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    They Can't Quit Recidivism: A New Vision for Evaluating Community Safety Work

    by Suzanne Boswell

    Community safety is multidimensional. Yet efforts to build community safety outside of the criminal legal system are often evaluated only using data generated by that same system. This means effective strategies of crime and violence prevention can be overlooked by policymakers and funders. We make an urgent case for a new paradigm.

    Evidence-Based Practices, Placemaking, Reducing Violence
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    Fact Sheet: The Bronx Community Justice Center

    The Bronx Community Justice Center works to create a safer, more equitable Bronx through community-driven public safety initiatives, youth opportunity, and economic mobility efforts focused in the South Bronx. Our vision is to support the South Bronx community to become a safe and thriving place where local ownership, community-led investment, and youth opportunity can flourish. The Bronx Community Justice Center works toward this vision by focusing on community safety, restorative practices, and youth and economic development.

    Community Justice, Diversion, Placemaking, Reducing Trauma, Reducing Violence, Youth Initiatives
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    Eviction Prevention and Mental Health

    by Ignacio Jaureguilorda, Faith Laurel, Ruth Lopez, and Merrill Rotter

    While eviction is a universally stressful event, people with mental health conditions can face unique obstacles with housing retention for reasons related specifically to their disability. This guide provides a review of housing settings and specific risks of eviction for individuals with mental illness before focusing on housing court and the challenges these individuals and court personnel face therein and identifies junctures at which supportive, problem-solving interventions can ensure the necessary community supports and legal representation.

    Placemaking, Reducing Trauma, Reentry
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    Fact Sheet: The Health Housing and Justice Alliance

    With support from the Clinical Scholars Program, a national health leadership initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Newark Community Solutions convened a group of cross-sector service organizations and community members as part of the Health, Housing, and Justice Access (HHJ) project.  The goal was to increase equity and accessibility for virtual health, social service, and court proceedings during the pandemic.

    Placemaking
  • Video

    Community First: The Right Approach to Mental Health Crises and Homelessness

    Whether it is a warm meal or a pair of shoes, we help people who are housing insecure and living with severe mental health issues address immediate needs and then work towards linking them to longer-term housing, services, and support. With programs like Community First, law enforcement no longer has to be the only response to mental health crises and homelessness.

    Placemaking, Reducing Violence, Addressing Racial Disparities
  • Audio

    The Inequities of COVID-19: A Focus on Public Housing

    by Matt Watkins

    The effects of the coronavirus are not being experienced equally. Whether it’s infection rates, deaths, or job losses, people of low-income and of color are being hit hardest. In New York City, many of those effects are concentrated in communities where public housing is located. Our Neighborhood Safety Initiatives works with public housing residents. On New Thinking, the program's Alicia Arrington explains the challenge, and the response.

    Addressing Racial Disparities, Placemaking
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    Fact Sheet: Neighbors in Action

    The goal of Neighbors in Action is to build safer and healthier communities for all. Through our programming in the Brooklyn, New York, neighborhoods of Crown
    Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, we work to create communities where violence is neither needed nor wanted, neighbors have increased autonomy and decision-making capabilities, and the people who want to lead have the skills to do so.

    Addressing Racial Disparities, Access to Justice, Placemaking, Reducing Trauma, Reducing Violence, Workforce Development, Youth Initiatives
  • Audio

    Keeping the Peace: Patrick Sharkey on Sustaining the Great Crime Decline

    by Matt Watkins

    On our New Thinking podcast, Patrick Sharkey, the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, discusses the wider costs of violence and the threat posed by inequality and disinvestment to the current fragile gains. He points to the signal role of community organizing and community-based nonprofits in combating violence and building safer, more resilient cities.

    Addressing Racial Disparities, Community Justice, Placemaking, Reducing Trauma, Reducing Violence
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    Advancing Community Justice: The Challenge of Brownsville, Brooklyn

    by Greg Berman

    This monograph starts with a question: What can we do differently to enhance public safety, reduce the use of incarceration, and improve public perceptions of justice in a Brooklyn neighborhood that experiences both high crime and high rates of incarceration?

    Problem-Solving Justice, Diversion, Youth Initiatives, Procedural Justice, Restorative Justice, Reducing Violence, Community Justice, Placemaking
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