During the past 20 years, the Safe Streets Campaign has partnered with local organizations, community members and local government to better equip individuals and neighborhoods to combat crime and take back their streets.
- Organizing neighborhoods and communities for action. Through forming block organizations, we help people plant the seeds of grassroots, community leadership. We connect residents with necessary community resources to effectively tackle a wide-range of community challenges. And we involve our young people to improve the physical, social and economic conditions of our community.
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- Develop leadership among youth and adults. Our Youth Leading Change program builds skills in young people to help them sustain a drug and violence-free lifestyles. Young people act as mentors and role models for their peers and younger students in schools and neighborhoods. We also support neighborhood block members as they build their leadership skills through community improvement projects.
- Bring community and strategic partners together on specific problems or opportunities relevant to building safe communities. We help form broad-based alliances of community organizations and neighborhood stakeholders to face specific problems. We lead a county and statewide methamphetamine eradication project which includes “Meth Watch,” an education project for retailers. Much of the crime in our community—especially violent crime—is tied to drugs, and methamphetamines in particular. Gang violence, truancy, and the reentry of ex-offenders into the community also represent significant threats to the safety of our neighborhoods. The Safe Streets Campaign and our strategic partners continue to work to build neighborhood safety.