Community Justice Action Fund Launches Gender Violence Policy Paper
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2021
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Community Justice Action Fund Launches Gender Violence Policy Paper
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF) launched a new gender violence policy paper, informed by communities directly impacted by gun violence. The policy paper was written and informed by our communities, and is a blueprint to inform policymakers on how to invest in community solutions that empower and support survivors and their communities to prevent gun violence.
The policy paper is built on three pillars:
Enacting a Public Health Approach to Gender-Based Violence
Prioritizing Policy Solutions that Go Beyond Hardware and Police Response
Investing in Community Survivor Care as Gun Violence Prevention
“While keeping firearms out of conflicts is an important aspect in the struggle to end violence, addressing the root causes of that violence and supporting survivors is essential, said CJAF Executive Director Greg Jackson.”
“The most comprehensive way to interrupt the pattern of gender-based violence is to invest in survivors and their communities,” continued Jackson. “By providing comprehensive hospital-based medical care programs for survivors, training for intimate partner violence interrupters, and healthy relationship educational and advocacy training programs, we can work to end the cycle of gender-based violence. With this playbook, CJAF is calling on policymakers to prioritize survivor care as a critical part of gun violence prevention.”
An average of 57 women in the United States are shot and killed by an intimate partner every month, and for many Black and other women of color, police are often ineffective in interrupting violence before a gun is introduced.
Gender-based violence against people of color is often a pathway to gun violence, and the gun violence prevention movement must advocate for solutions that invest in survivors.
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