This week’s featured Actions
In advance of this September’s launch, here are some sample solutions
from the business, faith, health care, government, and civic sectors.
Stay tuned for more actions and more sectors in the coming weeks!
Bring stakeholders together to focus on public safety
Use your influence as a funder to encourage innovative cross-sector approaches to the constantly evolving violence in low-income communities.
Ensure accountability in community safety investments
Promote community safety and justice practices that achieve intended benefits for impacted communities.
Work on the streets to build partnerships to reduce and prevent violence
Work with others in your community to build an unremitting, non-violent, community-led approach to violence interruption.
Dedicate resources to help those you serve live in safer communities
Build partnerships and/or create programming to interrupt the cycles of violence, incarceration, and trauma experienced by those in poverty.
Work with residents to create recreational facilities and programs
Partner with residents to help beautify their neighborhoods and support their community improvement goals.
Volunteer in support of local efforts to improve safety
Volunteer with grassroots safety groups within neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and areas with high crime rates.
Implement trauma-informed practices
Work in partnership with leaders in low-income areas of your region to design and implement a trauma-informed approach to care.
Partner with community leaders to develop neighborhood improvement projects
Create a team of congregants to work with resident and community leaders in designing and implementing projects in areas with high levels of violence.
Provide remediation and healing support for residents of all ages
Adapt your faith-focused approach in communities where trauma-informed care and crisis-level responsiveness are needed.
Provide research support to community safety efforts
Colleges and universities can work with local communities to conduct action research on violence prevention.
Emphasize trauma-informed care
Use trauma-informed practices to support your students, as trauma is one of the largest public health issues facing children today, especially those in poverty.