We create and implement transformative responses to violence and other forms of harm in marginalized communities.
Community Research
We co-create and develop creative research tools that stimulate change in communities and institutions. We engage our clients and their stakeholders with a philosophy of cultural humility and justice oriented practices.
Community research is necessary for change to occur in organizations, institutions, and in society. We acknowledge our clients as partners in the process of data collection and analysis. With this model we are able to informally and formally train our clients and stakeholders on research methodologies for their own interests.
Community research is necessary for change to occur in organizations, institutions, and in society. We acknowledge our clients as partners in the process of data collection and analysis. With this model we are able to informally and formally train our clients and stakeholders on research methodologies for their own interests.
Our Training Work
In collaboration with community colleges and universities nationwide the Prevention at the Intersections™ programming is offered in urban centers that are afflicted with violence and crime. Our team prevents harm in communities by training human service and public service professionals in systemic thinking around the concept of peace. We believe that strengthening the core of service professions will allow justice workers on all fronts to prevent violence. We are able to do this through educational opportunities, mentorship and training of public and human service professionals. We also prioritize the role of survivors and former perpetrators of violence in peace-building work by building their capacity to lead in these arenas. We enjoy working with advocates and activists across the world. This takes place in our youth leadership programming, re-entry training program and organizational capacity building.
Because many cities that suffer from high rates of violence are also politically and economically struggling, programmatically we address these concerns. Structurally we address the intersections of these concerns by strategically offering the program in the Top 10 most violent cities in the country. Forbes lists Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, Memphis, Birmingham, AL, Atalanta, Baltimore, Stockton, Cleveland and Buffalo; while other lists indicate Milwaukee, Flint and Saginaw, MI and Camden, NJ. While these cities are priorities for P@I, our mission is not limited, we want to also work in cities and towns with concerns about violence.
The curriculum has been developed through a multi-year strategy that included practitioners, survivors and former perpetrators of violence. Developed in Oakland, California we worked with Violence Prevention practitioners, community advocates and educators committed to develop a program that increases human service professionals effectiveness in their work and broadens the social frame in which they do their work. The Prevention at the Intersections ™ curriculum deepens the community member's ability to prevent violence on all fronts.
Because many cities that suffer from high rates of violence are also politically and economically struggling, programmatically we address these concerns. Structurally we address the intersections of these concerns by strategically offering the program in the Top 10 most violent cities in the country. Forbes lists Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, Memphis, Birmingham, AL, Atalanta, Baltimore, Stockton, Cleveland and Buffalo; while other lists indicate Milwaukee, Flint and Saginaw, MI and Camden, NJ. While these cities are priorities for P@I, our mission is not limited, we want to also work in cities and towns with concerns about violence.
The curriculum has been developed through a multi-year strategy that included practitioners, survivors and former perpetrators of violence. Developed in Oakland, California we worked with Violence Prevention practitioners, community advocates and educators committed to develop a program that increases human service professionals effectiveness in their work and broadens the social frame in which they do their work. The Prevention at the Intersections ™ curriculum deepens the community member's ability to prevent violence on all fronts.
Community Capacity Building
Community Capacity Building (CCB), is a strategic process to develop solutions to problems that communities and institutions face. Our capacity building work is focused on eliminating barriers that inhibit people, governments and non profit organizations from realizing their fullest potential to reduce harm. Our aim is to develop collectively designed goals that will enhance their overall capacity to heal and lead.
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Program Participant Testimonials
Kelvin Potts, Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate, College of Alameda; Facilitator of A Rites of Passage program, Alameda County Juvenile Probation Department
“The class gave me a wider range of knowledge and information on subject of violence prevention and how extensive it is and how it reaches to every part of the community. Because of the make-up of the people in the class, a wide range of community involved people—from street workers to man whose son was killed—couple of young ladies in the course who were school teachers—that gave me a very good perspective.”
Lidia Habtetsion, Mills College Graduate; Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate, College of Alameda; Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles for Immigrant Women and Allies
“I went through so much in a short time so that I couldn’t heal and realize how much violence it was. When I went to Crystallee’s class that’s what I realized. I thought my violence was so different than other peoples’. [The class] gave me the strength to read my story out loud. When I said it, that’s when I started healing. Through that I found a lot of people who had experienced similar situations but [our situations] didn’t have to be exactly the same [for us to relate]. And then this experience allowed me to go and help others.”
“The class gave me a wider range of knowledge and information on subject of violence prevention and how extensive it is and how it reaches to every part of the community. Because of the make-up of the people in the class, a wide range of community involved people—from street workers to man whose son was killed—couple of young ladies in the course who were school teachers—that gave me a very good perspective.”
Lidia Habtetsion, Mills College Graduate; Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate, College of Alameda; Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles for Immigrant Women and Allies
“I went through so much in a short time so that I couldn’t heal and realize how much violence it was. When I went to Crystallee’s class that’s what I realized. I thought my violence was so different than other peoples’. [The class] gave me the strength to read my story out loud. When I said it, that’s when I started healing. Through that I found a lot of people who had experienced similar situations but [our situations] didn’t have to be exactly the same [for us to relate]. And then this experience allowed me to go and help others.”
Our Founder
Dr Crain is the Founder & Executive Director of Prevention at the Intersections. He scholarship examines the intersectional lens and experiences of harm across marginalized groups. She has published articles in topic areas of public health, the sub-field of violence prevention, women's studies, sociology, and political science. Her consulting practice has focused on mitigating the impact of community and state violence through capacity building, research, and program development. She specializes in working with formerly incarcerated men and women, communities of color, survivors of violence, and families impacted by incarceration. Dr Crain is a lecturer at the California State University - East Bay, Department of Political Science.
