We Need to Take Care of Each Other
The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in Richmond, Calif., is a non-law enforcement governmental agency whose sole purpose is to reduce gun violence using street outreach as a primary vehicle to deliver optimal and sustained gun violence reduction outcomes. As with most things in this country due to COVID-19, our work looks a little different. We are wearing masks, gloves
Advance Peace Change Agents Already Interrupting Epidemics Every Day in Hood
Julius Thibodeaux, program manager of Advance Peace Sacramento, and his team of neighborhood change agents, Dedrick Suggs, Ezell Humphrey Grant, Marcus McGhee, Clemmie Fields and Freddie Dearborne Jr. (sitting in white). Fresh shell casings are still scattered in the streets. Multiple sets of dice are still rolling like rocks in an avalanche. Bottles of liquor are still wet. Broken hearts
Advance Peace Statement on Reimaging Public Safety
Infusing Love into Public Policy, Infrastructure and Practice to Advance Peace In recent weeks, the prospect of defunding police departments has gained massive support. On Sunday, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council committed to dismantling and reimagining its public safety infrastructure, declaring that "efforts at incremental reform have failed." This is momentous, considering the fact that the Minneapolis Police
ADVANCE PEACE Street Outreach Work at the Intersection of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Communities
Greetings Advance Peace Partners, I hope that this finds you and your family well. I wanted to share a few things about how street outreach work designed for and directed at violence prevention and intervention within our most impacted communities is filling the COVID-19 response gap in under resourced neighborhoods. Trained, developed and appropriately resourced, Street Outreach Teams can be
Why Advance Peace and the Peacemaker Fellowship?
“To the extent that human needs are not satisfied, human dysfunction will occur, and, in order to remedy the human dysfunction, activity must developed and structured so as to be responsive to the unmet needs” —unknown Advance Peace is a very practical approach to disrupting gun violence in American urban neighborhoods. Advance Peace effectively equips those at the center of