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 Public Safety
New Directions for Youth (Los Angeles, CA)

 Public Safety / Corrections
Project CRAFT
The Neighborhood Work Project (New York, NY)
Pioneer Human Services (Seattle, WA)
McNeil Island Corrections Center Family and Fatherhood Program (Tacoma, WA)
Horizon Communities in Prison
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for Juvenile Offenders
Center for Employment Opportunities (New York, NY)
Independence Youth Court (Independence, MO)
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (Eugene, OR)
Tri-Agency Resource Gang Enforcement Team (Orange County, CA)
Albuquerque Victim–Offender Mediation Program (Albuquerque, NM)
Anchorage Youth Court (Anchorage, AK)
Baton Rouge Partnership for the Prevention of Juvenile Gun Violence (Baton Rouge, LA)
Indianapolis Restorative Justice Project (Indianapolis, IN)
Michigan State Diversion Project (Michigan)
Minneapolis Center for Victim–Offender Mediation (Minneapolis, MN)
Oakland Victim–Offender Reconciliation Program (Oakland, CA)
Repeat Offender Prevention Program (Orange County, CA)
Connections (Clark County, WA)
Delaware Juvenile Drug Court Diversion Program (Delaware)
Intensive Probation Supervision (Cuyahoga County, OH)
Intensive Supervision Juvenile Probation Program (Peoria County, IL)
Jefferson County Juvenile Gun Court (Jefferson County, AL)
Orange County Juvenile Substance Abuse Treatment Court (Orange County, FL)
SAFE-T Program (Toronto, Ontario)
Wayne County Intensive Probation Program (Wayne County, MI)
Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town (Omaha, NE)
Earn-A-Bike Boulder, Colorado (Boulder, CO)
Bard Prison Initiative (New York)
Maryland Prevention Case Management (Maryland)
Project START (USA)
Community Corrections Program (Tazewell, Va.)
Corrections Demonstration Project (California)
Enhanced Ranch Program (Santa Clara)
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart Program (Florida)
Rikers Health Advocacy Program (New York)
The Fortune Society (New York City)
Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders) (Texas)
Philadelphia Youth Violence Reduction (Philadelphia, PA)
Bethlehem Police Family Group Conferencing Project (Bethlehem, PA)
Maine Juvenile Drug Treatment Court (Maine)
Linking Inmates with Needed Care (LINC) (Florida)

