Newark Community Street Team Narrative Evaluation

The narrative evaluation research undertaken by the UCLA Social Justice Research Partnership team was designed to tell the story of an innovative, community-based approach to violence and its impact on public health, neighborhood well-being and violence prevention: the Newark Community Street Team. The first step in the process, a narrative evaluation, will document the origins and development of the Newark Community Street Team (NCST) model and its successful implementation. Along with this focus, the evaluation will also chart the evolution of NCST as it moved from a pilot project to a promising practice. Finally, this report will serve as the foundation for the next step of evaluation: systematically interpreting crime data that NCST has access to through its partnership with the Newark Police Department and the Safer Newark Council. Most significantly, this evaluation will assist in future efforts to replicate this model in other national settings, validating the Newark Community Street Team as a public health-community safety Best Practice.

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Publication Date: December, 2020