Neighborhood based violence prevention efforts are at a turning point—the question is: Where do we go from here? This panel will talk about the possible future of outreach in Chicago and Illinois—and what it might take to achieve such a future.

Building the Evidence Base: Emerging Lessons from Engaged Research on Outreach Efforts & Implications for Policy and Practice

In spring 2021, Corners researchers engaged outreach and victim services staff in conversations about how violence prevention workers define, assess, and respond to the risk of gun violence involvement.

Opening Remarks by: Soledad McGrath, Executive Director, Corners, and Research Professor, Institute for Policy Research Chris Patterson, Assistant Secretary for Violence Prevention, Office of Firearm Violence Prevention,

Advancing the Science and Practice of Street Outreach: Lessons Learned and the Future of Street Outreach in Illinois

Corners Faculty Director, Andrew Papachristos, shares how Chicago’s gun violence epidemic is tragic, but not random as part of WTTW FIRSTHAND series on gun violence in Chicago