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Public safety should protect people from violence, crime, and abuse of government power.

This guide highlights organizations working to prevent misconduct, defend civil rights, uphold due process, and protect the dignity of people in encounters with police, immigration enforcement, courts, jails, prisons, detention centers, and other state-controlled settings.

It is not about abandoning public safety. It is about making public safety accountable, lawful, humane, and worthy of public trust.

At these websites, activists may find practical ways to help: becoming members, volunteering, donating, responding to policy alerts, reading reports and toolkits, contacting elected officials, supporting legal aid, and learning how to stand with people directly affected by policing, detention, incarceration, immigration enforcement, and other public systems.

Civil Rights, Due Process, and Police Accountability

Groups focused on constitutional rights, transparency, use-of-force rules, misconduct investigations, racial profiling, surveillance abuse, crisis response, and accountable public safety.

American Civil Liberties Union | ACLU of Washington

A leading civil liberties organization defending constitutional rights, due process, privacy, immigrants’ rights, criminal legal reform, and government accountability. Its Washington affiliate works on related state and local civil rights and justice issues.

National Police Accountability Project (NPAP)

A national membership organization working to end law enforcement abuse through legal action, education, and support for civil rights attorneys handling police misconduct cases.

Campaign Zero

A data-driven police accountability organization focused on reducing police violence through policy research, public data, use-of-force standards, and accountability tools.

Washington Coalition for Police Accountability (WCPA)

A coalition of families working together on statewide policies to create safer communities by reducing police violence and increasing accountability.

Immigration Enforcement and Detention Watchdogs

Groups focused on ICE, Border Patrol, DHS, immigrant detention, deportation defense, family separation, raids, legal aid, due process, and humane treatment.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP)

A Washington-based immigrant rights organization with several regional offices, providing direct legal services, community education, impact litigation, and detention/deportation defense for immigrants.

La Resistencia

A Washington-based grassroots immigrant justice organization focused on ending detention and deportation, especially connected to the detention system in Tacoma.

Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest (AIDNW)

A Northwest organization based in Tacoma that offers practical volunteer and community support opportunities for people who want to help detained and recently released immigrants directly.

Vera Institute of Justice

A national research and advocacy organization working to transform criminal justice and immigration systems, including detention, prosecution, incarceration, and dignity behind bars.

Jails, Prisons, Sentencing, and Reentry

Groups focused on prison and jail conditions, excessive punishment, sentencing reform, solitary confinement, compassionate release, parole, reentry, and the rights of incarcerated people.

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

A national nonprofit founded by Bryan Stevenson that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in jails and prisons. It also challenges excessive punishment and supports reentry.

Prison Policy Initiative

A research and advocacy organization known for clear data and graphics on mass incarceration, jail growth, parole, prison policy, and over-criminalization. Useful for readers seeking clear data and analysis on incarceration policy.

The Sentencing Project

A national research and advocacy organization focused on sentencing reform, incarceration, racial disparities, youth justice, voting rights, and criminal legal reform.

FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)

A national, nonpartisan advocacy organization working for fairer sentencing, prison reform, compassionate release, and a justice system that respects accountability and dignity.

Columbia Legal Services

A Washington legal advocacy organization using impact litigation and legislative advocacy to advance racial and economic justice, with a special commitment to people affected by incarceration, immigration, and unfair labor practices.

Bail, Pretrial Justice, and Court Fairness

Groups focused on money bail, pretrial detention, public defense, court access, legal representation, and fair treatment for people who have not been convicted.

The Bail Project

A national nonprofit providing free bail assistance while advocating for a fairer pretrial system that does not punish people because they are poor.

Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF)

A Washington/Northwest bail fund providing bail support for people jailed before trial because they cannot afford bail, with work in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)

A national organization supporting legal aid and public defense. Public defenders are a core due-process safeguard for people facing criminal charges, detention, or loss of liberty.

Youth Justice and Young People in Public Systems

Groups focused on juvenile justice, child welfare, school discipline, youth homelessness, mental health systems, family court involvement, and young people caught in courts or public agencies.

TeamChild

A Washington-based organization providing free legal services and advocacy for young people involved in juvenile justice, child welfare, education, and mental health systems.

