Violence Intervention & Prevention Center

The VIP Center is designed to address the effects and root causes of violence in Oakland through a citywide alliance of eight organizations. This alliance is designed to strengthen the City of Oakland’s safety net with evidence-based programming that disrupts the transmission of violence in three core domains – individual, family, and community -- using a holistic trauma-informed approach. 

This innovative, highly collaborative, multi-strategy model is designed to address both the effects and root causes of violence in Oakland, a violence reduction citywide alliance consisting of a web of eight organizations designed to strengthen the City of Oakland’s safety net with a multidisciplinary public health strategy that employs evidence-based programming selected to disrupt the transmission of violence in three core domains – individual, family and community, while addressing the complex needs of the people we serve with a trauma-informed holistic approach.