Dear colleagues,

Wishing you a joyful holiday season and safe, happy New Year.

We’re excited to share that the  Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program (FIPRP)  has officially become the  Center for Firearm Injury Prevention (C-FIP) ! While we have a new name and formal Center title, we remain committed to our core mission, vision, and values, and to sharing timely, actionable information on gun violence prevention with our communities. Check out our new website  here .

While we have much more planned for 2026, we’re pleased to highlight a recent paper and an accompanying online toolkit on evaluating community violence intervention (CVI) programs:

A new paper, led by C-FIP researchers and community partners across Washington State—including Community Mediation Services, Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, Violence Intervention Program at Harborview Medical Center, Community Passageways, Walk About Yakima, CHOOSE 180, Spokane Regional Domestic Violence Coalition, and Port of Support and Pathwayz to Success—highlights a collaborative effort between CVI practitioners and academic researchers.

Integrating existing evidence with the knowledge and expertise of CVI practitioners, we co-led efforts to:

• Create a menu of evaluation measures for constructs in a previously co-developed theory of change.
• Tailor and refine measures for each CVI program involved in the collaboration.

Findings from this new paper informed an online toolkit that others may easily use, tailor, and build upon. This toolkit was created to support youth-focused CVI programs in starting or strengthening their efforts to measure impact whether for internal learning, program improvement, or research.

The toolkit enables users to:

• Select constructs (e.g., community-level safety, collective efficacy, partnerships, trust) that they want to measure.
• Browse both quantitative and qualitative measures for those constructs.
• Create a customized set of measures for download and adapt them to their specific context.

Please feel free to use and share the toolkit and let us know your feedback!