Community Up is designed to support community members interested in building equitable public safety systems that can exist beyond the burden and trauma of racist policing.
Historically, this work has been near-impossible for even the most committed advocates. Policing data is hard to analyze, making identifying problems difficult. Even when data is readily available, communities are rarely afforded a central voice in developing solutions.
This program tackles both of these challenges by providing data-driven insights that make policing’s most persistent problems easy to see and equipping community members with the resources, knowledge, and platform-sharing skills necessary to advance their grassroots public safety work. Community Up is both a program and a space through which activists and policymakers can ideate, support one another, and advance public safety research and policy.
For more information about Community Up, our community engagement work, and to get involved, please contact us here.
FEATURED RESOURCES
Community Roadmap: Mental Health Alternative First Response
A comprehensive, action-oriented, interactive community roadmap that communities can use to start building out non-law enforcement mental health and crisis response programs. This roadmap defines what alternative first response models are, highlights existing community-based alternative first response nationwide, provides tips on how to fund these programs, and resources on how to communicate with elected leaders about the need for and implementation of these alternative first response programs.