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Transforming Public Safety

Through Leadership Development, Healing-Centered Support, Violence Reduction Fellowships and Training.

Advance Peace is a national leader in evidence-based community violence intervention, delivering comprehensive, trauma-informed training, real-time on-the-ground technical assistance, and strategic support.

What We
Believe

  • Community Violence Intervention (CVI) practice is a viable and necessary public safety and public health approach

How We
Get There

  • Training & Technical Assistance for Public Agencies and Nonprofits Sectors
  • Training & CVI Workforce Development
  • Customized Professional and Administrative Support for Small Nonprofits/Limited Fiscal Sponsorship Role
  • Education, Resources & Collaboration

Our Services

Training & CVI Workforce Development

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Technical Assistance & Strategic Support

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Customized Professional & Administrative Support

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Education &
Collaboration Hub

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Our Impact

Cities, States & Counties Engaged

Nonprofits &
Agencies Supported

Trainings
Delivered

Lives Impacted Through
CVI Strategies

Between 2018-2024, Advance Peace has helped partner cities avoid an estimated

$360M and $1.4B

in gun violence-related costs.

– Advance Peace Peacemaker Fellowship

– CVI Capacity Building

Success Stories

AP Lansing

I was living fast and thinking short. Funeral plans felt more realistic than future plans. The Fellowship stepped in when I was closest to crashing out. The team didn’t babysit me — they helped build me different. I’m still here because somebody saw in me when I couldn’t.

AP Milwaukee

I used to think growth was soft. Where I’m from, softness gets you hurt. But being in the Fellowship taught me strength is discipline. Strength is walking away. Strength is choosing your family over your ego. That changed everything.

Peace Orlando

I wasn’t afraid of dying — I was numb to it. The Fellowship helped me feel again. Helped me heal what I never talked about. Now I move with intention. I protect life instead of chasing reputation.

AP Stockton

If you’re tired of looking over your shoulder… this is your lane. The Fellowship ain’t about lectures. It’s about real ones investing in you because they know what’s at stake. If you lean in, it will change how you move forever.

Ft. Worth VIP

You don’t have to be perfect to qualify. You just have to be honest about where you’re at. The Fellowship meets you there — and then pushes you further than you thought you could go.

Operation Peacemaker Richmond

If you’re on that edge right now, thinking there’s no way out — this is the way out. Not overnight. Not easy. But real. The Fellowship helped me rewrite my story before it got written for me.

AP Rochester

For the first time, I sat down and mapped out my life instead of just reacting to it. The Fellowship didn’t just talk change — it helped me plan it, step by step. That structure gave me direction.

Yolo AP

When I traveled outside my city with the Fellowship, I realized the world was bigger than my block — and so was my potential. That shift alone changed how I see myself.

AP Fresno

People think it’s about the support. But it’s deeper than that. Every milestone I hit, I earned. The Fellowship held me accountable, invested in my growth, and made sure I knew my transformation had value.

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