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Leveraging the power of #NeighborhoodScience to help our community and civic partners build safer, healthier, more equitable neighborhoods @NorthwesternU
Our @avpapachristos.bsky.social is featured in the latest episode of the Solving Gun Violence podcast. He dives into how violence spreads through social networks, and what impactful solutions to gun violence look like in action.

🔗 Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Andrew Papachristos - Northwestern University
Podcast Episode · Solving Gun Violence · 03/10/2025 · 28m
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March 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Tune in tonight for the launch of Firsthand: Peacekeepers. Several of our longtime #CVI community partners are highlighted doing incredible work to disrupt cycles of violence across #Chicago. #FIRSTHANDwttw
Despite ample evidence violence prevention programs can effectively break the cycle of crime and violence all too familiar to many Black & Latino Chicagoans, the programs’ futures are uncertain, threatening their initial success. www.wttw.com/firsthand/pe...
February 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
IL state legislators Justin Slaughter and Robert Peters cited several of CORNERS' most compelling findings in their op-ed in today's @chicago.suntimes.com.

Read and share the full editorial:
Community violence intervention saves lives. Keep funding it for public safety's sake.
Hundreds of shootings have been deterred through community violence intervention. It's more important than ever for the Legislature to keep funding the Reimagining Public Safety Act and further expand...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Learn more about how our unique focus on neighborhoods and networks helps address gun violence in Chicago and beyond. youtu.be/maiIZNogT38?...
Using Network Science to Address Gun Violence
YouTube video by Northwestern University
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February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
CORNERS Faculty Director @avpapachristos.bsky.social will speak alongside Mayor Johnson and other stakeholders at tonight's 'The State of Our City' town hall hosted by @wttw.bsky.social. Tune into the stream at 5:30 pm CST.
What question would you like to ask Mayor Brandon Johnson on the state of our city?

Your question could be included in our town hall with My Block, My Hood, My City with speakers including Mayor Johnson and other community stakeholders on Monday, Feb. 3.

to.wttw.com/3EhHShT
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM