Community Violence Intervention Center

BOSS is a community violence intervention organization and long-standing DVP partner operating violence interruption, street outreach, and life coaching in East Oakland and Deep East Oakland — the communities with the highest rates of gun violence and homicide in the city.

The CVI Center is designed to address the effects and root causes of violence in Oakland through a citywide alliance of eight organizations. This alliance is designed to strengthen the City of Oakland’s safety net with evidence-based programming that disrupts the transmission of violence in three core domains – individual, family, and community -- using a holistic trauma-informed approach. 

This innovative, highly collaborative, multi-strategy model is designed to address both the effects and root causes of violence in Oakland, a violence reduction citywide alliance consisting of a web of eight organizations designed to strengthen the City of Oakland’s safety net with a multidisciplinary public health strategy that employs evidence-based programming selected to disrupt the transmission of violence in three core domains – individual, family and community, while addressing the complex needs of the people we serve with a trauma-informed holistic approach.