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    Community Voices: What is Safety?

    Safety is more than just the absence of crime. We asked people from communities around New York City, including our staff and people they work with, about safety—how they define it, and how they’d improve it in the neighborhoods where they live.

    Reducing Violence
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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
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    Neighbors in Action: Creating Safer and Healthier Communities

    by Amy Ellenbogen

    On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, an introduction to the origins, programming, and community impact of Neighbors in Action, formerly known as the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center. Neighbors in Action works to make the central Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant safer and healthier for all.

    Access to Justice, Addressing Racial Disparities, Reducing Trauma, Reducing Violence
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    Violence, Trauma, and Healing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

    by Matt Watkins

    On our New Thinking podcast, an audio portrait of Make It Happen, our program working with young men of color in Crown Heights, Brooklyn affected by violence. Through interviews with participants and practitioners, the episode explores the intersections of trauma, involvement with the justice system, and the lived experience of race.

    Addressing Racial Disparities, Reducing Trauma, Reducing Violence
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    Responding to Trauma Among Young Men of Color

    by Katie Crank and Kenton Kirby

    This planning toolkit is a blueprint for communities, violence interrupter programs, and traditional victim service providers that want to improve their responses to young men of color who have experienced trauma.

    Reducing Violence, Reducing Trauma
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    Fact Sheet: Addressing Trauma in Violence Interrupter Programs

    Programs focused on reducing gun violence, particularly public health initiatives such as Save Our Streets Crown Heights, are in a unique position to address the trauma that many young men of color experience. This fact sheet outlines strategies for violence interrupter programs to use in addressing trauma among their participants.

    Reducing Violence, Reducing Trauma
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    Testing a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence

    by Sarah Picard and Lenore Lebron

    This report presents the results of a comprehensive impact and process evaluation of the anti-violence initiative Save Our Streets, which started in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 2010. Results demonstrate that the initiative had a statistically significant impact on gun violence trends in Crown Heights when compared with three similar precincts in Brooklyn. 

    Reducing Violence
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    Testing a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence: A conversation on new research

    Authors of new research about gun violence in Brooklyn, New York, Sarah Picard-Fritsche and Lenore Lebron discuss findings on Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Crown Heights, an approach to gun violence prevention in the Crown Heights neighborhood.

    Reducing Violence
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