RFP for Community Violence Reduction Plans from High-Priority Areas

The Department of Human Services (DHS), on behalf of Allegheny County, sought Proposals from select Eligible Communities highly impacted by violence for Community Violence Reduction Plans (CVRPs) that detail strategies chosen to reduce and prevent intentional interpersonal violence in public spaces.

The Successful Proposals needed to include at least one Evidence-Based Program (EBP) and may have included other complementary efforts, groups and activities that show results or promise in reducing Community Violence.

The categories of services in this RFP included:

• Community Quarterback: The lead agency that will coordinate Community Violence reduction efforts in its respective Eligible Community, oversee the implementation of the Community Violence Reduction Plan (CVRP), and complete the Proposal in response to this RFP. A Community Quarterback can represent more than one Eligible Community and must be the same entity as the Proposer.
• Cure Violence: An EBP that addresses violence through a disease control model by detecting and treating those most at risk for violence, interrupting violence and changing norms.
• Becoming A Man (BAM): A school-based group counseling and mentoring Evidence-Based Program (EBP) that improves the social-emotional and behavioral competencies of young men in grades 7-12 who have been exposed to traumatic stressors and face social, behavioral, cognitive or emotional challenges.
• Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI): An EBP that responds to urban gun violence by connecting men at the highest risk of being involved with gun violence—as victim or perpetrator—with cognitive behavioral interventions, transitional employment and job training, and wraparound support services in order to foster safer communities and more opportunities.

For the purposes of this RFP, Community Quarterbacks were the Proposers and their CVRP was their Proposal. These terms were used interchangeably in the RFP.