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The purpose of this conference is to bring together Lawton's leaders, educators, and policy makers to include local governments; social service agencies, professional groups, churches and faith-based organizations; businesses and community members to discuss the challenges, resources and ways we can work together to address the violence in our community. 

The focus of the conference is to create an opportunity for the Lawton community to assess its level of violence and the resources available and lacking to reduce violence and improve the overall health, safety and productivity of the Lawton community.

Conference Objectives:

• To unite and mobilize organizations in the collective goal of implementing, evidence based and faith-based, strategies designed to address the spiritual, social, and environmental health issues in our community.
• To formally assess the community level of readiness to address the violence in the City of Lawton.
• To assess the community’s resources, strengths, weaknesses and its capacity to establish a community wide initiative that will effectively address the health, social, and environmental issues associated with the recent violence in the City of Lawton.