CCDO Strategic Framework Weed and Seed Strategy, About CCDO - Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO)

VISION
Safe and Thriving Communities

MISSION
To promote comprehensive strategies to reduce crime
and revitalize communities

WEED

Enable communities to reduce violent and drug crime

	Enable communities to assess needs and capacity to address crime
	Assist communities in forming collaborative law enforcement partnerships
	Identify effective law enforcement practices to enhance community safety
	Enable communities to mobilize residents against crime and drugs
	Identify effective prosecution strategies to suppress crime

SEED

Strengthen community capacity to increase the quality of life

	Enable communities to assess prevention, treatment, & infrastructure needs
	Promote models to enable communities to effectively address risk and protective factors
	Promote approaches to enhance effective and culturally relevant, prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare programs and capacity
	Promote effective neighborhood restoration and economic development efforts to revitalize family and community economic stability

SUSTAIN

Promote long-term community health and resilience

	Provide knowledge of best practices to enable communities to sustain site organizational, program, and structural integrity
	Identify best practices to enable sites to leverage local resources
	Enhance community capacity to utilize effective problem solving strategies to address compelling community needs
	Enhance the capacity to document and communicate successful outcomes and key learnings, internally and externally