Gate City Coalition (GCC2), a community violence interruption program, was developed in 2018 in response to a string of shootings that claimed the lives of multiple teenagers (Anderson, 2022).

The goal of the program is to “interrupt” potentially violent scenarios and transform the role of violence within communities. Violence interrupters are also community members who have been at risk of turning to violence at some point in their lives and are now trained to mediate conflicts and suppress the spread of violence.

GCC2 currently focuses on neighborhoods in the Merritt Drive/Overland Heights Drive area and the Hickory Trails and Hampton Homes public housing communities.  Priority neighborhoods are those most affected by homicides, fights, gang activity, and violence.

For more information about GCC2, go to: https://www.onestepfurther.com/about-1  

Anderson N. After success in other NC cities, councilman works to bring Cure Violence model to Salisbury. Salisbury Post. 2022 Feb.