Project CeaseFire Evaluation
Chicago perpetually ranks as one of the nation’s leading cities for homicide. Project CeaseFire, an initiative
coordinated by the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (CPVP), aims to address this issue in targeted
areas in Chicago and the region. The program has five core components: client outreach, community
mobilization, law enforcement collaboration, clergy intervention, and public education. It is conducted by local
collaborators in sites around Chicago and Illinois. The CeaseFire evaluation asks, How effective can a
broad-based community partnership like the CPVP be in reducing violent crime and deadly hand-gun use?
Directed by Susan Hartnett of IPR, the evaluation is funded by the National Institute of Justice. It is a process
and impact evaluation that involves mapping out the actual program and its presumed causal mechanisms,
and examining its effectiveness in 20 Northern Illinois sites. The project involves extensive fieldwork,
personal interviews, staff and client surveys and a statistical analysis of trends in gang dynamics and violent
crime. On a personal level, individual criminal history records and personal interviews will serve to document
how individuals are affected and if the program helped them to refrain from engaging in criminal offenses.
Finally, this phase will also address how cost effective such violence prevention efforts are.
Chicago perpetually ranks as one of the nation’s leading cities for homicide. Project CeaseFire, an initiative
coordinated by the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (CPVP), aims to address this issue in targeted
areas in Chicago and the region. The program has five core components: client outreach, community
mobilization, law enforcement collaboration, clergy intervention, and public education. It is conducted by local
collaborators in sites around Chicago and Illinois. The CeaseFire evaluation asks, How effective can a
broad-based community partnership like the CPVP be in reducing violent crime and deadly hand-gun use?
Directed by Susan Hartnett of IPR, the evaluation is funded by the National Institute of Justice. It is a process
and impact evaluation that involves mapping out the actual program and its presumed causal mechanisms,
and examining its effectiveness in 20 Northern Illinois sites. The project involves extensive fieldwork,
personal interviews, staff and client surveys and a statistical analysis of trends in gang dynamics and violent
crime. On a personal level, individual criminal history records and personal interviews will serve to document
how individuals are affected and if the program helped them to refrain from engaging in criminal offenses.
Finally, this phase will also address how cost effective such violence prevention efforts are.
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