Community Violence Intervention
The Community Violence Intervention (CVI) pillar’s goal is to take CVI programs to scale, with a top line goal of serving 75% of the population identified as highest risk.
To expand CVI programs and impact, the Task Force is working alongside fellow stakeholders within Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago (SC2), a collaborative effort of community-based and citywide partners as well as city, county, and state governments.
The McCormick SC2 Fund is intended to support the scaling of community violence intervention efforts in Chicago communities that experience the most violence. Scaling refers to the professionalization and coordination of CVI efforts through the delivery of street outreach services, education and job training services, behavioral and mental health intervention, and case management in a coordinated fashion among service providers by neighborhood. Grants from the McCormick SC2 Fund are also intended to help communities that are ready and take these core services and coordinated service delivery to scale.
Workforce Development
The Workforce Development pillar supports local hiring on the South and West sides, with a top line goal of seeing 20,000 new South and West Side hires over five years among participating companies.
To support the Task Force’s hiring goal, the McCormick Workforce Development Fund is intended to help identified workforce development partners scale to generate and place a pipeline of CVI graduates and other individuals that live in communities experiencing high levels of violence find employment and be retained beyond 90 days.
