Communities Partnering 4 Peace
Community-based violence prevention solutions in Rogers Park and Uptown.
How CP4P Works:
CP4P is a comprehensive, community-based violence prevention model pioneered by Metropolitan Family Services. Understanding that effective solutions to community challenges requires residents’ active support and engagement, CP4P’s model puts the power in communities’ hands.
CP4P works directly with individuals at highest risk of shooting or being shot. We accomplish this by developing authentic, trusted relationships in communities, and by providing trauma-informed wraparound services. Our outreach workers are capable, skilled, and dedicated professionals who live and work in the communities they serve.
What We Do
CP4P ONE Northside’s violence prevention team is making a direct impact on those most effected by gun violence in Rogers Park and Uptown. We offer a series of comprehensive programs designed to intervene in gun violence as it happens, provide wraparound services, and build trust and communication within the communities to prevent future violence.
Violence Prevention
Violence Intervention and Ongoing Services
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Outreach workers use peace-informed strategies to de-escalate tensions and prevent shooting before they occur. They also provide support after a shooting families of victims and perpetrators of violence and work to interrupt reprisals.
Proactive Prevention Services
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Case managers connect those most at risk of being victims or perpetrators of violence with services to mitigate their high-risk situations, including legal and restorative justice support, employment, trauma-informed mental healthcare, substance abuse services, and more.
Pre-Release and Re-Entry Services for Individuals
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Outreach workers help prepare those returning from incarceration by providing links to counseling, job training, like skills, and other vital services, and helping to neutralize violent dynamics that may occur in the community.
Light In The Night
Public Safety Strategy in Safe Spaces
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Throughout the year, different public spaces (like parks) become the sites of these outdoor evening gatherings, to create community cohesion and make them safe for all to enjoy.
Financial Literacy Classes
Sharing Vital Skills for the Future
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These classes teach participants the basics of credit, investing, and financial management. Basic credit consultations are also available.
Youth Mentoring
Early Intervention with to Meet Youth Where They’re At
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High-school aged young men and women are at high risk for shooting or being shot, so our outreach workers have a mentorship program at area high schools to help provide support.
Pop-up Outreach
Building Trust and Making Connections
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Throughout the year the CP4P team engages in monthly pop-up events throughout the neighborhoods to meet people and learn about the communities’ needs.
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Past pop-ups have included a Christmas toy drive, a youth basketball tournament, grilling on Argyle Street in Uptown, and more.
Keep In Touch With Us!
Follow CP4P ONE Northside on Facebook and Instagram for our latest news, updates, and events!
Contact Our Violence Prevention Team
Darrell Dacres
CP4P Program Manager
Zerell Davis
CP4P Program Supervisor
Danette Bullard
CP4P Victims’ Advocate
Rolando Cabrera
CP4P Outreach Worker
Khalil Cromwell
CP4P Outreach Worker
Isaac Dickson
CP4P Case Manager
Deion Geiger
CP4P Outreach Worker
Ledarrel Goss El
Hyrin Owens
CP4P Case Manager
Darrell Dacres – CP4P Program Manager
ddacres@onenorthside.org
Darrell is a longtime resident of Rogers Park. He started in violence prevention as a participant, then a volunteer. He was hired as a violence interrupter in 2017, then became an outreach worker, a supervisor in 2019, then program manager in 2021. His vision is to be the voice of the unheard people.
Zerell Davis – CP4P Program Supervisor
zdavis@onenorthside.org
Zerell is a Rogers Park resident and a big advocate for social justice and equality. He supervises a team of eight violence preventers for the Uptown and Rogers Park area, working boots-on-the-ground weekly. He became the team’s supervisor in 2022, three years after being hired as an outreach worker. His goal is to continue doing this work for his community and staying productive and being a true pillar to his community.
Khalil Cromwell – CP4P Outreach Worker
kcromwell@onenorthside.org
Khalil was introduced to the work of outreach through volunteering. He started by educating participants on the importance of credit education. Through his volunteer work, he was brought on as an outreach worker! Outside of work, Khalil enjoys connecting with the community through financial literacy.
lgossel@onenorthside.org
Ledarrel is a father of four, Uptown resident for over twenty five years, and a community activist since seventeen.
Danette Bullard – CP4P Victims’ Advocate
dbullard@onenorthside.org
Danette is happy to be able to take her experiences and talk with the community and try to offer them things she wishes she would have had when she lived that type of lifestyle. She loves to give back in a positive way and help in any way she can. In her free time, Danette likes to watch movies, hang with family. and go out to eat.
Isaac Dickson – CP4P Case Manager
idickson@onenorthside.org
Deion Geiger – CP4P Program Manager
dgeiger@onenorthside.org
howens@onenorthside.org
Rolando Cabrera – CP4P Outreach Worker
rcabrera@onenorthside.org
Rolando joined the team in 2023. He grew up in Edgewater. He is committed to creative violence prevention solutions for Rogers Park and Uptown. In his free time he spends time with his family.