MyCom's Thankful Thursday: Celebrating Our Safe Passage Program

Thank you to our Partners from

Safe Passage Project!

MyCom teamed up with community partners and Cleveland Metropolitan School District to enhance the district’s Stay Safe & Aware campaign with the Safe Passage Project.

The Expanded Safe Passage program was created to increase the multi-agency enforcement partnership inclusive of law enforcement, community partners and concerned citizens to provide preventive services.

Research shows this partnership intervention deters incidents of violence, vandalism and truancy from students on specific streets, at bus stops and on bus lines.

The model promotes grassroots level relationship building, which is critical to prevention in schools. The presence of the Safe Passages team members is to be preventative vs reactionary; they are not there to replace security officers, but instead to serve as motivators to keep moving to the school house and once there, go to class and be engaged. By providing consistent faces and safe spaces, relationships are fostered and the school community is enhanced.

“Young people oftentimes just need to know that there are people who are there who are not law enforcement or there to be punitive but who are here to be preventative and make sure students get to and from school safely,” said Kasey Morgan, MyCom Chief Strategy Officer.

MyCom relies on two local organizations–Change Seekers and Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance–to supply the team members.

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