The Community Haven Patrol is based on the 10,000 Fearless Men and Women headquartered in the Atlanta, Georgia. The 10,000 Fearless Men and Women call on communities to work to make cities where they reside safe, clean and decent places to live. The 10,000 Fearless Headquarters began in Alton Park in South Chattanooga and has been serving the community since 2015.
THE MODEL
Student Minister Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad and Reverend Timothy McDonald partnered in an area in Atlanta, Georgia known as the Bluff, one of the Nation’s largest heroin infested areas. Their mission is to make the community a decent and safe place to live.
The headquarters is a free 24- hour center founded in the spirit of love and unity to provide resources and training that empowers families spiritually, physically and economically. It promotes peace and with the ultimate goal to transform communities. The headquarters offers resources such as community patrol, counseling, a food pantry, conflict resolution, youth programs, culinary arts and other training programs.
The Community Haven campus serves as the headquarters. The Patrol consists of car, foot and bike patrols with a focus on violence prevention and interruption. It recruits community volunteers from within the geographical targeted community trained under the supervision of unarmed security personnel. This door-to-door integration in the community establishes a presence and a first line of defense to learn about other needs in the community. A referral to other services may be dispatched as a result of the regular interactions.
The Conflict Resolution Center trains and prepares community partners and volunteers to resolve conflict and minimize violent escalations. The Community Haven’s former Board of Directors and staff trained and conducted Conflict Resolution in Alton Park that resulted in eliminating numerous escalations in this Community. Within the last month, in the targeted area, we have successfully deescalated a potential shooting between female 1, who aimed a gun at female 2, and another verbal altercation that nearly resulted into a physical altercation between male 1 and male 2. We have stopped numerous fights and community disputes.
Camp Haven – Camp Haven provides a safe space where youth develop skills that will carry into the future. Youth experience adventure, academics and attitude building strategies.
Girls Academy – Girls Academy educates, empowers, and advocates for marginalized women and girls affected by trauma.
Adopt a School Program is a partnership between Community Haven and Urban Initiative with Orchard Knob Elementary and Orchard Knob Middle School. This partnership consists of volunteer teachers and college students from UTC providing mentoring and tutoring to students at OKE and OKM.
Anger and Trauma Workshops are conducted to reduce the frequency, intensity, duration, and specific modes of expression of trauma-related anger. Community Haven conducts in-house counselling and refers its participants to partners in the Mental Healthcare Profession.
Community Haven leverages the experience of a former Crime Scene Investigator and Public Education Specialist who lost her son to gun violence in May of 1993. In response to this murder, Ms. Betty Garner Maddox founded a homicide support group called Grieving Relatives in Every Violent Event (G.R.I.E.V.E.). As the founder of GRIEVE, Ms. Maddox advocates for the fundamental rights of victims of crimes with compassion, honesty, dignity, and most importantly, love. GRIEVE is a non-profit support group that provides resources, advocacy, and support to individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide, suicide, gangs, domestic violence, and substance abuse. GRIEVE also advocates improved communications between the affected communities and law enforcement. Through our GRIEVE partnership, Community Haven helps families heal and seek justice within the ordinance of the law and NOT desire to avenge their loved ones’ death. The goal of this network is to uncover the root cause of the violent behavior through therapy and introduce positive alternatives to violence.
Youth Development is used by the Community Haven Workforce Development Training Program to give young people insights to careers, work experience, money, and a way to keep out of trouble after school, on the weekends, and during the summer. Community Haven provides opportunities to participants with its in-house training program and well as by partnering with other non-profits, government, businesses and other entities.
If you are looking to get involved in your community to make it a safe and decent place to live; if you are someone that leads a model life and could serve as a positive influence on the youth in the community; then you will want to seriously consider joining the staff of the Community Haven Patrol.
Complete the form to send an email. We will contact you to answer any questions, gather additional information and/or to schedule an interview.