Cure The Streets is a gun violence intervention organization. Changing  the community norms. Empowering community members to become change agents. Identifying high risk individuals offering wrap around resources, barrier breaking, and restorative justice. 

Interrupt Violence

Change Community Norms

TEACH & TREAT High Risk Individuals

Cure The Streets use a public health approach to prevent gun violence. Treating gun violence the same as other Infectious Diseases. 

Interrupting the transmission by spreading healthy community norms, Teaching & Treating those at risk healthier methods:

• Connecting high-risk individuals to wrap-around support services

  • Mediating Conflicts that could potentially lead to gun violence 

  • Introducing a new way of learning & Thinking alternatives to gun violence 

  • Raising the public’s awareness on the impact & exposure to gun violence.

  • Communicating the knowledge that violence is a learned behavior that can be unlearned 

IMMEDIATE GOALS:

• To Build Relationships & inform The Community About Cure The Streets.

• Creating Greater Access And Linkage To Existing Opportunities, Services And Programs.

• Develop Raw Talent For Those Who Live In Communities Plagued By Violence. 

TARGET AREAS:

• Ward 8 

  • Washington Highlands {Wahler community}

  • Randle Hill / Meadowbrook Run. {Trenton Park}

  • Congress Heights

  • Office: 3115 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE Washington DC, 20032

  • Office: 3219 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE Washington DC, 20032

• Ward 5 

  • Trinidad / Arboretum

  • 18th & M St 

  • Office: 1109 1/2 Mount Olivet RD NE Washington DC, 20002

  • Office: 1410 N. Capital St. NW

Program Director: Wanda Patten | wanda.patten@naarcdc.com