PUBLIC SAFETY

Goal - Community residents should feel secure and free from threat; both the strongest and the most vulnerable citizens should be equally protected. A healthy community provides crime prevention measures, police prosecutorial, judicial, and correctional systems that deter crime and penalize criminal behavior.

Public Safety Grants Program Director - Luceia V. LeDoux

Active Public Safety Grants as of September 2011:  

Afterschool Partnership of GNO - Advancing Youth Development Training - New Orleans adolescents (10-18) are dangerously underserved. Limited programs staffed by youth workers with marginal skill sets places young people at a greater risk of engaging in criminal activity and academically underachieving. The Afterschool Partnership will deliver Advancing Youth Development Training to improve the quality of services and ensure best practices to youth workers.

Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children – Parents in School Leadership Project - Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) willl build and organize active parent councils in four of the Recovery School District (RSD) schools with high expulsion rates. Each council will be led or coordinated by a parent liaison identified by FFLIC and trained extensively in the Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) model as well as organizing, facilitation and the School to Prison Pipeline framework. Each parent liaison will collaborate with school officials to integrate parents more meaningfully into the school and successfully implement PBS, thereby decreasing the number of students who are expelled and/or pushed out of school.

Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana - Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana seeks to continue its primary focus on ensuring the full implementation of reforms at the back end of the juvenile justice system, and expand work to include the reforming of harsh school discipline policies and practices that funnel youth into the juvenile justice system. 

Loyola University of New Orleans - Workplace Justice Project seeks to educate workers, litigate their claims and advocate for a just workplace with the purpose of changing the culture of abuse.

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc. - Community Conferencing: Using Crime and Conflict to Build Healthy Communities - Neighborhood Housing Service's Community Conferencing program provides a participatory, community-based process which empowers those affected by youth crime and conflict in their communities to collectively find solutions to these problems and prevent their reoccurrence. Conferencing holds youth accountable for their actions and intercedes in the trajectory of juvenile delinquency while building community resiliency. Community Conferencing is a process in which the victim, the offender and affected community members come together in a safe setting with an impartial facilitator to discuss the impact of a crime and reach reparation agreements

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc. – Restorative Justice in New Orleans Schools and Juvenile Courts - With Restorative Justice, crime is more than a breach of law or rules; it is an offense against relationships and thus requires reparation of harm caused to individuals and communities.  NHS will expand its restorative justice program currently provided at two pilot schools to intercede in trajectory of juvenile crime and initiate a pilot program in the Orleans Juvenile Court.  

New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid and Pleasure Club – Victim Allies Project - The Victim Allies Project serves families who have lost a loved one to homicide.  It provides a guide through the criminal justice process, and advocates for policy change regarding victim-survivors.   

New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation – Blueprint for Fully Integrated Justice Information System/MOTION Replacement -  The project is designed to map the current criminal justice information systems used in Orleans Parish; to create a complete blueprint and practical plan to rectify all information sharing and systems deficiencies therein; and, to fix a major known data 'blind spot:'  incomplete criminal history data (e.g. felony records) currently stored on an unsupported legacy system

New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation - New Orleans CeaseFire Community Mobilization and Public Education Campaign is a three-year campaign for community mobilization and public education, based on the Chicage CeaseFire model, to change the social norms around violence as an acceptable response to conflict in targeted areas in New Orleans.

Resurrection After Exoneration – Beacon Industries, A Job Training Program for the Formerly Incarcerated - Resurrection After Exoneration is starting an earned-profit clothing, merchandise, and banner printing business to be called Beacon Industries. Beacon Industries will couple on-site job training, skill building and leadership building with an educational and case management component to serve holistically the needs of New Orleans' formerly incarcerated.