Proactive Alliance Homeless Outreach & Engagement
Safe Night can help communities identify unique challenges that impact people experiencing homelessness and show municipal agencies the benefits of implementing interdisciplinary coalitions to improve problem-solving for long-term outcomes.
We offer a variety of options, including:
- Operational review of the municipality's current practices and strategies
- Proactive Alliance Homeless Outreach multi-agency training
- One-day overview of the Proactive Alliance Homeless Outreach model
Safe Night Utilizes RTM as our Primary Tool for Assessment
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM)
“RTM is risk assessment for places. It’s a data analysis technique. And it’s a diagnostic tool. When used for crime analysis, RTM identifies environmental conditions that contribute to crime problems. Different crime incident locations can have common underlying causes. That is, events may be unrelated, but attractive settings for them may share similar qualities. RTM sheds light on why crimes pattern the way they do. It puts the focus on places, not people."
- Dr. Joel Caplan, Co-creator of Risk Terrain Modeling, Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice and Chief Operating Officer of Simsi.
Wichita Project HOPE
In 2023, Wichita, Kansas, was the first municipality in the U.S. to adopt the Proactive Alliance relationship-based approach as a foundation of their work to reduce homelessness. Safe Night provided Proactive Alliance relationship-based training to Wichita's Project HOPE and the Wichita Police Department Homeless Outreach Team through the U.S. Department of Justice Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) grant.
Proactive Alliance was included in Project HOPE's site action plan for the BCJI, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. To read the report, click here.
