Metropolitan Peace Initiatives
Helping people heal from trauma by partnering with and offering support for community-based organizations in:
- Behavioral health
- Workforce development
- Legal aid
- Capacity building
Communities Partnering 4 Peace
Our partners administer a comprehensive, long-term approach to reducing violence in communities citywide through principles including:
- Nonviolence
- Hyper-local collaboration
- Trauma-informed care
- Restorative justice
Metropolitan Peace Academy
Professionalizing the field of violence prevention with an intensive and multidisciplinary training:
- Builds a citywide network of outreach workers
- Enhances community capacity to reduce violence
Our Violence Prevention Activities
Northwestern University Corners Research Confirms CP4P Partners Saving Lives
Northwestern University CORNERS Research Confirms CP4P Partners Saving Lives A new report, released by Northwestern University’s Center forNeighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS), shows a coalition of Chicago community violence intervention (CVI) organizations known as Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P) are reducing gun violence in Chicago’s neighborhoods most impacted by violence. “Our results found evidence…
FY23 CP4P Request for Funding
With funding made possible by the U.S. Department of Justice-Bureau of Justice Assistance, Metropolitan Family Services will provide funding to hyperlocal community-based organizations through this RFP. Download the RFP and Budget Form using the button below.
Introducing the CP4P Justice Corps!
Sonny Thatch, Managing Attorney of CP4P Justice Corps, introduces this new program initiative of Metropolitan Peace Initiatives and the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services, during LAS’s Equal Access to Justice Award Luncheon.