City Hall Response To Shootings: LB Health Dept. Plans To Spend $1.1 Mil From Sac'to To Take These Actions, Aim To Reduce Shootings In Washington Middle School Area By 20% By June 2023 And Implement This Approach Citywide

+ City Hall Response To Shootings: LB Health Dept. Plans To Spend $1.1 Mil From Sac'to To Take These Actions, Aim To Reduce Shootings In Washington Middle School Area By 20% By June 2023 And Implement This Approach Citywide

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(Oct. 11, 2020, 3:05 p.m.) -- On October 5, LB Dir of Health and Human Services Kelly Colopy sent City Manager Tom Modica a memo that he forwarded to LB's Mayor and City Council. It tells LB's Mayor (who opines but doesn't set policy) and LB's Council (which does set policy) that LB's Health Dept. sought (in June) and obtained (in September) a "California Violence Prevention Grant" and plans to use its $1.1 million to take a number of actions.

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[Colopy/Health Dept. memo text]...The focus of the funding is to establish a collaboration across departments and community institutions to reduce gun violence in Long Beach. Using a collective impact approach, the Department [of Health and Human Services] will launch the Long Beach Activating Safe Communities (LBASC) Program to address gun violence. The LBASC Program will be funded through a three year $1.1 million Board of State Corections and Community, California Violence Prevention (CalVIP) grant award.
The LBASC Program will work in partnership with mullti-sector stakeholders and system leaders, including various City departments (Police. Economic Development-Pacific Gateway, and Parks, Recreation and Marine), LBUSD, nonprofit community-based organizations and community residents. Collective impact offers a system approach to reduce gun violence, focused on equity, authentic community engagement, using data for continuous learning and improvement, and building a collaboratibe culture that fosters trust and respect.
The LBASC Program will begin as a pilot effort focused in the Washington Neighborhood. The Washington Neighbood is defined as a two by two block grid froom Magnolia Avenue (West) to Long Beach Blvd. (east) and Pacific Coast Highway (North) to Anaheim Street (South.) The Police Department identified the Washington Neighborhoosd as having among the highest concentration of firearm assaults. The Washington Neighborhood falls within Beat 4 of the Police Department's West Division. In 2018, the West Division contributed to 40.2 percent of the City's firearm assaults and murders in the City. The pilot will test the development and implementtion of a gun violence coordinated response system with the intent that the model be sustained for citywide use. The LBASC Program goals include: (1) creating a comprehensive, coordinated and equitable City of Long Beach Gun Violence Response System (CLB-GVRS); and (2) reducing gun-related violence through an effective street outreach and intervention progrma as well as activating safe community spaces to provide programs, resourcs, and services in the Washington Neighborhood. The LBASC projects seek to reduce gun violence by 20% in the Washington Neighborhood by June 2023. Activites include:

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Establishing a coordinated gun violence response system;
Contracting with the community-based organization to implement an effective street outrach/interventional progrqam to prevent and interrupt gun-related violence and de-escalate community violence;
Providing case management services to at least 30 justice involved and foster youth;
Providing life coaching and mentoring to atleast 75 at-risk youth through Pacific Gateway's Success Track Program;
Hosting quarterly community engagement events that engage at least 700 residents to strengthen community social connectedness and community safety and well-being; and
Supporting the Be Safe Program at Seaside/14th St. Parks in partnership with Parks, Recreation and Marine by engaging at least 300 youth and families.
The LBASC Advisory Council, which consists of representatives from the Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention, Pacific Gateway Workforce Development, the Los Angeles County Probation Department, the Urban Peace Institute, Ascent, the Washington Neighborhood Association, Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach Police Department and PArks, Recreation and Marine Department, and a local evaluator will assist with the implementaion and continuous quality improvement meaures to support staff in meeting and measuring the performance outcomes mentioned above.
The LBASC Program is a project of the City's Safe Long Bech violence prevention plan, which leerages existing resources and communtiy relationships to improve the quality of life of Long Beach residents. The Safe Long Beach violence prevention plan ecompasss the community informed Racial Reconciliatrion Frmework goals related to violence prevention. Community Impact Division staff ocntinue to forge relationships with funders, community residents and organizations to implementthese strategies. In the immediate, the LBASC will begin the hiring and procurement processes this month with the intent to launch the project in January 2021.

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