The Office of Gun Violence Prevention will address an urgent public health crisis.

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** Here's Mayor Cantrell's plan for the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
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This week, Mayor Cantrell announced the creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention ([link removed]) through an executive order. New Orleans has long been plagued by gun violence, but no other administration has ever invested in the infrastructure to focus on this problem over the long term.

That changes now.
"Establishing this office is part of our commitment to a holistic long-term strategy to prevent gun violence over time. This new office will coordinate, fund and evaluate public health gun violence reduction interventions and their outcomes."
-Mayor LaToya Cantrell
Under the leadership of Director Patrick Young, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention will have three core functions:
* Implement Public Health Interventions – These will consist of community-focused programs including Cure Violence, CEO Works, the Jumpstart Program, and the Barber and Beautician Collective.
* Manage the Gun Violence Policy Lab – This is a partnership with Tulane's Schools of Public Health and Professional Advancement to rigorously study gun violence in the city and to evaluate the effectiveness of our interventions.
* Develop funding for public health interventions and research – The City continues to work to attract government and philanthropic dollars and how to engage the private sector – insurance companies and payers – to make investments in public health interventions that will ultimately reduce costs associated with bad outcomes.

You can watch the Office of Gun Violence Prevention press conference ([link removed]) and the Barber and Beautician Collective fellowship meeting ([link removed]) to learn more.

This is a big step forward, but to be successful, all of New Orleans needs to work together. Let's put an end to gun violence.

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