STREET CORNER RESOURCES INC

Programs

1. Cure Violence - an evidence-based public health anti-violence program. It works to stop shootings and prevent violence-related injuries and fatalities among youth in communities with high incidence of violence by: Deploying violence interrupters to identify and mediate conflicts among high-risk youth in the service area. Deploying outreach workers to identify and mentor high-risk youth about redirecting life choices, job training, schooling, employment, health care, and other available services.Building community networks to support anti-violence efforts and mobilize community residents through shooting responses and community events that raise awareness about violence and promote community norms that reject violence. SCR service area is an eight-block area bounded by 137th Street, Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd, 145th Street and Malcolm X Blvd.

   $821,466 spent
   30% of program spending

2. Hospital Responder - SCR partners with Harlem Hospital to provide Hospital Responder Services. These services provide violence interruption and mediation services to victims of traumatic violence that are admitted to the hospital. The hospital identifies victims of violence and reaches out to the SCR Hospital Responder Staff to respond to the incident. The goal is to identify violently injured youth at risk for retaliatory violence, work with victims and their families and friends to help prevent future violence and provide linkages to resources. Hospital Responders assess the risk for potential re-injury, mediate and interrupt retaliatory violence, and work to re-direct youth away from life on the streets. Hospital Responders also work to de-escalate emotions at the hospital scene, coordinate street level intervention, when appropriate, and continue to work with victims who are eligible for Cure Violence program participation after their hospital discharge. This work can involve multiple visits to the hospital. It also involves coordination with hospital staff for follow-up care and referrals.Regular program planning and implementation meetings, ongoing orientation to the…

   $547,644 spent
   20% of program spending

3. Protest Mitigation Support - the Protest Mitigation Support program is designed to create an environment of peace and public safety that enables the public to exercise their rights within the framework of peace, mutual respect, and public safety. The Washington Square Park area in lower Manhattan will be the initial focal area for this program. This area has experienced public safety issues associated with the activities of certain parties within and around its confines. SCR will implement an engagement and de-escalation strategy starting with a safety assessment and the development of a holistic engagement strategy. This strategy will include a consistent presence in the park, building relationships and familiarity with people who frequent the park on a regular basis. Handing out program literature and offering resources. SCR presence will be driven with the intention of being an empathetic, understanding partner for peace.SCR deploys an Outreach Team that is equipped to engage with the population of the park. They understand methods of engagement and de-escalation and will become a positive presence in the park. SCRs Outreach Team also has access to other services that SCR…

   $547,643 spent
   20% of program spending

4. Professional Mental Health Services (PMHS) - PMHS intervention contributes to overall objectives of violence reduction through increasing participants range of positive coping skills and mutually supportive relationships. This program component is designed to mobilize community-based credible clinicians with the goal of building CV participants capacity to recognize and heal from multi-generational traumatic exposure to gun violence (including its intersection with intimate partner violence), as well as that of community members impacted by gun violence who are living in the immediate CV catchment area and to those living in the surrounding police precinct area. In close coordination with the core CV programs, the PMHS component supports the overall objective of reducing gun violence and its perpetuation. Prolonged exposure to violence - and exposure to the heightened risk of violence - can have a significant impact on individuals short- and long-term physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional functioning.Provides culturally attuned, trauma-focused therapy informed by cognitive-behavioral and motivational interviewing approaches and other holistic healing and self-care…

   $273,823 spent
   10% of program spending

5. School-based Conflict Mediation - we work with the Schools Principal to identify the youth who will be served by the program. Participants are selected based on their risk for, and previously documented engagement in, violence or other infractions in the school or community. We engage with participants with the intention of helping them improve their overall attendance, academic achievement, and reduction of incidents of violence or other infractions in school or within the community.SCR develops a set of services in coordination with the Principal to best serve these youth. Service modalities include classroom modules, after-school programming, individual counseling, mentoring, trips, and school-wide assemblies. Focus areas include but are not be limited to conflict mediation and resolution training, anger management, mindfulness, and other related topics. The use of arts, music, theater, or movement-based programming are included in this program.SCR collaborates and coordinates with related service providers in order to be aware of incidents occurring in the community that may affect the school community and the students being served by the program.

   $273,823 spent
   10% of program spending

6. Mobile Trauma Unit (MTU) - SCR operates a Mobile Trauma Unit, known as the Peace Beast. This is essentially an office on wheels that allows us to deliver our gun violence prevention services to locations, primarily within the 32nd Precinct, that are most in need. We respond to incidents of violence and deliver trauma-informed counseling services to those affected by incidents of violence. The MTU is a visible force throughout the Precinct - participating in community events, partnering with community-based organizations, conducting trauma responses, and proactively responding to potential violence.The MTUs activities are coordinated by the MTU Coordinator/Grief Counselor. The Coordinator/ Counselor works with Cure Violence management and staff to coordinate services in our service area and throughout the 32nd Precinct, as needed.The purpose of the MTU is to provide trauma responses and connections to resources and services to areas within the 32nd precinct and to events that have the potential to turn violent. The objective is to reduce and prevent shooting incidents and other acts of violence through swift, coordinated responses to immediate crisis incidents. The MTU seeks to…

   $273,821 spent
   10% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,738,220.