UNITY City Representatives finalized the Urban Agenda in Spring of 2010. UNITY works with cities around the country who are committed to preventing violence. We collaborate with mayors' offices, departments of health and public health, and other municipal leaders through the UNITY City Network.
The UNITY City Network is a growing network of members committed to:
- Preventing and reducing violence affecting young people
- Promoting and engaging a public health approach to violence
- Sustaining a local planning and implementation process that include multi-sector collaboration
- Developing a plan in each city that focuses on preventing violence.
The Network provides the opportunity for:
- City leaders throughout the United States to work with, share and learn from peers
- Capturing and disseminating best, promising and emerging practices
- Making recommendations, including policy changes to support cities in preventing violence
For cities in the UNITY City Network, UNITY:
- Provides training and consultation services (written, verbal and on-site) on strategic planning, implementation and evaluation for preventing violence, according to the elements of the UNITY RoadMap and other effective strategies and programs
- Assists cities to develop, implement and evaluate plans for preventing violence
- Convenes UNITY City Network meetings
- Highlights the work of UNITY cities in UNITY materials and website and other venues
- Makes recommendations, including new policies based on the work of participating cities
UNITY City Network
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Hillsborough County
Houston
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Multnomah County
New Orleans
Oakland
Philadelphia
Salinas/Monterey County
Santa Clara County
Seattle/King County
St. Louis
To learn more about our work, browse our publications or review our meeting notes:
- Speaking Truth to Power: 5 Key Themes and Directions for Violence Prevention: UNITY meeting proceedings (March 2017)
- Informing the Future of Safer Communities and Healthy Child Development: Proceedings from a Cradle to Community Convening (April 2016)
- Advancing Multi-Sector Efforts to Prevent Urban Violence, a UNITY event summary (January 2015)
- UNITY City Network Convening Summary (October 2012)
- Synthesis Notes: UNITY Strategy Convening (September 2010)
- Synthesis Notes: UNITY City Network Web Forum (August 2009)
- Synthesis Notes: UNITY City Network Convening (June 2009)
- UNITY: Prioritized Strategies to Prevent Violence Before it Occurs (August 2007)
For more information on becoming a member of the UNITY City Network, please contact us.