Mission
Brick City Peace Collective (BCPC) works to reduce violence in Newark, NJ by bringing together members of Newark's public safety ecosystem - comprising grassroot organizations, service providers, and city departments including law enforcement to promote effective collaboration, inform strategy development and implementation and coordinate resource deployment. Through leveraging the city's collective power BCPC is able to drive systems change strategies which center those most impacted by violence while creating a sustainable pathway toward peace for all Newark's residents.
Vision
Mayor Baraka’s vision for the Brick City Peace Collective is to be a catalyst to support your organization’s efforts through technical support toward the advance of a locally driven, multi-stakeholder collective network targeting local-level conflicts.
Through access to funding, resources, technical assistance, and capacity building for your organization, we can achieve our goals together. Coupling this with measurable, data-driven, and system-change strategies, we can decrease violence and ultimately change lives.
BCPC is defined as a collective that can be a redirected alternative for first-time offenders and youth offenders from the criminal justice system through connecting them to community-based and social service organizations.
The Collective will work together to identify initiatives, programs, and opportunities to reduce violence and strengthen relationships between law enforcement and communities. This work will center around research, policy development, analysis, and identifying best practices.
Who We Are
Brick City Peace Collective - a collaborative of community-based organizations working together to reduce violence and conflict in the City of Newark. The collective employs strategies such as reimagining policing, crisis response, diversionary programs, and community programming to eliminate violence.
BCPC aims at gathering forces and knowledge of experienced community-based organizations to drive a systemic change on violence prevention and trauma recovery.
What We Do
Supporting Communities to Have an Active Role in Creating Public Safety
Mobilizing Community and Law Enforcement to Focus on Hot Spots
Shifting the Culture to Think About Trust, Healing, and Resilience
Investing in the Capacity of People and Resources Working to Prevent Violence