community engagement

The District of Nebraska PSN team has made tremendous efforts in juvenile and community engagement through the years of both formula and competitive funding cycles. The Omaha 360 Violence Intervention and Prevention Collaborative has been a key piece by bringing together community members and other stakeholders to focus attention on gang and gun violence. Other notable efforts are the Police Athletics for Community Engagement (PACE) program, a youth athletics league with more than 4,000 youth and families participating, and Dusk to Dawn, a youth violence prevention program in partnership with the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The District’s efforts have been recognized at the 2018 PSN National Conference for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the PSN Program and at the Innovations Suite Researcher-Practitioner Fellows Academy.