Operation: Safe Community 2 Implementation Planning

National Forum on 

Youth Violence Prevention 

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Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, Jr.

October 31, 2011

The Transition

Stakeholder Involvement

Limited participation in plan implementation

Strategies focused on suppression and intervention

Data-driven strategies

Stakeholder Involvement

Participation in plan implementation

Strategies focused on suppression, prevention, reentry and intervention

Multidisciplinary approach

Data driven, plus community policing

Operation: Safe Community

Operation: Safe Community 2

Operation: Safe Community 2 Reducing Youth Violence

Operation: Safe Community Chairman Bill Gibbons

To become a city where

children and youth are

valued and nurtured by

strong families and

communities, and are

prepared to lead

productive lives

Vision Statement:

Operation: Safe Community 2 

Operation: Safe Community 2 

Target Outcome:

To reduce 

youth violence 

by 25 percent 

in five years

TEXT CYCLE

Reducing Gang and Drugs

	↓

Reducing Blight and Crime in Apartment Complexes

	↓

Reducing Repeat Offenses

	↓

Reducing Violence in The Home

	↓

Reducing Youth Violence

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  Reducing Gang and

Drugs

Reducing

Blight and

Crime in Apartment Complexes

Reducing 

Repeat 

Offenses

Reducing

Violence in

The Home

Reducing

Youth Violence

Operation: Safe Community 2  Partnerships and PlanningSuccesses

Memphis Shelby Crime Commission Board expansion to include community-based representatives and children’s services  i.e. Family Safety Center and Tennessee Dept. of Children’s Services

FY12 Budget approved October 21, 2011 to include high level staff for youth violence prevention

Memphis Tomorrow agreed to fund implementation planning consultant dollars at a ratio of 1:3

Convened Public Safety Forum for Strong Cities, Strong Communities on September 20, 2011

Convened Public Safety Plan Alignment meeting on 

     September 30, 2011

| Strategy: Prevention                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Increase prenatal/early childhood development                                                                                                                                                               |
| Memphis Fast Forward partnership leveraged to implement prevention strategy for Early Childhood through the PeopleFirst planning initiative                                                                 |
| Expand neighborhood-based youth development resources                                                                                                                                                       |
| Mobilize parishioners to support youth development (Congregational Health Network)Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare training church network, composed of 300 churchesCreated Frayser Youth Services Directory |
| Include youth violence prevention in neighborhood improvement efforts                                                                                                                                       |
| Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation) selects youth violence target area as one of three sites on May 23, 2011                                                                         |
| Defending Our Childhood                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Awarded Phase II Implementation planning, totaling $2 millionCIM for Placed-based Intervention Strategies, August 18, 2011, Sponsored by OSC and DCIRangeline CDC Neighborhood Leadership Luncheon          |

Successes

 Strategy: Prevention

   Increase prenatal/early childhood development

Memphis Fast Forward partnership leveraged to implement prevention strategy for Early Childhood through the People First planning initiative

   Expand neighborhood-based youth development resources

Mobilize parishioners to support youth development (Congregational Health Network)

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare training church network, composed of 300 churches

Created Fraser Youth Services Directory

   Include youth violence prevention in neighborhood improvement efforts

Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation) selects youth violence target area as one of three sites on May 23, 2011

   Defending Our Childhood

Awarded Phase II Implementation planning, totaling $2 million

CIM for Placed-based Intervention Strategies, August 18, 2011, Sponsored by OSC and DCI

Range line CDC Neighborhood Leadership Luncheon

Table: 

Strategy: Prevention

   Increase prenatal/early childhood development

Memphis Fast Forward partnership leveraged to implement prevention strategy for Early Childhood through the PeopleFirst planning initiative

   Expand neighborhood-based youth development resources

Mobilize parishioners to support youth development (Congregational Health Network)

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare training church network, composed of 300 churches

Created Frayser Youth Services Directory

   Include youth violence prevention in neighborhood improvement efforts

Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation) selects youth violence target area as one of three sites on May 23, 2011

   Defending Our Childhood

Awarded Phase II Implementation planning, totaling $2 million

CIM for Placed-based Intervention Strategies, August 18, 2011, Sponsored by OSC and DCI

Rangeline CDC Neighborhood Leadership Luncheon

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| Strategy: Intervention                                                                                                               |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Expand coordinated wrap-around services for youth in early stages of    involvement with the criminal justice system.                |
| 89 percent of G.R.A.S.S.Y. (Gang Reduction Assistance for Saving Society’s Youth) students are not referred back to Juvenile Court   |

Successes

 Strategy: Intervention

   Expand coordinated wrap-around services for youth in early stages of 

   involvement with the criminal justice system.

89 percent of G.R.A.S.S.Y. (Gang Reduction Assistance for Saving Society’s Youth) students are not referred back to Juvenile Court

Table: 

 Strategy: Intervention

   Expand coordinated wrap-around services for youth in early stages of 

   involvement with the criminal justice system.

