Collective Knowledge Base

The knowledge base reflects the collective knowledge we gained through trial and error over the past several years combined with our decades of prior experience. We hope that by collecting and sharing our experiences we can help other organizations and coalitions strengthen their work and the broader movement for community safety.

We recognize that we don’t have all the answers and that this knowledge base is not exhaustive. Even more, every community has its own nuances that need different approaches. We encourage you to take the pieces that resonate with you and adapt it for your own contexts. One helpful analogy for this knowledge base might be a “cookbook” or “recipe guide” that you can draw on to create strategies that fit your community’s ingredients and tastes.

The collection begins with an overview of our holistic programmatic model (what we work on) and our collaborative model (how we work together). The rest of the document is divided into programmatic themes, where we’ll describe our catalog of programs and impact. We have also included example curricula and other materials where they are available. We labeled each program using the prongs of our holistic model (respond, restore, reform). Since programs can address multiple prongs, some programs have multiple labels. A searchable online version of this knowledge base can be found here [URL HERE].