Cara Poland is on a grant providing training to community physicians and other prescribers to facilitate expansion of substance use disorders (SUD) treatment to pregnant people and in primary care. She has a separate grant specifically focusing on wo...

Held online and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

Detroit Ceasefire has been a cornerstone of Detroit’s violence reduction strategies. Ceasefire involves a focused deterrence model aimed at gang- and group- related violence. It involves direct communication of a deterrence message to high-risk indiv...

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Detroit CBCR seeks to reduce crime in select micro-hotspots in the Eastside of Detroit by directly addressing crime through enforcement strategies and by addressing underlying causes of crime. The project s...

Detroit CGIC seeks to prevent violent crime by identifying perpetrators, linking criminal activities, and identifying sources of crime guns for immediate disruption, investigation, and prosecution. It is an interagency collaboration focused on the im...

This initiative is an arrest diversion program which seeks to address low level offenses, including opioid and other illicit drug use, as public health issues rather than criminal issues providing immediate access to comprehensive, community-based se...

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) involves a multi-agency collaboration of local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies, community partners, and a research partner (i.e. MSU School of Criminal Justice) following a data-driven strategic ...

PGLD is a place-based crime prevention strategy which involved the establishment of a formal partnership between the city of Detroit, Detroit Police Department (DPD), and small business owners and parcel owners. The crime control strategy employed by...

This project seeks to address opioid and violent crime within the city of Detroit. This includes the assessment of the geospatial distribution of opioid and violent crimes incidents to identify patterns which can inform strategic and tactical underst...

The primary outcome of a GCIC is the identification of armed violent offenders for investigation and prosecution. Other outcomes include the identification of crime gun sources, efficient resource allocation, providing decision makers with the most a...

With a focus on Detroit’s 9th precinct, which has historically experienced the highest levels of violent crime in the city, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office (WCPO) is attacking the problem from multiple angles. First, it developed a dedicated NFS...

Evaluation of a mentoring program for people returning to Wayne county on parole. Graduate and undergraduate students participated.

Evaluation of a Bureau of Justice Assistance funded study of the effects of a mentoring program on participants.

The MC384: Metropolitan Societies course was taught as a student-led civic engagement project, supported by a grant from MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI). Students worked with the Northwest Detroit Neighborhood Develop...

The 10-episode podcast series is inspired by the MSU Science Gallery’s “Tracked & Traced” exhibition at the MSU Museum. Through stories the series will explore what it means to live within a surveillance society, how surveillance benefits us as indiv...

The Great Lakes Supply Chain Tour was scheduled to take place May 10-May 21, 2020. This tour consisted of multi-modal travel across cities located in the Great Lakes and St Lawrence Seaway with focus on site tours and meeting with select corporate an...

Held on-line and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how ARPA funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

Participated in a series of meetings facilitated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in response to flooding in certain areas of central and NE MI due to a dam collapse. The goal was to bring together local and regional agencies involved in pr...

Provide research support services to a group of 13 mayors from Michigan, known as the Urban Core Mayors. Group is facilitated by the Michigan Municipal League and includes mayors from the cities of Detroit, Lansing, Saginaw, Bay City, Pontiac, Flint,...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Furthermore, in the last 40 years the incarceration of girls and women has grown by 834% according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United Stat...

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: A...

Silenced: Voices from Solitary confronts the difficult topic of solitary confinement and isolation within the United States prison system by forwarding the work of a group of talented artists, many of whom have experienced solitary firsthand. Bearing...

I’m part of a 6 person committee where we are formulating a communication strategy to encourage community intervention when it comes to the prevention of child sexual abuse. This work is for the public will campaign of Traverse Bay Children’s Advocac...