Legal Counsel for Youth and Children (LCYC)

A Washington legal nonprofit advancing the rights and safety of youth through direct representation, community partnerships, and systemic advocacy. Its work includes child welfare, juvenile court, youth and family immigration, and youth homelessness.

Public Worker Safety, Whistleblowing, and Responsible Agency Practices

Groups and resources focused on safe working conditions, trauma support, whistleblower protection, ethical leadership, professional standards, and protection from unlawful or politically motivated orders.

National Whistleblower Center (NWC)

A national nonprofit helping whistleblowers find legal aid, advocating for stronger protections, and educating the public about whistleblowers’ role in democracy and the rule of law. Especially relevant for public workers who report misconduct or unlawful orders.

First Responder Support Network (FRSN)

A nonprofit providing educational treatment programs for first responders recovering from stress and critical incidents.

ResponderStrong

A mental health and wellness resource for emergency responders, health care workers, and their families, including law enforcement, EMS, fire, dispatch, and rural responders.

Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)

A national police research and policy organization focused on police services, public debate, criminal justice issues, management, training, and policy development.

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Community violence includes physical attacks, threats, weapons-related harm, harassment, bullying, intimidation, reputational attacks, and fear of assault in public places. It also includes online targeting that can damage reputations, deepen conflict, or spill into real-world harm.

This guide highlights advocacy groups, training and prevention organizations, public information resources, victim-support resources, and a few especially relevant Washington-based programs that work to prevent, reduce, or respond to violence and intimidation in community life.

It is not a general resource for community improvement, youth enrichment, or school support, though those efforts can sometimes help prevent violence. The focus is narrower: threats, harassment, bullying, school and youth violence, digital abuse, assault, retaliation, and harm before damage spreads. Gun violence is addressed in a separate guide in this series.

Community Violence Prevention and Intervention

Physical violence, weapons-related harm, retaliation, neighborhood violence, and targeted intervention before harm escalates.

Cure Violence Global

Uses a public health approach to prevent violence by detecting and interrupting conflicts, working with people at high risk of violence, and changing norms that support retaliation and harm.

National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR)

Works with communities to reduce violence, improve outcomes for system-involved youth and adults, and strengthen community violence intervention programs.

Public Safety, Harassment, and Fear of Attack

Street harassment, fear of assault, unsafe public spaces, intimidation in parks, on sidewalks, on transit, in downtown areas, in libraries, at events, and in other shared places.

Stop Street Harassment

Documents and works to end gender-based street harassment worldwide through research, public education, campaigns, hotline support, and an informational website.

UN Women — Creating Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls

Global information resource on preventing and responding to sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women and girls in public spaces.

Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying, and Stalking

Threats, stalking, bullying-like conduct, public shaming, social cruelty, reputational attacks, and efforts to isolate, silence, or intimidate people.

Right to Be

Provides training and tools to help people respond to harassment, support targets, and intervene safely as bystanders in public, workplace, school, online, and community settings.

Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)

Provides education, training, and resources to help professionals and communities recognize stalking, improve responses, support victim safety, and hold offenders accountable.

VictimConnect Resource Center — National Center for Victims of Crime

Provides confidential support, information, and referrals for victims and survivors of crime, including people affected by threats, stalking, harassment, assault, and other forms of community harm.

School Violence, Bullying, and Student Safety

School-based threats, bullying, violence, harassment, school climate, threat assessment, and student safety.

Sandy Hook Promise

Teaches youth and adults to recognize warning signs, prevent violence, reduce isolation, and build safer schools and communities through practical prevention programs.

National Center for School Safety

Housed at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, it provides resources and expertise to help schools use evidence-based approaches to prevent school violence and support students.

StopBullying.gov

A federal website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it provides information from multiple government agencies on bullying, cyberbullying, prevention, response, school policies, parent engagement, and reporting.

National Bullying Prevention Center — PACER Center

Works to prevent childhood bullying and promote safe, supportive schools, communities, and online spaces. It is especially useful for student-focused bullying prevention, awareness, education, and family resources.

STOMP Out Bullying

National nonprofit focused on reducing and preventing bullying and cyberbullying among students.

Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, School Safety Center

Provides school guidance, tools, training, and compliance information on harassment, intimidation, and bullying. Its website is especially useful for Washington readers looking for school-specific resources and district-level responsibilities.

Youth Violence Prevention and Intervention

Youth violence, group and gang-involved violence, retaliation, weapon-related harm, and community violence intervention

Youth ALIVE!

Works to prevent violence, intervene in moments of crisis, and support healing from violence-related trauma. Its efforts have broader relevance beyond its base in Oakland, California.

Community Passageways, Washington

Seattle-based organization working with youth and families in King County through mentorship, restorative justice, reentry support, conflict response, and violence-risk intervention.

Online Abuse, Cyberbullying, and Digital Threats

Cyberbullying, doxing, online harassment, image-based abuse, threats, reputation attacks, and online behavior that can cause offline harm.

The Cybersmile Foundation

Nonprofit focused on digital well-being and tackling bullying and abuse online. Its resources address cyberbullying, online harassment, doxing, reputation attacks, and other forms of digital abuse.

Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI)

Works to fight online abuse, especially image-based sexual abuse and other digital harms that threaten privacy, safety, civil rights, and reputations. CCRI also provides resources from Without My Consent, including state-by-state legal information on online privacy violations and related digital abuse.

Accountability, Repair, and Prevention After Harm

Responding to harm in ways that protect people, reduce retaliation, repair damage where possible, and prevent repeated violence.

CHOOSE 180, Washington

Burien-based organization offering diversion, restorative community pathways, advocacy, and support for young people affected by community violence or the legal system.

Crime Survivors Speak

National network of crime survivors working to create healing communities, support survivor leadership, and shape public safety policies that reduce harm and promote recovery.

Trauma, Crisis Risk, and Threat Prevention

Trauma, isolation, untreated distress, and behavioral crisis can increase vulnerability, fear, or risk of harm.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

Provides resources for children, families, schools, and communities affected by trauma, including trauma connected to violence and community harm.

SAMHSA — Trauma and Violence

The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides resources on trauma, violence, behavioral health, and the long-term effects of physical, emotional, or life-threatening harm.

National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) — Threat Assessment at School

Provides school-focused guidance on threat assessment as an alternative to ineffective zero-tolerance approaches.

SchoolSafety.gov — Threat Assessment and Reporting

Federal resource on identifying, reporting, and addressing school safety concerns before harm escalates.

Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)

Provides training and resources on violence, abuse, trauma, prevention, and intervention across the lifespan.

Related Issues

Physical attacks and threats: Community violence includes assault, threats, weapon-related harm, intimidation, and situations where people reasonably fear being attacked.

Public-place fear and harassment: Many people limit where they walk, when they go out, or whether they go alone because of fear of harassment, assault, or intimidation.

Community violence prevention: Trusted outreach, violence interruption, mentoring, crisis response, and local partnerships can prevent harm before it escalates.

Bullying and social cruelty: Bullying-like behavior can affect children, teens, and adults in schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, online spaces, and civic life.

School violence and student safety: Schools need prevention, threat assessment, bullying response, student support, and safety planning without treating every student as a threat.

Youth violence prevention: Young people need support, accountability, mentoring, outreach, and intervention when conflict, retaliation, weapons, gangs, or trauma increase risk.

Digital harassment and cyberbullying: Online abuse can damage reputations, intensify conflict, spread humiliation, and make people feel unsafe offline.

Retaliation and escalation: Violence often grows from humiliation, rumor, anger, fear, revenge, or unresolved conflict.

Trauma, isolation, and crisis risk: Trauma, grief, isolation, untreated stress, and behavioral crisis can increase vulnerability and sometimes contribute to harmful behavior.

Accountability and community repair: Prevention also means responding to harm in ways that protect people, acknowledge damage, reduce repeated harm, and avoid needless escalation.

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Political violence, hate-based threats, extremism, and digital harassment can silence people, intimidate communities, and weaken democracy.

This guide highlights organizations working to prevent violence, counter hate and extremism, protect vulnerable communities, defend civic participation, and support people targeted by threats online or in public life.

