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Expanding investment in housing and other real estate

Stimulating economic activity, locally and regionally

Improving residents' access to education, training and family services

Fostering livable, safe and healthy environments

Philadelphia City officials meet with Providence Police Chief Colonel Esserman to learn more LISC’s award winning partnership with the Providence Police department.

LISC’s Community Safety Initiative

LISC’s Community Safety Initiative (CSI) promotes strategic alliances between community developers and law enforcement to reduce crime and spur revitalization in troubled neighborhoods. Police and developers work together to assess neighborhood problems and craft integrated responses.

In 2006, Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation (PCDC) - together with the Pawtucket and Central Falls police departments - was awarded the top national honor from the LISC/MetLife Community Police Partnership Awards. CSI has worked very closely with PCDC on the Barton Street prostitution diversion project, providing technical expertise and helping to fund an outreach worker to help women get off the streets and get their lives back on track.

In Providence's Olneyville neighborhood, CSI worked with Olneyville Housing Corporation (OHC) and the Providence Parks Department to ensure that the design of the new Riverside Gateway incorporated the principles of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design - a set of landscape, lighting and architectural design principles for creating spaces which discourage criminal activity and enhance public safety. These efforts were recognized when OHC and the Providence Police Department shared first prize in the 2007 LISC/MetLife Community Police Partnership Awards.

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The Partnership forged among Pawtucket CDC and the Pawtucket and Central Falls Police Departments received the 2006 MetLife/LISC Community Police partnership Awards.

“We can think of no greater investment at the neighborhood level than a well conceived purposeful alliance between dedicated cops and grass-roots community developers."

Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton and Boston Foundation President Paul Grogan