 is partnership between the Baltimore City Health Department and Living Communities. Safe Streets is modeled after Chicago’s Cease-Fire Program, which aims to reduce shootings among the 14-25 age group in Baltimore City.
To read our most recent interim evalution of Baltimore's Safe Streets program (January 2009), click here.
Safe Streets-East is currently being implemented in the McElderry Park, Ellwood Park and Madison-Eastend communities. The area is made up of three (3) police posts: 221, 223, and an expansion area that is a combination of posts of 334 & 325. The boundaries of the expansion area are N. Patterson Park Avenue, Ashland Avenue, Edison Highway and E. Monument Street. Most recent data reflects the following:
Participants: 205 total
Events: 93
Mediations: 78
# of Distributed Public Education Materials: 44,000
Other: 53% enrolled in educational program; 23% employed; 45 participants enrolled in Driving School; 20 have received learner’s permits, 10 have received their driver’s licenses. The team in East Baltimore is featured in the photo: Richard Henderson, violence prevention coordinator; Dante Barksdale, outreach worker; James Piper Bond, president of the Living Classrooms Foundation; Tard Carter, outreach worker; Danel Webster, Johns Hopkins; Leon Faruq, site director; Gardnel Carter, outreach supervisor; Cory Winfield, street supervisor.
(Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS)
Read the Johns Hopkins Gazette coverage of the program by clicking here. Click here to listen to the Summer 2008 Safe Streets radio report on shootings in Baltimore City.
Click here to listen to the Summer 2008 Safe Streets report.
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