About

Project Safe Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) program supports communities of all sizes—rural, suburban, and urban—in planning, implementing, and evaluating their violence reduction strategies and programs.

PSN is supported by enhanced training and technical assistance resources from leading national organizations. The PSN TTA program is led by CNA’s Institute for Public Research (CNA) with support from TTA partners, Michigan State University (MSU), the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), and the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).

Project Safe Neighborhoods

PSN brings together all levels of law enforcement, stakeholders, and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. Our team helps communities craft localized, data-driven, and community-informed action plans to lower violent crime.

Community Engagement
Prevention and Intervention
Focused and Strategic Enforcement
Accountability

The PSN goal is to incorporate research, data analysis, and lessons learned from other violent crime reduction initiatives to guide its decisions and identify the most effective strategies for reducing violence.

PSN aims to reduce violent crime in all the places we call home.
PSN’s core principles include fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results of our efforts.

TTA Partners

Bureau of Justice Assistance

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) helps to make American communities safer by strengthening the nation’s justice system: its grants, training and technical assistance, and policy development services provide state, local, and tribal governments with the cutting-edge tools and best practices they need to reduce violent and drug-related crime, support law enforcement, and combat victimization.

National Center for Victims of Crime

The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for victims’ rights, trains professionals who work with victims, and is a trusted source of information on victims’ issues. After more than 25 years, it remains the most comprehensive national resource committed to advancing victims’ rights and helping victims of crime rebuild their lives.

CNA

CNA’s Institute for Public Research applies research, analysis, and technical assistance to solve complex problems in the public and government sectors. Through methodologically sound scientific research grounded in field operations analysis and assistance—and through close connections with justice agency management and operations—CNA helps local, state, and federal organizations achieve practical results that save lives, promote justice, and improve trust and accountability in justice system operations.

National District Attorneys Association

The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) is a national, non-partisan, non-profit membership association that provides training, technical assistance, and services to prosecutors around the country to support the prosecution profession. As the oldest and largest association of prosecutors in the country with over 5,000 members, its mission is to be the voice of America’s prosecutors and to support their efforts to protect the rights and safety of the people by providing its members with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to ensure justice is attained.

Michigan State University | School of Criminal Justice

Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice conducts cutting-edge research to understand some of the most challenging problems posed by crime and emerging risks—firearms violence, cybercrime, environmental crime, product counterfeiting, terrorism, gender-based violence, and youth violence—and then engages with policymakers and practitioners to advance justice.