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8. References

Chapter 8 of Combating Gun Violence: Hospital Responders and Street Outreach Workers, a study of the community-based organization Acclivus, Inc. conducted at the Jane Addams Center for Social Policy and Research.

Butts, J., Roman, C. G., Bostwick, L., & Porter, J. (2015). Cure violence: a public health model to reduce gun violence. Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 39-53.

Charles, S. (2020, December 31). After 3 years of progress, Chicago’s murder tally skyrockets in 2020. Chicago Sun-Times (IL). https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/12/31/22208002/chicago-murders-2020-skyrocket-crime-violence-cpd-homicides

Lehmann, U., & Sanders, D. (2007). Policy Brief: Community Health Workers: What Do We Know About Them? The State of the Evidence on Programmes, Activities, Costs and Impact on Health Outcomes of Using Community Health Workers. Geneva: World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/hrh/documents/community_health_workers.pdf

Skogan, W. G., Hartnett, S. M., Bump, N., & Dubois, J. (2008). Evaluation of CeaseFire-Chicago. Final Report to the National Institute of Justice. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University. Retrieved from http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/227181.pdf

Tracking Chicago homicide victims. (2021, June 15). Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html

Webster, D. W., Whitehill, J. M., Vernick, J. S., & Curriero, F. C. (2013). Effects of Baltimore’s Safe Streets program on gun violence: A replication of Chicago’s CeaseFire program. Journal of Urban Health, 90, 27–40.

Whitehill, J. M., Webster, D. W., Frattaroli, S., & Parker, E. M. (2014). Interrupting violence: How the CeaseFire program prevents imminent gun violence through conflict mediation. Journal of Urban Health, 91(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-013-9796-9