The City of Tacoma implemented the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Comprehensive
Gang Model (Model) beginning in 2012-2013.
The City of Tacoma served as lead agency for this initiative, convened a
multidisciplinary intervention team of agency partners, and contracted for gang
outreach services.
Gang Reduction Program Implements Five Core Strategies
In
2016, the program was restructured, to implement the five core strategies of
the Model – community mobilization, opportunities provision, social
intervention, suppression, and organizational change and development, and to
hire a lead agency for the Model. In
2017, a contract was awarded to Comprehensive Life Resources to facilitate
reconvening the steering committee, multidisciplinary team, and provide gang
outreach services through a new program called Rising Above the Influence
(RAIN). Tacoma Police Department (TPD) has oversight of the suppression
activities.
Comprehensive Life
Resources - RAIN - Rising Above INfluence, formerly the Tacoma Gang
Reduction Project, is funded, in part, by the City of Tacoma. The program
provides youth and their families with a network of community resources to help
at-risk youth from being affiliated with gangs and to provide families and
youth with assistance and resources to prevent and suppress gang violence in
their communities.
New Tacoma Gang Assessment Report Released in 2019
During 2018, in order to provide
direction for future activities, policymakers contracted for a new Tacoma Gang
Assessment report. View the 2019 Tacoma Gang Assessment Report.
For more information
about RAIN, program services or how to get involved, visit their website under Other Programs (gang website under
development) or contact Calvin Kennon, Sr. at ckennon@cmhshare.org.