CPrV© is a comprehensive violence prevention strategy that emphasizes community leadership in partnership with social service and government agencies. It is based on the 2011-2016 CDC STRYVE youth violence prevention initiative as implemented in Portland, Oregon's Multnomah County Health Department (see STRYVE Final Evaluation Report (PDF). CPrV© is designed to strategically allow community knowledge and experience to guide its development and implementation, while also leveraging authentic government and multi-disciplinary support.

The CPrV© strategy is in full swing in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Read an article about this implementation on CPrVStrategy.com or view the full report & plan on the Buncombe County website.

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Core components include 6 evidence-based strategies and 1 evidence-informed strategy:

• Community Health Worker-Violence Prevention Professional Training (CHW-VPP) - evidence-based
• Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) - evidence-based
• Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) [PDF] - evidence-based
• Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) [PDF] - evidence-based
• Popular Education (PE) - evidence-based
• Multi-Sector Stakeholder Coalition (MSSC) - evidence-based
• Community Healing Initiative [PDF] - evidence-informed

Cape Fear CPrV© is currently being implemented in Wilmington, North Carolina's Cape Fear region (please see the original initiative publication, Cape Fear's Comprehensive Community Violence Prevention Strategy) and aims to demonstrate its scalability across multiple communities throughout America.