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What is the Advance Peace Model?

The Advance Peace model is a violence interruption model that invests in the development, health, and well-being of people at the center of gun violence in urban communities. Advance Peace engages the small number of individuals at the center of gun violence in one-on-one, personalized fellowships to build new opportunities and break the cycle.

Seven Daily Touch Points

The program’s “7 Daily Touch Points” will provide developmental and healing resources and uplift community voice. This intervention will reduce cyclical and retaliation violence, reduce firearm-related deaths, and reduce violence rates and the cost of firearm homicides.

The centerpiece of Advance Peace is a high-touch and personalized 18-month Peacemaker Fellowship®. The Peacemaker Fellowship® is grounded in evidence-based practice and includes seven intensive daily touchpoints between program staff, volunteers, and Participating Fellows.

Milwaukee County Advance Peace Peacemaker Fellowship Highlights

  • Two Cohorts
  • 18 Participants per cohort
  • Each cohort will run for 18 months
  • Age ranges to be served, 14 to 24 years old
  • All genders may be served
  • The target population is high-risk individuals who are driving gun violence in Milwaukee County.

Advance Peace Brochure

Contacts

 

  • Vaynesia Kendrick
    Program Manager, Children, Youth & Family Services
    [email protected]

Advance Peace In The News

Milwaukee County officials launch new gun violence prevention program for high-risk youth

By David Clarey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

How much of a difference can 40 people make on crime?

Milwaukee County officials are expecting it to be a substantial difference, as they're launching the Advance Peace fellowship program. The 18-month program, announced Tuesday, will include two cohorts of 40 people between the ages of 14 to 24 who are either causing or have been affected by gun violence. The program aims to reduce that violence.

The program will last three years.

Milwaukee County unveils Advance Peace initiative to tackle youth gun violence

By Kelly Milan, Spectrum News 1

In response to a rise in youth gun violence, Milwaukee County has launched a program aimed at directly intervening in the lives of young people frequently involved in violent incidents.

Leaders and advocates gathered at Milwaukee Christian Center Tuesday to unveil the Advance Peace Fellowship, a program that pairs youth with mentors, some of whom have personal histories of overcoming violent pasts.

New Gun Violence Prevention Program Goes After Habitual Offenders

By Graham Kilmer, Urban Milwaukee

Milwaukee County is taking a new gun violence prevention initiative to the proverbial source: the people who are carrying firearms and committing shootings.

The county announced Tuesday it is implementing a gun violence prevention program, created by California-based nonprofit Advance Peace, that aims to disrupt the cycle of retaliatory gun violence by reaching out directly to the people in Milwaukee who are committing the shootings.