We can look to existing models as a starting point. Drawing on the expertise of leaders like Aqeela Sherrills, programs like Advance Peace and the Stockton Trauma Recovery Center, and trauma-informed school models like UCSF Hearts and TISLC in New Orleans, we can begin to develop our own community-based approaches to public safety.

CAT-911
Southern California

Arab Resource & Organizing Center
Bay Area (CA)

Advance Peace
Richmond, CA

Stockton Trauma Recovery Center
Stockton, CA

LIFE Camp
Queens, NY

Newark Community Street Team
Newark, NJ

Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) 
Brooklyn, NY

UCSF HEARTS 
San Francisco, CA

Safe Schools NOLA 
New Orleans, LA

Portland Street Response
Portland, OR

Safe Passage 
Seattle, WA

The Audre Lorde Project
New York City

Safelink
Massachusetts (Statewide)

Further Reading

• Nipsey Hussle’s death laid bare the truth about gun violence
  Davetta Jackson-Young and Skipp Townsend

• How Newark Became a Model for Community-Based Violence Reduction
  Aqeela Sherrills

• How Community Accountability Can Help Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in the First Place
  Prevention Institute

• First-year follow-up of the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PAM) in Stockholm County, Sweden: A descriptive study
  International Journal of Mental Health

• A long-planned program to remove police from some 911 calls launched as Denver’s streets erupted in police brutality protests
  Denverite

• If not 911, this is who responds to Portland street homelessness
  Street Roots

• After positive results, Minneapolis looks to expand anti-violence program
  MinnPost

• Chicago’s ‘Safe Passage’ Curbs Street Violence Without Police, Studies Show
  NPR

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