People Live in Safe Neighborhoods
Bold Goal: Reduce crime by 30% in five priority neighborhoods – Franklinton, King-Lincoln, Northland, Near South Side and Weinland Park
Strategies
- Increase neighborhood engagement and sense of community identity
- Provide linkage support for felony ex-offenders re-entering neighborhoods
- Reduce unruly, delinquent and violent crime for youth between the ages of 12 to 21
- Increase Crime Prevention and Safety Education
Programs
Alvis, Inc. dba Alvis House
Employment and Life Skills Program for High Risk Youth
Assessment, case management, cognitive behavioral therapy, life skills, job readiness and community engagement to youth
Directions for Youth & Families, Inc.
Outreach Counseling Program
Counseling and support for youth 12-18. Staff work with youth and family to address individual needs while strengthening family functioning. Services are strengths-based and provided homes, schools, or communities.
Central Community House
TRANSIT ARTS
TRANSIT ARTS, a youth development program based in the seven sites of the Columbus Federation of Settlements, joins professional artists/mentors, youth, families, and our communities, in public events reaching thousands while engaging a core of over 250 youth ages 12-21 in intensive, age-appropriate, year-round programs.
Directions for Youth & Families, Inc.
Ohio Avenue Youth Center
After-school programming for youth 8-17 to help with homework; leadership, fitness, nutrition, and prevention programming; and/or artistic activities.
Alvis, Inc. dba Alvis House
Reentry Programs Building Vibrant Neighborhoods
Assessment, case management, direct services and linkage to cognitive behavioral therapy, life skills education, job readiness, family support, com. engagement
Columbus Urban League
Transitions
Holistic support and access to resources for ex-offenders reentering central Ohio communities from incarceration. Curriculum to change negative thinking/behavior. Assists with accessing community resources
Community Properties Impact Corporation
CPIC Safe Neighborhood Program
Community Properties Impact Corporation (CPIC) will employ a Neighborhood Coordinator to engage individuals, families, businesses, churches, and service partners in positive activities for neighborhood safety. The Coordinator will supervise four AmeriCorps/VISTA volunteers to engage neighbors and increase program impact. CPIC will create a Neighborhood Circle with Weinland Park residents to build social capital, volunteer service, and engagement in community efforts.
Gladden Community House
Franklinton Neighborhood Connection
The Franklinton Neighborhood Connection (FNC) program develops resources and initiatives to support the Franklinton community and Franklinton residents; engages residents and interested non-residents to identify neighborhood issues and take collective action; provides a wide variety of opportunities for civic engagement in our neighborhood’s life; and informs and engages neighborhood residents and members of the larger community about groups, events, issues, and activities happening in our community.
LeaderSpark, Inc.
Leadership for Change in Targeted Neighborhoods
Build youth and adult leaders, with knowledge and skills that are applied at a neighborhood level to build a sense of community. Will partner with organizations in neighborhoods. Quarterly sharing/neighborhood meetings. A Teen Council will plan community-wide events.
Neighborhood Design Center
Neighborhood Visioning Charrettes
Community lead planning/ design efforts to provide opportunities for residents, business owners, and property owners to explore and develop visions that improve neighborhood environmental quality, physical appearance, identity and safety.
Central Community House
Community Organizing - Neighborhood Development
Investment in community organizing to support resident participation, leadership and organizational collaborations that will improve our neighborhoods. Most grassroots groups are volunteer driven. Staff supported community organizing will increase community capacity to effectively respond to neighborhood conditions through strategies that will increase resident participation, communication, collaboration and activism by growing neighborhood networks.
Community Crime Patrol, Inc.
CCP - Franklinton
Two patrol teams will provide an extra level of safety to the Franklinton neighborhood during the hours of 7:00 pm - 3:00 am, Tuesday - Saturday. Patrollers will patrol the neighborhood on foot or on mountain bikes to serve as extra eyes and ears to report any suspicious activity or criminal behavior to the Columbus Division of Police. Patrollers will also report quality of life issues to the appropriate agency for repair and/or replacement.
Neighborhood Safety Program
Adults and youth living in and providing services in the 5 UWCO targeted neighborhoods who are at risk of experiencing or generating physical, emotional and economic harm for themselves or others as a result of their involvement in a family, neighborhood or workplace conflict, will receive the program’s non adversarial conflict management/mediation services and/or its non adversarial conflict resolution skills building training services, or both.
