Community Engagement and Service
What We Do
Through research, collaboration, and service, we create meaningful change in the communities we engage with.
Community Focus
We work with and accountable to communities, ensuring our research is relevant, useful, and accessible.
Engaged Research
We use implementation science and participatory methods to involve impacted populations in studying violence.
Service to Communities
Our faculty and staff share expertise locally and partner with community-serving organizations.
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UC Davis Health Wraparound Program
The UC Davis Health Wraparound Program is a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP) that provides case management to youth and young adults ages 13-30 who were injured by violence. The program extends care beyond the hospital to support long-term healing and recovery while also helping patients find hope and purpose. CVP researchers support program evaluation and evidence-based practice improvements in collaboration with the UC Davis Health Wraparound Program.
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Black & Brown Collective
for Community Solutions to Gun Violence
The Black & Brown Collective, established in 2024, supports a multidisciplinary network of racially and ethnically marginalized community violence prevention scholars, including their research, scholarly discourse, and policy creation. They develop training and research to understand and inform solutions to the structural and community violence that has made a disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities. CVP is a proud supporter of the Collective, for which Shani Buggs is co-founder and serves as co-chair of the advisory committee and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz is a founding member.
