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The Boston Public Health Commission's Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (VIP) is grounded in community engagement, an essential element of preventing violence. Part of the City Voices and Perspectives series, this publication describes the goals of VIP's five community coalitions, and shares advice for mobilizing residents.

California’s state government can play a vital role in facilitating and supporting efforts to improve community-wide health, safety, and wellbeing, by reducing exposure to trauma, and increasing individual and community resilience. This report explores prevention and healing approaches that strengthen mental health and wellbeing, support communities to heal from trauma, and build community resilience.

Street outreach and violence interruption can prevent shootings and killings, and Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot describes how the Safe Streets program reduced violence in Baltimore. Because of Safe Streets, one neighborhood went nearly two years without a homicide, and non-fatal shootings dropped by more than one-third. Part of the City Voices and Perspectives series, this publication shares evaluation data on Safe Streets, including cost savings figures. Safe Streets is the longest-running replication of the Cure Violence model.