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Healing Our Families
Building Communities

Mission

MEOC seek to research, develop, and execute proven strategies steeped in a public health culture. MEOC’s mission is to address gun violence through the integration of community violence intervention, hospital linked violence prevention programs.

VISION

We are a movement for racial and economic dignity committed to creating safe communities and building strong, healthy families by eradicating poverty, ending gun violence, over-criminalization, and mass incarceration.

Seeking Justice for Slain Loved Ones

In 2020, there were 36 homicides in East St. Louis. A Belleville News-Democrat investigation found that 75% of the 453 homicides from 2000 to 2018 in East St. Louis remained unsolved as of 2019.

“East St. Louis has been known as the place where people get murdered all the time. Right now we are working to try to change the image that is in East St. Louis.”

Goals

To mobilize communities of faith, practitioners, credible messengers; and other local citizens in urban and disenfranchised neighborhoods that are underserved, training them to organize and build collective power in the Black Community.

• To develop community help centers designed to be a trusted space for residents to reach out and touch

• To address the gaps in systemic issues through advocacy and trusted resources

• To support victims of violence, survivors, and community members