Center For Collaborative Change

Programs: The collaborative action project (cap): is a multi-year initiative to support nj communities in their efforts to move the needle on one or more key indicators of wellbeing. Through a competitive selection process, and on the basis of demonstrated unmet community need, community-based agencies and organizations will receive support for developing innovative programs and collaborative partnerships. The center and pseg are partnering to support the project.

community court: in partnership with the center for court innovation, the newark municipal court and the new jersey institute for social justice, the center helped to launch newark's community court program, known as "newark community solutions", an innovative court reform project that promotes new thinking about how courts and criminal justice agencies can aid victims, change the behavior of offenders and strengthen communities. The center's role in the project's development has been to conduct community outreach, by promoting, developing and maintaining relationships with residents, youth programs, schools, police, government, nonprofit agencies and community-based organizations to constructively respond to low-level crime. Going forward, the center's community engagement work will focusing on communications, engagement, and research.

best practices summit: we hosted a "what works summit" focusing on an issue local stakeholders seek solutions for: police-community relations. We seek to foster a reputation of newark as a leader in urban revitalization through thoughtful development, identification, tailoring and implementation of best practices. The summit provides local policy-makers, program developers, funders and community leaders an opportunity to learn about proven strategies for addressing the featured community priority issue and galvanizes support and momentum for implementation.

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