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In today’s data driven world, communities demand evidence-based program that have been proven successful through rigorous, independent, scientific evaluations. The Cure Violence Health Model has multiple independent evaluations – all showing large statistically significant reductions in violence. And more evaluations are currently being conducted.
Below are the current independent evaluations of the Cure Violence model:
This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the Cure Violence initiative implemented in Trinidad and Tobago from July 2015 to August 2017. It describes the evaluation’s methods and findings and includes three main components: a process evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis. The process evaluation revealed that local staff successfully implemented some of the key elements of the Cure Violence model in a number of distressed and violent communities in the Port of Spain area. The impact evaluation, based on a series of quasi-experimental designs using multiple independent data sets, found significant and substantial reductions in violence, calls to the police for violent incidents, and gunshot wound admissions in a hospital located near the intervention. Based on these analyses, the report concludes that Project REASON reduced violence in the treatment area. Findings from the cost-effectiveness evaluation showed that Cure Violence cost, on average, approximately US$3,500 to US$4,500 for every violent incident it prevented. Given the profound costs of violence in both human and economic terms, these estimates provide hope not only that violence can be prevented, but also that effective solutions for preventing violence may be affordable.
Read the Full Trinidad Evaluation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center has conducted an extensive, independent evaluation of the Cure Violence program in New York City with support from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York City Council, New York State’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Learn more about the John Jay New York City Evaluation (summary)
Read all of the reports on Cure Violence from John Jay REC
A 2017 evaluation of the Cure Violence program in Philadelphia found significant reductions in violence associated with the program.
Download the full Philadelphia evaluation report
A 2012 CDC/Johns Hopkins evaluation of 4 communities in Baltimore.
Learn more about the Baltimore evaluation (summary)
Download the full Baltimore evaluation report
A 2009 NIJ/Northwestern University evaluation analyzed 7 communities in Chicago.
Learn more about the Chicago evaluation (summary)
Download the full Chicago evaluation report
A simulation study was conducted based on aggregated data to simulate violent victimization of a representative sample of 5% of NYC’s population and police force to determine the effectiveness of Cure Violence, hot-spot police interventions and the combination over a 30-year period.
Link to study
News report on simulation study
A 2013 McCormick Foundation/University of Chicago/UIC quantitative and a qualitative evaluation of the 2012/2013 Cure Violence Illinois covered two Chicago neighborhoods.
Learn more about the McCormick Evaluation (Summary)
Download the McCormick Qualitative Evaluation
Download the McCormick Quantitative Evaluation
In New York City, a 2010 BJA/Center for Court Innovation evaluation analyzed the program in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Learn more about the New York evaluation (summary)
Download the full New York evaluation report
* Programs in Chicago were formerly called CeaseFire and are referred to by this name in the evaluations.
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