Safe Streets - Strong Communities
New Orleans
Safe Streets is a community-based organization that builds collective power and leadership within targeted communities of New Orleans. Safe Streets campaigns for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans, one that creates safe streets and strong communities for everyone regardless of race or economic status. Safe Streets defines its constituency as communities most impacted by violence, police harassment and incarceration. These communities are overwhelmingly communities of color and Safe Streets focuses primarily on the low-income African American communities of St. Thomas/River Garden, Central City, Treme, Holly Grove and Algiers. Safe Streets places a strong emphasis on building the leadership of police brutality victims, formerly incarcerated persons, and their loved ones. Safe Streets members range in age from 16 to 82 and are primarily adult women family members of formerly & currently incarcerated people.
Member website: www.safestreetsnola.org
Director: Rosana Cruz, Co-Director
Donate to Safe Streets: http://www.safestreetsnola.org/donate/
Phone: 504-522-3949 ext.295