Healing Streets Project
Healing Streets focuses on disrupting long-term cycles of violence and has helped hundreds of residents heal and work through their grief when group and gun violence occurs.
Community mediators use a community-centered, healing-based approach to violence prevention and intervention that centers the narratives and lived experiences of those most impacted by violence.
When an act of group or gun violence occurs, Healing Streets community mediators work in the community to provide healing and support services to the families of people involved.
Healing Streets provides direct services in four key areas:
- Community-centered violence prevention and intervention.
- Healing and grief services for survivors of group or gun violence.
- Hospital-based violence intervention.
- School-based prevention, intervention and impacted peer advocacy.
Prevention
Healing Streets works with partners to prevent community and school-based violence through healing-centered advocacy.
Key outcomes:
- Youth and adults see themselves as positive leaders.
- Youth and adults do not engage in gun or group violence.
- Increased awareness of the impacts of gun and group violence among community groups and partners.
Intervention
Community mediators and health responders immediately respond to help families impacted by violence move to physically safe space and provide rental assistance if needed to relocate. Families are also provided with referrals to services that support long-term positive choices such as employment assistance, job training, education, grief supportive services, and/or health and mental health care. Mediators also help participants make positive, supportive social networks, rebuild trust in the family and engage in prosocial recreational activities.
Key outcomes:
- Households and families are physically safe.
- Participants do not engage in retaliatory violence.
- Participants have positive support networks.
Healing
Contracted grief workers provide group sessions specific to gun and group violence for victims, their families and communities that focus on building natural support networks and community connections. Healing Streets Project staff also develop and provide a healing map, a tool for identifying how grief impacts the body.
Key outcomes:
- Communities engage in healing and have positive support networks during extremely stressful times.
- Participants develop resiliency within themselves and their communities.
- Communities have protected spaces for healing.
Contact Us
Mark Campbell
Program Supervisor
651-279-1957
Email Healing Streets Project