We pursue our work through four principle strategies, shaped by the needs local partners have identified over the years:

• Environmental approaches to making healthier, safer communities and neighborhoods
• Trauma-informed community violence intervention and prevention (CVIPI)
• Alternatives to arrest, prosecution, and incarceration
• Support for people re-entering communities after incarceration

All of our approaches are delivered through LISC’s core model: locally led community safety and justice collaboratives. We engage community leaders and residents to build coalitions with community-based organizations, local government, service providers, and other stakeholders to work collectively on safety issues. We then help these coalitions gather and analyze crime data to pinpoint their specific safety issues and determine which evidence-based core strategies and activities they can use to address them. Collective efficacy and local leadership development are critical components of these community-rooted strategies, which are proven to decrease the incidence of crime. In many cases, LISC-led interventions have simultaneously reduced both crime levels and the numbers of arrests in the communities of focus.

Learn more about our principle strategies.