Tools to Promote Safer Communities

Knowledge is our most powerful tool to create change. This resource center organizes a collection of advocacy toolkits, webinars, columns, statements, and media coverage on the issues that we care about most.

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When We Tell Our Stories

How survivors of color are most harmed and least helped by the public safety system.

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Podcast

April 10, 2023

Victim’s Rights, Decriminalization, and Public Safety

Listen to Movement Building Director Juli Ray Joy speak about victim’s rights, drug decriminalization, and public safety alongside national leaders.

Webinar

April 3, 2023

2023 Legislative Community Briefing Webinar and Highlights

Listen to our six legislative priorities centered on equity and community safety in 2023.

Op Ed/Column

March 16, 2023

Incarceration should not be a default solution to crime

Compared to other nations, the United States sends more people to prisons, spends more tax dollars on prisons. Why?

Podcast

March 6, 2023

Shrinking the Criminal Legal System and Investing in Equity & Healing

Host Karen James is joined by Talia Gad, Communications Director and Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, Senior Policy manager with Partnership for Safety & Justice.

Op Ed/Column

November 30, 2022

Wearing my heart on my t-shirt

Harm reduction practices and implementation take time and Oregonians are walking in the right direction.

June 14, 2022

Solutions Over Sweeps: How homeless policy “solutions” deepen poverty

The crisis of homelessness affects no one more than the people experiencing it. And yet policy “solutions” like sweeping homeless camps upend people’s lives and make it harder for folks to find stable housing.

Report

June 1, 2022

Partnership for Safety and Justice Transition Support Directory

We hope that these resources will help you prepare for your return to your community so that you may thrive in the next phase of your life.

News Article

March 3, 2022

Oregon bill prohibiting police from stopping drivers for minor violations passes legislature

Oregon legislators have approved a bill that prohibit police from stopping drivers for minor violations.

Podcast

December 10, 2021

The Gap: Over-Policing doesn’t reduce crime with Partnership for Safety & Justice and Gift Giving Strategies

Listen to Shannon Wight, deputy director, and Juli Ray Joy, movement building director, discuss our work and values to find solutions to problems.

Op Ed/Column

November 24, 2021

Investments in community needed, not cops

Here’s what is true: Crime has many drivers, and therefore many solutions.

Op Ed/Column

November 17, 2021

Narrative of reduced police funds causing gun violence is misleading

Reasons for increased crime vary, so solutions should too.

Op Ed/Column

July 28, 2021

To change the criminal justice system, we need to change policymaking

House Bill 2002 was a thoroughly crafted and heavily negotiated bill. It should have passed, yet the BIPOC-community-led effort fell short by the smallest margin because of a Senate leadership failure to back it.