Streets Are for Everyone
Making Streets Safer for All Road Users
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Public Awareness Campaigns
SAFE media and awareness campaigns have reached billions locally, nationally, and worldwide with the message of the need for safer streets for all road users. This helps emphasize the importance of traffic safety and advocacy in accomplishing change in communities.
SAFE Support
SAFE Support is the nation's first support system for victims and families affected by traffic collisions. This program is currently active and spreading across Los Angeles County. With 52,000 people sent to the hospital or killed each year just in LA County, this is a VITAL program for the people of Southern CA and beyond.
Education Campaigns
Providing direct education on traffic safety through programs such as "Streets, Art, SAFE" -- a cutting edge program to educate high school students on traffic safety through the arts. It is a multi-school competition in which Hollywood filmmakers mentor High School students on producing traffic safety PSAs. Students not only learn about making safer streets, including good and bad driving habits, but they also learn how to make video, team building skills and how to convey an effective message. The winning team receives arts education grants for their school.
Legislation and Policy
With the help of local and state legislators, SAFE has spearheaded multiple different policy changes to increase penalties and give law enforcement additional tools to help catch those who commit crimes in connection to traffic violence and street safety.
In the last year, SAFE supported more individual bills for safer streets than in any year in the past. Much of the legislative work we did center around making it easier to manage speeding and protecting cyclists and pedestrians, the most vulnerable road users, including the successful passing of AB 645 -- Speed Safety Cameras in California.
Faith for SAFEr Streets
Faith for SAFE Streets is a program of Streets Are For Everyone, also called SAFE, which was formed in partnership with Pastor Patricia Strong-Fargas of Mt Salem New-Wave Christian Fellowship Church. It is an interfaith coalition brought about to work towards reducing traffic-caused fatalities to Zero, focusing on the hardest-hit areas of South Los Angeles.
Advocacy & Activism
At Streets Are For Everyone, we pride ourselves on our advocacy, lifting community voices on the need for safer streets for all road users.
Improving our streets will take an army of activists and advocates: changing minds from one of apathy, that nothing can be done, to one of hope, action, and real, tangible change.
Advocacy for safer streets can come in many forms but focuses on creating a better condition.
Be that a protest to end street racing, a petition to improve safety on the roads going through a park, community forums with city leaders so their voices are actually heard, supporting sensible legislation, or demanding that our streets are designed correctly. Many actions can be taken to elevate community voices for change.
Ghost Tire Memorials
While working on advocacy around AB 645, SAFE continued to become more and more aware of families struggling with the devastation of losing a family member to reckless speeding. Two families in particular stood out as wanting to make a difference and raise awareness of reckless speeding. SAFE worked with them to advocate for passing AB 645 and through that process, the idea of a memorial to commemorate and draw attention to the increasing amount of fatalities due to speeding was born: the Ghost Tire Memorial. The Ghost Tire Memorial was inspired by the Ghost Bike (also referred to as a Ghost Cycle or White Cycle), a bicycle roadside memorial placed where a cyclist had been killed or severely injured, usually by the driver of a motor vehicle. Apart from being a memorial, it is usually intended as a reminder to passing motorists to share the road.
Where we work
External reviews
Photos
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Streets Are for Everyone
Board of directorsas of 02/07/2024
Damian Kevitt
Streets Are For Everyone
Term: 2015 -
Mark Kevitt
Dayna Galbreath
Streets Are For Everyone
Dr. Shawna Charles
Charles Communications Group
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.