Building Healthy Communities: Community Safety
02.13.15
Through its Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative, The California Endowment has committed to a 10-year investment in 14 California communities around the state. These communities are working to create places where children are healthy, safe and ready to learn. In the initial community-driven planning process, a large majority of the sites—70 percent—identified violence and a lack of safety as their highest priority. This paper, developed by Advancment Project and Prevention Institute, highlights the strategies that these BHC communities have prioritized to make safer communities a reality. It reflects the BHC communities’ collective wisdom about what they need and how to get there.