Transforming Public Safety: Guiding the CVI Frontlines
Every high-performance mission deserves the best tools and guidance. Those working on the frontlines of Community Violence Intervention (CVI) require no less.
Transforming Public Safety: Guiding the CVI Frontlines is the definitive field manual for those entrusted with one of the most critical public missions of our time — making retaliatory gun violence rare and non-recurring.
Born from the Advance Peace Zone (APZone) and refined through years of lived practice, this book offers more than instruction—it offers direction and vision. This compact yet powerful guide equips practitioners, leaders, and policymakers with the standards, principles, lessons, and daily practices that guide the world’s most trusted CVI practitioners. Together, they form a clear, practical blueprint for transforming not only how we do public safety, but how we define it.
Inside, you’ll find what high-performance CVI teams know to be true: credibility is earned, transformation requires trust, and peace is built one relationship at a time.
Whether you are new to the frontlines or leading a city’s CVI strategy, this book will help you deepen your understanding, sharpen your discipline, and elevate your impact. This is your companion in the field, your reminder of why the work matters, and your invitation to rise to the highest standard of peacemaking.
Your journey begins here.
Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence through the Power of Redemptive Love
As COVID-19 took hold, urban gun violence exploded—but not in four cities in California. What did these cities have in common? The Advance Peace gun violence prevention program. In Advancing Peace, urban public health scholar Jason Corburn and the program’s founder DeVone Boggan reveal how the community-based approach truly works, and how it holds out genuine hope, and proven solutions, for those trying to end the plague of gun violence in American cities.
With powerful evidence and heartfelt stories from the front lines, the authors describe a transformation based on compassion and redemption. Without overlooking the legacy of slavery, racism, and poverty in America’s urban areas, the book lays out evidence-based, practical, cost-effective steps that tap the forces of unconditional love, forgiveness, and unyielding focus to restore a sense of purpose to those at the center of the crisis and to heal their communities.
Leadership That Can Solve Gun Violence
In this indispensable read for anyone involved in Community Violence Intervention (CVI) work within communities affected by cyclical and retaliatory violence worldwide, DeVone Boggan, the founder of Advance Peace and the nation’s longest established office of violence prevention, the Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond, California, shares a profound understanding of the significance of ones leadership acumen and reach in achieving optimal public safety outcomes in communities impacted by gun violence. Drawing from his extensive experience leading CVI teams and training CVI leaders, Boggan offers reader-friendly accounts and examples of frontline challenges that every CVI leader must be prepared to face.
In Leading Peace, he takes us into the “APZone,” environments where retaliatory gun violence is prevalent. He distils the leadership wisdom that has helped him and his teams contribute to bringing peace to some of America’s most dangerous cities. Regardless of the environment you serve in-government, not-for-profit, or business-the principles shared by DeVone Boggan will positively impact your leadership character and influence with those whose lives you are helping to improve.
