Empowering Communities to Reduce Violence and Improve Economic Mobility

Empowering Communities to Reduce Violence and Improve Economic Mobility Poverty Solutions Panel Friday, November 1, 2024, noon ET SSW ECC 1840 Also available to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzPeRZ-ftE Learn more about Detroit’s ShotStopper community violence intervention program, which provides city funds to six community-based organizations running violence intervention programs in neighborhoods with high rates of homicide and shootings. Panelists will include: -Todd Bettison, Detroit deputy mayor - Mike Peterson, ShotStoppers program administrator - Zoe Kennedy, public health and safety director at Force Detroit, which is running one of the violence interventions - Amanda Nothaft, director of data and analysis at Poverty Solutions, who is evaluating data on the effectiveness of the ShotStopper program Moderated by Sam Stragand, senior program manager for the Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together. This series is free and open to the public, but is also a one-credit course available for U-M students during the Fall 2024 semester. Students can enroll in SWK 503 001 or U-M class 26997 on Canvas.