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Step Up & Step Forward!
NO
MORE
Gun Violence!
NO
MORE
Shooting!
According to official Omaha
Police Department reports,
homicides in Omaha were down
31% in 2009, decreasing from
44 to 30. Felony
assaults were also down in
2009. We want to stay
on this path of decreasing
gun violence and we need
your involvement.
We've had a violent start to
2010. One life lost to
gun violence is one too
many. Let’s come together
to Keep Omaha Safe!
Residents deserve a safe and
peaceful place to live.
Help keep our neighborhoods
and community safe!
If you’re tired of
shootings, gun violence, and
funerals, let’s work
together to end gun
violence! This will not
happen overnight, and it
will take active community
involvement. We’ve
lost too many lives to
senseless death.
No More
Gun Violence! No More
Funerals! No More
Shooting!
Omaha 360 PARTNERS:
Omaha 360 has evolved over the
past three years with the input
of over 300
participants.
Strategies were initially
developed by the Empowerment
Network &
Empower Omaha.
Partnerships have expanded to
include over 100 organizations!
Empowerment Network and Empower
Omaha!
City of Omaha
Faith-based
Organizations
Community-based Organizations
Schools and Youth Development
Organizations
Neighborhood
Organizations and Residents
Elected Officials
Omaha Public Schools
Colleges & Universities
Omaha
Police Department
Hospital Trauma Units
Omaha Fire Department
Douglas County
Office of Violence
Prevention
Business Community
Private Foundations
Connect with
Omaha 360 on
facebook
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STOP THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL
FIREARMS!
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Omaha 360 VISION:
Purpose:
to work together
to end gun and gang violence
Values:
Unity, Faith,
Family, Community, and
Empowerment
Goal:
to make Omaha a great, safe
city, in every zip code!
Vision of the Future:
Omaha is recognized for being a
great, safe city, in
every zip code. Children
can play outside without fear of
harm. People no
longer hear gun shots at night.
There are positive activities
for youth to engage
in before school, after school,
and during the summer. Job
training and
jobs are available throughout
the city. Children are
starting school prepared,
graduating from high school
ready to go to work or enter
post secondary
training, and entering careers
that use their skills and
talents. Schools
are safe. Streets are
safe. Support services are
available for children and
parents. The community
prepares and welcomes those that
have served
their time back into society.
Omaha 360 GOALS:
1. Reduce homicides
city-wide and in targeted areas
2. Reduce gun violence
(gun assaults)
3. Reduce youth violence
and gang violence
4. Provide positive
alternatives and activities
Omaha 360 MISSION & STRATEGIES:
1. Collaboration
2. Prevention
3. Intervention
4. Enforcement
5. Recovery and Reentry
6. Support Services
7. Sustainable Funding &
Support
Omaha 360 - Violence
Intervention and Prevention
Strategies - Summary
1. Partnerships with
parents, families, faith-based
organizations, community
groups, business,
foundations, and
neighborhood residents
throughout the city.
2. Stronger
relationships between
community and police
3. Church and
neighborhood outreach,
parent and family
outreach, and mentoring
4. Education, jobs,
job training, and
business development
(entrepreneurship)
5. Education and
youth development
including positive
activities
6. Intervention
programs addressing
truancy and dropout
prevention
7. Intervention
programs addressing -
gang intervention and
street outreach
8. Enforcement
support - removing
illegal guns and
encouraging the community
to
come forward to help
solve crimes
9. Reentry programs
and support for families
impacted by violence
10. Recovery
programs and services
for those returning from
jail or prison
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STEP UP AND STEP FORWARD!
10 things you can do right
now!!!
Move to ACTION!
1. Pray.
Pray that the
violence would stop. Pray
for youth and families.
2. Start at home.
Spend
quality time with children.
Set high expectations.
Instill and inspire faith, purpose &
HOPE!
3. Become a mentor,
volunteer to help at
schools, and encourage
co-workers, neighbors, and
associates to become
mentors. Advocate for
children in the juvenile
justice system.
4. Host positive events and
activities for youth at your
church or in your
neighborhood.
5. Join your neighborhood
association or neighborhood
watch group. Encourage
the community to step
forward to help solve
crimes. Contact crime
stoppers. Create safe
houses in your
neighborhoods.
6. Partner with your church
(adopt-a-block) and
support organizations that
are working to reduce
violence. Encourage
your church to get involved
with Omaha 360!
7. Participate in stop the
violence events. Rallies,
parades, meetings, prayerwalks, etc.
