Cure Violence

Big news out of Baltimore! 🎉 Safe Streets Baltimore's Penn North site has gone 368 days with zero homicides — a testament to what dedicated violence interrupters and community investment can achieve. This program is built on the Cure Violence model, and results like this show exactly why this approach matters. Congrats to the whole Penn North team! 💙

Safe Streets Penn North Reaches More Than 365 Days with No Homicides | Baltimore City BALTIMORE, MD (Tuesday, May 26, 2026) - Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott, the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) and Catholic Charities of Baltimore announced that the Safe Streets Baltimore's Penn North site has reached a major milestone of over 365 days with no homicides in....

📚 FREE public event TONIGHT in Chicago

Join us for a powerful book talk with Gary Slutkin, author of "The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic." He'll be in conversation with Professor Chris Blattman and Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

🗓 Tonight — Monday, May 4
🕔 5:00–6:00 PM CT
📍 The Keller Center Forum
1307 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Open to everyone. Just show up. See you there! 👇

ICYMI: The New York Times published a major feature on community violence intervention in America, and Cure Violence Global is at the center of it. The story features our trainers and staff in photographs and quotes, and highlights our training work in Wilmington, Delaware as a model for what this country needs more of right now. It ran both online and in the Sunday print edition.

If you haven't read it yet, now is the time. https://ow.ly/Nctm50YTE3p

TODAY at noon — a talk that could change how you think about violence forever.
Dr. Gary Slutkin spent 20 years fighting deadly epidemics around the world with the WHO. When he came back to Chicago, he saw something that stopped him in his tracks: violence was spreading exactly like a disease — from person to person, neighborhood to neighborhood, country to country.
So he did what any epidemiologist would do. He treated it like one.
Cure Violence Global, has since achieved 40–70% reductions in violence in communities across Chicago, Baltimore, New York, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Iraq, and Syria — using the same public health playbook used to stop infectious disease outbreaks.
Now, Dr. Slutkin is sharing everything in his brand-new book, The End of Violence — and he's speaking about it TODAY as part of Northwestern's Wednesdays at NICO seminar series.

📍 In person: Chambers Hall, Lower Level, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL
💻 Join on Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/93101362874
🕛 Wednesday, April 29 · 12:00–1:00 PM CT

Free and open to all. Share with anyone who cares about building safer communities. 💙

"Programs that were actively preventing shootings are now paused or dismantled. You have trained staff who are now laid off and trusted relationships in neighborhoods that are now broken." — Dr. Monique Williams, CEO of Cure Violence Global.

Dr. Williams and Cobe Williams spoke to reporter Shayla Colon of the New York Times this week about what federal funding cuts are doing to violence prevention work across the U.S. right now. Homicides are at historic lows, but the programs that helped get them there are being defunded.

Read the full piece:

Violence Has Fallen, but So Has Funding for Prevention Homicides and assaults have declined in many cities, but programs credited with helping keep the peace are losing federal support.

Our founder Dr. Gary Slutkin's groundbreaking new book The End of Violence is officially out tomorrow — and we couldn't be more excited! 🙌
Violence isn't inevitable. It's a disease. And it can be cured. 💡

Get your copy and join the movement to end the world's most dangerous epidemic. 📖➡️ https://www.garyslutkin.com/

10 years. Thousands of conversations. Countless interventions. Catholic Charities Safe Streets has spent a decade doing the hard, human work of stopping violence in Baltimore — built on the Cure Violence approach with training from CVG .

Congratulations on this great milestone!

Catholic Charities Safe Streets celebrates 10 years of violence prevention in Baltimore Catholic Charities Safe Streets marks 10 years at its Sandtown-Winchester site, working to reduce violence and connect residents to resources.

War spreads like a disease — and it can be stopped like one too.
CVG founder Gary Slutkin joined WBUR's Here & Now to talk about why the same public health methods used to interrupt violence in communities apply to war — and why perpetual conflict is not inevitable.
Listen here →

Can war be treated like an infectious disease? This expert thinks so Epidemiologist and violence disruptor Gary Slutkin says perpetual cycles of violence are not inevitable.

Better training = better results.

An independent evaluation by Yeju Choi at John Jay College found that sites using CVG's newly developed training conducted significantly more mediations — and were 75% less likely to see violence escalate after a mediation.

Simply put: no other violence interruption training has this kind of evidence.

What happens when violence survivors get real support at the hospital?

A new study from BU School of Public Health found that survivors consistently engaged with hospital-based intervention programs were 50% less likely to be revictimized or commit violence years later.

The evidence is clear. Intervention works.

https://ow.ly/mt7450YyIjj

Violence Prevention Program at Hospitals Can Prevent Recurrent Harm A new study found that a hospital-based intervention program can help prevent violence reinjury or recurrence by providing a range of mental health and social support services to gun violence victims.