SC2 partners with trusted local coalitions in neighborhoods most impacted by gun violence, equipping them with the tools, funding, and support needed to lead transformative change.
SC2 is using a data-driven, neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach to scaling community violence intervention services in seven of Chicago’s most impacted communities.
With important lessons learned from piloting a scaling approach in North Lawndale, each SC2 community coalition leads its own tailored implementation plan through a hub and spoke model with trusted community-based organizations, supported by SC2's Operations Team and capacity-building resources required to deliver all five core SC2 services at scale.
Started implementation in August 2024
9 local coalition partner organizations
Started implementation in August 2024
7 local coalition partner organizations and 3 vendors
Started implementation in February 2025
7 coalition partner organizations
SC2-aligned implementation in July 2025
4 coalition partner organizations
In capacity building and implementation planning.
6 coalition partner organizations
In extended planning and coalition building since 2024. Capacity building begins in July 2026. Check back for progress updates in Fall 2026.
4 coalition partner organizations
In extended planning and coalition building since 2024. Capacity building begins in July 2026. Check back for progress updates in Fall 2026.
2 coalition partner organizations
CVI isn’t new to Chicago – scaling it is. Prior to SC2, existing funding and capacity reached approximately 10-15% of Chicago’s highest risk. SC2 aims to take the lessons learned from this foundation and expand the reach to 75% of Chicago’s High-Risk Individuals (“HRIs”) over five years (2024-2029). Given this goal, the annual participant servicing goal of an annual 20% increase toward the target of 75% target saturation.
To determine an accurate count of High-Risk Individuals by neighborhood, SC2 works closely with participating organizations in each community coalition to blend a more traditional, statistical process of analysis with the street-level intel only available from those regularly working in the community. This model ultimately combines administrative data from Northwestern CORNERS, our Process Evaluation & Learning Partner; the street outreach community dashboards led by SC2’s Director of Implementation, Jorge Matos.