citi-level Dashboard including for the City of Philadelphia, and Gun Homicide Dashboard Toolkit.
Community-Based Violence Intervention Programs
Philadelphia CeaseFire
The Philadelphia CeaseFire program works within select neighborhoods in the 22nd 39th Police Districts of Philadelphia. The program consists of five core components: 1) community mobilization, 2) youth outreach, 3) public education, 4) leadership involvement, and 5) criminal justice participation. The Philadelphia CeaseFire website includes program information.
University of Pennsylvania
The Penn Community Violence Prevention (PCVP) provides trauma-informed violence intervention services in the community and schools in the West and Southwest Philadelphia areas. The website provides information on program details and a guide for finding resources such as legal services, food, housing, and support.
The New Kensington Development Corporation
The New Kensington Development Corporation (NKCDC) is a community-driven nonprofit that provides a range of services in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington, Port Richmond, and Fishtown. The Cure Violence Kensington program adopts the Cure Global Violence model in the Kensington neighborhood.
Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH) Philly
Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH) Philly is a Black-led, community-based nonprofit that works with youth who have been impacted by violence, especially those labelled as having violent histories. YEAH Philly works with youth ages 15 to 24 in the West and Southwest neighborhoods of Philadelphia focusing on conflict mediation, safe spaces, case management, court advocacy, skill building and more. A YEAH Philly evaluation report is available.
Additional CVIs and HVIPs
Injury Prevention Program is part of the Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. The Injury Prevention Program is dedicated to promoting evidence-based violence reduction approaches, safe storage of firearms, monitoring and studying the factors that contribute to violence and injury. The Injury Prevention Program website includes links to various Philadelphia-based CVI and HVIP programs, documents related to the City of Philadelphia’s violence prevention efforts and gun control policies.
Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
Temple University
The Temple Safety Net at the Temple University Hospital is comprised of several gun violence reduction initiatives. The Trauma Victim Support Advocates, known as TVAP, is a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP) that offers 24-hour support to patients who are treated in the Emergency Department or admitted to the trauma service for a crime-related injury. The Recovery, Empowerment, Advocacy, and Community Healing (REACH) program is a complementary program that provides community-based outreach, mentoring, crisis response, safety support, and connections to needed services. In partnership with TVAP, REACH receives warm handoffs for gunshot and other violently injured patients and continues supporting them in the community after discharge. REACH also works closely with violently-injured hospital patients who have open criminal legal cases to support their short- and long-term recovery needs.
Other violence prevention resources originating at Temple Hospital include the following: Cradle to the Grave is a 2-hour program for young people that offers a behind-the-scenes looks at the realities of firearm injury. Fighting Chance is a community-based program provides first aid skills to residents of communities suffering from high rates of violence. The Safe Bet program offers free cable gun locks to Philadelphia families that have small children and firearms. The Temple Safety Net website includes an upcoming events calendar.
University of Pennsylvania
The Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program (PTVRP) is an HVIP housed at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. The website includes program details, impact reports, and a guide for finding resources such as legal services, food, housing, and support.
Violence Intervention and Prevention Program
The Violence Intervention and Prevention Program (VIPP) is a partnership between The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth and Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic. VIPP is a hospital and community-linked violence intervention and prevention program.
Additional CVIs and HVIPs
Injury Prevention Program is part of the Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. The Injury Prevention Program is dedicated to promoting evidence-based violence reduction approaches, safe storage of firearms, monitoring and studying the factors that contribute to violence and injury. The Injury Prevention Program website includes links to various Philadelphia-based CVI and HVIP programs, documents related to the City of Philadelphia’s violence prevention efforts and gun control policies.
Partnerships and Collaborations
City of Philadelphia
The Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Coalition
The Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Coalition, led by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, brings together a group of representatives from anti-violence organizations in Philadelphia. The goal of the Coalition is to decrease rates of gun violence in Philadelphia by facilitating greater depth and scope of practice in community violence intervention in Philadelphia for people and places at greatest risk for gun violence.
To get connected to the CVI Coalition, please contact our CVI Coalition Coordinator, Betty Mulugeta,(betty.mulgeta@phila.gov)
Philadelphia Violence Reduction Council (VRC)
Violence Reduction Councils (VRC) are a data-driven model to prevent gun violence within cities that bring together criminal justice, public health, social service agencies, and community-based organizations working in violence prevention. The Philadelphia VRC, led by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, facilitates a coordinated system of violence prevention across the city through: Cross-sector case reviews of fatal and nonfatal firearm injury, City and community partner engagement, accountability and collaboration, and implementation of data-driven policy and practice changes that address the key drivers of violence.
To get connected to the Philadelphia VRC, please contact the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s VRC Coordinator, Marissa Perrico,(marissa.perrico@phila.gov)
Office of Re-Entry Partnerships
The Office of Re-Entry Partnerships is dedicated to supporting justice involved individuals with resources, training, and referrals with the goals of reducing recidivism, promoting community reintegration, and enhancing the opportunities of formerly incarcerated individuals. The Office of Re-Entry Partnerships website includes program overviews, contact information, and an event calendar.
Impact Services
Impact Services is a community-based organization in the Kensington area that focused supporting individuals in areas of justice involved re-entry, employment, stable housing, and trauma-informed community building to address safety and well-being, as well as having their own Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). Connected Community is a trauma informed community-engagement program with a toolkit.
The Violence Prevention Hotline
The Violence Prevention Hotline is a partnership between the United Way and the City of Philadelphia’s 211 Helpline services to provide 24/7 real-time support and to connect to violence prevention services, including crisis intervention and youth programs.
Violence Intervention Collaborative
Asset Mapping website [under construction]
Temple University
Community Gateway
The Community Gateway at Temple University is a one-stop resource for community members of Philadelphia to connect with a variety of services through Temple and its community and government partners. The Community Gateway is a collaboration across Temple University departments, Centers, and Institutes to offer community-facing services and resources. Services for individuals, families, and children include job training, youth engagement, academic enrichment, and adult education. To connect to services, fill out a brief form and a member of the Gateway team will contact you and serve as a resource navigator.
Temple University Collaborative
The Temple University Collaborative center is a collaboration between researchers, policymakers, care providers and individuals who have lived experience with serious mental health issues. Key aims of the Temple University Collaborative are to address obstacles, develop resources and supports, and expand the range of opportunities for people with psychiatric disabilities to participate in their communities. The Collaborative has developed Re-entry resources for supporting individuals with serious mental health illnesses who are reintegrating into the community after incarceration. The Center for Community Inclusion and Reflective Collaboration (CIRC Center), housed at the Collaborative, focuses young adults with serious mental health conditions from marginalized and underserved backgrounds.
Videos & Webinars
Evidence-Based Prevention and Intervention Support
The Evidence-Based Prevention and Intervention Support (EPIS) is hosted by the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State. EPIS provides technical assistance to county agencies, school districts and community organizations across Pennsylvania. The website includes training videos on program implementation, evaluation, and sustainability.