Title
Resolution Authorizing Contract and Memorandum of Agreement between City of Greensboro and One Step Further, Inc. and between City of Greensboro and Cure Violence, UIC School of Public Health to Fund Cure Violence Program
Body
Council Priority: Promote Public Safety & Reduce Crime
Department: Multiple
Council District: All
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: David Parrish, 373-2002
Contact 2 and Phone: Polly Sizemore, 373-4517
PURPOSE:
The purpose is to recommend adoption of a resolution authorizing a contract and memorandum of agreement between the City of Greensboro and One Step Further, Inc. to fund a Cure Violence program. It is also to recommend adoption of a contract between the City and Cure Violence, UIC School of Public Health to provide technical and training assistance to the Cure Violence program.
BACKGROUND:
The City of Greensboro wishes to address the issues of violence occurring in the City and thereby seeks to fund a program based on the principles of the national Cure Violence Initiative. The City of Greensboro seeks to contract with One Step Further, Inc. for the purposes of establishing a Cure Violence program. To do so, the City and One Step Further, Inc. will enter into a Memorandum of Agreement and Scope of Services contract for $399,654. Moreover, the City of Greensboro seeks to contract with Cure Violence, UIC School of Public Health for the technical and training assistance with the Cure Violence program for $100,000.
Cure Violence, founded by University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Epidemiologist Gary Slutkin, M.D. is a public health anti-violence program. It aims to stop the spread of violence in communities by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control - detecting and interrupting conflicts, identifying and treating the highest risk individuals, and changing social norms. In simpler terms, the initiative looks at violence as an infection that spreads from one person to another in clusters and epidemic waves. In doing so, the health sector will have a broader response to the violence epidemic.
BUDGET IMPACT:
The project will be funded from general fund.
RECOMMENDATION / ACTION REQUESTED:
City Council is requested to adopt the attached resolution authorizing the City to enter into the Memorandum of Agreement and Scope of Services contract with One Step Further, Inc and enter into a Scope of Services contract with Cure Violence, UIC School of Public Health.