Top Advocacy Organizations

Anti-Defamation League | ADL Pacific Northwest

ADL works to counter antisemitism, extremism, online hate, hate crimes, domestic terrorism, and identity-based harassment. Its Center on Extremism, online hate resources, incident tracking tools, education programs, and regional offices make it one of the most active and visible organizations in this field.

Western States Center

Based in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, it works nationally to strengthen inclusive democracy and help local leaders, schools, libraries, governments, and community organizations respond to white nationalism, organized bigotry, anti-democracy movements, and political violence.

Over Zero

Over Zero focuses on preventing identity-based violence and group-targeted harm, including violence tied to religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, politics, and other identities. Its work is especially useful for people interested in communication, conflict prevention, and reducing the social conditions that can lead to violence.

Bridging Divides Initiative

The Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University tracks and analyzes political violence, threats, crisis response, and de-escalation efforts in the United States. Its research and community safety resources can help local leaders and activists understand risks before they escalate.

Life After Hate

Life After Hate helps people leave violent hate and extremist movements. Its work is important because preventing violence also means helping people disengage from extremist groups, online hate spaces, and violent identities before more harm occurs.

Committee for Safe and Secure Elections

The Committee for Safe and Secure Elections brings together election officials and law enforcement to protect election workers and voters from violence, threats, and intimidation. It offers practical resources for safer elections, including law enforcement guides and planning tools.

Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center researches domestic terrorism, hate crimes, counterterrorism policy, political violence, election threats, civil liberties, and government overreach. It is especially useful for understanding how to respond to extremism without expanding abusive or discriminatory policing powers.

Right To Be

Right To Be works to end harassment and discrimination through training, storytelling, bystander intervention, and online abuse resources. Its tools are useful for activists, journalists, public officials, community leaders, and ordinary people targeted by harassment online or in public spaces.

PEN America | Online Harassment Field Manual

PEN America provides practical guidance for writers, journalists, activists, and organizations facing online abuse. Its field manual includes safety planning, documentation, reporting, escalation, legal considerations, and links to organizations that help people targeted by online harassment.

Coalition Against Online Violence

The Coalition Against Online Violence, founded by the International Women’s Media Foundation, supports women journalists and others facing online abuse, harassment, digital attacks, and threats intended to silence public voices.

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

SPLC’s Intelligence Project has long tracked white supremacy, anti-democracy extremism, hate groups, and conspiracy-driven movements. The Trump Justice Department is pursuing charges related to SPLC’s alleged use of paid informants inside extremist groups. SPLC disputes the allegations and says its work helped law enforcement prevent violence.

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Top Related Issues

Political violence and intimidation: Threats, attacks, and harassment aimed at elected officials, election workers, activists, journalists, judges, public employees, protesters, and voters.

Hate-based violence: Violence or threats targeting people because of race, religion, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other identity.

White nationalism and organized bigotry: Movements that use racism, antisemitism, anti-immigrant hostility, anti-LGBTQ+ hatred, misogyny, or conspiracy theories to recruit, intimidate, and build power.

Online harassment and digital threats: Coordinated abuse, doxxing, stalking, impersonation, threats, swatting, and platform manipulation meant to silence people or make them afraid to participate in public life.

Election-related threats: Intimidation of election workers, voters, candidates, and public officials, including threats tied to false claims about election fraud.

Extremist recruitment and radicalization: Efforts to draw people into violent or hate-based movements through online communities, propaganda, grievance politics, conspiracy theories, or social isolation.

Threats against journalists and writers: Abuse and intimidation aimed at discouraging reporting, commentary, investigation, and public truth-telling.

Community safety and de-escalation: Local efforts to recognize risk, reduce tension, protect vulnerable people, and respond to threats without encouraging vigilantism or unnecessary escalation.

Civil liberties and accountability: Responses to extremism must protect people from violence while avoiding broad surveillance, discriminatory policing, or laws that can be misused against protesters and marginalized communities.

Democratic participation: Political and hate-based violence are not only public safety issues. They are attacks on people’s willingness to speak, vote, organize, run for office, report the news, and serve their communities.

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Conflict is part of everyday life. It shows up in families, schools, workplaces, communities, and public life. Most conflicts don’t begin with violence, but they can move in that direction when emotions rise, positions harden, and people stop listening to one another.

