Wayne State University – Center for Urban Studies is seeking AmeriCorps members to fill Full-time and Part-time positions within the AmeriCorps Urban Safety (AMUS) Program. The AMUS program is working to implement initiatives to increase public health and safety and decrease victimization in targeted neighborhoods throughout the City of Detroit and Wayne County.
These initiatives are designed to:
1) Improve levels of neighborhood guardianship
2) Reduce victim attractiveness and susceptibility
3) Use technology for crime mapping and analysis, and for enhancing neighborhood communication on matters of public safety.
AMUS members work with residents and community groups to assist in forming neighborhood block clubs and citizen patrols, recruit and engage landlords and tenants in neighborhood safety and revitalization projects, and implement safe pathways for students who walk and use public transportation in their daily commute to neighborhood schools.
Members also network and build coalitions with community organizations, including CDCs, schools, church groups, and police departments. In partnership with these groups, members organize community events ranging from educational forums to neighborhood potlucks to board-ups of abandoned and open houses.
Car Safety
Provide residents in areas of high reports of auto theft with Car Clubs, which work as a deterrent for auto theft.
Home Safety Assessment
Our Home Safety Assessment (HSA) program was created in 2010 as a joint effort between AMUS, Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies, FEMA, Detroit Fire Department, Clear Corps, and Kohl’s Injury Prevention Program through the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
Safe Route
Understanding that children cannot thrive if they do not feel safe in the places they live, walk, and attend school, the second layer of protection is to increase the actual and perceived safety of children through Safe Routes to School.
Bike Watch
AmeriCorps members, residents, and the Detroit Police Department work together to make their neighborhood a safer place. These patrols deter crime by their presence, ability to write down and even radio local police by community-oriented policing. People being on the street has been shown to deter crime.
Anti-crime/Peace walks
Promotes the city’s green light program to locations that have high crime reports. Both projects help the community partners/stakeholders, and residents encourage high-crime business locations to become a greenlight initiative.
Board-ups/Clean-ups
AmeriCorps members prepare to Board-up abandoned houses and properties. After identifying potential risks, the member go to the designated site to board and clean the area. AmeriCorps members also partake in cleans up in a multitude of ways.
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