Chicago CRED
Chicago CRED ('Create Real Economic Destiny') is a non-profit organization based in Chicago, USA.[1][2][3]
The organization aims to prevent gun violence in the city’s community. It was founded by Arne Duncan and Laurene Powell Jobs.[4][better source needed]
The organisation engages with volunteers working on community violence intervention.[5] It additionally employs Community Violence Intervention workers as paid employees. These staff are often reformed former affiliated gang members, tasked with attempting to prevent others from also falling into patterns of gang violence.[6]
It attempts to intervene through social outreach[clarification needed][buzzword], with an aim to affect change through a different strategic approach[clarification needed][buzzword] to traditional law enforcement.[1][4][better source needed] Some of its methods include the payment of a stipend to individuals that sign onto the CRED program, and a support system that include trauma therapists, life coaches, and job coaches.[3]
Chicago CRED participants typically spend some time on the program before being connected with employers.[3]
The organization maintains that its techniques are pragmatic and evidence based.[2]
The organisation has been referenced in political debates regarding crime, particularly in the Chicago mayoral race.[1][2] The organization was also the focus of an episode of a 2017 episode of The Daily Show.[7][8]
The organisation has been highlighted by the Obama Foundation.[9] It is supported by Anna Deavere Smith.[10][11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Why America's murder rate has spiked, archived from the original on 2023-05-03, retrieved 2023-05-04 Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Why Congress Should Listen To This Ex-Gang Leader". Slate Magazine. 2023-01-10. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "He left gang life behind. Now Curtis Toler helps others find peace". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Chicago Street Outreach to Reduce Gun Violence". Chicago CRED. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Chicago sees reduction in murders as group works to interrupt cycles of violence". ABC7 Chicago. 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ↑ "Voices from the Ground: The Stories of Three Violence Intervention Workers". Giffords. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ↑ "Behind the Scenes with Chicago CRED on The Daily Show". Emerson Collective. Archived from the original on 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Daily Show [@thedailyshow] (18 Oct 2017). "Tonight: @arneduncan & Curtis Toler on how Chicago CRED is connecting at-risk young men with job training, counseling, and paychecks" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 May 2023 – via Twitter.
- ↑ ""This is how we fight back."". Obama Foundation. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ↑ "Anna Deavere Smith and Arne Duncan examine gun violence in Chicago in new opera 'The Walkers'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ↑ "Transcript: "Capehart" with Anna Deavere Smith and Arne Duncan". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
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