Models
These are some community-led models of building safety and collective care. There are many we have not included and many that have not even been tried yet. We encourage you to experiment. We see the need for resources to be redirected from public and private institutions, local and national, towards community-based models.
Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS)
A grassroots organization using comprehensive, community-based solutions to build safer public spaces.
Location: Washington, DC
Source: http://collectiveactiondc.org
The Newark Community Street Team (NCST)
A community-based violence reduction strategy which draws upon an evidence-based, trauma informed approach to violence reduction. NCST hires, trains and deploys Outreach workers and High Risk Interventionist in the South Ward and West Wards of Newark.
Location: Newark, NJ
Moms 4 Housing
“We are a collective of unhoused and insecurely housed mothers, organizing to reclaim vacant homes from real estate speculators. We are mothers, we are workers, we are human beings, and we deserve housing. Our children deserve housing. Housing is a human right.”
Location: Oakland, CA
Source: https://moms4housing.org/
The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
We are a community collective of individuals, based out of Oakland, CA that is working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse. We envision a world where everyday people can intervene in incidences of child sexual abuse in ways that not only meet immediate needs such as stopping current violence, securing safety and taking accountability for harm; but that also prevent future violence and harm by actively cultivating things such as healing, accountability and resiliency for all — survivors, bystanders, and those who have abused others.
Location: Oakland, CA
Source: https://batjc.wordpress.com/
Philly Stand Up
Philly Stands Up is small collective of individuals working in Philadelphia to confront sexual assault in our various communities using a transformative justice framework. We believe in restoring trust and justice within our community by working with both survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault. We believe that sexual assault comes in many forms and we are doing what we can to actively combat it.
Philadelphia, PA