Notice2022-03938
Agreement for a Social Impact Partnership Project
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Published
February 24, 2022
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Treasury Department
Abstract
In accordance with the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act ("SIPPRA"), the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") and New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice ("NYC-MOCJ") have entered into an agreement for a social impact partnership project (the "Project Grant Agreement").
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 37 (Thursday, February 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10431-10433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03938]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Agreement for a Social Impact Partnership Project
AGENCY: Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for
Results Act (``SIPPRA''), the U.S. Department of the Treasury
(``Treasury'') and New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
(``NYC-MOCJ'') have entered into an agreement for a social impact
partnership project (the ``Project Grant Agreement'').
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Project Grant Agreement contains the
following features:
(1) The outcome goals of the social impact partnership project:
NYC-MOCJ's Cure Violence Pay for Success Project proposes the
following outcomes: Reduced shootings, reduced victimization and
reduced associated medical (Medicaid) costs. NYC-MOCJ expects the newly
funded Cure Violence neighborhoods to experience a 40 percent reduction
in gunshot wound hospitalizations each period. If achieved, this
reduction would lead to a 40 percent decrease in federal Medicaid
spending.
(2) A description of each intervention in the project:
NYC-MOCJ will expand their evidence-based model of violence
interruption, the Cure Violence program, to eight new program service
areas to reduce shootings and hospitalizations over a five-year span by
targeting previously unserved geographies and youth at the highest risk
for involvement in violence. The Cure Violence model is a neighborhood-
based public health approach to gun violence reduction that seeks to
change individual and community attitudes and
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norms about gun violence. The program relies on the efforts of
community-based ``outreach workers'' and ``violence interrupters'' in
neighborhoods that are the most vulnerable to gun violence. These
workers use their personal relationships, social networks, and
knowledge of their communities to dissuade specific individuals and
neighborhood residents in general from engaging in violence.
(3) The target population that will be served by the project:
NYC-MOCJ anticipates Cure Violence participants will be between the
age of 16 and 24 years of age at the time of the SIPPRA project start
date and are at high risk for involvement in violence.
(4) The expected social benefits to participants who receive the
intervention and others who may be impacted:
Participants and the community as a whole will receive a range of
social benefits. Through the project, participants gain meaningful
supportive networks, experience an increase in pro-social behaviors,
and a decrease of gun incidents and a decline in violence. Communities
in which the Cure Violence model has been implemented experience
declines in violence.
(5) The detailed roles, responsibilities, and purposes of each
Federal, State, or local government entity, intermediary, service
provider, independent evaluator, investor, or other stakeholder:
The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice. NYC-MOCJ is committed to
the Cure Violence approach and to providing upfront funding for all
sites in this proposal through City Tax Levy funds. Therefore, the
project will not need any private investors. NYC-MOCJ senior staff,
contracts, and finance teams will oversee partner and service provider
procurement and funding.
Service Providers. NYC-MOCJ contracts with local nonprofit service
providers to run Cure Violence initiatives in each catchment area. The
service providers are responsible for establishing program office space
and implementing the full Cure Violence program model. The five service
providers are: Good Shepherd Services/BRAG, BronxConnect/Release the
Grip, Getting Out and Staying Out/Stand Against Violence, Jewish
Community Council/Operation H.O.O.D, and Man Up!, Inc.
Intermediary. Social Finance will manage the project governance
process and will work closely with NYC-MOCJ and Cure Violence service
providers to monitor the program's operations, analyze accumulated
data, and track the impact of the program on the target population in
real-time.
(6) The payment terms, the methodology used to calculate outcome
payments, the payment schedule, and performance thresholds:
The payments will correspond to the federal share of savings from
the anticipated reduction in shooting-related Medicaid expenses in each
calendar year of the project (each, an outcome period). Federal value
is calculated as the estimated effect size of Cure Violence on
emergency treatment and hospitalization for Medicaid-eligible victims
of gun violence during each outcome period as compared to 24 comparison
sites over the same time period.
(7) The project budget:
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(8) The project timeline:
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(9) The project eligibility criteria:
In accordance with the Cure Violence model, eligible program
participants should be at high risk for involvement in violence,
determined by meeting at least four of the following seven criteria:
<bullet> Thought to be a member of a gang known to be actively
involved in violence;
<bullet> History of criminal activity, including crimes against
persons, pending or prior arrests for weapons offenses;
<bullet> Thought to have access to a weapon;
<bullet> High-risk street activity, thought to be involved in
street activity that is highly associated with violence;
<bullet> Victim of a recent shooting;
<bullet> Recently released from prison for a crime associated with
violence; and/or
<bullet> Between the ages of 16 and 24.
(10) The evaluation design:
The evaluation team will employ a quasi-experimental difference-in-
differences evaluation approach.
(11) The metrics that will be used in the evaluation to determine
whether the outcomes have been achieved as a result of each
intervention and how these metrics will be measured:
The evaluators will compare the number of gunshot-wound
hospitalizations in the eight sites that receive the Cure Violence
intervention, as compared to the comparison sites that do not receive
the intervention.
(12) The estimate of the savings to the Federal, State, and local
government, on a program-by-program basis and in the aggregate, if the
agreement is entered into and implemented and the outcomes are achieved
as a result of each intervention:
Federal Savings--$17,595,000
State Savings--$17,595,000
Catherine Wolfram,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics, Office of
Economic Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-03938 Filed 2-23-22; 8:45 am]
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