Weed And Seed Cross-Site Analysis

Community mobilization and engagement includes the collaboration and involvement of community members (including human service providers) in the planning, implementation and subsequent assessment of community initiatives (Miao, Umemoto, Gonda, & Hishinuma, 2011). The Weed & Seed strategy demonstrates how programs can successfully implement change, when program administrators endorse cooperation and coordination. Weed and Seed is a community-based program established by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1991, with the intent of controlling violent crime, gang-related activities and drug abuse, and promote neighborhood revitalization, in targeted high-crime regions. Dunworth, Mills, Cordner, and Greene (1999) conducted a cross-site analysis from …show more content…
This initiative promoted “pulling-levers” policing – initiating all available legal resources in response to violent crimes to deter recidivism – and partnerships between law enforcement practitioners and researchers and influenced the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative (Braga & Weisburd, 2012). The Department of Justice instituted the PSN initiative, to reduce gun violence. PSN features partnerships between law enforcement and researchers and implemented nationally in 2001 in all 94 U.S. Attorney districts. Effective communication between partners. Program administrators implemented five key strategies: partnerships; strategic planning and research integration; training; outreach; and accountability (McGarrell et al., 2009). All PSN task force established multi-agency partnerships with law enforcement agencies and community based organizations, with the majority hosting regular monthly meetings, with the incorporation of research and strategic planning processes (McGarrell et al., 2009). For instance, in Lowell, thi partnerships improved the sharing of resources and information between agencies (McGarrell et al.,