RTI's Focus Areas to Reduce Firearm Violence
RTI’s Evidence-Based Strategies to Reduce Firearm Violence focus on developing and adopting science-based policies to reduce gun violence. We apply multidisciplinary expertise to build the evidence base around all types of firearm violence and deepen partnerships with local, state, and national organizations invested in reducing firearm violence. Headquartered in North Carolina since 1958, RTI is also committed to developing resources that can specifically address and reduce firearm violence in North Carolina.
RTI’s is working to build and translate the evidence base to reduce firearm violence with a focus on:
- Integrated community violence prevention and intervention strategies that engage public safety, public health, victim service, and community-based organizations to address individual, social, and structural correlates of firearm violence.
- Promoting student and school safety by reducing risk and effectively responding threats of bullying, self-harm, school shooting, and other school safety concerns.
- Developing and leveraging data systems and innovative tools to investigate firearm violence and to promote transparency and trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve.
- Bringing national resources and evidence-based strategies to better understand, prevent, respond to, and reduce firearm violence in North Carolina.
