“NCST provides Safe Passage at schools with hot spots of violence surrounding select contracted schools. Outreach Workers are deployed in terms at key exit and entry points of the school, bus stops, stores and intersections where youth congregate in and around the school. Safe Passage allows Outreach Workers to develop relationships with the youth and their parents, intervene in and mediate potential conflicts, and ensure that students arrive to and from school in a safe and timely manner.” Based on NPSC's analysis, a dynamic model for these routes that adapts to changes in the criminogenic environment surrounding these facilities have been proposed. See below.

Data-informed Proposed Routes

The Safe passage maps below show the current Safe passage routes as well as the proposed routes for four schools in Newark; North Star Clinton Hill, Kipp Academy, Brick Achieve, and University. The current routes were selected after careful consideration by the Safe Passage team members. In order to supplement the anecdotal evidence used for route selection, the NPSC conducted risk terrain analyses for each school to provide further evidence based on data. The map below, based on updated crime and risk factor data, identifies the areas with both risky environments and high levels of violence. Based on these results, it is recommended that the safe passage routes be extended, as seen in in purple.