Community Safety Resources
Key:
- 👥- Organization/campaign/training program
- 🛠- Toolkit
- 📚- Book
- 📝- Article
- 📺- Video
- 🔊- Audio
Jewish Community Safety
- 🛠 Bringing ‘Safety Through Solidarity’ to Life: An Abolitionist Guide to Jewish Community Safety – Community Safety Campaign.
- 🛠 Safety Planning Roadmap – Community Safety Campaign.
- 🛠 Community Safety Resource Packet – Jewish Voice for Peace.
- 🛠 Community Safety and De-Escalation Resources (2024) – Kavod Boston.
- 🛠 Community Safety Team Toolkit – Nahalat Shalom.
- 🛠 Active Shooter Response Plan – New Synagogue Project.
- 🛠 Risk Assessment Matrix – New Synagogue Project.
- 📝 Community Safety Pledge – Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
- 📝 Imagining the World to Come – Deadly Exchange.
- 📝 A New Story of Safety – Carin Mrotz.
- 📝 Don’t repeat the Maccabees’ mistake – Safety through solidarity, not surveillance – Lara Haft (2019). Mondoweiss.
- 📝 Synagoge Safety After Squirrel Hill – Jonah Boyarin (2018). Jewish Currents.
- 📝 As a Black Jew, I’m Begging You: Don’t Arm Your Synagogue – Nylah Burton (2018). Hey Alma.
- 📺 Jewish Voice for Peace Community Safety Webinar Series:
- Webinar #1 Recording: Sharing Practical Resources & Process: Emergency Plans, Internal Political Education, Deescalation Protocols, Kavod Boston & Kol Tzedek.
- Webinar #2 Recording: Ask the Expert: Security Principles, Stories, & Advice from Tur-Ha Ak, Community Ready Corps.
- Webinar #3 Recording: Deescalation Training, JVP Deescalation Team.
Additional Faith-Based Congregational Safety
- 🛠 Congregational Safety Toolkit
- 🛠 An Ecology of Community Safety
- 🛠 Unitarian Universalist (UU) Alternatives to Calling Police
- 👥 Liberating Lineages Collective
Additional Community Safety Resources
- 📝 Developing Alternatives to Policing in the Arab and Muslim Community – AROC.
- 📝 Disability Justice and Community Safety – Liberating Lineages Collective.
- 📝 Community Safety and Security Insights From the Field in 2022 & 2023 – Vision Change Win.
- 📝 A Return to Leftist Self-Defense – Shane Burley (2024). Yes Magazine.
- 📝 Safety in Solidarity: How to Safeguard Movement Groups and Members – Solidaire Network – Jas Wade (2024). Solidaire Network.
- 📝 Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security – Ellen Furnari et al (2023). Bristol University Press.
- 📝 Unarmed Civilian Protection Course Manual – Huibert Oldenhuis et al (2021). Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Training Programs
- 👥 National Community Safety and Security School – Vision Change Win
- 👥 Center for Anti-Violence Education
- 👥 Right to Be
- 👥 Stop the Bleed
- 👥 Progressive Safety Alliance
- 👥 De-Escalation and Community Safety Directory: Trainings Available in Your State – Bridging Divides Initiative.
Additional Toolkits
- 🛠 Community Safety Toolkit – Vision Change Win.
- 🛠 Violence Intervention Safety Tips for Survivors and Bystanders – Safe Outside the System Collective.
- 🛠 Nonviolent Community Safety and Peace Building – Pt’chang.
- 🛠 Creative Interventions Toolkit
- 🛠 Guide to Trauma-Informed De-Escalation During Actions and Protests – Open Table Nashville.
- 🛠Community Defense Zone Starter Guide.
- 🛠 Assessing Risk: Organizational Safety Planning – Vision Change Win.
Funding Resources
- 👥 Proteus Fund Grantee Safety and Security Fund
- 👥 Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund
- 👥 Jewish Liberation Fund
- 📝 In Defense of Movements: An Investment Roadmap for Funders
- 📝The Crisis of Criminalization: A Call For A Comprehensive Philanthropic Response.
Unarmed Emergency Responder Programs
- 📝 Non-Police Crisis Response Programs Have Been Working. Here’s How – Meg O’Connor (2024). The Appeal.
- 📝 Directory of Unarmed Crisis Response Models – (2022).
- 👥 HEART Program (Durham, NC)
- 👥 The Behavioral Health 911 Diversion Program (Baltimore, MD)
- 👥 Newark Community Street Team
- 👥 Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) (Minneapolis, MN)
- 👥 Healing and Justice Center (Miami, FL)
- 👥 STAR Program (Denver, CO)
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