They organized the area's first youth baseball league in twenty years, engaging 600 youth in safe, supervised summer recreation. They mentored and helped more than 5,000 school children in classrooms, after-school programs and summer activities and conducted over 2,000 safety inspections in public housing, replacing broken lights, locks and windows. Public Safety Corps members take the lead in community-wide service events, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and National Night Out Against Crime. The Red Hook Public Safety Corps provides a comprehensive response to an issue that is of paramount importance to residents of Red Hook, most of whom live in the Red Hook Homes public housing project. Every day, the 50 Corps members go out to do community service in South Brooklyn.
Collaborations are critical, with the police, schools and social service agencies all involved.
The AmeriCorps members, most of whom are from the Red Hook community, are a vital part of this community safety effort. There are many lessons to be learned from the AmeriCorps Red Hook Safety Corps program. Law enforcement agencies and the community work together to tackle crime, national service engages community members from 18 to 65 in service. These AmeriCorps members are making their neighborhood a safer and more livable place. This program year, the Corps plans to assist 2,000 crime victims, train 2,000 residents in mediation and conflict resolution, assist 7,000 people find their way around court, escort 100 others from their homes to court, and continue all their other school and community service activities.