UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention

At CVP, we believe that knowledge is power, and research + data save lives. The June 2024 Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence is accessible on our website for those looking for a new way to access it. https://lnkd.in/g7SzvhuA ? We were glad to have our research cited in the Advisory, and we are steadfastly continuing our work to build the evidence base that community members and change makers can rely on for effective violence prevention strategies.

Journal club guides can provide students with a structured framework for critically analyzing research papers and engaging in discussion with peers. Download BulletPoints instructor and student journal club guides on relevant firearm injury prevention papers: https://lnkd.in/gSdpNm2w

What is the cost of inaction? CVP's Dr. Garen Wintemute discusses the importance of recognizing firearm violence as a public health problem and what could have been if today's research and interventions had been funded in the early 1990s. Top of Mind with Julie Rose https://lnkd.in/gWP76S_U

?? Job alert?? We're #hiring for TWO Assistant Professors In Residence. Apply by 4/4/25 at 11:59pm for our first review of applicants. https://lnkd.in/gRfKzvBM

?? We're Hiring! ?? Black & Brown Collective is looking for a Part-Time Project Coordinator to help us advance our mission of supporting equitable, community-driven research on gun violence prevention. This remote, 15-hour/week role is perfect for someone with strong project coordination, communications, and writing skills who is passionate about community safety and racial justice. You’ll be working with an incredible team of researchers, practitioners, and advocates committed to driving meaningful change. ?? Pay: $36-$43/hour ?? Location: Remote ?? Deadline: March 24, 2025 ?? Learn more & apply here: https://lnkd.in/ez6nmHNN Know someone who’d be a great fit? Please share! ???? #NowHiring #GunViolencePrevention #CommunityEngagement #EquityInResearch #JobOpportunity

We are excited to announce the release of two companion reports!! The first, “Guiding Research Principles and Priorities for the Black & Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence,” outlines our research principles and details the research questions that guide our work. The second, “The Case for More Equitable and Community-Engaged Research to Address Firearm-Related Violence in Black and Brown Communities,” emphasizes the importance of more equitable and community-engaged research to address gun violence and the need to invest in and grow the field of Black, Brown, and historically underrepresented scholars committed to centering equity in the research process. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures and the The Joyce Foundation for their support in producing these reports. Read both reports here: https://lnkd.in/e2SjcpvE

Huge thank you to the third cohort of the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy for sharing a Tuesday morning with me to talk about utilizing science to document histories. Comprised of over 30 people across 22 cities, this group is yet another powerful, empathetic, and astute cohort of CVI servant leaders from around the nation. I was so moved and inspired during my time with them, discussing how essential it is for the field of CVI to author and dictate its own narratives through the power of its own data. Systematic collection of activity narratives and numbers together illuminate the work in invaluable ways, yet numerous barriers - time, funding, technology, data infrastructure, security and confidentiality, lack of clarity about what details should be documented, which types of research are valued more or less in academia, how disconnected, rigid and stale academic norms and approaches can lead to incomplete understandings and narratives, and much more - can undermine documentation. The leaders in this cohort, like their CVILA alumni colleagues and many other leaders in this field, are taking on these challenges because they know the power of owning and telling our own stories. We as researchers, and those funding CVI practice and research, must do a better job of seeing these barriers, listening and learning from these leaders' opportunities and successes around data and documentation, and offering more thoughtful research capacity support. Doing so will more helpfully aid CVI professionals' ability to assess, refine, and enhance their own engagement and peacemaking efforts in their communities, while also improving the quality of our research and evaluations. We've helped make evaluation feel threatening, tedious, and devaluing of their expertise as practitioners working tirelessly with people with complex lives and histories, trying to help mitigate violence and trauma at multiple levels. We owe this life-saving field so much more. Profoundly grateful to Dr. Chico Tillmon Marcus McAllister Kimberley Smith Mark Saint Alesisia Cobb Heather B. Jvani Cabiness and the entire #CVILA #UniversityofChicagoCrimeLab team for hosting this impressive academy experience. To my #Baltimore friends who I didn't get a chance to see - really quick trip - I'm sorry, and I will be back soon! UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention Black & Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence

Check out the BulletPoints explainer video series. These brief videos are a great way to complement longer learning sessions to review important firearm injury prevention topics. https://lnkd.in/g2hch52P

We are glad to be part of the SAVIR community and look forward to next month's conference!

Now that you have the slide sets, looking for additional teaching materials? We’ve created pre-recorded video lectures for you to share with your students on firearm injury prevention. https://lnkd.in/g2hch52P