Cure Violence Global helps jurisdictions, agencies, and organizations launch stronger violence prevention efforts, improve existing programs, and equip staff to prevent more violence.
Our training and technical assistance are grounded in more than 25 years of experience and one of the strongest evidence bases in community violence prevention.
An independent evaluation by John Jay College found that CVG training led to measurable improvements in how violence prevention workers performed their jobs.
CVG offers multiple ways to train, specialized training for different roles, and focused modules for specific skills and needs.
Flexible Training Options
Bring CVG to Your City
Our trainers work directly with your team in your community, allowing training to be adapted to your local context and needs.
Train With CVG in Chicago
CVG provides an intensive, five-day in-person training experience in Chicago at a lower per-person cost.
Train With CVG Virtually
Live virtual training provides a flexible and cost-effective option for organizations that cannot bring staff together in person.
Specialized Training Tracks
Violence Interruption and Reduction Training
Prepare frontline staff to interrupt conflicts, engage participants, prevent violence, and strengthen community engagement.
Outreach Worker Training
Build the skills needed to reach, engage, support, and maintain relationships with people at highest risk.
Program Manager Training
Equip supervisors and program leaders to manage staff, strengthen operations, use data, and lead effective violence prevention programs.
Hospital Responder Training
Prepare hospital-based teams to engage victims of violence, prevent retaliation, provide support, and coordinate with clinical partners.
Focused Training Modules
Conflict Mediation Techniques
Identifying and Engaging High-Risk Participants
Building Trust with High-Risk Participant
Risk Reduction Planning
Data-Driven Program Implementation
Norm Change
Program Monitoring and Evaluation
Trauma-Informed Practice Integration
Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Response
Community Health System Development
One of CVG’s greatest strengths is the depth of our technical assistance. CVG provides the expertise to solve problems, adapt, and keep programs moving toward results. This assistance can include ongoing consultation, site visits, assessments, coaching, data review, problem-solving with leadership and direct support as challenges arise.
Program Design & Startup
Building the structure, staffing, partnerships, and systems needed for effective implementation.
Program Review and Improvement
Identifying gaps, solving implementation problems, and strengthening day-to-day operations.
Organizational Capacity Building
Strengthening the organizations responsible for sustaining violence prevention over the long term.
Ongoing Coaching & Troubleshooting
Working with program leaders and staff as new challenges emerge—not just during a scheduled training.
Monitoring, Data & Evaluation
Helping programs understand what is happening, use data to improve performance, and measure results.
If your organization is dealing with violence in a school, correctional facility, workplace, housing development, recreation program, or another environment, CVG can help you determine what will work.
CVG has deep experience applying violence prevention expertise in very different environments and against different forms of violence. That experience—in training, implementation, behavior change, conflict mediation, program design and technical assistance—is directly relevant to organizations confronting other violence challenges.
We can help address:
You may need to launch a new program. You may already have one and want better results. You may need stronger frontline skills, better management, more effective systems, or expert help solving a specific challenge.
We can help determine what will make the greatest difference.
No. You do not need to implement the Cure Violence approach to benefit from CVG training or technical assistance. We work with CVI programs using a range of approaches and can strengthen existing violence prevention efforts without requiring organizations to change their overall program model. We also adapt our training and expertise for other types of violence, settings, and workforces where the skills we teach are relevant.
Most core training packages are approximately five days, but there is no one-size-fits-all format. We can combine modules, adjust the length, and develop a training package around your team’s roles, experience, goals, and needs.
We train people at every level of violence prevention work—from frontline staff to organizational and government leadership. Training can be designed for Violence Interrupters, Outreach Workers, hospital responders, supervisors, program managers and directors, community partners, city agencies, elected officials, and others involved in preventing violence. We tailor the content and level of training to the people in the room and the work they need to do.
Yes. Training and technical assistance can be provided together or separately. If you need help with a particular challenge, CVG can work with you to identify what support would be most useful and provide assistance in the areas where we have relevant expertise.
Yes. You do not need to have every piece in place before talking with us. A good first step is to schedule a conversation. We can learn what you are trying to accomplish, help you understand possible next steps, and discuss how CVG may be able to support you as your plans develop.
Yes. Customization is a major part of how we work. We can adapt the training to your program, staff roles, local environment, experience level, challenges, and priorities rather than asking your team to fit into a standard package.
Yes. You do not need to know which modules or training package to request before contacting us. We can talk with you about your program, staff, current challenges, and goals and recommend the combination of training and technical assistance that makes the most sense.
Training can be delivered in your city, at CVG trainings in Chicago, or virtually, depending on the content and needs of your team. We can help determine which format—or combination of formats—will work best.
Yes. In many cases, the strongest approach is to build knowledge and skills across multiple levels of an organization. We can train frontline staff, supervisors, program leadership, partner organizations, government agencies, and other stakeholders, with content tailored to each audience.
Yes. CVG can provide ongoing technical assistance, coaching, problem-solving, and implementation support after training. This allows teams to bring real situations and challenges back to experienced CVG staff as they put what they learned into practice.
Yes. Sometimes an organization does not need another training—it needs experienced help solving a particular problem. CVG can provide targeted technical assistance around program implementation, supervision, staffing, safety, violence interruption, outreach, partnerships, data, community engagement, and other areas within our expertise.
Yes. The skills and methods behind CVG’s training have relevance well beyond a traditional community-based CVI program. We have experience adapting training and technical assistance for different forms of violence, different environments, and different types of workers. We work with organizations to determine which elements are most useful and how they should be applied in their setting.
