Presentation on Cease Fire from "Acting Up - Using Theater & Technology for Social Change," from DePaul's School for New Learning Distance Education Program, Winter 2010.
3. Ceasefire is an organization that defines themselves as an evidence-based public health approach to reducing shootings and killings. Since founding the organization in 1995, our previous director, Dr. Gary Slutkin has taken great pride in the concept of treating neighborhood gang violence, much as the medical profession would treat the onset of a disease. The methods employed rely greatly on intervention. This has proven to be very successful.
4. Changes in Violence Due to the Program [i Shootings Down Hotspots Cooler Gang homicide decline Auburn Gresham 17% 15% involvement in homicide down reciprocal killings down Englewood 34% Logan Square 22% gang involvement in homicide down reciprocal killings down Rogers Park 40% Southwest 24/–27% gang involvement in homicide down West Humbolt Park 16% 17% East Garfield Park not evaluated not evaluated reciprocal killings down
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10. Universal Themes that young people have related to throughout history can be explored through the performance arts .