Participate in City-wide
Omaha 360 events, Harmony
Week (May 21 - 29) and VIP Week
(Oct.)
8. Help provide job
opportunities and
internships.
Encourage your employer to
get involved. Sponsor a
youth or young adult during
the summer job program.
$1,000 to $1,500 per youth.
9. Turn your lights on in
your neighborhood. Encourage
others to turn lights on.
Participate in neighborhood
clean-up efforts.
10. Help support families
that have been impacted by
violence. Support children
with incarcerated parents.
and, 11. Contribute your time and
invest your finances
in
violence prevention and
intervention efforts.
Check the list of partners
for opportunities to
volunteer. Contact
Omaha 360 at 402-502-5153
for opportunities to invest
in these efforts. You
can select your specific
areas of interest or
specific organizations.
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Community Solutions to Violence
prioritized at Network Community
Meeting
(Feb. 2010)
1. Parent, Family, and
Community Involvement (including
mentoring)
2. Jobs, Job Training, and
Entrepreneurship
3. Street Outreach -
Prevention and Intervention -
Direct Gang Intervention
4. Education and Training
- Address Truancy & Dropout Rate
5. Church
Participation/Leadership -
Adopt-a-Block, Prayer Walks, and
Outreach
6. School Outreach -
Prevention and Intervention at
Schools
7. Reentry and Recovery -
Assisting those returning from
jails and prison
8. Positive Alternatives
and Activities - including
events, concerts, safe
place, etc.
9. Community Step Forward
- helping to solve crimes
10.
Victim Support Groups - support
for families impacted by
violence and
actively engaging them in
community solutions
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STOP THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL
FIREARMS!
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10 RESOURCES FOR THE COMMUNITY
We believe that
we must stop violence by first
providing better opportunities
and support.
COMMUNITY
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND
PREVENTION COLLABORATION
(These agencies
will assist you or refer you to
one of our other partners…
please mention
Omaha 360 – VIP)
1.
Education & Employment
Opportunities -
Please call Urban League of
Nebraska at 402-453-9730.
2.
Housing Support -
Need assistance with
housing…Please call the
Family Housing Advisory
Services at 402-934-7921.
3.
Support Services
– Need help with Emergency
Assistance or Basic Needs –
Food, Clothing, and
other…Please call ENCAP
(Eastern Nebraska Community
Action Partnership) at
402-453-5656 ext. 200.
4.
Spiritual Support
- Need prayer or want to
talk to a Pastor or
Minister. Please call
402-594-9254.
5.
Looking to change your
lifestyle, get out of a
negative group,
help your child stay away
from negative groups, or seeking
help
with mediation (Squashing
Beef)
-
If you or someone you know
wants to change their
lifestyle or if you need someone
to help with mediation
(squashing beef) – Please
call Impact One Community
Connection at 402-932-2855.
6.
Gun Violence Victim Support
Group
– If you have lost a family
member or friend to gun
violence and want to be a
part of a support group –
Please call the Center for
Holistic Development at
402-502-9788 or Impact One
Community Connection at
402-932-2855.
7.
Reentry and Recovery Group
– If you or someone you know
is returning from jail or
prison and need help getting
reconnected in the community
–
ENCAP (Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership)
at 402-453-5656 ext. 200.
OMAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT
(The following contact
information (8-10) will help
you reach the Omaha Police
Department or Crime
Stoppers)
8.
Report gang activity in your
neighborhood.
Please call the Gang Hotline
at 444-5990.
9.
Report illegal activity or
have knowledge about a gun
violence crime.
Please call 444-STOP, send a
text message to
274637 (crimes) or
www.omahacrimestoppers.net.
(This call is anonymous)
10.
Report an illegal firearm
–
Please call 444-STOP, send a
text message to
274637 (crimes) or
www.omahacrimestoppers.net
(This call is anonymous)
If this is an emergency, please
call 911.
If you would like to volunteer,
contribute, or support efforts
to stop gun violence in our
communities and city, please
e-mail us at
info@empoweromaha.com or
call us at 402-502-5153. For
more information go to
www.empoweromaha.com
Omaha 360 is an initiative of the Empower
Omaha Violence
Intervention and Prevention
Collaboration
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Omaha 360
RESOURCES:
Click here
to download a pdf file of 10
Ways to Help Stop Gun Violence
Click here
for
Omaha 360
Community Resource List
Omaha
World-Herald Resource List -
Ways to Help Right Now
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Omaha 360 - Violence
Intervention & Prevention
Strategy
Working with specialists
representing over 100 groups and
organizations, we have developed
a
comprehensive, community-based
strategy to help address
violence
through prevention,
intervention,
enforcement
support, and recovery. It
combines the best practices of
cities that have reduced crime and
integrates
local solutions identified by
local community members and
leaders. It will take the
entire
community working
together in a collaborative,
collective, and coordinated way.
