The Weed and Seed Implementation Manual

This manual provides a complete look at the Weed and Seed strategy with a general overview of the strategy’s goals and objectives, and fundamental principles and components.

Download the complete 112-page manual in PDF format (1.91 mb). Below, each chapter is presented in PDF. (Adobe Acrobat is required.)

• Introduction

• Chapter One: Weed and Seed

• Chapter Two: Organizing the Steering Committee

• Chapter Three: Selecting Sites for Weed and Seed Implementation

• Chapter Four: Assessing Resources and Needs

• Chapter Five: Planning for Weed and Seed

• Chapter Six: Managing Weed and Seed

• Chapter Seven: Community Mobilization

• Chapter Eight: Law Enforcement

• Chapter Nine: Community Policing

• Chapter Ten: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment

• Chapter Eleven: Neighborhood Restoration

• Chapter Twelve: Evaluation

• Appendix