Violence prevention · Conflict resolution · Reentry · Building wealth
Richard Garland does not study violence from a distance. He lived it, left it, and built the programs that pull others out. RSG Consultants brings that to your city, your schools and your organization.
Hire Richard
No vague promises and no open-ended bills. You see what you get, how long it takes and what it costs before anything begins.
One hour with Richard on the problem in front of you.
Investment
Priced to your scope
One hour, plus the written summary
Find out what is working in your program, what is not, and what to fix first.
Investment
Priced to your scope
Usually four to six weeks
A complete plan for a program built for your city, not copied from someone else's.
Investment
Priced to your scope
Usually three to six months
Train the people who do the work, by someone who has done it.
Investment
Priced to your scope
Half a day or a full day
Also: school partnerships, keynotes, an advisor on call, and workshops on business and generational wealth.
Who we work with
For city and county leaders
For schools and districts
What we do
01
Program design, outreach teams and hospital partnerships for cities, counties and health systems.
02
Training and mediation for schools, workplaces, community groups and faith organizations.
03
Plans and staff training for jails, prisons and agencies, so people who come home stay home.
04
From surviving to owning: starting a business, building credit and passing something on.
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The method
Every plan RSG writes and every team it trains is built on the same three ideas.
1
Nobody leads others out of a life they have not left themselves. The work starts with the person doing it.
2
You may not stop the first shot. You can stop the second, the third and the funeral after that.
3
The people who have been through it carry the duty to bring the next ones through.
The record
Founded in 2002. Put men who had lived the street life to work talking younger ones out of pulling the trigger.
Gunshot Recurring Injury Prevention Services. Supports people who have been shot, so one shooting does not lead to the next.
Founder and Executive Director. Built on one belief: returning citizens with a plan can change the world.
Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health and Director of its Violence Prevention Initiative, building outreach across Allegheny County to reduce crime and violence.
As told in NEXTpittsburgh: Richard Garland's prison-to-personal-responsibility pipeline, by Tony Norman.
Start here
Tell us what you are facing. Richard reads every request himself.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.