Environmental Design

The Madison, WI site visited the Seattle BCJI site to discuss lessons learned thus far, community engagement, and sustainability.

A site visit of the BCJI New Haven, CT site was conducted on June 16, 2016 by the LISC TA team. The purpose of the visit was to assess the sites implementation phase/process and provide TTA as needed.

October 24th: Langley Park traveled to McElderry Park in Baltimore city to partake in a peer to peer site visit to learn about the planning process and data analysis.

LISC awarded the San Francisco Office of the District Attorney (SFDA) a peer-learning grant from to participate in a cross-site visit to the Brownsville Community Justice Center at the Brooklyn BCJI site. SFDA's aim is to learn how the Brownsville Community Justice Center implements their initiatives that engage youth to reimagine public space and reduce violence as well as how they build sustainable partnerships between city agencies and the community.

A site visit of the BCJI Harrisburg, PA site was conducted on June 14, 2016 by the LISC TA team. The purpose of the visit was to assess the sites planning phase/process and provide TTA as needed.

A site visit of the BCJI Meridian site was conducted on June 6, 2016 by the LISC TA team. The purpose of the visit was to assess the sites planning phase/process and provide TTA as needed.

Philadelphia and Baltimore were able to connect for a peer to peer lunch during the Smart Suite Summit on September 9th.

Site partners from Albany, Atlanta, Cleveland, Highland County, Indianapolis and St Louis attended the Smart Suite Fellows Academy in East Lansing in July, 2016.

Initial LISC staff site visit completed 6/7/16. SME Larisa Ortiz (commercial corridor revitalization) completed her site visit on June 27th, followed by presentation on July 20th to the Youngstown team with a final report and recommendations for next steps. LISC staff encouraged Youngstown team to attend Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) workshop on August 3-4. The delegation will include two YPD officers, research partner, coordinator and lifelong resident.

Key objectives of the site visit include meetings with key initiative partners including YNDC, YPD and the YSU research team to discuss progress to date. Additional meetings will include discussions with neighborhood canvassers, recently hired by YNDC to assist in neighborhood/resident level data collection. Plans for a forthcoming Communications Small grant application from YNDC will also be discussed. The site visit will also be a key opportunity to engage YPD and its newly formed Community Policing Unit.