Not every conflict becomes violence. What matters is how people respond and whether escalation is interrupted.

The organizations in this guide focus on that moment. Some work directly in high-risk situations to prevent harm. Others help people resolve disputes before they escalate.

Many teach practical skills—communication, mediation, and intervention—that increase the likelihood of nonviolent responses.

Together, they offer a different approach to safety: not just reacting to violence after it occurs, but preventing it by strengthening relationships, accountability, and community-based solutions.

Direct Intervention and Civilian Protection

Organizations that operate in active or high-risk conflict settings and work to prevent escalation in real time.

Nonviolent Peaceforce

Protects civilians in conflict zones using unarmed peacekeepers trained in de-escalation, accompaniment, and community engagement.

Cure Violence Global

Treats violence as a public health issue, using trained community members to interrupt conflicts and prevent retaliation.

Mediation and Community-Based Conflict Resolution

Organizations that help individuals and communities resolve disputes before they escalate.

National Association for Community Mediation

A national network supporting community-based mediation programs that resolve disputes outside the courts.

National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC)

Provides mediation, training, and conflict resolution services nationwide, with a focus on community, workplace, and civic disputes.

Restorative Justice and Community Safety

Groups focused on repairing harm and reducing future conflict through accountability and dialogue.

Restorative Justice Exchange (RJE)

Promotes restorative justice practices that bring together those affected by harm to repair relationships and prevent recurrence.

Creative Interventions

Provides tools and training for communities to address violence without relying on police or punitive systems.

Training and Nonviolent Skills Development

Organizations that teach practical skills for de-escalation, communication, and conflict transformation.

Alternatives to Violence Project | Washington affiliate

Offers workshops that teach conflict resolution, communication, and nonviolent responses in prisons and communities.

Center for Nonviolent Communication | Trainer locator

Trains individuals and organizations in communication practices that reduce conflict and build understanding. Available in Washington state.

Dialogue, Peacebuilding, and Systems-Level Change

Organizations working at broader social, political, or international levels to reduce conflict and build sustainable peace.

Search for Common Ground

Works globally to transform conflict through dialogue, media, and community engagement programs.

Everyday Peace Indicators

Develops community-based ways to measure and strengthen everyday conditions that reduce conflict and build peace.

Related Issues

Conflict escalation and de-escalation: Recognizing when disputes are intensifying and using practical skills to reduce the risk of harm.

Community mediation: Helping people resolve disputes through trained, neutral facilitators before conflicts become legal, political, or physical battles.

Restorative justice: Bringing affected people together, when appropriate, to repair harm, accept responsibility, and reduce future conflict.

Unarmed civilian protection: Protecting people in tense or dangerous situations through trained, nonviolent presence, accompaniment, and monitoring.

Violence interruption: Using trusted community members to intervene in conflicts, prevent retaliation, and stop cycles of violence.

School and youth conflict prevention: Teaching young people communication, peer mediation, and problem-solving before conflict becomes violence.

Protest and event de-escalation: Training people to reduce risk at public gatherings, demonstrations, and civic events.

Workplace and organizational conflict: Addressing disputes, bullying, retaliation, and power struggles before they damage people or institutions.

Dialogue across divides: Creating structured conversations among people or groups in conflict to reduce fear, misinformation, and hostility.

Peacebuilding culture: Building habits, institutions, and community norms that make nonviolent responses more likely than retaliation or domination.

How to Get Involved

Not sure where to start? Choose an approach that fits your interests:

• Learn and practice: Take a workshop in mediation or nonviolent communication.

• Support local programs: Look for community mediation centers or violence prevention efforts in your area.

• Volunteer or train: Many organizations offer opportunities to become a facilitator or a conflict-resolution trainer.

• Apply it in daily life: Use de-escalation and listening skills in your own relationships and community.

Even small steps—learning a skill, supporting a program, or changing how you respond to conflict—can help prevent harm.

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A domestic violence call ends in tragedy.
A teenager is shot in a neighborhood dispute.
An election worker gets threats for doing their job.

These stories are usually covered on different beats—crime, education, politics, for example. Each comes with its own facts and debate.

