Additional Resources, Articles, Publications

Scaling Safety Report

Alliance for Safety and Justice

The report’s primary goal is to start talking about what kinds of investments are needed to equip communities with the capacity to prevent crime and violence and intervene in the cycle of crime. Specifically, this report estimates what cities/counties need to invest in community-based public safety programs.

Read the full report here.

Blueprint for Shared Safety

Alliance for Safety and Justice

Shared Safety envisions a world in which everyone can attain safety, and everyone takes responsibility for fostering it. Shared Safety is the pioneering work of diverse stakeholders who are rethinking how to understand, invest in, evaluate and achieve community safety.

Learn more about Shared Safety here.

Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research Evidence

John Jay & CUNY

This review summarizes research on policies and programs known to reduce community violence without relying on the police.

Read the full review HERE.

Promoting a New Direction for Youth Justice: Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and Opportunity

The Urban Institute

This report identifies proven, promising, and innovative strategies for identifying funds and using those resources to invest in a robust continuum of care and opportunity, particularly in historically disenfranchised communities in which youth and families may be particularly susceptible to justice system involvement.

Read the full report HERE.

Reimagining Public Safety: A Toolkit For Cities and Towns

Alliance for Safety and Justice

Read the full report here.

Reimagining Public Safety A Toolkit for Cities and Towns

The National League of Cities

This toolkit provides extensive context and examples for city leaders to replicate, reference, and adapt as they implement reimagined approaches to public safety that work well in a local context.

Find the toolkit HERE.

Unlocking your Community’s Hidden Strengths: A Guidebook to Community Asset Mapping

Southern Poverty Law Center

This guide, to a process known as “community asset-mapping,” rejects the habit of describing communities in which many of our children live by listing their problems. Instead of focusing on deficits, asset-mapping spotlights methods of tapping into the hidden wealth of knowledge in all communities for the benefit of children.

Read the full guide HERE.

Recommendations for Building a Community-Based Public Safety and Health Ecosystem

The Urban Peace Institute

This report presents its strategy for developing a community community-led public safety and health infrastructure.

Read the full guide HERE.

Healing from Harm: Expanding Access to Victim Compensation

The Alliance for Safety and Justice

In 2022, the Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ) released a report outlining model policies states could adopt to strengthen their victim compensation programs. This brief serves as an update and addendum to that report, and includes a comprehensive roundup of positive changes that state legislatures enacted between 2020 and 2022.

Read the full report HERE.

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gun Crime and Ensure Public Safety

The White House

This strategy implements preventative measures that are proven to reduce violent crime, and attacks the root causes – including by addressing the flow of firearms used to commit crimes.

Read the fact sheet HERE.

Keys to Collaboration Between Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs and Trauma Recovery Centers

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention and The National Alliance for Trauma Recovery

This brief provides insight on HAVI’s Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) model and the NATRC’s Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) model, but also the ways in which these two interventions complement one another to address the multitude of needs of victims of violence.

Read the fact sheet HERE.

Websites, Partners, Coalitions

The National Coalition for Shared Safety (NCSS)

The NCSS represents leading organizations that are advancing community safety solutions and joining together to promote the most effective strategies to achieve public safety for all. It includes critical assistance providers supporting crime survivors and people living with past convictions, as well as public health providers and business leaders. The organizations in the coalition specialize in trauma recovery, health, mental health, violence prevention, and reentry support.

Learn more about NCSS here.