Statewide Violence Reduction Infrastructure

Michigan's Office of Community Violence Intervention Services needed a data-driven foundation for statewide CVI planning — but had no centralized analysis of who was being affected, where violence was concentrating, or what patterns were driving shootings across its highest-violence jurisdictions.

In her role as NOVPN Director, Shantay supported the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services by leading comprehensive gun violence assessments across four of the state's highest-violence jurisdictions — Detroit, Lansing, Saginaw, and Benton Harbor — delivering jurisdiction-level analyses of the people, places, and temporal patterns driving gun violence in each community.

Delivered a 184-page statewide gun violence assessment with jurisdiction-specific findings now informing Michigan's CVI investment and implementation strategy. The assessments established baseline data, identified consistent risk patterns across all four jurisdictions, and provided the evidentiary foundation for targeted intervention — the kind of structured problem analysis that effective violence reduction infrastructure requires.