Shortly after her first year in office, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell released a Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan in August 2019. The goal of the program is to meaningfully reduce the number of gun-related murders in the city over the next 50 years.

In April 2021, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced the launch by executive order of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. This new office will coordinate, fund and evaluate public health gun violence reduction interventions and their outcomes.

The City continues to work to attract government and philanthropic dollars and how to engage the private sector to make investments in public health interventions that will ultimately reduce costs associated with bad outcomes.