The National Gang Center’s Voices From the Field podcast shares engaging, in-depth conversations with experts exploring topics that contribute to the development of Community Violence Intervention strategies to address gang and gun violence in communities.
Voices From the Field | Getting to the Heart of Youth Transformation: Elevating Youth Voices
This episode features Marcel Martin, an intervention specialist with the Center of Hope, and the coordination of the center’s Kuji Youth Radio initiative, which is a prevention and intervention program that uses podcasting as a strategy for reaching and providing opportunities to youth exposed to gang violence.
Voices From the Field | Multigenerational Gang Intervention
This episode focuses on understanding multigenerational influences in youth gangs and on how this knowledge can be applied to community violence intervention efforts aimed at interrupting the cycle of violence.
Voices From the Field | Reducing the Impact of Gang Violence Through Trauma-Informed Policing
This episode focuses on understanding the impact of trauma on those exposed to gang-involved violence and on how trauma-informed policing can be applied to interrupt the cycle of violence.
Voices From the Field | Identifying and Leveraging Opportunities for Gang Intervention
This episode focuses on identifying opportunities for intervention along the course of youth gang association and applying this knowledge to develop community violence intervention efforts aimed at interrupting the cycle of violence.
Voices From the Field | Gang Violence: Improving Investigative Outcomes
This episode shares lessons learned from David L. Carter, Ph.D., a professor and researcher with the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice. This conversation highlights Dr. Carter’s work in Homicide Process Mapping: Best Practices for Increasing Homicide Clearances, focusing on how law enforcement can improve investigative outcomes in communities impacted by serious and entrenched gang and gun violence problems.
Voices From the Field | Street Outreach: Safety in the Field
This episode shares lessons learned from Jay Franklin, a gang prevention and intervention expert from Riverside, California, with decades of experience working with gang-involved youth in communities impacted by serious gang and gun violence.
Voices From the Field | Street Outreach: Engaging Gang-Involved Youth
This episode shares lessons learned from Victor González, Jr., a gang prevention and intervention expert from Houston, Texas, with decades of experience working with gang-involved youth in communities impacted by serious gang and gun violence.