According to an analysis of Baton Rouge crime data, the most substantial proportions of violent crime and gang activity between 2016 and 2018 occurred in 10 neighborhoods comprising 6 percent of the parish, a total of 31.5 square miles. The combined median age of residents in the 10 target areas is 33, and the average annual income of residents is $36,336. In total, these 10 neighborhoods account for 46 percent of violent and drug-related crime in the parish. Despite the high levels of crime, the target neighborhoods have several assets, including 37 civic organizations, 1 homeless shelter, 4 emergency shelters, 45 public parks, 275 churches, 2 community centers, 28 public schools, 44 food access programs, and 288 healthcare facilities.

During the Planning Phase, the following goals will guide Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) practitioner and stakeholders:

• Goal 1: Empower community members by establishing a community member-led advisory council to support and direct law enforcement efforts to reduce violenc crime, dismantle gang activity, and enhance police-community relations.
• Goal 2: Empower a community member-led advisory council with knowledge about community perceptions, local risk factors, crime, and gang activities to direct crime prevention and response efforts in the Baton Rouge area.
• Goal 3: Deploy data-driven, community member-initiated programming and law enforcement strategies as a mechanism to build social cohesion, improve collective efficacy, and reduce crime.

The Planning Phase will include a multiagency, multidisciplinary exploration of crime, community perceptions of crime, risk factors, and gang activity. During the Planning Phase, the site coordinator will identify community leaders to be members of the BCJI Advisory Council, which will be a multidisciplinary collective of individuals and organizations tasked with ingesting information collected and analyzed during the Planning Phase and making programmatic decisions for the Implementation Phase of the project.

During the Implementation Phase, the Baton Rouge Team's Safe Hopeful Healthy program seeks to implement a three-part intervention plan: 

• Developing the Baton Rouge Community Street Team (BRCST): BRCST is a neighborhood-centered project that draws upon relationship-based mentoring and a person-centered case management model to allow community interventionists to engage and recruit youth and young adults who are at risk of becoming either victims or perpetrators of violence. BRCST supports the following five strategies: hiring credible messengers, case management, violence interruption, safe passage, and healing and recovery services. 
• Public Safety Round Table (PSRT): PSRT is designed to create opportunities for community members, police, and city officials to stay informed about violence in their neighborhoods, build trust and transparency, and collaborate to share resources to address public safety concerns. 
• Citizen Pulse Data Dashboard: Safe Hopeful Healthy will launch Citizen Pulse in an effort to empower community leaders with detailed information about crime, drivers of crime, and risk and protective factors in the city. Project Partner, Vinformatix, will develop custom reports and data dashboards tailored to meet programmatic goals and initiatives. Vinformatix will link and aggregate disparate data to provide a fully functional system, including databases and easy-to-read dashboards, to ensure practitioners at all levels have the information to make holistic decisions. 

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