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Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency (Wayne Metro) is one of many CVI organizations working to hold it all together in the Metro area as far as crime and blight reduction goes.
Thanks to funding from various nonprofits and community upliftment programs, Wayne Metro is restoring safety from the inside out all across Wayne County as one of the largest nonprofit agencies in all of Southeast Michigan – one backed by over 40 years of experience. In 2023, they were even selected to be a partner for the City of Detroit’s ShotStoppers initiative, which aims to scale up local safety work.
The organization’s overall mission is simple: to put an end to poverty and disenfranchisement in Detroit by promoting self-sufficiency through housing support, education, workforce training, financial literacy, clean water access, and youth programming.
Another bright spot about the organization is that instead of sending outreach workers out onto the streets, Wayne Metro gives back by giving smaller community violence intervention groups like Denby Neighborhood Alliance the tools to operate effectively, from grant administration and case management to trauma-informed training, family support services, and strategic planning.
They also work to directly address violence prevention through trauma-informed youth programs, safe passage corridors, and neighborhood stabilization projects, as well as partnering with schools, churches, and block clubs to provide safe housing, emergency utility assistance and after school programming.
In other words, they put in hard work to eliminate many of the triggers that lead to youth being put in dangerous situations in the first place, doing most of their work out of their East Side field office, which houses housing counselors, social workers, mental health staff, and economic mobility coaches.
In short: Wayne Metro does not merely interrupt violence.
They work overtime to keep it from happening in the first place.