Metropolitan Peace Initiatives
Helping people heal from trauma by partnering with and offering support for community-based and citywide organizations through:
- Metropolitan Peace Academy
- Behavioral Health
- Street Outreach Supervision
- Legal Aid
- Youth Interventions
Communities Partnering 4 Peace
Our partners provide a comprehensive, long-term approach to reducing violence gun violence in communities across Chicago. CP4P principles are:
- Trauma-informed
- Restorative
- Nonviolent
- Hyperlocal
Metropolitan Peace Academy
Professionalizing the field of Community Violence Intervention (CVI) with intensive and multidisciplinary training by:
- Building a citywide network of outreach workers
- Enhancing community capacity to reduce violence
recent news
Sharonda Giles, Director of CP4P’s Crisis Prevention and Response Unit: ‘Women Have the Power to Set the Stage’
Sharonda Giles, Director of the Crisis Prevention and Response Unit (CPRU) at Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), doesn’t just manage and operate a unique crisis intervention initiative; Giles is in the field herself, doing the work of monitoring large crowds and responding to critical incidents in real time.
Gina Ramirez, Street Outreach Case Manager at New Life Centers, Exemplifies Restorative Justice
Gina Ramirez, former Street Outreach Case Manager at New Life Centers, is intimately familiar with playing an essential role in her home communities of Brighton Park and Bridgeport.
CVI Convening Celebrates Reduction in Citywide Gun Violence, Looks to the Future of CVI in Chicago
Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), alongside other Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations, public officials, and advocates, convened to provide Chicago with a public safety update and mark the city’s historic decline in gun violence last year.
