Fellow Advocate,

This week, the White House released a series of confusing memos that threaten grant funding to states and organizations providing critical support to citizens. This directive includes freezing funding for the critical community violence intervention (CVI) programs that have led to a 42% drop in victims of gun homicides in Pennsylvania over 2 years,¹ as well as for crucial suicide prevention initiatives.  While their actions are puzzling, their goal is clear: to sow chaos and disrupt the lives of the most vulnerable among us.

We cannot stand for this. Gov. Shapiro is facing a deadline of Tuesday to release his proposed 2025-2026 budget, and we must lean on him to stand up for community violence intervention and suicide prevention programs,and be a firewall against the draconian policies of the new administration. 

We’ve created an urgent petition imploring Gov. Shapiro to fully fund community violence intervention and suicide prevention programs in his budget, in the face of the President’s threats to dismantle them. We have until Monday afternoon to get our message across, but we can’t do that without your help. Will you take a moment to sign onto our petition, demanding our governor step up and fund critical, and successful, gun violence prevention programs across our Commonwealth?

Standing together,

Adam Garber
Executive Director
CeaseFirePA Action