>b>From the Community Coalition
Innovative Partnership Mixes Traditional and New Community Engagement Tools To Win Neighborhood Improvements
We are all used to mapping tools to locate restaurants or other commercial services in a neighborhood. But some local South Los Angeles residents are using similar mapping strategies and tools to fight crime in their neighborhood. At a Community Public Safety Meeting, 60-75 South L.A. residents will gather to identify and map their public safety concerns and areas for improvement in their neighborhood.
Residents of the Martin Luther King Park neighborhood have employed traditional methods and tools like petitions, community meetings, door-to-door surveys and questionnaires to find ways to improve safety in their community. But a unique partnership between Community Coalition and Healthy City is bringing innovative tools and methods like mapping technology to the mix to continue to impact the transformation of this neighborhood.
WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, Dec. 10th, 2011 from 9am to 12pm at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center [3916 South Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062].
“The traditional methods of collecting data like community surveys and questionnaires still work, but we now have the opportunity to use exciting and innovative technology that can really help us understand residents’ public safety concerns and pinpoint exactly where people feel safe, where they don’t and why,” said Alberto Retana, Executive Vice President of Community Coalition.
It elevates the voices and perspectives of those who live in the neighborhood by taking their input and using it to advocate for specific policies or resources to address the community’s concerns.”
“Healthy City and Advancement Project are dedicated to leveling the playing field, so that high-need communities can make their most effective case for change. In this case, our partnership with Community Coalition is an example of how our data and mapping expertise supports community mobilization and will increase safety for the residents of South L.A.,” said John Kim, Director of Healthy City, a project of the Advancement Project.
The feedback gained from the Saturday session will help inform the ongoing campaign led by residents of the Martin Luther King Park neighborhood to create a safer, healthier and cleaner neighborhood.
The maps created from the Public Safety Meeting will be available to the public and media.
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