Violence Interrupter

THE ORGANIZATION The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice.

Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods.

With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies :

• Operating Programs  that pilot new ideas and address local challenges; Conducting original research to evaluate what works—and what doesn’t; and Providing expert assistance and policy guidance to reformers across the country and beyond.
• Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide.
• Learn more about our work at www.innovatingjustice.org .
• THE OPPORTUNITY One of the Center’s demonstration projects is Neighbors in Action, formerly known as the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center.
• Neighbors in Action provides anti-violence programs, youth programs, and resource links to community residents.
• Its mission is to encourage communication and understanding, prevent future conflicts, and help foster stronger, healthier neighborhoods.
• Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Brooklyn includes two sites in Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.
• S.O.S. is a replication of the Cure Violence program, a gun violence prevention model that aims to reduce and prevent shootings using public health strategies.  Neighbors in Action is seeking a Violence Interrupter for the Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Bed-Stuy program.
• Reporting to the Violence Interrupter Supervisor, the Violence Interrupter will work individually and as a team to prevent neighborhood shootings and killings.

They will provide conflict mediation services and serve as conduits to the program’s Outreach Workers who work with program participants on a long-term basis.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to :

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We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.