The Genoa Group
Turning Evidence into Action
History
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The Genoa Group was founded in 1997 by Dr. Patricia Campie while still in graduate school, as a means to help her community while also providing income for the family she was raising as a single mom in Arizona. The name of the company is an homage to Dr. Campie's Italian father and all of her ancestors who emigrated to the United States in the 1800s. Through determination, humility, and creativity, these immigrants became a vital part of Philadelphia despite lacking formal education and enduring discrimination because they didn't speak English, or wear fine clothes, and lived in deep poverty. Their example continues to inspire the purpose behind The Genoa Group today, using the tools of research to generate knowledge that leads to insight and action that improves people's lives.
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We are not here to change the world.
We are here to serve the world. ​
Staffing
The Genoa Group provides a flexible approach to staffing, based on the size of the project and client needs.
For smaller projects, Dr. Campie leads the work herself, so that clients receive the attention and expertise they require without incurring additional costs that come from sustaining a large staff and high overhead rates.
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For larger projects, Dr. Campie partners with a wide array of independent consultants and larger organizations who comprise the professional network she has cultivated over nearly three decades.
About Dr. Campie Dr. Patricia Campie is a criminologist whose primary research focus is on preventing and reducing lethal violence among youth and young adults in the United States and other countries. Among her international work, she has authored studies on conflict sensitivity integration in development sectors, motivations and incentives for individuals to engage with, join, or support violent groups, youth violence in Colombia, and a global evidence review of what works to prevent lethal community-based violence. In the United States, Dr. Campie has evaluated a wide range of human-serving programs for youth and adults, from homelessness to HIV prevention. She developed a Youth as Peer Researchers training curriculum where youth work with Dr. Campie on community-based studies, both improving the quality of the work and building a skill set and experience that supports their career pathway. For ten years, she co-led a series of studies on Massachusetts’ Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI), the nation's first statewide gun violence intervention. SSYI was deemed a promising practice by Crime Solutions based on the research conducted by Dr. Campie’s team. Dr. Campie also co-led an innovative nine-year longitudinal study through the National Institute of Justice to study the root causes of school and community violence in California, working in rural, small city, and large urban communities. In that study, she found that community risk and need factors had a greater effect on student safety and academic outcomes than internal school climate and student/parent supports. Dr. Campie has evaluated community development, violence and crime prevention and intervention strategies in multiple cities/states across the nation and was funded to lead a study to develop and test a framework for evaluating urban ecosystems of hospital and community-based violence intervention. Dr. Campie is also a skilled and experienced strategic planner and grant writer, responsible for winning in excess of $200million of grants and contracts to support community based and tribal programs, government initiatives, and independent research and evaluation studies.