• Topics: Sexual Assault Prevention, Diversity and Inclusion, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Improving Town-Gown Relations, Campus-Community Planning, Law Enforcement and Policing, Emergency Management, Campus-Community Start-ups, Off-Campus Housing and Community Relations
  • Years: 2023 Conference

Institutionalizing Kindness: Community Responders for Equity, Safety, and Service (CRESS), a new Public Safety Department in the Town of Amherst, MA

CRESS (Community Responders for Equity, Safety, and Service) is a new town unarmed, person-centered, trauma-informed, antiracist public safety department. Since being operational, CRESS has...

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