Prevention, healing, and opportunity for safer communities

Public safety isn’t just about enforcement—it’s about reducing harm before it happens, investing in healing, and supporting the people closest to the work of keeping our neighborhoods safe. I support community-based safety strategies that build trust, prevent violence, and empower residents with real pathways to opportunity and stability.

What we build in District 62 can serve as a model for safer communities across Georgia.

Key Policy Priorities:

• Professionalize violence prevention with the “Billable Peace” model: Establish a Violence Prevention Professional (VPP) certification and expand Georgia Medicaid to reimburse community violence intervention services so trained professionals and organizations can bill for conflict mediation, victim support, and prevention work.

• Expand Trauma Recovery Centers: Invest in community-based trauma recovery centers that provide long-term counseling, crisis advocacy, case management, and stabilization supports for survivors of violence and their families—not just hospital emergency services.

• Ensure safe housing and landlord accountability:
  Set basic security standards for multi-family housing, increase transparency for renters, and oppose laws that shield negligent landlords from responsibility when preventable harm occurs.

• Strengthen crisis response alternatives: Build out trauma-informed, non-law-enforcement crisis response systems for situations where behavioral health approaches keep communities safer.

• Support community-led, data-driven safety strategies: Empower local residents, nonprofits, and leaders to develop safety plans, measure outcomes, and coordinate across public health, housing, and workforce systems to reduce violence sustainably.

Core Belief:

True safety comes from prevention, healing, and accountability.

Statewide Impact::

Investing in prevention, trauma recovery, and community leadership leads to safer neighborhoods, lower costs, and better outcomes for communities statewide.