Metropolitan Peace Academy
Intensive and multidisciplinary violence prevention training professionalizes the field of street outreach, builds a citywide network, and enhances community capacity to reduce violence.
For all training inquiries, please email MPAtrainings@metrofamily.org with the subject line “MPA Trainings.”
To make room reservations, please fill out an Event Request form here.
Metropolitan Peace Academy
2100 S Morgan St, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60608
(312) 986-4301
Mission
The Metropolitan Peace Academy professionalizes the field of street outreach through intensive training for outreach professionals. Curriculum focuses on:
- Nonviolence
- Trauma-informed services
- Restorative justice
Metropolitan Peace Academy Trainings
- Signature Outreach Training: 18-week/144-hour professional development experience centered around the best practices used by Chicago’s street outreach workers
- Case Management Training: 12-week course highlighting the technical knowledge, abilities, and skills needed for CP4P Case Managers
- Victim Advocate Training: 17-week training for those who support families impacted by gun violence
- Community Training Academy: 24-hour training designed for Chicago Police Department personnel addressing community-related matters
- Professional Understanding Training: 25-hour training designed to teach law enforcement officers and street outreach workers the “rules of engagement” for when the two groups interface
- Southland RISE Collaboration: Our first cross-training between hospital personnel and street outreach workers. Here, outreach workers learn about the role of hospital workers and vice versa.
- Management & Supervision Fellowship: 6-month fellowship designed to build the professional capacity of emerging leaders and current mid-level managers in the CVI field
- SC2 Training (Scaling CVI for a Safer Chicago) Training: In this training, we help build the capacity of new outreach teams to implement the CP4P model in new communities across Chicago
- MPAX (MPA External): Customized training for groups and organizations outside of Chicago
Southland RISE training graduate Gerald Bennett
Southland RISE Collaboration
Our first cross-training between hospital personnel and street outreach workers. Here, outreach workers learn about the role of hospital workers and vice versa.
- Topics include:
- Communication between street outreach and hospital workers
- Insights from a trauma surgeon on the critical first hour
- Law enforcement interaction
- An overview of hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) from UChicago Medicine and Advocate Health models
- Learn more at UChicagoMedicine.org
The Community Training Academy
Supports Chicago police officers in increasing their capacity to work collaboratively, effectively and respectfully with the residents and stakeholders in their district.
- Introduces specific dynamics within a given community and deepens understanding of key historical factors related to policing
- Incorporates an asset-based community development strategy, restorative practices, and a hyper-local focus
Graduate Reflections
Videos from some of our graduates.
