Partnership for Safety & Justice

Mission

Partnership for Safety & Justice is transforming society’s response to crime through innovative solutions that ensure accountability, equity, and healing.

Bottom Line for Portland

We work to pass and implement policies that reform the public safety and criminal justice systems to achieve meaningful accountability, help crime victims heal, and safely keep families together.  To address extreme racial disparities in sentencing and policing, we work with coalition partners in the Portland Metro area and statewide to reduce the overreliance on jails and prison. 

Our efforts have resulted in the closure of two prisons, which redirected millions of dollars toward healing, treatment, and culturally-specific services for crime victims and survivors. Additionally, we’ve expanded policies so that up to 5,000 more Oregonians can earn a reduction in supervision time when they meet their goals. We’ve also eliminated unnecessary police stops for minor infractions, like a broken taillight, to enhance the safety of Black and brown drivers in our communities. 

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“Partnership for Safety and Justice helped me turn the overwhelming grief of my son’s incarceration into active and focused energy aiming at changing Oregon’s laws for the better.”

-Volunteer and advocate

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The people most impacted by the problems are closest to the solutions. That’s why our work is informed by people with personal experience and expertise: activists who have been victims of violence and/or are justice involved. We are survivors of violence, people convicted of crime, and the families of both. Together, we advance racial equity and healing for Black Oregonians, Indigenous people, Latinx people, LGBTQ+ people, women, crime survivors of color, and other communities that are most harmed and least helped by the public safety system.  

Incentives

Any donor who gives $25 or more will receive a $6 gift card to Fifty Licks Ice Cream.

Partner(s)

Fifty Licks Ice Cream offers delicious, small-batch handmade ice cream in Portland. We are grateful for their generous support!

Be sure to check out our nonprofit partners:

Clackamas Free Clinic (aka Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine) serves the health needs of uninsured, low-income people in Clackamas County by providing free and inclusive medical care through dedicated medical and community volunteers.

NAMI Clackamas is the grassroots non-profit organization providing free mental health education, support, and advocacy delivered by people with lived experience to improve quality of life for everyone in our community.

Operation Nightwatch provides evening hospitality for Portland’s unhoused population to promote community, dignity, and social connection.

Portland Community Football Club (PCFC) provides access to high-quality, affordable club soccer for low-income and underrepresented youth, ages 6- 18, including LGBTQIA+, Black, Brown, Latino/a/e, immigrants, and refugees.

Raices de Bienestar is a mental health non-profit for the Latine community by the Latine community. Raíces provides clinical services, community programs, education, and consultation to improve emotional and mental wellbeing for the Latine community across Oregon. They offer innovative programs to break down barriers to seeking mental health care and truly bring mental health to the people.