September 15, 2010United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church

Gang Reduction Summit

WELCOME

Vivian H. Burke,

Mayor Pro-Tempore

Purpose• Identify best practice models of gang prevention

and intervention. • Inspire community collaboration between

organizations, initiatives and programs. • Foster sustainable partnerships to effectively

deter gang activity within our community.

Visibility of Gangs in Forsyth County

• Sergeant Mike WeaverWinston-Salem Police Department, Gang Unit

• Bill McClainSite Director of Twin City East West Partnership

• Patrick Merrill Drug and Gang Awareness Investigator of Winston-Salem

Forsyth County Schools

OJJDP Best PracticesKismet Loftin-Bell

15 MINUTE BREAK

Prevention• Primary prevention focuses on the entire population at risk and the

identification of those conditions (personal, social, environmental) that promote criminal behavior.

• Secondary prevention targets those individuals who have been identified as being at greater risk of becoming delinquent.

Intervention• Intervention targets those individuals who are already involved in

criminal activity or who are gang members.

Using Initiascapes© to Facilitate our Commitment to Collaboration

Doris Peas, Ph.D., Associate Director

Gang Reduction Summit Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:15-10:45PM EDTDoris Páez, Ph.D., Associate Director, Forsyth Futures

What is Forsyth Futures?

• Non-profit, community collaborative of residents, organizations, and institutions.

• FORSYTH COUNTY, NC ONLY• “People’s Institute”• Unique: NOT UNIVERSITY- OR

GOVERNMENT-BASED• Financially supported by top 40 entities in

community (grants, contributions, in-kind supports)

• Lead, support or monitor indicators & initiatives

Community Indicator Projects

• Goal: Catalyst for Community Change or Sustaining the “good”

• View the WHOLE community as ONE System

• Need to measure…Indicator(s)1. How are we doing? 2. Where are we on some measure X? 3. Where do we want to be?4. How long before we get there?5. Are our efforts making a difference?

Initiascape=Initiative + Landscape

• Expand the concept of indicator “data” and analyses to include the scope of efforts/initiatives/solutions

• Visual and descriptive representations

• Document and depict the connections between a community’s initiatives toward a common goal or indicator

• Specific point-in-time

Indicator-Initiascape Relationship

What Forsyth Futures does…

• Tie to indicator(s) (scope of an issue)

• Study the “best practices" models

• Study the scope of our solutions

• Each Initiascape is conceptualized as a Project

• Project management system/phases put in place

Initiascape Phases

Data Layers

• Initiascapes are designed for user access to data layers relevant to an issue/indicator, etc.

• Layers can be, but are not limited to,– objectives, – target audiences/clients, – levels/types of services, – costs, funding sources, and – personnel allocations.

What we look for….

• Links to other Community Entities• Funding (types and dollar amounts)• Mission• Objective(s)• Administrative Structure• Clients• Target Audience• Current/Planned Initiatives/Activities• Data Generated• Data Needs/Interest

What our community uses this for..

1. Policy design2. Program design3. Resource allocation 4. Grant applications5. Program evaluation6. Advocacy7. Research

Doris’ Wall at Forsyth Futures

FF NEXT STEPS

• Differentiate further the available data by population (e.g., gender, ethnicity/race, age, diagnosis, area of residence, and types of service providers).

• Create opportunities to gather or create more specific local data sets.

• Continue to pursue local data sets not complete enough for the current analysis.

• Initiate an analysis of related/new indicators.

• Obtain and compare actual funding data (dollar amounts) from all entities in the Initiascape map; trace governmental funding.

• Update the relevant Initiascape after this summit.

Continue Building the Data Warehouse

Making Progress Report Updates

Updates

Requests

Collaborate

www.forsythfutures.org

Doris Páez, Ph.D., Associate Director

601 N. Cherry Street, Suite 250Winston-Salem, NC 27101doris@forsythfutures.org(336) 724-2831 EXT 16

WORKING SESSION

• Commitment to Collaboration Cards

• Create an Initiascape at your table

• Tell ‘The Story Behind the Line’

CLOSING REMARKSSolomon Quick, Gang Reduction Specialist, WSPD

squick@wspd.org

Alvin Atkinson, Executive Director

The Center for Community Safety

atkinsona@wssu.edu

www.centerforcommunitysafety.org

Kismet Loftin-Bell, Consultant

kloftinbell@aim.com