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San Francisco Violence Prevention Planning Initiative

San Francisco Violence Prevention Planning Initiative. Working Toward SOLUTIONS A Community Dialogue. SOLUTIONS Community Dialogue. Agenda. Welcome and Introductions Guiding Principles for Today’s Conversation Overview of the Planning Process Challenges and Opportunities

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San Francisco Violence Prevention Planning Initiative

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  1. San Francisco Violence Prevention Planning Initiative Working TowardSOLUTIONS A Community Dialogue

  2. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Agenda • Welcome and Introductions • Guiding Principles for Today’s Conversation • Overview of the Planning Process • Challenges and Opportunities • Prioritizing the Community’s Need • Risk and Resilience Factors • Small Group Exercise: Identifying Solutions • Informing the priorities of the “Plan” • Map Solutions using the Spectrum of Prevention

  3. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Guiding Principles for Discussion • One speaker at a time • Comments are limited to two minutes • Respect opinions and observations • Agree to disagree but offer solutions • Support the flow of the dialogue

  4. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Overview of the Planning Process • Funded by a grant from UCSF • The goal is to develop a 3 - 5 year Violence Prevention Strategic Plan that will: • establish clear violence prevention strategies and policy priorities for the City, • create an infrastructure for collaboration between city agencies and with the community, • increase accountability for violence prevention outcomes, and • guide violence prevention programming and funding decisions for the city • UCSF grant gives 6 months to develop the Violence Prevention Plan

  5. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Overview of the Planning Process • Build on existing and previous SF violence prevention planning efforts: • Gang Free Communities, Prop A, Peace Agenda, SF Roadmap to Preventing Violence, IPV Strategic Plans, and others • Decision making structure includes city and community participation. • Partnership between UCSF, the Prevention Institute, and MOCJ

  6. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue The Planning Team • Howard Pinderhughes, PhD – UCSF professor, national expert on urban and youth violence, substantial work in San Francisco and Alameda County • Larry Cohen and Rachel Davis, MPH – acclaimed violence prevention strategists from the Prevention Institute • Maya Dillard Smith, MPP – Violence Prevention Planning Coordinator (MOCJ), veteran strategic and violence prevention planner • Tinisch Hollins – Community Outreach Liaison (MOCJ), lifelong San Francisco resident and champion community advocate on issues of public safety and violence prevention.

  7. City Administration (Mayor and Board of Supervisors.) Community Voice • Adopt plan and authorize funding requests for implementation • Youth • Survivors • Faith Community • Neighborhood Groups • Merchant Association • Medical Community • Residents • By district • By type of violence • Approximately 24 city departments and elected officials • 10-15 Community Reps • Guide, shape, and approve plan • Submit final plan to Mayor Leadership Council Planning WorkGroup • Engaged through a series of community dialogues • Inform program/policy priorities • Develop ideas forneighborhood planning councils and action plans SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Decision-Making Structure • A subset of the agencies and community members represented on the Leadership Council. • Have authority to act on behalf of their respective agencies and constituents to move the planning process forward. • Responsible for creating and ratifying the content of the plan.

  8. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Community Voice in Planning Process • Community reps serving on the Planning Workgroup and Leadership Council were nominated by community • Solutions Focused Community Dialogues throughout the City • Community Advisory Groups PURPOSE • Integrate your solutions into the plan • Create the foundation for developing neighborhood specific violence prevention plans

  9. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Challenges • Programming/funding • Good programs in place but violence still too high • Majority of programs and funding is focused on intervention • Most prevention programs are housed in one city department- DCYF • No coordinated funding strategy- each department goes at it alone • Strategy • There are many plans to address violence, but none of plans are coordinated to complement each other • No formal way to hold agencies accountable for outcomes Coordination/Collaboration • Mostly at grassroots level and/or on intervention or response • Lack of cohesive structure at city level or for city/community coordination

  10. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Opportunities Creating a foundation for a citywide plan will: • Inform the city’s violence prevention priorities to address community needs • Help create tools and instruments to increase accountability • Direct priorities and resources to develop neighborhood specific plans to address violence

  11. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Prioritizing the Community’s Need

  12. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Risk and Resilience Factors • RISK FACTORS are characteristics or circumstances that increase the likelihood of an individual, family, or community being affected by or perpetrating violence. The effects of risk violence are complex, interactive, and cumulative. • RESILIENCE FACTORS: The capacity to develop positively despite harmful environments and experiences is called resilience. Resilience factors are the “key ingredients” necessary for creating positive outcomes in individuals or communities.

  13. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Negative Factors • Poverty and Economic Disparity • Negative Family Dynamics • Illiteracy and Truancy (educational disparities, lack of school based social programs) • Community deterioration • Lack of trust in system--disempowering institutional practices • Discrimination and oppression • Access to firearms • Experiencing and Witnessing violence • Incarceration (systemic suppression, lack of rehabilitation, re-entry) • Lack of safe and affordable housing • Mental Illness (PTSD) • Media Violence • Availability of alcohol and other drugs (addiction) • Peer Pressure • Lack of health/mental health services • Gender Socialization (race and class also) • Environmental Factors • Community norms sanctioning violence • Isolation • Limited English Proficiency • Lack of racial, ethnic, and intergroup relations

  14. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Positive Factors • Educational opportunities (functional schools, available school-based supports) • Workforce development and training • (Positive and healthy) Community-based social networks, leaders, and resources • Safe, affordable housing • Positive attachments and relationships (family and peers) • Quality services/responsive institutions (health, mental health, faith-based) • Good physical and mental health • Spiritual connection/faith • Emotional and cognitive competence • Economic opportunity, jobs for advancement • Culturally competent services (government and CBO) • Resilient parents • Meaningful opportunities for civic participation, advocacy, and volunteerism • Ethnic, racial, and inter-group relations • Positive media/marketing • Economic sustainability/self-sufficiency • Positive social alternatives for youth/adults • Clean physical space, access to quality facilities and commerce, reliable transportation • Artistic and creative opportunities • Willingness to act for the common good of society

  15. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Map Solutions using the Spectrum of Prevention • Influencing Policy and Legislation • Changing Organizational Practices • Fostering Coalitions • Educating Providers • Promoting Community Education • Strengthening Individual Knowledge and Skills

  16. SOLUTIONSCommunity Dialogue Identifying Solutions Break into small groups of five for 10 minutes • Share you top three (negative) risk factors that contribute to violence • Share your top three (positive) resiliency factors for preventing violence • Write down solutions/recommendations you would like to see implemented in the City of SF that will address the negative factors you’ve identified.

  17. SOLUTIONSCommunity DialogueNext Steps • Sign up for the MOCJ newsletter • Attend upcoming community meetings • Look for updates on the MOCJ website • Contact Tinisch Hollins, at 415-554-6475 or Tinisch.Hollins@sfgov.org

  18. SOLUTIONSCommunity DialogueWork Group Exercise Top Three Risk (Negative) Factors 1. 2. 3. Top Three Resilience (Positive) Factors 1. 2. 3.

  19. SOLUTIONSCommunity DialogueSolutions Solutions (Please share your top three): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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