Working in Your Neighborhood
Save Our Community is a community violence intervention and prevention program to reduce gun violence. Program staff, including interrupters and outreach specialists, focus on three forms of action in their community.
What We Do
Detect and interrupt conflicts
Trained interrupters and outreach specialists identify and mediate potentially lethal conflicts in the community. They also follow up to ensure that the conflict does not reignite.
- Prevent retaliations
- Mediate ongoing conflicts
- Conflict follow-up
Identify and treat high risk individuals
Trained outreach specialists work with youth and young adults (14-24 years old) at the highest risk. By meeting them where they are and helping them to obtain resources, they help to prevent future violence.
- Assess the highest risk
- Change behaviors
- Provide treatment
Change social norms
Team members engage community leaders, residents, local business owners, faith leaders, service providers, and high-risk individuals, to help build positive, safe, resilient communities.
- Respond to homicides in target areas within 72 hours
- Organize community events
- Spread positive norms
Data Driven Response
The program focuses on three target areas, determined through analysis of shooting and homicide data. Interrupters respond to homicides in these target areas within 72 hours.
See the 2022 outreach reportRewire CBT Training
Save Our Community and community partners from the YMCA, RFS Tackle, Go Tyme Grynd Fitness, DDYC, Hoodstock Foundation, Junction Coalition, A Unique Impact, Tighten Up 419, and the Zepf Center juvenile justice program are being trained in the Roca Impact Institute’s Rewire CBT.
Work With an Interrupter
Interrupters are neighbors, friends, and active community members who de-escalate violence in their streets, schools, and social networks. Use your neighborhood's hotline to get in touch with an interrupter. SOC can work with youth and young adults (14 - 24 years old) who have been impacted by gun violence and are at higher risk of future violence.
| Neighborhood | Hotline | Community offices |
|---|---|---|
| East Toledo | 419-902-7821 | Location TBD |
| Junction/Englewood | 567-304-0725 | Frederick Douglass Center 1001 Indiana Ave. |
| Lagrange | 567-304-0805 | Wilson Park Building 3251 Otto Rd. |
Interruptors can also be found in the Maritime Academy, and Scott, Waite and Woodward High Schools.
Latest MONSE News
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Save Our Community School-based Team Gets Certified in Stop the Bleed Training
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Read the articleTackling Issues Surrounding Violence
Interrupters not only work with individuals in the community, but they also report issues in neighborhoods like blight, vacant properties, and broken sidewalks.