 Public Safety / Crime & Crime Prevention
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Housing: Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Programs (USA)Cdc
Teens on Target (TNT) (Oakland, CA)
Strategy: Community Beautification (USA)
Best Practices of Mayors and Their City Governments in Promoting Tolerance and Respect for Diversity (Santa Clarita, CA)
Caught in the Crossfire (Oakland, CA)
Know the Law! (Boston, MA)
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum (Washington)
Take Back the Park (New York, NY)
Police Homeowner Loan Program (Columbia, SC)
CASASTART
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Teacher Training Workshop
Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) (Phoenix, AZ)
Healthy Families New York (New York)
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for Juvenile Offenders
Project TRUST
Safe Child Program
Who Do You Tell? (Calgary, Canada)
Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program (Tijuana, Mexico)
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse (Tucson, AZ)
Project Towards No Drug Abuse
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RiPP) (USA)
Second Step: A Social Development Intervention (Seattle, WA)
SMARTteam (Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together)
Aggression Replacement Training (ART) (Scotia, NY)
All Children Excel (ACE) (Ramsey County, MN)
Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach
Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) (Seattle, WA)
Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development Program (BUILD) (Chicago, IL)
Bullying Prevention Program (South Carolina)
Chronic Truancy Initiative
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking
Comprehensive Gang Model
Gang Resistance Is Paramount (GRIP) (Paramount, CA)
Get Real About Violence (Evanston, IL)
Independence Youth Court (Independence, MO)
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) (Eugene, OR)
Movimiento Ascendencia (Pueblo, CO)
Multimodal Substance Abuse Prevention (Philadelphia, PA)
Oakland Beat Health Program (Oakland, CA)
Operation Ceasefire (Boston, MA)
Parenting With Love and Limits (Savannah, GA)
Peacemakers Program
Peers Making Peace
Preventive Treatment Program (Montreal, Quebec)
Richmond Comprehensive Homicide Initiative (Richmond, CA)
San Diego County Breaking Cycles (San Diego County, CA)
Tri-Agency Resource Gang Enforcement Team (Orange County, CA)
Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents
Weed and Seed (USA)
Baton Rouge Partnership for the Prevention of Juvenile Gun Violence (Baton Rouge, LA)
Indianapolis Restorative Justice Project (Indianapolis, IN)
Project Back-on-Track (Gainesville, FL)
Intensive Probation Supervision (Cuyahoga County, OH)
Intensive Supervision Juvenile Probation Program (Peoria County, IL)
Jefferson County Juvenile Gun Court (Jefferson County, AL)
Wayne County Intensive Probation Program (Wayne County, MI)
CeaseFire (Chicago, IL)
Gang Reduction Program
Community Corrections Program (Tazewell, Va.)
Acquaintance Rape Prevention Program (Athens, OH)
Positive Action Center (USA)
Project BRAVE (New Orleans)
The Adolescent Parenting Program (Newark, NJ)
Enhanced Ranch Program (Santa Clara)
Juvenile Intervention and Prevention Program (JIPP) (Los Angeles, CA)
Project SURVIVE (San Francisco, CA)
Nevada Youth Alliance: Outreach Worker Program (Clark, Nevada)
Violence Intervention Program (VIP) - Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
The San Francisco Wraparound Project (San Francisco, CA)
Project Ujima (Milwaukee County, WI)
Healing Hurt People (Philadelphia, PA)
National Night Out (USA)
Bob Janes Triage Center and Low Demand Shelter (Fort Myers, FL)
Peacekeepers (San Francisco, CA)
Project Making a Group and Individual Difference (MAGIC) (Elko, NV)
Child Safety Awareness Program (San Francisco, CA)
Emergency Department "Means Restriction" Education
Adventure Diversion Program (Carroll County, MD)
Bayview Safe Haven (San Francisco, CA)
Child Advocacy Center and Center for Youth Wellness (San Francisco, CA)
Students Against Violence Everywhere (USA)
ReWired for Change (Baltimore, MD)
Safe Streets (Baltimore, MD)
Why Murder? (Baltimore, MD)
Men Unlearning Violence (San Francisco, CA)
The Fortune Society (New York City)
Safe Streets / Strong Communities (New Orleans, LA)
Community Building in Grinnell (Grinnell, IA)
Crime and Safety Team (Los Angeles, CA)
Good Behavior Game (Baltimore, MD)
Kansas City Gun Experiment (Kansas City, MO)
Philadelphia Youth Violence Reduction (Philadelphia, PA)
Art Not Crime (Portland, Oregon)
Violence Prevention Curriculum (Prothrow-Stith Program) (Richmond, VA)

 Public Safety / Domestic Violence
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Early Childhood Home Visitation to Prevent Violence (USA)Cdc
Healthy Families: Palm Beach (Palm Beach County)Local
Safe Dates (North Carolina)
The Duluth, Minnesota, Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) Advocacy Response (Duluth, MN)
On-Call Services for Domestic Violence Survivors (Washtenaw County, MI)
Domestic Violence Emergency Response Teams for Zero Tolerance (DVERT/ZT) (Santa Barbara County, CA)
Family and Children's Services: Co-locating to Provide Trauma Services (Nashville, TN)
Integration of TANF and Child Welfare Systems in El Paso (El Paso County, CO)
Appalachian Violence Outreach Network (AVON) (Kentucky)
Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) (Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, and Washington Counties, IA)
Student Talking About Non-violent Dating (STAND) (San Francisco)
Project SURVIVE (San Francisco, CA)
Community United Against Violence (CUAV) (San Francisco, CA)
Violence Intervention Program (VIP) (Los Angeles, CA)
San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) Counseling Programs (San Francisco, CA)
The Riley Center (San Francisco, CA)
Intimate Partner Violence Intervention
Expect Respect (Austin, TX)
San Francisco SafeStart Initiative (San Francisco, CA)
Child Development-Community Policing Program: Domestic Violence Intervention Project (New Haven, CT)
La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco, CA)
Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent (W.O.M.A.N.), Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Women Overcoming Violence (San Francisco, CA)
Men Unlearning Violence (San Francisco, CA)
A Safe Place (Oakland, CA)
Washington State Perinatal Partnership Against Domestic Violence (Washington)
Choose Respect (USA)

