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Next Steps <br />Over the first five years of implementation, and in partnership with the NNSC, South Bend has made <br />tremendous progress in implementing and routinizing the core elements of GVI. South Bend has protected <br />these advancements through the transition in leadership at the police department from Chief Teachman to <br />Chief Ruszkowski and through a departmental reorganization. In designing this proposal, the NNSC has <br />considered the progress made to date as well as the key areas of challenge and opportunity as surfaced <br />during recent site visits and on regular strategic advising calls. NNSC thus proposes to work with the South <br />Bend GVI partnership to plan and execute the following crucial next steps over the proposal period to <br />strengthen and sustain strategy implementation: <br />NNSC's firsthand experience, and the reported experience from local partners, has been that <br />identifying and empowering project management capacity in 2016-2017 was essential to both <br />sustaining GVI after its initial period and helping the city build out its implementation further. In the <br />new contract period, NNSC will support the City in on -boarding a new full-time groject manager <br />and developing his or her capacity to advocate for and hold accountable all partners associated <br />with GVI. NNSC will provide the project manager with tools and ongoing development to build this <br />capacity in a durable way within the city. <br />SBGVI's Core Group has been a critical advocacy and accountability mechanism for SBGVI since <br />the strategy was launched in 2014 and is, to NNSC's view, one of the strongest semi -formal <br />governance structures in existence to drive GVI locally. In its current state, the Core Group has <br />served as a vehicle to engage critical high-level stakeholders in GVI, keeping said stakeholders <br />accountable to each other, and created an important mechanism for direction and oversight for the <br />operational partners. NNSC will support the City in formalizin the Core Grou 's role in drivin <br />GVI in order to protect these core functions through mechanisms such as formalizing guidelines, <br />objectives, and mission statement for the Core Group; explicitly committing the agencies and <br />principals on the Core Group to ongoing participation; and seeking ways to insulate the Core <br />Group from turnover in the core partners' offices. <br />Support the South Bend GVI partnership in continually strengthening its capacity to drive the law <br />enforcement elements of GVI (including intelligence management, strategic enforcement, and <br />engagement with non -law enforcement public safety stakeholders). NNSC will work with law <br />enforcement to further develop their intelligence -gathering and analysis processes, in <br />particular through strengthening South Bend's analysis of social network dynamics. NNSC will <br />work with SBPD to develop mechanisms to integrate social network analysis and build <br />intelligence based on shooting reviews, group audits, and regular data capturing mechanisms. <br />Continue to develop the City's capacity to intervene in violence dynamics in real time by <br />develoRing mechanisms to connect Public safe!stakeholders including taw enforcement <br />and community -based stakeholders with the hi hest -risk population outside of call -ins and <br />enforcement. NNSC will focus in particular on South Bend's capacity to conduct custom <br />notifications, share information across law enforcement and community partners via strategic <br />coordination meetings, conduct Community Police Responses to Victims of Violence. <br />Build on South Bend GVI's strong support and outreach structures by elevating <br />successes, innovations, and emerging best practices to national peers. NNSC will engage <br />with South Bend as a thought partner in troubleshooting challenges and opportunities in <br />