​​Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention 

The Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention was established in October 2024  through legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly. The creation of the new Center was spearheaded and championed by the Moore-Miller Administration as a part of its strategic state plan to create safer communities by addressing the firearm violence epidemic. The Center is intended to serve as a hub to connect with agencies, local health departments, law enforcement, community members, advocates, medical professionals, and others to assess the current landscape of gun violence prevention programs and campaigns, facilitate collaboration and coordination, and identify and fill policy, implementation, and funding gaps.

Within the Department of Health, the new office will consolidate and better coordinate our state's public health approach to preventing gun violence. Gun violence intervention programs were pioneered in Maryland, but there is more work to do to ensure they are adequately funded and informed by the best available data.

Mission of the Center

​The Center's mission is to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the state by partnering with federal, state, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction.

Three Pillars

The Center bases its work in Three Pillars: Prevention and Assessment, Intervention and Response, and Community Resilience and Healing. The Center is committed to long term community healing work that will address the root causes of violence, including economic inequality and childhood trauma. The Center is also investing in immediate, short-term interventions that prevent and respond to harm. Gun violence exists in a larger ecosystem of social factors and causes, therefore we aim to develop holistic and comprehensive solutions at all levels of harm prevention.