SAFE Programs

SAFE Programs:  SAFE Watch |  Flyer Distribution | Cookies For Cops | Refuse To Be A Victim®

Started as a regular meeting of concerned citizens during the summer of 2008, SAFE has grown to encompass four key programs in the Southeast Atlanta area intended to empower individuals to make their communities stronger and safer:

• SAFE Watch, an extended neighborhood watch program designed to cross geographic borders like streets, city limits and county lines to create a stronger and safer community.  As of this writing more than 65 volunteer SAFE Watchers dedicate a portion of every day walking or driving defined routes getting to know their neighbors and acting directly to improve public safety within their community.
• Flyer Distribution, which shares personal and public safety information with those members of the community who are not yet online.  Flyer Distribution volunteers produce and distribute thousands of SAFE Tipsheets (published electronically on the SAFE website on a regular basis) as porch flyers, handed out by restaurants and local businesses and made available to congregations at churches and other houses of worship. Some SAFE Watch volunteers also aid in Flyer Distribution by delivering flyers directly to neighbors they meet on their routes.
• Cookies For Cops (and Food For Firefighters), which helps citizens and public safety professionals feel more connected by organizing monthly appreciation events. Each month SAFE, in association with the East Atlanta Buzz, enlists the help of local citizens to do something nice for our fire fighters and police – preparing baked goods, snacks or meals and writing or coloring thank-you cards (distributed to local eateries for children to color and collected weekly) that subsequently are delivered to our local precincts or stations by volunteer drivers.
• Refuse To Be A Victim® Workshop Program, which provides community organizations with instructors certified to teach this nationally-recognized crime prevention program for only the (nominal) cost of the required participant materials. Currently limited to two 32-person workshops per calendar month, this program is expected to expand significantly as additional volunteer instructors are certified.

These programs are all designed to be portable and part of SAFE’s mission is to help others implement these programs to make their own communities stronger and safer.  For more information on how to bring these programs to your community, please click the link for each program or email us via the Contact page on this website.