Omaha 360 - Violence
Intervention and Prevention
Strategies - Summary
1. Develop
partnerships with
parents, families, faith
community, community
groups, business,
foundations, and
neighborhood residents
throughout the city.
2. Develop stronger
relationships between
community and police
3. Church and
neighborhood outreach,
parent and family
outreach, and mentoring
4. Education, jobs,
job training, and
business development
(entrepreneurship)
5. Education and
youth development
including positive
activities
6. Intervention
programs addressing
truancy and dropout
prevention
7. Intervention
programs addressing -
gang intervention and
street outreach
8. Enforcement
support - removing
illegal guns and
encouraging the community
to
come forward to help
solve crimes
9. Reentry programs
and support for families
impacted by violence
10. Recovery
programs and services
for those returning from
jail or prison
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Omaha 360 -
Violence Intervention
and Prevention Detailed
Strategy |
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Collaboration,
Prevention,
Intervention,
Enforcement, Re-entry,
and
Support Services
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1 |
Partner with
churches, businesses,
community organizations,
neighborhood residents,
law enforcement, elected
officials, and others to
address violence. |
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Develop formal
collaborations |
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Host
weekly planning meetings
- proactive and reactive
responses |
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Host
annual Violence
Intervention and
Prevention Summit |
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Host city-wide Harmony
Week (May) and VIP Week
(October) |
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2 |
Prevention:
Collaboration - Develop
Stronger Relationships
between Community and
Police |
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Continue
and expand community/police
relationship efforts
already underway |
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Host community
discussions between
community and police |
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Implement Community
Policing |
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Develop and Implement a
Police Oversight Plan |
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3 |
Prevention:
Church and Neighborhood
Partnerships/Adopt-A-Block
Strategies |
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Build Strong
Neighborhood
Associations and Active
Crime Watch Groups |
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Identify Leaders
and Assets in the
Neighborhood |
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Prayer in the Park -
during the Summer months |
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Block Parties -
Community Outreach -
Build Relationships |
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Prayer - Outside
in the Church Parking
Lot - Get outside of the
Walls! |
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Adopt-A-Block -
Designate Target Areas
(Map of Churches,
Schools, Parks, Nghbhd
Assoc) |
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Prayer Walk in
Neighborhoods - Partner
with Neighbors and
others in the community |
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Street Teams -
Walk, Engage and Talk -
Get to know neighbors |
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Door-to-Door
Outreach - Build
relationships and
identify needs |
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Bring Needed
Resources and Support to
the Neighborhood/to
Homes (All Covenant
Areas) |
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Partner with
Healthy Family Team
(Parenting, Marriage,
Domestic Violence…) |
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Host
Harmony Week (May) and
VIP Week (October) |
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4 |
Prevention: Education,
Jobs, Vocational
Training (Partner with
Economics/Education) |
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Launch and Maintain
Active
Adopt-A-School/Partnerships;
Expand Mentoring
Programs |
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Create and Expand
Youth Jobs - School Year
and Summer (including
Stipends) |
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Add Other Jobs for
Youth and Young Adults |
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Provide Vocational
Training/Technical
Training |
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Prevention: Youth
Programs - Day, Night,
Summer, School Year
(Partner w/ Education) |
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After School
Programs/Leadership
Academies/Safe
Havens/Computer Training/Mentoring |
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Weekend Programs -
during School Year
(Friday and Saturday) |
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Summer Daytime
Programs |
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Summer Nighttime
Programs |
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Intervention Programs:
Address Truancy (Partner
with Education Team) |
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Address Attendance
and Truancy Programs
(partner with current
initiatives) |
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Partner with
Juvenile Justice Forum |
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Identify Children
in the Probation System
- Create positive links
with churches/community
groups |
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Address Behavioral
