Winner Of The Third Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award 2013

Safe Streets is a community mobilization and outreach program designed to combat shootings and homicides. Safe Streets Baltimore uses a unique, interdisciplinary, public health approach to violence prevention. We maintain that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods.
Using proven public health techniques, the model aims to prevent violence through a three-prong approach:

1. Identification & detection
2. Interruption, Intervention, & risk reduction
3. Changing behavior and norms

Press release available here