Reports

CITY GRANT IMPACT REPORTS

2024 Youth Violence Prevention Week Report [PDF]
Our Youth Violence Prevention Week Micro-Grants program supports community partners offering programming focused on elevating youth violence prevention and equipping community members to engage in the work. Youth Violence Prevention Week 2024 activities included sports/ recreation, resources sharing, workshops, focus groups, community building and so much more. While activities vary from year to year, our goal remains the same: to encourage, equip, and empower our Knoxville community to continuously advocate and work towards reducing youth violence.

2023 Summer Break Opportunity Youth Grants Impact Report [PDF]
The summer break Opportunity Youth programs successfully achieved their goal of providing engagement activities, job opportunities, and professional development to Opportunity Youth throughout the Knoxville community. Selected organizations created unique opportunities for youth during the 2023 summer break when some might have otherwise been disconnected from support and community, and as a result, potentially turned to violence.

2023 Spring Break Opportunity Youth Grants Impact Report [PDF]
Community Organizations throughout Knoxville that received the Spring Break or Summer Opportunity Youth Grants (SBOYG/ SOYG) created opportunities serving as a first line of defense for Knoxville’s Opportunity Youth, reminding communities that its Opportunity Youth —primarily Black, brown, and low-income children—deserve the opportunity to safely play and have fun alongside other children as a means of preventing violence.

2022 Spring Break & Summer Opportunity Youth Grants Impact Report [PDF]
The spring and summer programs successfully achieved their goal of providing engagement activities, job opportunities, and professional development to Opportunity Youth throughout the Knoxville community. Selected organizations created unique opportunities for youth during the 2022 spring and summer breaks when some might have otherwise been disconnected from support and community, as a result potentially turning to violence.

2022 Youth Violence Prevention Week Grant Impact Report [PDF]
Awareness of youth violence is key so communities can better support young people throughout Knoxville, in turn helping them exist in healthy, thriving spaces to be the engaging, productive individuals we hope for them to be. It is critical for the City of Knoxville to make sure we are engaging our young people, listening to them, creating pathways for them to be involved, and elevating not only the issues that are important to them but also the experiences that are impacting them every day. It is also important that we work with community-based organizations that are on the ground working with young people and their families each day. These types of engagement are what make YVWP so critical to addressing violence in the City of Knoxville and beyond.

NICJR REPORTS

Knoxville Landscape Analysis [PDF]

Knoxville Cost of Gun Violence [PDF]

VIOLENCE REDUCTION

2023 City of Knoxville Community-Based Violence Reduction Plan [PDF]

2019-2021 Knoxville Gun Violence Problem Analysis [PDF]

Reports

Community Safety and Empowerment Officer