 Public Safety / Emergency Planning & Response
MHD-MWW Water Quality Technical Workgroup (Milwaukee, WI)
Protocol for the Isolation and Quarantine of Communicable Disease (Rockland County, NY)
Avian Flu Outbreak and Vaccination Drill (Yolo County, CA)
Communicable Disease Prevention/Public Health Preparedness: HealthSentry (Kansas City, MO)
Information & Education Campaign for Health Care Providers (Santa Cruz County, CA)
Massachusetts Local Board of Health Emergency Operations Plan Template (Massachussetts)
Public Health Surveillance and Communications Using Regional Emergency Medicine Internet (REMI) (Milwaukee, WI)
The Louisiana Recovery Authority (Louisiana)
Vial of Life (Flagler County, FL)
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (Chicago, IL)
Videophone Monitoring of SARS Patients in Voluntary Home Isolation (Nassau County, NY)

 Public Safety / Expenditure On Public Safety
Safe Streets / Strong Communities (New Orleans, LA)

 Public Safety / Hate Crimes
Community United Against Violence (CUAV) (San Francisco, CA)

 Public Safety / Police & Fire Services
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (Chicago, IL)
Richmond Comprehensive Homicide Initiative (Richmond, CA)
San Diego County Breaking Cycles (San Diego County, CA)
Tri-Agency Resource Gang Enforcement Team (Orange County, CA)
Truant Recovery Program (Richmond, CA)
Weed and Seed (USA)
Baton Rouge Partnership for the Prevention of Juvenile Gun Violence (Baton Rouge, LA)
The Community Immersion Program (Austin, Texas)
National Night Out (USA)
Safe Streets / Strong Communities (New Orleans, LA)
Kansas City Gun Experiment (Kansas City, MO)
Bethlehem Police Family Group Conferencing Project (Bethlehem, PA)

 Public Safety / Recalls, Warnings & Alerts
Consumer Product Safety - Recalled Products in Child Care Settings (Idaho)

 Public Safety / Transportation Safety
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Mass Media Campaigns (USA)Cdc
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Multicomponent Interventions with Community Mobilization (USA)Cdc
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Ignition Interlocks (USA)Cdc
Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (Sacramento, CA)
Ramp Metering Strategies in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul region of Minnesota)
Springfield Safe Communities (Springfield, IL)
Think...Think Again Child Passenger Restraint Program (Canada)
Massachusetts Click It or Ticket Campaign (Massachusetts)
STOP-DWI (New York)
Schools on Train Safety Program (Washington)
Feet First (Seattle, WA)
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
Saving Lives (Massachusetts)
Marin County Safe Routes to Schools (Marin)
Safe Kids Buckle Up (USA)
Hawaii Complete Streets Bill (Hawaii)
Bridging the Gap (Seattle)
Cycles of Change (Alameda County, CA)
Buckle Up, Stay Safe (Virginia)
Georgia's Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act (Georgia)
A Matter of Degree (USA)
Motivating Drivers to Correctly Adjust Head Restraints (British Columbia, Canada)
Drivers Under the Influence Intensive Supervision Program (Multnomah County, OR)
Ignition Interlock (Maryland)
Environmental Prevention of DUI Among College Students (San Diego, CA)
Child Booster Seat Community Campaign (King County, WA)
Increasing the Use of Child Restraints in Motor Vehicles (Dallas, TX)
Trauma Center Intervention for Alcohol Disorders (Albuquerque, NM)
Driving Decisions Workbook (Ann Arbor, MI )
Checkpoints Program (Connecticut)
Progressive Agriculture Safety Day Camp® (USA)
Driving and Dementia Toolkit (Ottawa, Canada)
The Vehicle Injury Prevention Program (VIP) (Houston, TX)
Seat Belt Use Feedback Signs on Campus (Ontario, Canada)
Oakland Pedestrian Safety Project: Walk Oakland! (Oakland, CA)
James D. Pfluger, FAIA, Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge (Austin)
Walk Wise, Drive Smart (Hendersonville, NC)
PedFlag (Kirkland, WA)
WalkSafe (Florida)
GIS Walking Maps (Boston, MA)
TransForm (Alameda)
Safe Walk to School (Oakland, CA)
Kohl's Safety Street (St. Louis, MO)
Seat Belt Enforcement Zones (Marion County, IN)
The F.U.N. Initiative (Garfield, NJ)
Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (Perth, Western Australia)
Seat Belt Promotion in North Carolina (North Carolina)
Alcolock (Sweden)
The CrossPoints Project: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Pedestrian Safety to Children (Ontario, Canada)