Goal: People feel safe and are able to gain and protect assets.

Strategy: Increase neighborhood-led activities to improve the feeling of safety in areas where substantial numbers of people with low incomes live and where crime rates are higher.Increase the effectiveness of services and support for people who are victims or perpetrators of crimes. As a result of these changes people will have a better chance of becoming and /or remaining self-sufficient.

Current Focus: "Making our Children Safe in our Neighborhoods" initiative.  Task teams are working on collaborative issues between the Waterloo Police Department and community members.

Intended Outcomes:
Increase community action for safety. Increase community-based action that creates a greater feeling of power and safety in neighborhoods/communities where conditions of poverty are concentrated, and where people report that they do not feel safe.
Improve effectiveness and fairness of justice system. Improve effectiveness and fairness of criminal justice system to increase self-sufficiency and decrease disparities in minority contact with the criminal justice system.
Improve effectiveness of service of victims. Improve the effectiveness of services and support for victims, especially those people who are in conditions of poverty to become self-sufficient after criminal incidents.

Key Indicator: Increase assets of young people so that violence decreases. Increase ability of criminal justice system, programs and providers to more effectively and fairly protect the assets of all people.

Connection to Assets: Focusing on this area primarily helps to build human and social assets, which in turn protects financial and physical assets.

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