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Leaders from Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P) organizations were among the new cohort for Latino Policy Forum’s 2026 class of the Multicultural Leadership Academy (MLA).

The City of Chicago recently launched its first-ever women’s Community Re-entry Support Center (CRSC) in partnership with the Women’s Justice Institute, in addition to awarding five community organizations serving residents returning from incarceration.

At Metropolitan Peace Initiatives, we like to say, “Those who do the work, lead the work.” 2025 was no exception as we continued our mission to end gun violence in Chicago.

MPI Chief Program Officer Domonique McCord shared her insights on Chicago’s declining levels of gun violence with WBEZ’s Mary Dixon and Patrick Smith in a segment for Say More.

Chicago closed out 2025 with the lowest number of homicides since 1965, and for the first time in decades, four years in a row of declining gun violence.

Meet four new graduates from the MPA as they reflect on their training experience and their work as champions of CVI.

As 2025 comes to a close, Chicago is on pace to record its lowest number of homicides in the past 10 years, ABC7 reports.

As Chicago closes out the year with historic declines in gun violence, Metropolitan Peace Initiatives celebrated its newest class of Community Violence Intervention workers to graduate from the Metropolitan Peace Academy.

Chicago is set to close out the year with historic declines in violent crime, as detailed in a new report from Crain’s Chicago Business. City leaders, law enforcement officials, and Community Violence Intervention experts acknowledge that their combined efforts have helped make 2025 one of the city’s safest years in decades.

Congratulations are in order for Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI) Field Manager NyEdra Turner and MPI Training Specialist Tashee Poplous who recently received their bachelor’s degrees from Northeastern Illinois University through its University Without Walls program.