Scope of Work Advance Peace
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/SUPPORT, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
City of Pomona
Safe Passages shall be responsible for preparation of the invoices to the City of Pomona. The invoices shall include work from Advance Peace and UC Berkley. Safe Passages shall pay UC Berkley for any and all work performed under this Agreement.
Advance Pease shall be responsible for the following:
ASESSMENT, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
Conduct initial outreach to community groups, decision makers and other key stakeholders to provide in-depth understanding of gun violence and assess potential collaboration opportunities.
Review crime data, key policies, case studies, programs and evaluations of current and former violence prevention/interruption efforts to assess strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
Provide written assessment and recommendations to successfully implement the Advance Peace gun violence reduction strategy in Pomona.
Develop Year-1 Work Plan.
PERSONNEL Management Support
Provide job descriptions for Program Manager, Field Coordinator, Neighborhood Change Agent (NCA) and Peacekeeper.
Assist with recruiting, screening, and hiring of staff.
Provide 100 hours of training and development for new staff.
OPERATIONS Management Support
Participation in weekly strategy meetings with Program Managers from other AP cities.
Support gradual step-by-step roll out of program components to ensure model fidelity and program effectiveness.
Participation in bi-annual “Community of Practice” retreats with UCB Evaluator and State/National partners.
Quarterly coaching sessions with AP Pomona team.
Meetings with City staff and program partners, as needed.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION Support
Assist with the identification, assessment, selection, engagement and enrollment of Peacemaker Fellows.
Support program buildout including street outreach, branding, risk mitigation, infrastructure, and strategic communications.
Provide on-going guidance, tools and resources needed for the effective implementation of the Peacemaker Fellowship.
Cultivate capacity of local service providers and public systems to better serve target population.
Develop protocols for law enforcement and staff interactions.
Provide support in the development of new policies and procedures responsive to local needs and dynamics.
Help educate and inform public systems, philanthropy, clergy, media and community about the rationale and mechanics of gun violence reduction.
Help the City build on its existing infrastructure of gun violence reduction activity and explore integration of the Advance Peace strategy into its long-term strategic plan.
Support additional fund development to solidify and promote program sustainability.
LEARNING and EVALUATION Support
All Advance Peace Pomona evaluation activities will be performed by the UC Berkeley, Center for Global Healthy Cities, through a subaward with Advance Peace. Thus, the evaluation contract should be issued to Advance Peace. The UC Berkeley evaluation team will only evaluate the Advance Peace Pomona street outreach and Peacemaker Fellowship activities. This SOW does not include any evaluations of local crime data, a detailed process evaluation of the Advance Peace program, or commit UCB evaluation team to participate in the overall CalVIP evaluation plan or reporting. The Advance Peace evaluation activities will consist of:
Updating the Human Subject, Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols through the UC Berkeley, Committee for Protection of Human Subjects, to ensure all outreach data collection remains confidential; Update all informed consent forms, scripts and data confidentiality agreements for the Peacemaker Fellowship, including all outreach workers and participants, called Fellows.
Update software used by outreach workers to include Pomona Advance Peace. 3 Update and manage cloud data base storage of outreach worker and Peacemaker Fellowship data, including additional storage within AWS. 4 Create Pomona Advance Peace NCA and Administrative users for data collection system, apdata.org. 5 Deliver two trainings per year to Advance Peace Pomona staff on data collection methods.
Conduct one interview and one focus group with Advance Peace Pomona Advance Peace outreach worker staff to understand data collection challenges and report-back preliminary data/findings.
Create & organize front-end data collection system to ensure all outreach worker inputs are collected, as well as field notes.
Update & manage on-line Fellow/client enrollment & intake questions/profiles, including descriptive data on each client. 1 meeting per year to coordinate with the CalPoly Pomona lead evaluation consultants. This scope of work does not commit the UC Berkeley evaluation team to participate in the CalPoly overall evaluation activities. The UC Berkeley team agrees to share data annually with the CalPoly evaluation team once a separate data sharing and use agreement is signed between Advance Peace, UCB and CalPoly.
Generate one report at the conclusion of the Advance Peace Peacemaker Fellowship consisting of street outreach and participant data. AP Pomona data will also be provided to the CalPoly eval team at the conclusion of the CalVIP IV program, to be included in the local evaluation plan.
Cost: $300,000 – Advance Peace ($100K/ per year)
$150,000 – UC Berkeley Evaluation Services as stated above ($50K/per year) 1 ATTACHMENT NO. 1