This series highlights organizations working across these and other issues. Some respond after violence occurs. Others work to prevent it. Many do both. Their goal is to reduce violence over time and replace weak systems with stronger ones.

Their work includes protecting survivors, holding offenders accountable, and building safer communities through education, intervention, and policy change. Some approach violence as a public health issue. Others focus on civil rights or justice reform. Many use mediation, restorative justice, and nonviolent communication to resolve conflict before it escalates.

Taken together, these efforts reflect a simple idea: Enforcement matters, but it is not enough. Reducing violence also depends on better systems, stronger communities, and earlier intervention.

The resources in this series include national and local organizations offering research, legal advocacy, crisis support, training, and practical ways for people to get involved. Some focus on specific forms of violence. Others work across several areas. All offer ways for individuals to support safer, more just communities.

Guides to Violence Prevention and Community Safety:

• Conflict Resolution and De-escalation

• Gun Violence Prevention

• Political, Hate-Based, and Digital Violence

• Community, Youth, and School Violence

• Policing, Custody, and State Violence

• Family Violence, Sexual Violence, and Abuse of Vulnerable People—coming soon

Each guide highlights organizations, key issues, and ways to take action. The aim is practical: to help readers understand the landscape and find meaningful ways to be part of the solution.

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Global Peace and Security
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Inclusive Language
This guide in the Clear Writing section helps readers feel respected and understood.

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Gun violence is one of the most visible and debated forms of violence in the United States. It affects communities in different ways—from mass shootings to everyday incidents that rarely make national headlines.

The organizations below work to reduce gun violence through policy reform, public awareness, and community-based prevention efforts. Many also support survivors and advocate for systems that address the conditions in which violence occurs.

This guide is part of a growing series on violence prevention and community safety, highlighting organizations working across different forms of violence.

Everytown for Gun Safety

A leading organization working to end gun violence through research, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing at the national and local level.

Giffords

Founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, this organization advocates for gun control and responsible ownership through public awareness campaigns. Gun laws by state: Washington.

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Focuses on preventing gun violence through legal action, policy advocacy, and public education, with an emphasis on stronger gun safety laws.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America | Washington state chapter

A grassroots movement advocating for stronger gun laws through local organizing, public awareness, and community action.

Sandy Hook Promise

Founded by families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, this organization works to prevent gun violence through education and awareness programs aimed at youth and communities.

Alliance for Gun Responsibility

A Washington-based organization advocating for stronger gun laws through policy campaigns, voter engagement, and public education.

March For Our Lives

Founded by student activists after the Parkland shooting, this organization advocates for gun control and safer schools. They engage young people in activism and policy advocacy.

National Gun Violence Memorial

This organization honors victims of gun violence and amplifies the voices of survivors. They advocate for policy changes to prevent future violence.

Everytown Survivor Network

A network connecting survivors of gun violence to share their experiences and advocate for change. They provide support and resources for community engagement.

Cure Violence Global

An international organization that treats violence as a public health issue, using trained community members to interrupt conflicts and prevent retaliatory shootings.

Top Issues in Gun Violence, Gun Safety, and Gun Control

Key policy and community issues in gun violence prevention include:

Universal Background Checks: Require background checks for all gun sales to prevent dangerous individuals from obtaining firearms.

Assault Weapons Ban: Prohibit the sale of semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines to reduce the potential for mass shootings.

Red Flag Laws: Allow authorities to temporarily remove firearms from individuals perceived as a threat to themselves or others.

Safe Storage Laws: Mandate secure storage of firearms to prevent unauthorized access, especially by children.

Closing the Gun Show Loophole: Ensure that all gun sales, including those at gun shows, require background checks.

Funding for Gun Violence Research: Advocate for increased funding for research on gun violence to develop effective prevention strategies.

Mental Health Support and Access: Improve access to mental health services to help individuals in crisis and prevent violence.

Community-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Support local programs that engage communities to reduce gun violence through conflict resolution and support services.

Child Access Prevention Laws: Hold gun owners responsible if their firearms are accessed by children, promoting safe storage practices.

Enhanced Penalties for Gun Trafficking: Increase penalties for illegal gun sales to disrupt the illegal gun market and reduce crime rates.

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