CCNI History
In 2003, Mayor Brown convened a Violence Prevention Task Force comprised of City and County Agency Directors, City Council Members, Alameda County Supervisors and area Law Enforcement leaders. The Task Force chose to pilot a community capacity-building strategy in two small, targeted high crime neighborhoods – Sobrante Park in East Oakland and the Hoover Historic District of West Oakland. The original name of the Task Force’s project was the Oakland City-County Violence Prevention Initiative. To better reflect the emphasis on both violence prevention and creating safer, more resilient communities, the name was changed to the City-County Neighborhood Initiative.
Currently, the CCNI is managed by staff from the City of Oakland Neighborhood Services Division and the Alameda County Public Health Department’s Office of the Director.
ACPHD Resources
- Violence in Oakland (2007) (PDF 1.16Mb)