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Seattle Neighborhood Group 

Description

We work with community residents and small business operators to enhance neighborhood safety. Strategies support the following outcomesand/or risk and protective factors: People are connected to their communities. People are connected to community services and activities. Increase Neighborhood Attachment. Reduce Community Disorganization. Reduce the perceived Availability of Drugs and/or Firearms Strengthen laws and norms discouraging drug use. Emphasis with low-income, at-risk, immigrant and refugee communities.

Mission Statement
Seattle Neighborhood Group partners with residents, businesses and service providers to advocate for safe neighborhoods and to develop strategies that create strong communities.
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Seattle Neighborhood Group
1810 E Yesler Way 
Seattle 
WA
98122-5748 
(206) 323-9666 

Ms. Kay Godefroy 
Executive Director 

Programs

Seattle Neighborhood Group Programs

Community organization support including crime prevention councils, community councils, merchant organizations and block watches. Support may include staff, fundraising, fiscal sponsorship, problem solving and coalition building,  Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and more. The Landlord Training program provides landlords and property owners with management tools to prevent criminal activity in rental residential buildings.

Get Off the Streets is designed improve community safety through recruitment of street drug users into housing and treatment and away from a life of low level crime and a cycle of arrest and release.

Recent Successes and Current Challenges

Our GOTS project was evaluated by researchers from the University of Washington and found to be very effective and well run. 

Seattle Neighborhood Group has provided outreach and crime prevention organizing to vulnerable populations, Seattle's East African immigrant community and other immigrant & refugee communities.

In 2013, SNG organized the first student leadership conference, IMPACT! Safe Schools, in partnership with Seattle University, Seattle Police, Seattle Public Schools, Archdiocese of Seattle education dept., Seattle Police Fdtn., and others, with the goal of empowering high school students leaders to make a positive difference in their school's safety.  Over 140 students from 16 Seattle area high schools attended the all-day conference.

Evaluation

For more than twenty years, the Seattle Neighborhood Group (SNG) has worked in Seattle neighborhoods, primarily in Southeast, Southwest and Central Seattle, to reduce crime and to empower communities through local leadership development and grassroots organizing.

Proven Success
The GOTS (Get off the Streets) program was initiated in 2004 in partnership with the Seattle Police Department and POCAAN (People of Color Against Aids Network). The goal is to lower crime in the Central Area by providing services to people who are drug or alcohol dependent and homeless and who have also been involved in non-violent street crimes. In 2009, a University of Washington evaluation determined that the program coincided with a reduction in criminal activity in the area and that the culturally-specific program worked well for the participants.

Accessibility and Cultural Relevancy
SNG has long-standing, diverse staff working in geographic and ethnic communities throughout South and Central Seattle. For instance, an East-African SNG staff member has been working with East African communities to provide basic crime prevention education and help bring African communities together to work on youth issues and gang prevention.

Collaboration
SNG has a number of strong partners including the City of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods, Seattle Housing Authority, the Seattle Police Department, the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club, and the Vietnamese Community Leadership Institute, among others. SNG also fiscally sponsors a number of groups, many of which are related to the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative.

Grant History with The Seattle Foundation:

Grants Awarded through The Seattle Foundation Grantmaking Program:

DateAmountPurpose
6/10/2011 $15,000.00support general operating expenses.

Financials

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