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Ivanhoe Neighborhood East Quadrant Safety Initiative
Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council
Program Summary:
The Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project (AAN) is a collaborative project between Legal Aid of Western Missouri, seven private law firms and seven urban core neighborhoods in Kansas City. Each law firm "adopts" one of these neighborhoods, and volunteer attorneys provide free civil legal services to low-income residents, neighborhood associations and local non-profits that serve the neighborhoods.
Program Addresses:
3700 Woodland Ave. • Kansas City, MO 64109
Contact:
816-921-6611
Program Summary:
The Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project (AAN) is a collaborative project between Legal Aid of Western Missouri, seven private law firms and seven urban core neighborhoods in Kansas City. Each law firm "adopts" one of these neighborhoods, and volunteer attorneys provide free civil legal services to low-income residents, neighborhood associations and local non-profits that serve the neighborhoods.
Program Addresses:
3700 Woodland Ave. • Kansas City, MO 64109
Contact:
816-921-6611
The Ivanhoe Neighborhood East Quadrant Safety Initiative is focused on reducing violent crime in a targeted area of the Kansas City neighborhood that lies east of Highway 71 between Euclid Street and Prospect Avenue from 31st to Emanuel Cleaver Boulevard. With identified "hotspots" along Prospect, this portion of Ivanhoe experiences over two-thirds of all the violent crime in the entire neighborhood.
This project in conjunction with the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council's health, youth and family programs focuses on increasing resiliency and collective efficacy in residents, engaging neighborhood groups and encouraging businesses to implement Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) practices. Specific strategies include implementing Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) mapping and engagement activities, reviving Block Contact initiative, providing trauma-informed workshops and training, and increasing crime prevention skills for all ages.
Through a collective impact strategy, the Neighborhood Council will work with key stakeholders to meet four overarching outcomes:
COMBAT Funding: $53,700.00
This project in conjunction with the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council's health, youth and family programs focuses on increasing resiliency and collective efficacy in residents, engaging neighborhood groups and encouraging businesses to implement Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) practices. Specific strategies include implementing Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) mapping and engagement activities, reviving Block Contact initiative, providing trauma-informed workshops and training, and increasing crime prevention skills for all ages.
Through a collective impact strategy, the Neighborhood Council will work with key stakeholders to meet four overarching outcomes:
- Increased neighborhood social cohesion, advocacy and organization
- Improved neighborhood capacity and sustainability
- Decreased violent crime and illegal activities
- Increased long-term economic development opportunities and investment
COMBAT Funding: $53,700.00
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These are the agencies that have a COMBAT-funded program with a direct connection to COMBAT's Striving Together to Reduce Violence In Neighborhoods (STRIVIN') initaitive.
Centers for Conflict Resolution
» Reducing Compound Trauma In Hot Spots
Community Services League
» Hawthorne STRIVIN' Initiative
» Northwest Independence STRIVIN' Expansion
Hickman Mills Prevention Coalition
» Hope Hangout
Hope House, Inc.
» Hope House's Targeted Domestic Violence Program
Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council
» Ivanhoe Neighborhood East Quadrant Safety Initiative
Mattie Rhodes Center
» Mattie Rhodes Violence & Intervention Program
Sisters In Christ
» Safe Zone