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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan <br />The primary elements of a Safe Haven are: <br />° programs and services that are specifically selected with resident involvement <br />and based upon a risk and resource assessment performed in the target area, <br />public and private service providers repositioned to work together as a team <br />to provide targeted services; <br />safe and secure facility; <br />accessibility to a wide range of individuals from neighborhoods identified as <br />target areas during the risk and resource assessment; <br />trained staff; and <br />open outside of normal school and work hours. <br />Discussion <br />Both the High School and the Neighborhood Center could function as safe <br />havens. The Neighborhood Center as the location for community policing <br />housing services, credit counseling, etc. could operate at the neighborhood <br />level. The High School could operate at the community level teaching a whole <br />series of family literacy and adult education courses, drug abuse resistance and <br />drug prevention programs during school and at night. In addition the High <br />School athletic facilities could be made available to organized community youth <br />activities and open use at certain times. An outdoor swimming pool with <br />supervised activities would also be desirable during the summer months. <br />Other Programs <br />To complete the seeding of the Southeast neighborhood other partnerships need <br />to be found in the community in other areas discussed elsewhere in the briefing <br />papers, i.e. Housing and Capacity Building. Without dealing with the <br />neighborhood problems as well as it needs, the root causes of crime cannot be <br />dealt with effectively. The ideas of "pulling the weeds and planting the seeds" <br />is an adept analogy. The strategic plan in all of its interlocked parts is needed <br />to solve the overall problems. <br />CA <br />