Aim4Peace prepares to launch Neighborhood Action Teams on the streets.
As the street intervention team continues to canvass the neighborhoods of the target area, the Aim4Peace Task Force will soon finalize the recruitment effort to add to their street savvy team.
The current team works primarily in the target zone consisting of the 64127 and 64128 ZIP codes to engage with individuals who may be at risk of getting involved in a shooting and possibly a homicide. The workers are appealing to those individuals to don't shoot, but seek better alternatives to resolve disagreements. If you would like to connect to any member of the Aim4Peace Street Intervention Team, you can call the Hotline: United Way 2-1-1 or (816) 474-5112.
The newly selected Neighborhood Action Teams will soon be joining the movement to stop the shooting and killing.
Aim4Peace have recently contracted with 10 community and faith-based organizations that will lead the awareness responses in the target community. In preparation, they will go through training on the Aim4Peace model, before joining the Street Intervention Workers. The NAT's will participate in pro-active approaches to help residents mobilize their efforts to build a safer community, solve problems, and seek to promote self-sufficiency.
Community involvement
You too can get involved. Join the Street Intervention Workers and your Neighborhood Action Teams and help coordinate responses to shootings and killings occurring in the designated target area. Send the message that you are fed up and will no longer accept violence in your community. Just call (816) 513-1886 to find out when and where the team will hold the next response, and how you can get involved. Stop the shooting and killing now!
The AIM4PEACE target zone consist of 24.8 square miles bounded to the west by Wabash; to the east by I-435; to the north by the River; and to the south by Blue Parkway. This area was selected as ground zero as the East Patrol Division recorded the highest homicide and aggravated assault rates for more than 5 years.
