California Cities Gang Prevention Network

The National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education and Families (YEF Institute) have initiated a network of 13 major cities in California to combat gang violence and victimization.

The California Cities Gang Prevention Network (CCGPN), the first of its kind in the nation, focuses on successful policies and practices that interweave prevention, intervention, enforcement, and a community’s “moral voice” as an alternative to prison-only solutions.

The CCGPN cities have engaged their top social and political leaders to align gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies in a single, comprehensive plan to combat gang violence and to help build communities that don’t produce gangs, while emphasizing data-driven and evidence-based approaches. NCCD and NLC have provided a systematic means for cities to learn, develop, share, and adopt successful gang strategies with each other, and to help frame state and national-level policies that assist efforts at the local level.

To learn more about the California Cities Gang Prevention Network, and to read the Network's publications and monthly bulletins, please visit:

www.ccgpn.org