Overall objective

• Contribute to prevent and reduce risk factors for different types of violence (youth, gender-based and domestic violence) and promote a culture of peace and peaceful conflicts resolution with focus on the development of socio-emotional skills, self-development, empowerment and community  participation. 

Specific objectives

• Teaching socioemotional skills to young students between 8 and 18 years of age in situations of social vulnerability, through regular choir and orchestra practice. 
• Strengthening the public sector and municipal community networks  to prevent violence and provide assistance to victims and survivors of violence and crime; 
• Providing psychosocial assistance to groups most vulnerable to violence and crime; 
• Developing or updating national or local level frameworks to improve government response to violence and crime prevention.  

• OASIS is implemented at the municipal level, in communities highly affected by violence and crime.  
• Evaluation of the situation of the municipality in terms of violence and crime that most affects youth, identification of strengths and opportunities for improvement, and mapping of existing prevention and assistance services in the municipality.  
• Social-emotional skills classes through orchestral and choir music dictated 5 times a week for 2 hours daily. 
• The OASIS education team is trained in pedagogical techniques for recognizing and acting to mitigate the risk of violence in students and families and in the implementation of assistance protocols in cases that require it. 
• OASIS has lines of action aimed at improving family ties, local assistance and response services through the training of multisectoral professionals (health, social work, security, justice, community leadership), strengthening or creating a local community care network.