Cure Violence Global (CVG)

Cure Violence Global (CVG) helps to guide and train communities in implementing community-based health approaches to reducing violence. CVG pioneered and developed a public health approach to stop the spread of violence in communities by detecting and interrupting conflicts, identifying and treating the highest risk individuals and changing social norms — resulting in reductions in violence of up to 70 percent. The Cure Violence approach has been shown to be effective by multiple studies. Cities around the world have turned to the Cure Violence model to prevent violence — from sectarian violence in Iraq, to community violence in Honduras, to prison violence in England. The Cure Violence approach is currently being implemented in 10 countries across more than 25 cities and 60 communities, with focuses on the United States, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East.