These resources will help you set up a strong framework so you can sustain your efforts over time.
- Planning resources: Items include a Planning for Sustainability worksheet, a guide to BCJI planning, and information about planning in individual BCJI sites.
- Staffing resources: Learn about the important role of the safety coordinator and access sample job descriptions and interview questions.
- Strategic Communications Toolkit: Communicating your story is a key element of sustainability. This toolkit provides background, strategies, and step-by-step advice on how to build a communications plan, develop your messages, and reach your audience.
- Strategic Communications for Public Safety Initiatives: This webinar presents tips to help BCJI sites and others develop a communications plan that includes building a public profile, developing effective messages, and using media to help change the narrative in neighborhoods with disproportionate levels of crime and social disorder.
- Sustainability for Place-based Crime Reduction Initiatives: In this webinar, LISC and BCJI site leaders from Providence and San Bernardino discuss the link between crime reduction efforts and comprehensive community development initiatives. The panel also cover factors that impact a group’s capacity to sustain projects and programs that enhance public safety and community-police relations.