Safe Kids/Safe Streets

Project Updates

Spring Cluster Meeting

The National Civic League's Federal-Community Partnerships team convened the Spring Cluster Meeting in Washington, DC on April 2003. The Safe Kids/Safe Streets (SK/SS) Learning Community reflected on past accomplishments, achievements leading towards sustainability, and the future goals and next steps of ongoing work. Members of the learning community also engaged in rich dialogues with representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal & Child Health Bureau, National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention, Grantmakers for Children, Youth, & Families, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy. Information was shared on lessons learned in SK/SS and other national projects, as well as priorities around systems reform and the intervention/prevention of child maltreatment.

Links: SK/SS Presentation, Spring Cluster Meeting Photos

Huntsville, Alabama

The goal of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets project in Huntsville is to provide training and technical assistance to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Safe Kids/Safe Streets National Demonstration Project. A major focus is to assist with restructuring and strengthening of local juvenile and criminal justice systems, child welfare, family services, and other related systems to implement or strengthen coordinated management of abuse and neglect cases and to develop comprehensive, community wide, cross-agency strategies to reduce child and adolescent abuse and neglect.

Community Services is very excited to announce that the Madison County Report Card on Families and Children was released. You can see it at MC3online.org. Also, the Huntsville Times devoted a front page article and most of page 11 to the Report Card.

Project Links: Madison County Report Card, Huntsville Times's Article

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