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
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.
  • Webinar
April 15, 2021

2021’s Most Transformative Policies

This webinar will cover policies that would shrink sentencing and probation; decriminalize addiction and mental illness; and invest in communities with culturally specific programs, survivor services, and addiction treatment.
  • Op Ed/Column
April 13, 2021

Oregon legislation that will transform justice

We need policies that sustain racial equity.
  • Webinar
February 25, 2021

“When We Tell Our Stories” Webinar: Survivors of Color and the Public Safety System

Join us for a conversation on how BIPOC survivors experience systemic issues in the criminal justice system, ways that personal and historical trauma impact survivor communities, and why culturally specific services are vital for healing.
  • Op Ed/Column
February 10, 2021

Crime survivors of color often lack opportunities to heal

Partnership for Safety and Justice talks with Latino Network’s Alejandra Galindo about listening to survivors’ stories.
  • Op Ed/Column
January 6, 2021

Oregon’s overdose crisis needs attention now

Oregon voters were clear: Jail beds and arrests don’t solve substance use disorders, treatment and recovery services do.
  • Report
December 1, 2020

When We Tell Our Stories

How survivors of color are most harmed and least helped by the public safety system.
  • Webinar
September 29, 2020

Undoing the War on Drugs: Hope, Healing, & Measure 110

Partnership for Safety & Justice hosted a conversation exploring how Measure 110 can shrink our prisons and jails, transform public health, and make Oregon the first in the nation to support — not punish — people who struggle with addiction.
  • Op Ed/Column
September 2, 2020

Oregon is poised to reduce incarceration

It’s time to divest in prisons and invest in BIPOC crime survivors and communities.

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