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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Op Ed/Column

November 12, 2015

Nonprofit work empowers ‘ordinary people to do extraordinary things’

Partnership for Safety and Justice’s Cleo Tung believes in the power of philanthropy.

Op Ed/Column

October 8, 2015

A supportive spirit in wake of UCC shooting

Acts of kindness today ripple into the future, says Partnership for Safety and Justice’s Kerry Naughton.

Op Ed/Column

August 5, 2015

A long, strange (and successful) session

Partnership for Safety and Justice and our allies made important legislative progress in the area of smarter public safety.

Op Ed/Column

July 20, 2015

Seattle took the LEAD; Oregon should follow

If you aren’t familiar with the “harm reduction” movement and its philosophy, think of syringe exchange programs and safer-sex education.

Op Ed/Column

June 19, 2015

Time for a new look at Oregon’s youth justice policies

In the two decades since we adopted Measure 11, we have seen the harmful, long-term impact of holding youths accountable in the adult system.

Op Ed/Column

May 25, 2015

Unified message for Oregon: Reinvest in justice

Diverse interests come together to support the state’s promising program for criminal justice reform.

Op Ed/Column

March 27, 2015

Stronger families make safer communities

Oregon looks to model Washington’s Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison.

Report

March 8, 2015

Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families

A national community-driven report led by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design.

Op Ed/Column

March 6, 2015

Saving lives, money and resources, 10 percent at a time

Op Ed/Column

February 3, 2015

Public safety that makes sense, costs less, rebuilds lives

Why were more people going to prison in Oregon?

Op Ed/Column

December 31, 2014

Pulling the arc toward justice

Partnership for Safety and Justice on some of the gains made in 2014 to creating justice, safety and health.

Op Ed/Column

October 10, 2014

Answering the big question: Why I’m here

When the dust settles following any significant change in my life — a new job, a new home, a birth, a death — my mind starts asking me questions. I blame my father for this.

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