Tracks outcomes aligned with Commerce’s performance framework, including violence incidents, youth opportunity metrics, family stability, community perception of safety, and partner collaboration indicators.
R2S Social Services serves as a convener, bridge-builder, and facilitator for the CSC, complementing—not replacing—existing safety efforts across Spokane.
The CSC is a community-driven, cross-sector council bringing together residents, lived-experience leaders, nonprofits, faith communities, schools, businesses, and public-sector partners to strengthen safety and wellbeing across Spokane.
It functions as a collaborative table where partners share information, coordinate supports, and jointly develop strategies for reducing violence and strengthening families.
The CSC reflects the core belief:
We can do little alone, but much together.
To develop and implement community-driven strategies that reduce violence, strengthen families, and improve safety through partnership, coordination, and culturally responsive engagement.
The CSC advances the vision of the Four-Pillar East Side Holistic Safety Plan, ensuring all partners work within a unified framework.
The Council is designed to be actionable, collaborative, and transparent. Core functions include:
Understanding patterns of violence, safety concerns, family needs, and neighborhood strengths.
Includes reviewing:
Creating and coordinating a shared training calendar across partners in areas such as:
Building community-based safety strategies aligned with the Four Pillars:
Hosting events, listening sessions, and neighborhood gatherings to:
To strengthen coordination and ensure real action, the CSC is organized into four subcommittees:
Oversees deployment of strategies, aligns partners, and monitors progress.
Ensures young people have a voice in safety planning and provides oversight to youth-focused prosocial activities, leadership pathways, and restorative approaches.
Tracks outcomes aligned with Commerce’s performance framework, including violence incidents, youth opportunity metrics, family stability, community perception of safety, and partner collaboration indicators.
Develops and coordinates the annual training calendar across all Four Pillars.
The CSC meets monthly, with options for both on-site and virtual attendance.
It prevents duplication, strengthens existing services, and ensures all Four Pillars move forward together, not in silos.