89 percent of G.R.A.S.S.Y. (Gang Reduction Assistance for Saving Society’s Youth) students are not referred back to Juvenile Court

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| Strategy: Law Enforcement                                                                                               |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| MPD Director Toney Armstrong                                                                                            |
| Maintain data-driven policing                                                                                           |
| Intensify targeted patrols in areas with high youth crime (Memphis Police Department/ Shelby County Sheriff’s Office)   |
| Expand community-based policing strategies                                                                              |
| MPD establish Crime Prevention Unit (Memphis Police Department)                                                         |

Successe

 Strategy: Law Enforcement

    MPD Director Toney Armstrong

  Maintain data-driven policing 

Intensify targeted patrols in areas with high youth crime (Memphis Police Department/ Shelby County Sheriff’s Office)

   Expand community-based policing strategies

MPD establish Crime Prevention Unit (Memphis Police Department)

Table: 

Strategy: Law Enforcement

    MPD Director Toney Armstrong

  Maintain data-driven policing 

Intensify targeted patrols in areas with high youth crime (Memphis Police Department/ Shelby County Sheriff’s Office)

   Expand community-based policing strategies

MPD establish Crime Prevention Unit (Memphis Police Department)

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  Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement

Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Neighborhood Watch

Faith-based Community

Co-Act Restructure

Gang Unit

Blue Crush

Crime Reduction Utilization

Statistical History

| Strategy: Law Enforcement/ Graduated Sanctions                                                                                                                  |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Expand graduated sanctions for youth                                                                                                                            |
| In 2010 – 2011, there was a 22.7 percent reduction in students transported to Juvenile Court for School House Adjustment Program Enterprise (SHAPE) offenses.   |
| Strategy: Reduce Adult Repeat Offenses                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Establish Shelby County Office of Re-entry                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Implement collaborative case management pilot for offenders returning from Shelby County Division of Corrections and the TN Department of Corrections. Secured $110,000 in funding to open pilot program for re-entry, serving population 18 – 35   |

Successes

 Table1: 

Strategy: Law Enforcement/ Graduated Sanctions 

   Expand graduated sanctions for youth

In 2010 – 2011, there was a 22.7 percent reduction in students transported to Juvenile Court for School House Adjustment Program Enterprise (SHAPE) offenses.

Table2:

 Strategy: Reduce Adult Repeat Offenses

   Establish Shelby County Office of Re-entry

Implement collaborative case management pilot for offenders returning from Shelby County Division of Corrections and the TN Department of Corrections. Secured $110,000 in funding to open pilot program for re-entry, serving population 18 – 35 

Table 1:

 Strategy: Law Enforcement/ Graduated Sanctions 

   Expand graduated sanctions for youth

In 2010 – 2011, there was a 22.7 percent reduction in students transported to Juvenile Court for School House Adjustment Program Enterprise (SHAPE) offenses.

Table 2: 

 Strategy: Reduce Adult Repeat Offenses

   Establish Shelby County Office of Re-entry

Implement collaborative case management pilot for offenders returning from Shelby County Division of Corrections and the TN Department of Corrections. Secured $110,000 in funding to open pilot program for re-entry, serving population 18 – 35 

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| Data/Metrics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| TDOC database unavailable to Shelby County (Read only)                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| E_TOMIS database for offenders does not track all service areas                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Data currently not being collected for some metrics                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Establishing  Services for Youth over 18 Years of Age                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| TDOC currently has youth and adults in same area; need more comprehensive services for youth                                                                                                                                                |
| No centralized case management system to track youth from the time they are in jail to release                                                                                                                                              |
| Expanding Neighborhood-based Youth Development Resources to Form Networks that Share Information and Support “One-stop” Access                                                                                                              |
| Target area lacks capacity to provide “one-stop” access                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Limited Youth Re-entry Employment Services                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Workforce Investment Network is restructuring how they provide youth employment services.        Currently youth can participate only in year-round program that has enrollment date of September.           Projected completion 2013-2014 |

Challenges

Table:

Data/Metrics

TDOC database unavailable to Shelby County (Read only)

E_TOMIS database for offenders does not track all service areas

Data currently not being collected for some metrics

Establishing  Services for Youth over 18 Years of Age

TDOC currently has youth and adults in same area; need more comprehensive services for youth

No centralized case management system to track youth from the time they are in jail to release

Expanding Neighborhood-based Youth Development Resources to Form Networks

 that Share Information and Support “One-stop” Access

Target area lacks capacity to provide “one-stop” access

Limited Youth Re-entry Employment Services

Table:

Data/Metrics

TDOC database unavailable to Shelby County (Read only)

E_TOMIS database for offenders does not track all service areas

Data currently not being collected for some metrics

Establishing  Services for Youth over 18 Years of Age

TDOC currently has youth and adults in same area; need more comprehensive services for youth

No centralized case management system to track youth from the time they are in jail to release

Expanding Neighborhood-based Youth Development Resources to Form Networks

 that Share Information and Support “One-stop” Access

Target area lacks capacity to provide “one-stop” access

Limited Youth Re-entry Employment Services

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| Funding to Support Key Strategies                                                                 |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| D.A. Mentoring Program funding threatened, December 2011                                          |
| Mentoring program to support expansion of wrap around case management services funding is pending |
| Coordination of City and County Public Safety Initiatives                                         |
| Strong Cities, Strong Communities                                                                 |
| Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention Unit                                              |
| Bloomberg Innovation Grant                                                                        |
| Memphis Police Division – Community Policing                                                      |
| Defending Our Childhood Initiative                                                                |

Challenges

Table:  

Funding to Support Key Strategies

D.A. Mentoring Program funding threatened, December 2011

Mentoring program to support expansion of wrap around case management services funding is pending

Coordination of City and County Public Safety Initiatives

Strong Cities, Strong Communities

Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention Unit

Bloomberg Innovation Grant

Memphis Police Division – Community Policing

Defending Our Childhood Initiative

Table:

Funding to Support Key Strategies

D.A. Mentoring Program funding threatened, December 2011

Mentoring program to support expansion of wrap around case management services funding is pending

Coordination of City and County Public Safety Initiatives

Strong Cities, Strong Communities

Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention Unit

Bloomberg Innovation Grant

Memphis Police Division – Community Policing

Defending Our Childhood Initiative

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Memphis

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A City in Motion...

Mayor A C Wharton, Jr. 

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell

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