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Products and Services
The Institute for Community Peace offers a variety of tools and resources for practitioners
and trainers. ICP’s work is grounded in research and reflects the real work of communities
actively creating and sustaining primary violence prevention.
Since 1994 ICP has followed and participated in the work of numerous communities
through demonstration sites in rural and urban settings across the country. The
sites presented opportunities for ICP to work with communities that embraced the
idea that primary violence prevention is most effectively addressed through resident
engagement, local leadership and a collaborative management of community resources.
These community collaboratives engaged in a wide range of violence prevention problems
and strategies targeting youth and community violence; child abuse and neglect;
domestic violence; handgun violence; and violence in the media. During this time
ICP charted their lessons and successes. The lessons have been incorporated into
Immersion Trainings and technical assistance programs, which have been offered to
and used by communities across the country.
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 Case Studies
Monographs
Evaluation Reports
Tip Sheets
CD-ROM Immersion Training
PeaceLinx Information
 and Referral
Technical Assistance
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| Case Studies |  |
Case studies examine ICP demonstration sites and provide discussion questions, a theory of change and tips for practitioners.
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| Monographs | |
Monographs are papers on subjects that provide a context for the analysis of violence
in the United States. Violence and primary violence prevention efforts occur inside
the framework examined in the monograph.
The Hero Deputy Experiment: The Role of Valence in Local Television Crime
News Coverage
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Youth Crime and the Superpredator News Frame, the Impact of Television
and Attitudes about Crime and Race
Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Director Center for Communications and Community
University of California, Los Angeles
Integrating Community Building and Violence Prevention(Temporarily Unavailable)
Victoria Gwiasda, ICP
Kelly Mitchell-Clark, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Engaging Community Residents to Prevent Violence (Temporarily Unavailable)
Linda K. Bowen, M. Mitchell Brown, Victoria Gwiasda, ICP
Journal of
Interpersonal Violence, Volume 19, Number 3, March 2004
The Role of Philanthropy in Promoting a Civil Society (Temporarily Unavailable)
An address by Gary L. Yates
President and CEO, the California Wellness Foundation
Moral Literacy: Virtue and the Renewal of Civil Society(Temporarily Unavailable)
An address by Robert M. Franklin
President, Interdenominational Theological Center
| Tip Sheets | |
The Engaging Collaboratives in Violence Prevention Tip Sheet Series for practitioners
summarizes the best lessons learned from the efforts of communities actively engaged
in primary violence prevention collaboratives that include various sectors in the
community. Collaboration is a core competency that every community must learn in
order to have an effective and sustainable violence prevention effort.
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| CD ROM Immersion Training | |
The Institute for Community Peace (ICP) has designed a series of Immersion Trainings
to respond to the needs of community-based violence prevention stakeholders and
residents, working in partnership to build safe, healthy and peaceful communities.
The Immersion Training is a three-day event bringing together up to 200 practitioners
and residents nationwide, attending in multi-disciplinary local teams. Each Immersion
Training (IT) in the series focuses on one of the following critical competencies
that communities need to master in order to engage in effective primary violence
prevention:
- Resident Engagement and Mobilization (piloted in 2001)
- Collaboration (piloted
in December 2002)
- Sustainability (piloted in March 2004)
- Analysis
of the Root Causes of Violence
- Program Management, Planning, and Evaluation
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Understanding Race and Power
The overall goal of the IT series is to strengthen the capacity of individuals,
organizations and teams to engage in strategic and coordinated efforts to address
local violence problems and prevent their occurrence long term.
Sustainability: Defining a Legacy, Creating Community Peace CD-ROM
The full CD-ROM contains workshops, tools, resources, group exercises and assessment
and planning guides. Sample workshops include an overview, facilitator notes, presentation,
tools and resources.
Send inquiries to: ICP@instituteforcommunitypeace.org
| PeaceLinx Information and Referral | |
PeaceLinx is a fee-for-service research and information service designed to link
practitioners, funders, and technical assistance providers to applicable research,
programs and best practices. Through an individualized case management approach
we link customers to established best practices in the field and provide some insights
into adapting these to local context. The PeaceLinx library categorizes materials
(books, videos, reports, case studies, reports, etc.) into the following areas:
- Communications
- Community Building
- Evaluation and Technical Assistance
- Family Preservation (family support, child welfare, domestic violence)
- Gun
Control
- Justice (incarceration, law enforcement crime, court programs)
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Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Race/Diversity
- Reference, Data,
and Statistics
- Violence Prevention
- Youth and Schools
- Youth
Development
Contact Mitchell Brown, Director for Research,
mbrown@instituteforcommunitypeace.org for more information on services and
fees.
| Technical Assistance | |
ICP technical assistance is designed to help strengthen initiatives committed to community-based violence prevention efforts and is offered on a fee-for-service
(contract) basis. ICP endeavors to seek and accept technical assistance contracts
that offer ICP opportunities to contribute lessons to the field of violence prevention
and peace promotion.
ICP provides support to grant making initiatives, local governments, and individual
programs and organizations in developing, implementing and sustaining community-based
violence prevention and peace promotion initiatives.
Technical Assistance service topics include:
- Strategic planning
- Program evaluation and design
- Collaborative
development
- Sustainability
- Best practices
- Emerging issues
in violence prevention
- Community organizing and resident engagement
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Community assessment
Send inquiries to: ICP@instituteforcommunitypeace.org
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