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FY 2008 WEED AND SEED COMMUNITIES APPLICATION <br />~~ <br />~~. , <br />Resource distribution, coordination and enhancement: <br />IV. PRE-AWARD DEVELOPMENT PERIOD <br />Efforts Undertaken to Date: <br />Weed Program: Project Safe Neighborhoods: Anti Gang Initiative that will support the <br />South Bend police Department U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana. <br />Grant provides for technical training and assistance across the District in the form of a <br />contracted position working out of the US Attorney's Office, and provides for various <br />technology, software and training upgrades to the South Bend Police Dept. Regional <br />Crime Information, Gang and Fraud units. <br />Implementation Status: Work is occurring now and will end in mid 2008. <br />Performance Measures: (1) # anti-gang and violence training sessions (2) # of officers <br />trained (3) #youth programs in District (4) # youth attending programs <br />Outcomes: (1) Continued education of officers (2) Improved ability to understand gang <br />and violent crime relationships through the use of analytical analysis software (3) Ability <br />to use software product(s) to inform youth/public <br />Weed Program: Graffiti Cleanup run by South Bend Police Department paid for with a <br />Youth Recreation Program grant. <br />Implementation Status: Currently being implemented in the proposed Weed & <br />Seed area and in other areas of South Bend. <br />Performance Measures: (1) Number of graffiti sites painted over. <br />Outcomes: (1) Blight elimination (2) crime reduction <br />Weed Program: South Bend Dollar Home Program-The City of South Bend is working <br />with three community development organizations to identify nuisance vacant and <br />abandoned houses in three target sites, including the proposed Weed & Seed area. The <br />City of South Bend will strategically demolish identified homes to stabilize selected blocks. <br />Implementation Status: Houses are being identified and demolition has begun. <br />Performance Measures: (1) # of nuisance vacant houses identified (2)# Number of <br />nuisance vacant houses demolished (3) Long term rise in values of adjacent properties <br />Outcomes: (1) Removal of vacant houses and reuse of the resulting vacant land will <br />stabilize strategic blocks within the target sites. <br />Weed Program: Lincoln Way West Corridor Police Patrols <br />Implementation Status: Funding approved and additional patrols targeted to LWW <br />corridor during 2007. Targeted patrols are requested through a citizen committee process <br />working with the Police Dept. to identify trouble areas on the corridor. <br />Performance Measures: # and location of trouble areas reduced <br />Outcomes: (1) Reduction in trouble areas (2) Reduction in need for patrols <br />Seed Program: St. Joseph County Bridges Out of Poverty <br />Implementation Status: To date, 700 people in St. Joseph County have attended one <br />day sessions and 150 are "Getting Ahead" facilitators. The program has been <br />underwritten by St. Mary's College for four years. Discussions have occurred with regard <br />to the development of a specific program in the W&S area. <br />F:\DATA\SHAREIDPND1Weed&Seed12008 App]ication12008 Application\Final format for application.doc 9 <br />