to so that's why the p r stands for seattle youth violence prevention initiative and it's about five years old it was started in two thousand and nine as a result of a number of youth being shot and killed in seattle and people being very upset about that and wanting to do something different so the mayor at that time pulled together a planning team to look at what was happening around the country in other cities to see what was successful there to get some ideas and also held meetings in the communities that were affected by the violence to find out what ideas people had in the local community so together all of that came together as a plan for the seattle youth violence prevention initiative and one thing that was very important was to have the initiative be led and to live in the community and not to be a city driven top down in the ship and so we decided to have in the three neighborhoods most affected that's south seattle southeast southwest and central we chose a community based organization to be to agency and we call those are neighborhood networks so your offices right here are located right next door to our central area neighborhood network which is therapeutic health services  in the other two neighborhoods we have southwest youth and family services and se we have the rainier vista boys and girls club so you may know or you may have noticed that next door young people come there for services and programs and also meet with the staff there so what they do is meet with young people who've been referred because someone in the community it could be a parent it could be a teacher who has identified as being at risk for perhaps being a victim or a perpetrator of violence and thinks that they need service and support and so the folks next door or the neighborhood networks meet with the person and talk to the person who referred them and then try to figure out what would be the kind of services or programs that young person wants to help them go down a positive path ok nice violence are the guns and that's a big problem because there's very easy access to guns throughout the seattle community and you know it's an issue that young people have such easy access because you know when there's a conflict and people want to act out act on that conflict if you have a gun involved it's more than just an interest can easily be a death and that's and that's a tragic turn of events that we really want to avoid from our and we're working with our young people to make different choices to address their feelings of anger differently to address conflict differently but certainly we also need help in making sure that drug guns are not so easily available to they should not be available to juveniles criminals to anyone with a mental health issue they really need to be there needs to be policies that ensure that only people who are capable and know how to handle comprehensive urban public safety initiative and the idea is to really work together the city and community to make this city a safer place to start out with in the summer of safety  there are a few components that the seattle youth violence prevention initiative is partnering on one is the find it fix it walks that you mentioned and the idea there is to go where where crime is highest the specific very small places we call them hot spots of crime around the city where a disproportionate amount of crime is committed and so with the find it fix it walks we're asking community members to come out along with city staff to look at what are the conditions that are making crime more possible in those spots and not in the surrounding areas so there's a strong body of research that says that of crime continue year after year decade after decade even if the population changes even if the businesses come and go they still are the places where crime is  highest and so there are conditions about those specific places that are making that possible and so the find it fix it walks we're trying to figure out what are those conditions why is it just more conducive and attractive  crime there and so we're looking at things like the physical environment in those walks is it dark is it easy for people a criminal to hide run away because the lighting is bad the trees are obstructing the lighting the city lighting maybe there's hedges that that people can hide behind so and you know what makes people feel safe and be safe we heard from residents that some of the sidewalk obstructions you know they're bumpy and they're broken are are a problem for public safety i spoke to several gentlemen who use wheelchairs to get around who are very concerned about the bumps in the sidewalk one gentleman got stuck on one of those bumps at the middle of the night obviously he was frightened and didn't feel safe and other people have fallen on those you know those obstruction and so that makes them vulnerable not just for interest but for being a victim of crime so the find and fix it works or a way for us to start with some immediate quick fixes to the physical environment and then in the summer of safety there are a number of other pieces that we're looking at so it's a more comprehensive approach to public safety for example we're also looking at what's called activation of public spaces so if there's a space that is open for the public to use but the public isn't using it because they don't feel safe we want to figure out what's happening there and help to activate it help to bring services and programming there bring people back to that space it could be a park for example in southeast seattle the corner of rainier in henderson is considered a crime hotspot and for years it's been a place where crime is higher right there there's a beautifully constructed plaza area that has been used in the past for young people to fight that's not the purpose of that space it's really there for the public to enjoy it and so one of the things that we're starting to plan through the summer of safety is a series of public events with arts and performances and family friendly activities because we want people to use that space for positive reasons and to make it a place that that everyone feels welcome and they don't feel unsafe and it would then hopefully become a place where people don't go to fight that they may go there because they know there's going to be a movie or a performance or the drill team is going to perform things like people that are working this summer through the youth violence prevention initiative and so we are planning that now we actually have some programs that are going to start their projects where young people can work so for  ourselves for the youth violence prevention initiative in our partners the human services department the office of arts and culture i know that we're we are going to add forty more youth jobs this summer and then there are other partners like the parks department which are going to add many more than that i think over one hundred jobs will be added by the parks department so it's ever going to happen after next year or this year that's this  of that it's really it's of course a community effort we all need to support each other and as adults we need to support young people but we certainly can't make an impact on youth violence if young people themselves aren't in charge and taking a leadership role because you are the ones who really know what's happening and what will help make change and have a voice that other young people will listen to so you have a very important role to play people are very much engaged with media all the time both public media you know mass media like television and radio and also social media like special credibility you have a different reach out to your audience that i think sometimes as adults we may not have they have and they said that you like to say for young people and for  watching you right now i think i'd like to say especially to young people that you have an incredibly important role and the community that you live in now and making it what you want it to be making it a safe place by every action of your own every choice you make and and also you are the leaders of earth of our future and the you know the time is really now to start thinking about i'm really excited that way by what i seen here at m m r t i and what you young people are doing here i've seen you use learning how to create a database to do research on the internet how to conduct data entry and to learn about event organizing and mailing and communication to businesses in the community i also have personally experienced your very professional film studio and all of the equipment in the set up and i can see that all of you young people have been trained to to do your work in a very professional manner both both behind the camera and in front of the camera so i think the skills that young people are learning here at m r t i are very high quality and i would encourage other 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