Office of Youth Violence Prevention

• Operation Safe Kids
• Safe Streets

  • Health Department Announces Safe Streets Grant Opportunity

    May 21, 2008. The Health Department is announcing a Request for Proposals for community organizations to implement Safe Streets, a community-based intervention program focused on reducing shootings and homicides. Community organizations in areas with high rates of violent crime are eligible to apply. [Press Release] [Safe Streets RFP] [Safe Streets Webpage]

• Multisystemic Therapy

• Contact the Office of Youth Violence Prevention

Violence is the leading cause of death for young African-American men in the city of Baltimore.  According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Community Level Information on Kids data, Baltimore’s violent death rate for juveniles was more than double the statewide rate and its juvenile violent crime rate was more than two and a half times the statewide rate.

  

The Office of Youth Violence Prevention is dedicated to combating the epidemic of violence among our city’s young people through innovative public health programming.  The Office currently operates three programs, Operation Safe Kids, Multisystemic Therapy, and Safe Streets.  We work closely with community stakeholders, state and local agencies, and public health experts on both our own programs and on city-wide anti-violence initiatives, including the Baltimore City Gang Violence Reduction Plan. 

 

Partnering Agencies

Maryland Department Of Juvenile Services

Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc.

Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City

Baltimore City Office of the Public Defender

Baltimore City Police Department

Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems, Inc.

Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development

Mayor’s Office of Employment Development

Baltimore City Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

Baltimore City Public School System

The Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore City Department of Social Services

 

Hours and Contact Information:

The Office of Youth Violence Prevention
210 Guilford Avenue, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-396-1343
8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday