Born out of the tragic shootings in Buffalo, Harlem, Queens,
Westchester and other areas in New York, Operation SNUG (guns spelled
backwards) became the second statewide implementation of the Cure
Violence model. (Yonkers is also supported by city funding, and some New
York City sites have other funding sources.)
A project of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, SNUG was launched 2009 with $4 million allocated from the New York State Legislature,
which covered 7 cities. SNUG is currently funded at $2.9 million by the
state (NY Governor Cuomo added additional funding in Fall 2014 for
three new sites) covering a total of ten cities: Albany, Buffalo, Mt.
Vernon, Nassau County (opening in 2015), Jacobi Medical Center in NYC,
Rochester, Syracuse, Troy (opening in 2015) and Yonkers (Yonkers is also
supported by city funding). Suffolk (opening in 2015) will be using a
different violence prevention model. New York City also supports eight
sites across five boroughs through its Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene.
The New York City Department of Health program have met with great
success, including an independent evaluation of the program in Crown
Heights, Brooklyn that showed a 20% lower rate of shooting due to the
program and a year without a shooting or killing in East Brooklyn. Due
in large part to the strong results achieved at the SNUG and NYC
supported program sites, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced an additional
$12.7 million in funding that will allow the total number of Cure
Violence partner sites in NYC to triple in 2015. The NYC Department of
Health is working closely with Cure Violence to hire and train site
managers, violence interrupters and outreach workers.
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Source: Cure Violence of New York
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