The Project TURN initiative is aimed at providing trauma training and services to community intervention workers, who ideally would find out information from community members and handle the situation before police need to arrive.
Aimed at providing trauma training and services to community intervention workers, the Project TURN initiative was introduced by Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who chairs the City Council's public safety committee.
The program seeks to help the over 100 community intervention workers in the city with training provided by the Community Based Public Safety Collective, The Reverence Project and the BUILD Program. They will provide therapy and other activities such as yoga, meditation and healing circles.It's a first of its kind initiative, diverting non-violent 911 calls involving the homeless away from law enforcement.
The effectiveness of Project TURN will in part be determined by how successful the workers continue to be in de-escalating situations, according to Rodriguez. Los Angeles Police Department "These folks are born and bred in their respective neighborhoods," said Aqeela Sherrills, co-founder of the Community Based Public Safety Collective. "They know the terrain. They know the families ... They'll have more intelligence in terms of what's happening in the street than law enforcement will ever have."
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