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NOLA FOR LIFE, Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Comprehensive Murder Reduction Strategy

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Mayor Mitch Landrieu , City of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods – where you’re from matters, not just for your  identify, but for your life outcomes.  A small number of neighborhoods comprising 23% of the city’s population account for 39% of murders.  As a result, the City of New Orleans has adopted strategies that change the environment in which young people grow up and live as part of NOLA FOR LIFE, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s murder reduction strategies.

This presentation will outline ways in which the City of New Orleans has implemented strategies to change the city’s social, physical, and societal environment in order to foster resilient communities.  These include the following:

 

  • Social environment – These efforts include targeted programs like CeaseFire Central City, which seeks to interrupt violence and change social norms, as well as “Flip the Script,” a bold public awareness campaign, and Mayor Landrieu’s outspoken advocacy about the importance of addressing urban gun violence. 
  • Physical environment – These efforts include NOLA FOR LIFE Days, which focus the activities of City departments and volunteers on a park and the surrounding hotspot neighborhood, as well as storefront improvement projects and other activities to improve the built environment in NOLA FOR LIFE target neighborhoods. 

Societal environment – These efforts include policy changes, such as “Ban the Box,” as well as innovative ways in which City departments such as sanitation and public works have been called upon to play a part in NOLA FOR LIFE.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe NOLA FOR LIFE, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s comprehensive murder reduction strategy. Identify environmental change strategies to prevent violence that have been implemented as a part of NOLA FOR LIFE.

Keyword(s): Violence & Injury Prevention, Public Health Policy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am is the 61st Mayor of New Orleans. Since taking office, I have worked to make the city safer through NOLA FOR LIFE, a comprehensive murder reduction strategy. I ahve been an outspoken advocate for the public health approach to addressing violence. Prior to becoming Mayor, I served as Louisiana’s Lieutenant Governor and in Louisiana’s House of Representatives.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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