Gillian Caplan Email & Phone Number

Oakland, CA, US

Oakland, California, United States

• Program Planning:
• Oversee community-based contracts for violence interruption, relocation, life coaching, youth diversion, and hospital-based strategies and ensure alignment with DVP’s internal focused deterrence (Ceasefire) strategy
• Conceptualize these programs and develop relevant policies, procedures, and operations manuals to guide implementation.School Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Program:
• Develop program structure and guidelines for work implemented by school VIP teams. Oversee implementation and possible expansion of program.Grant Management:
• Oversee the establishment and monitoring of grant agreements with community-based organizations pertaining to life coaching, violence interrupters, relocation, hospital based intervention, employment, and youth.
• Provide project management support for the Ceasefire strategy on behalf of the DVP.Supervision:

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Delivered strategic planning training and technical assistance to State Administering Agencies by consulting with state agencies throughout the strategic planning process including soliciting and synthesizing.
• Developed, led, and facilitated national and regional strategic planning trainings both virtually and face-to-face with multidisciplinary internal and external stakeholders
• Provided strategic recommendations and supported based on criminal justice reform trends, helping to inform state and federal agencies on funding allocations
• Developed, implemented, and managed NCJA’s Equity in Grant Administration and Programming pilot program to enhance equitable distribution of criminal justice resources and state level funding
• Served as NCJA’s in-house community violence subject matter expert assisting state agencies and agency stakeholders in implementing innovative violence intervention programming
• Provided briefings on program findings and activities to high level officials in federal, state, local and tribal government through innovative and strategic means of delivery to ensure greatest impact and reception

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Managed Department of Justice’s Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm, developing strategic implementation plans and providing technical assistance to 5 cities in community-based violence prevention, victim.
• Developed and guided sites through assessments in areas of victim services, trauma informed policing, community engagement, and violence reduction as well as conducted focus group with key stakeholders
• Worked intimately with community advocates, government officials, and agency leadership, managing complex dynamics and relationships, to prioritize goals of the initiative and ensure deliverables were completed
• Wrote and published Collective Healing Case Study final publication for nationwide distribution
• Managed partnership in CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System Initiative through maintaining the contract and budget, managing key stakeholders at the CDC and APHA and providing expertise in broader public.
• Served as IACP’s community-based violence reduction subject matter expert for Bureau of Justice Assistance Community Based Crime Reduction Initiative by providing guidance on grantee sites implementation areas

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Managed the Hopkins-Baltimore Violence Reduction Collaborative, comprised of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), and Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (JHU)
• Drafted policy and program recommendations for initiatives in gun violence reduction and policing as part of the consent decree between BPD and the Department of Justice
• Developed and managed multiple budgets simultaneously of $200,000+
• Developed Crisis Intervention Team pilot for BPD and analyzed data to prove pilot’s effectiveness
• Managed JHU’s Underground Gun Markets Study, including developing Manual of Operating Procedures, managing 6 graduate level research assistants, performing descriptive statistics, and authoring a publication on the.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Managed, grew, and evaluated the PHE program at 3 Washington, DC college sites while implementing PHE’s comprehensive health curriculum in 11 DC public high schools, serving 1,100 under resourced teens annually
• Established partnerships with school administrators, community partners, and health clinics throughout DC
• Trained, monitored, and evaluated 150 volunteers in comprehensive health curriculum, leadership and teaching skills, and cultural competency to facilitate understanding of unique health, education, and resource.
• Played an integral role in the development of PHE’s new skills-based health curriculum launched nationwide in 2014

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

• Provided multicultural empowerment and leadership programs for young diverse girls in Silver Spring, Maryland
• Developed and facilitated Middle School “Jump Start” program curriculum for 65 diverse, under-resourced girls

Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Conceptualized and ran Siyaphumelela Youth Program, a mentoring program for 60 HIV-affected teens, age 14-19
• Oversaw Early Childhood Development Program for 100 preschoolers at three preschools in Joza township
• Recruited, placed, and oversaw 35 volunteers from the Grahamstown community and Rhodes University by establishing relationships with other local community programs and Rhodes University Community Engagement

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Health Policy And Systems

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Clinical Psychology