1. Institute for Community Health Promotion
Safe Streets and Campuses Public Safety: Campus Roles and Anchor Measures
November 17, 2015
SUNY Buffalo State
Institute for Community Health Promotion
William Wieczorek, PhD
Sometimes you only have 20 minutes to present the basic ideas of Results Accountability. Here is a selected set of slides that I have used in that situation. You may want to replace the results examples and the turn the curve examples with slides you’re more familiar with. Good luck.
Mark

2. Outline Observations Definitions Community Focus
SUNY Buffalo State experience
Work group session
Group reports

3. Campus View of Public Safety

4. The Ripple Effect of Virginia Tech: Assessing the Nationwide Impact on Campus Safety and Security Policy and Practice

7. Public safety
Public Safety refers to the welfare and protection of the general public. It is usually expressed as a governmental responsibility. Most states have departments for public safety. The primary goal of the department is prevention and protection of the public from dangers affecting safety such as crimes or disasters. In many cases the public safety division will be comprised of individuals from other organizations including police, emergency medical services, fire force etc.
From USLegal.com

8. Public Safety Issues (source Bureau of Justice Statistics)
High risk drinking
Illegal and prescription drug use and abuse
Violence against women, including stalking, domestic violence, sexual assault
Criminal intrusions
Natural disasters
Fire and life safety
Mental illness and suicide
Health crises
Food poisoning, food-borne diseases, pandemic flu

9. Public Safety Relevance
Crime
Terrorism/Shooters
Disasters
Typical emergency services (e.g., fire, ambulance)
First two drive perceptions of campus, and community, with crime being the most relevant on a daily basis.

10. Public Safety and Anchor Mission
The Anchor Mission: A commitment to consciously apply the long-term, place-based economic power of the institution, in combination with its human and intellectual resources, to better the long-term welfare of the communities in which the institution is anchored.

11. Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, put the challenge in a broader perspective: “If American higher education is supposedly the best in the world, why are we plagued with so many societal problems? Surely, we need to be more engaged in solving the big problems.”

12. Anchor Institution & Public Safety
Key Issue: Definition of Community
Campus community
Community in which anchor is embedded
Combination of both
Why does this definition matter?

13. Campus Specific

14. The 25 recommendations that resulted from the summit (DOJ, 2005) are grouped into three categories:
1. Promote collaboration.
2. Operate a safe campus.
3. Strengthen operations and administrative functions.

16. Business Insider 2012 rankings

18. Models of Campus-Community Crime Px
Community policing models
Modest levels of partnerships
Fragmented efforts
Source of expertise
Policy Link:
Beyond Confrontation: Community-Centered Policing Tools: Engaging Communities as Partners: Strategies for Problem Solving
No mention of college/university community as partners (except for expertise)
Colleges ignored: Key issue for college anchors is defining relevance .

20. SUNY Buffalo State Experience
Long-term typical role for college
Expertise
Evidence-based/research insights
Consultation
Data utilization, evaluation, etc.
No institutionally organized response.
2009 beginning of West Side violence focus
District police chief reached out informally to campus contact
Much effort and planning but unfocused outputs/impact

21. West Side Youth Violence Px Coalition
Much planning, little action for about a year
Center for Health and Social Research asked to take on larger leadership role
Focus was to utilize a public health approach
Partnered with law enforcement and community agencies
Developed a multi-pronged approach and sought funding (DOJ Project Safe Neighborhood funding)
Modest support led to major long-term initiative with SUNY Buffalo State as an institutional partner
West Side Youth Development Coalition

24. West Side Youth Development Coalition
Organically formed, institutionally endorsed
Over two hundred community partners
Law enforcement, schools, CBOs, health care, businesses, political leaders, etc.
Multi-pronged funding with broad focus on prosocial youth development
Federal and state grants, institutional support for staff
Alignment with new/expanded undergraduate and graduate programs in health promotion sciences
Crime reduction is only one of the outcomes
Actively brokering campus-community relationships
This model is unique, but aligns well with anchor institution role.

25. Work Group Tasks Four groups, randomly chosen
Four questions/topics (30 minutes for discussion/insights, 30 minutes (6 min/group) to report out, share group notes with Steve/Sarah)
Relevance of public safety as anchor issue.
Range/definition of community focus.
Challenges to engaging in public safety as community issue for and anchor institution.
What are meaningful measures of anchor institutional effort and community outcomes as related to public safety.