Violence prevention partners

We work with trusted community organizations to help prevent violence.

A community-driven, citywide approach to violence prevention

For a successful citywide violence prevention approach, we must include strategies that are rooted in the experiences and needs of the community. To achieve this, we have created an eligible list of service providers. We are investing in grassroots strategies that come from the community.

Experienced and qualified partners

Our partners deliver community-driven services across one of the four priority areas:

  • Hospital-based violence intervention
  • Supportive services for youth and families
  • Street engagement, community justice partnerships, and community norm change
  • Environmental design and safety enhancements

Learn more about the priority areas

Members of the Blueprint Approved Institute take part in a learning session.

Updated process

New contract process for violence prevention work

All funded efforts help prevent and reduce violence while enhancing community safety. Contracted partners are eligible to receive work orders over a three-year period. The work orders come from the Neighborhood Safety Department.

Work orders are based on

  • Community needs
  • Available resources

The contract

  • Sets the framework for engaging selected responders
  • Does not guarantee work or specific funding amount
  • Allows the City to respond efficiently to emerging needs in communities

See the current 2025-28 contractors

Background

  • The new process replaces the former Violence Prevention Fund program.

Learn about past funded projects

 

 

Priority areas for service

Community organizations specialize in one of these key areas.

Hospital-based violence intervention

Providers offer hospital-based support to people impacted by violence.

The goal is to reduce

  • Revictimization
  • Substance use
  • Legal justice system involvement

Services include

  • Crisis intervention
  • Case management
  • Referrals to community services

Supportive services for youth and families

Programs support youth and families who are impacted by violence.

Services include

  • Promoting healthy family relationships
  • Connecting youth to positive role models, mentorship, and activities
  • Providing early intervention programs 

Street engagement, community justice partnerships, and community norm change

Their outreach efforts

  • Build trust with people at high-risk of violence
  • Mediate conflicts
  • Connect people to resources
  • Foster community-wide shifts in norms around violence

Services include

  • Violence prevention workshops
  • Mediation services
  • Create safe space for youth
  • Facilite conversations between law enforcement and community
  • Re-entry services or diversion programs

Environmental design and safety enhancements

Projects improve public spaces and promote safety.

This can happen through

  • Neighborhood beautification
  • Green spaces
  • Other environmental changes

Services include

  • Community green space projects
  • Transform underutilized spaces
  • Address harmful community conditions

Contact us

 

Neighborhood Safety

Email Neighborhood Safety

Address

City Hall
350 Fifth St. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55415