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Our Efforts Include:

  • Outreach & Recruitment
  • Safe Streets engages in door-to-door survey gathering on law enforcement issues to identify what communities identify as issues and to recruit them to join...
  • Leadership Development and Peer Advocacy
  • Safe Streets offers monthly trainings to educate and build leadership skills...
  • Coalition Building
  • Safe Streets uses its own coalition as well as our leadership in other coalitions to...
  • Direct Actions and Policy Advocacy
  • Safe Streets uses direct actions, events and public hearings to release survey results and reports that expose the abuses low-income communities of color endure as a result of a failed public safety system...
  • Grassroots Organizing and Community Empowerment
  • One of Safe Streets / Strong Communities chief goals is to put the power into the hands of the community...
  • Speakers Bureau & Media Advocacy
  • Safe Streets has established a Speakers Bureau of people who have lost loved ones to violence or who come from communities most targeted by law enforcement...
   

SSSC General Membership Meeting

Come join us at Hope House on August 26th, 2010 (6:00 pm) for our monthly membership meeting! Our membership meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month and visitors are always welcome! For more information, contact us at: (504) 522-3949
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SSSC Summer Bash

Safe Streets will be having our summer bash on August 21st at City Park. With food, fun, health services and community information, this is an event not to miss! For more information, contact us at: (504) 522-3949
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Our Vision

We envision a world where ALL communities are safe & strong; a world where...
  • public resources are not squandered on prisons and instruments of social control but instead are invested in children and families in the form of sound affordable housing and in quality education for every child to the highest level that each wishes to attain.

  • all people have equal opportunity to participate in the economy in a meaningful way and to share in the nation's wealth.
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