Neighborhood Safety
WHAT AMANI WILL DO: Increase neighbors’ willingness to support self, other neighbors, and community to achieve community peace. INDICATOR OF SUCCESS: • Residents report willingness to actively support the achievement of community peace. • Residents report engagement in actively supporting the achievement of community peace. • Residents report engagement in addressing public safety efforts.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Safe & Sound Helps Residents, Partners to Improve Safety
• 3.13.21 Amani Cleanup with Barbara Smith – Barbara Smith met with the D5 team in early March to suggest a few proj- ect ideas, including a cleanup. The team agreed to do a pop- up cleanup with her and her neighbors on 3/13. They went out for outreach on 3/9 to advertise the event and host- ed the event on the following Saturday. The group worked for almost 3 hours picking up trash in the neighborhood and gath- ered 30 bags of trash. Mark brought supplies and called in the trash for special pick- up. The residents were very happy for the neighborhood to be clean after the Febru- ary snow had melted, leaving behind month’s worth of litter that needed to be picked up. Adults: 11 bags collected: 30 • 4.10.21 Cawker Park com- munity feedback day – MKE Parks together with Domini-
can Center and Safe & Sound co-sponsored a feedback day at Cawker Park to gather input from the community about improvements to make to the park. Parks received a grant to renovate the existing park structures and needed feedback to help guide deci- sion-making about improve- ments to the space. weather kept turnout lower than the target the partners had discussed. Nonetheless, people came out and gave feedback. They would like to do another feedback day in June or July. Adults: 10 The event could have been better attended but bad • 5.8.21 Amani Community Cleanup – Mark Lisowski or- ganized with the 26th Street block watch to host a clean- up. The event involved 21 participants and succeeded
in removing 25 full bags of trash from the area between Townsend and Burleigh, 20th and 26th. • 9.15.21 Auer Ave resource fair – Mark coordinated with Kim Bikulcius from Auer Ave School to put on a barbecue at the resource fair Kim was planning at the school. This partnership opportunity was to support the resource fair with grilled food for attendees while Safe & Sound staff surveyed attendees for their collective impact goals. Ten surveys were gathered and attendees were thankful for the food that was served. The event was suc- cessful and reached many
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