Latest updates on our focus areas

2024

  • Star Ledger and Hudson County View recap the concerns and call to action shared by webinar panelists (11/20)

  • NJVIP hosts webinar to discuss implementation challenges with the Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act (11/19)

  • A4021, Medicaid reimbursement for violence prevention, passed in Assembly Health Committee (10/17)

  • Advisory Council for Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act fully appointed (Sept.)

  • NJVIP Coalition sends letter to Newark leadership in support of Shadee Dukes calling for dismissal of charges (8/20)

  • NJVIP Coalition sends letter to Attorney General’s Office about CBVI grantee concerns and challenges and calls for a consideration to move funds to Department of Health (8/20)

  • Victoria Lee killed by Jersey City police during mental health crisis (8/15)

  • Dr. James Pruden from St. Joseph’s Hospital and Jermaine Belcher of the HAVI co-author an op-ed on Medicaid reimbursement for violence prevention services (7/16)

  • Violence interventionist, Shadee Dukes, arrested and charged with obstructing justice while performing job responsibilities (6/25)

  • Governor’s Office moves $10M funding for Community-Based Violence Intervention Grant Program from OAG to Cannabis Regulatory Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Fund in FY25 budget (April)

  • Governor’s Office recommends discontinuation of supplemental appropriation ($12M) for Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act in FY25 budget (April)

  • Governor’s Office appropriates $20.1 M for ARRIVE Together program, law enforcement and mental health co-responder model, in FY25 budget (April)

  • S1407 (formerly S2007), Medicaid reimbursement for violence prevention, passed Senate Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens Committee (3/14)

  • Attorney General Platkin issues an administrative directive to formally establish the Office of Alternative and Community Responses (March)

  • NJVIP hosts first in-person Statewide Coalition Summit and Community Safety Press Conference (3/1)

  • Paterson Healing Collective receives Community Partner Spotlight at NJ Gun Violence Research Center Virtual Summit (2/8)

  • Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act signed into law by Governor Murphy, appropriates $12 million (1/12)

  • S4250, Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act, gains approval from Senate Committee (1/4)

2023

  • Governor Murphy and AG Platkin Announce Recipients of $5.2 Million to Continue the State’s Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program

  • Reimagining Safety film screening held in Trenton (11/18)

  • NJVIP calls for A5326 to be renamed the “Seabrooks-Washington Community Crisis Response Act,” to memorialize Najee Seabrooks and Andrew Washington (November)

  • NJVIP Coalition calls for passage of S2007 (Medicaid reimbursement for violence prevention services), S2295 (Local civil complaint review board + $800K appropriation), A5326 (Community crisis response advisory council and pilot program + $10M appropriation) during lame duck session (11/9)

  • Acting Governor Tahesha Way signed A-4978/S-3086 into law, codifying VIVA within the Department of Law and Public Safety (10/17)

  • Andrew Washington killed by Jersey City police during mental health crisis (8/29)

  • NJVIP Coalition holds Lobbying Day in Trenton to call for movement on S2007 (Medicaid reimbursement for violence prevention services), S2295 (Local civil complaint review board + $800K appropriation), A5326 (Community crisis response advisory council and pilot program + $10M appropriation) (6/15)

  • Attorney General Platkin assumes control of Paterson Police Department after murder of Najee Seabrooks (3/27)

  • Violence interventionist, Najee Seabrooks, killed by Paterson Police during mental health crisis (3/3)

2022