Overview

To expand the City’s capacity to positively transform conflict and break cycles of violence, Mayor Scott has made significant investments in Baltimore’s Community Violence Intervention (CVI) ecosystem and associated infrastructure. This work emphasizes non-law enforcement interventions to mediate conflicts before they escalate into violence, change communal norms around the acceptability of gun violence, and address the root causes. 
 

Before the Scott Administration, Baltimore’s CVI landscape included ten Safe Streets sites, three partnerships with hospitals for hospital-based violence intervention programs, and one contract with an organization providing life coaching and other support to older teens and young adults, Roca. With the historic ARPA investment, Mayor Scott committed to expand Baltimore’s CVI landscape from ten contracts to at least 50 contracts with community-based organizations providing outreach, mediation and violence intervention, hospital-based response, life coaching, and victim services, and has delivered on that promise. View a map exhibiting Baltimore’s CVI partners: Baltimore's Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Ecosystem. 

Current CVI Programs  

School-Based Violence Intervention  

In partnership with the Baltimore City Public School System, MONSE launched the School Based Violence Intervention pilot (SBVIP) program during for the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 school years in four high schools: Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, Carver Vocational-Technical High School, Edmondson-Westside High School, and Digital Harbor High School.  

The program model incorporates real-time intervention and engagement as issues arise throughout the school day with life coaching and case management services throughout the course of the school year. MONSE is actively contracting with the organizations selected to do this work.  

The pilot will be evaluated by a third party before making decisions about scale.  

Hospital-Based Violence Intervention  

MONSE has allocated over $3 million to support the operations of Baltimore’s hospital-based violence intervention program to identify individuals at risk for victimization and committing acts of retaliatory violence and connect them with support to reduce risk factors. HVIP partners include Baltimore’s five major medical systems across eight hospitals: University of Maryland Medical System, LifeBridge Health, Medstar Health, Ascension St. Agnes, and Johns Hopkins Medicine.  

Learn more about our Baltimore Safe Streets program.