Health - Get more
African-American
counselors involved with
youth |
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Address Drug/Abuse
Programs |
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Intervention Programs:
Address Gangs and Youth
Violence (Partner
with Education Team) |
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Gang Intervention
Strategies & Programs -
Provide Positive
Alternatives to Gangs |
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Work with individuals
and help them navigate
back to school and
prepare for
work/jobs/careers |
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Provide support services
for youth, young adults,
and families |
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Host listening sessions
with gang members and
former gang members |
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Host
Prayer Walks in Targeted
Areas |
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Crisis Response Teams -
Assist families, work
with groups, identify
positive alternatives |
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Enforcement: Community
Involvement in helping
to solve crimes (don't
get it twisted) |
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Ceasefire
- Encourage community to
put down the guns, turn
them in, stop illegal
firearms flow |
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Get Guns off the
Street – Research and
implement programs that
have been proven
effective |
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Ste Up and Step Forward
- Campaign -
Community must step
forward to help solve
crimes |
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Anonymous Phone #'s
and Crime Stoppers |
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Anonymous Tips/Drop
off Box |
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9 |
Recovery & Restoration -
Support families and
children impacted by
jails/prisons |
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Programs and
support families and
children impacted by
jails/prisons |
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Cell Adoption
Program |
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Programs and
support for those coming
out of the jail and
prison system |
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Drug &
Alcohol/Chemical
Dependency
Treatment/Behavioral
Support |
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Support
Systems, Faith, Health,
Housing |
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Re-entry Program -
State, County, City |
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Economic and
Neighborhood Development
- Jobs, Home Ownership,
etc. (Economics) |
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Housing,
Training, Jobs,
Transportation,
Entrepreneurship, etc. |
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If you would like to volunteer
or support efforts to stop gun
violence in our communities and
city, please e-mail us at
info@empoweromaha.com or
call us at 402-502-5153.
Omaha 360 is an initiative of
the Empower Omaha Violence
Intervention and Prevention
Collaboration
STEP UP & STEP
FORWARD!
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OMAHA 360 ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS...
Participants:
(Partial List)
COLLABORATION COORDINATORS
Empowerment Network
Empower
Omaha!
City of Omaha - Mayor Jim
Suttle's Office
City of Omaha
Office of
Violence Prevention
PREVENTION
Urban
League of Nebraska
Boys and Girls
Club
Hope Center
for Kids
Impact One
Community Connection
Northstar
Foundation - Outward Bound
Abide Network
Omaha Public Schools
Girls
Inc.
Building Bright
Futures
Black Men United - Real Men
Read
North
Omaha Neighborhood Alliance
and concerned residents
Pastors and Ministers Faith
Covenant
Adopt-A-Block Neighborhood
Partners
Gethsemane Baptist Church - Amachi
Mentoring Program
Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance
Midlands Mentoring
Partnership
INTERVENTION
Impact One
Community Connection
University of Nebraska Med
Center
Creighton
University Medical Center
Urban
League of Nebraska
Juvenile Assessment
Center
Omaha Weed & Seed
Emerging Leaders
Empowerment Network
PrayerWalks
Christ
for the City International
Embrace the
Heartland in Prayer
Christian Couples Fellowship
International
EIE Street
Patrol
Delta Sigma Theta
Crisis Care Responders
Moms Against Violence
ENFORCEMENT
Omaha Police
Department
Omaha Fire
Department
Douglas County Attorney’s
Office
REENTRY
Eastern Nebraska Community
Action Partnership
Metro Community
College – TableTalk
Black Men United
Compassion In Action
You Are
Not Alone
Williams Prepared
Place
Douglas County Reentry Task
Force
SUPPORT SERVICES
YWCA
Boys
Town
Omaha Home for
Boys
Nebraska
Children’s Home Society
Financial Stability
Partnership
Nebraska Humane Society
University
of Nebraska at Omaha
Center
for Holistic Development
Family Housing Advisory
Services
Omaha Economic
Development Corporation
Salvation Army - Omaha
Heart Ministries
Omaha Home for Boys
South Omaha
VIP
West
Omaha VIP
and, representatives from over
100 organizations.
Elected &
Appointed Officials:
City
of Omaha - Mayor Jim Suttle
Councilman Ben Gray
Councilman Pete Festersen
Councilman Franklin Thompson
Councilman Gary Gernandt
Senator
Brenda Council
Senator Heath Mello
Freddie Gray
- OPS School Board &
Learning Community
Penny Sophir - OPS School
Board & Learning Community
Sandra Jensen - OPS School
Board
Commissioner Chris Rodgers
Omaha Police
Chief Alex Hayes
Douglas County Attorney Don
Kliene
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