New effort aims to use collaborative approaches learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to tackle Chicago’s violence problem at the neighborhood level.
Avanii Hazzard of Teamwork Englewood stood before dozens of leaders at a meeting in the neighborhood and implored them to dig deeper when they were discussing what the community needs in order to prevent stubborn violence.
There were three parts: “pre-incident” which explained the background of the situation, the “incident” when a shooting occurred, and “post-incident” or “aftermath” where they learned of the fallout and how people might be affected once the shooting happened. “If we proactively looked at this situation, we knew what the outcomes and results would be right? But let’s take it a little step further,” Hazzard told the Englewood group. “When you think about the developmental brain of a 15-,16-, 17-year-old, when you think about the fact that the brain isn’t fully developed until 25, so we have 15-, 16-, 17-year-olds in these high stress situations.
In each of those four gatherings, attendees were given statistics about the neighborhood beyond gun-violence data. That included where residents own their homes instead of rent, where libraries, schools, grocery stores and banks are located, as well as where drug overdoses and shootings were concentrated in each neighborhood. The city asked the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab to analyze each neighborhood and put together the data.
“What I needed then and the issue that still persists is kind of universal connection, like a hub, a resource center that houses wraparound services,” Wallace said. “Services that address family and village.” In the North Lawndale scenario, a teenage boy was caring for his disabled mother, helping with the care of his younger siblings and working to help pay bills. In this high-stress situation, a classmate was imagined to bully him, sparking a fight that ended in a shooting. Paralyzed, the teenager could no longer work to continue to support the family.
“We learned a lot, but we didn’t make a significant difference,” she said, adding leaders knew they had to do something different and better. Lightfoot said the city will continue to build the new center and bring together community organizers to work toward prevention and solutions on the ground. She also wants to ensure the city is more coordinated in its response to violence.
“The disinvestment that’s occurred in these communities has happened over decades upon decades,” said Tamara Mahal, chief coordination officer at the Community Safety Coordination Center. “We’re not going to fix that in a year. We understand that. But what we do think we can do is utilize those funds to really write the playbook to better understand how funding has to be allocated in the future.”
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