Community Anti-Drug Coalition Across Hamilton County
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MLK Weed and Seed
The M.L.King district dates back to the 1800's. The M.L.King Community is recognized for its rich and diverse history and its ability to promote economic prosperity for African Americans. Operation Weed and Seed recognizes that residents and business owners are the driving force of the community. The M.L.King Weed and Seed strategy is to revitalize and improve the targeted area with a mix of residential, commercial business and government partnership. Our Mission at M.L.King Weed and Seed is to collaborate with residents, merchants, law enforcement agents, intervention/prevention practitioners, and the faith based community to develop and implement comprehensive crime reduction strategies, strengthen community partnerships and improve quality of life issues in the MLK neighborhood.
The purpose of the Weed and Seed website is to facilitate this mission by promoting information exchange to and from the residents and business owners of the community. The site also is a tool to educate residents about drug identification, substance abuse and solutions to the drug and crime problem in our area. This is to be accomplished by providing news, information and by providing a point of contact to facilitate communication between these parties and Weed and Seed administrators. We encourage you to take advantage of this site and we hope that it will become a central part in reaching our goals for the M.L.King area. Funding for the Weed and Seed efforts are provided through a Grant from the Department of Justice - Community Capacity Development office. Funding for this website was provided through the Byrne grant
Strategy
The two major components of the Weed & Seed grant are the "weeding" strategy and the "seeding" strategy. The Weeding strategy is utilized to eliminate criminal elements from the identified site, by aggressively targeting violent crimes, gun crimes and drug offenses. The second part of the Weeding strategy focuses on increasing the community police officers and strengthening police / resident crime fighting partnerships. The Seeding strategy focuses on sponsoring and co-sponsoring intervention / prevention programs for youth and adults. The second part of the Seeding strategy focuses on community revitalization. To achieve our "Weeding" goals / objectives, we have recruited the major partners below.
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Chattanooga police
Department UTC police MLK Neighborhood association (Crime and safety committee) UTC Criminal Justice Dept. |
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Aggressive Prosecution |
U.S. Attorney's Office
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Community Policing |
MLK Leader Block
programs Crime Safety Committee Chattanooga Police Dept Community impact of Chattanooga |
Contacting Weed and Seed
The Weed & Seed office is located at 804 Central Ave, which is recognized as the Safe Haven / Community Policing & Safety Training Center. The ML King Community Development Corporation, Chattanooga African American Museum and Tommie Brown Academy are also Safe Haven sites.
In a effort to promote information exchange, the website is equipped with a HotSheet feedback page. It is the purpose of this form to let a anonymous resident of the community to directly contact the administrators of MLK Weed and Seed to address community problems, drug houses, and safety concerns in which the Weed and Seed office may be able to assist in.
Hotsheet feedback is checked on a daily basis and will be routed to the appropriate Weed and Seed department capable of handling each request. To go to the HotSheet page or to get more information on it, please click here.
