The United Way has been collecting data related to domestic violence in Forsyth County courts.  The Center for Community Safety (CCS) is working with the United Way to discern any trends related to domestic violence offenses, plaintiff/defendant demographics and judges in relation to outcomes.

Winston-Salem Geoscience Initiative

The Center for Community Safety (CCS) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to provide training in the geosciences to Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) faculty and students.  Selected WSSU faculty and students will serve as mentors to grade 7-12 school children in Winston-Salem.  CCS will provide training specific to geographic information systems (GIS) and how GIS and associated mapping technologies can help support science education in middle and high schools.

Gang Impact, Assessment, & Design

This project incorporates multiple sets of data to understand the extent and nature of youth street gangs.  Data research and analytics are used to determine general trends related to youth street gangs, plus the locations of youth street gang offenses.  By using this aspatial and spatial information, non-profit agencies, schools and researcher can determine where gangs are most prevalent and how to remediate these issues.

Metadata 101

Metadata serves as the formal technical and conceptual framework by which administrative, descriptive and structural information is stored about a GIS data layers.  The Center for Community Safety (CCS) recently completed a FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) grant to provide GIS metadata training for members of the North Carolina GIS community.  The data research & analytics team currently supports metadata training by fielding metadata-related questions and regularly contributing to the North Carolina Arc/Info Users Working Group newsletter on the subject of metadata.