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Community Activists React to Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods Rebranding Under New Crime Plan
By Noelle Friel
Published: Apr. 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM PDT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - During the announcement of his new five-year Safe Louisville plan, Mayor Craig Greenberg revealed the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods will now become the Office of Violence Prevention. The new office will be led by interim director James Tatum, and the search for a new director is now underway. Those who are part of OSHN’s programs now wonder how this change will impact them. One of those programs was Sacred Earth Community Garden, a program that allows at-risk teens and young adults to be paid to work in a community garden. The garden, located in the Shawnee neighborhood, was built from the ground up by the program’s participants. It started when the city purchased the land on Tait Place, which was formerly the site of an abandoned building, with the plan to transform it into a neighborhood garden.
By Noelle Friel
Published: Apr. 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM PDT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - During the announcement of his new five-year Safe Louisville plan, Mayor Craig Greenberg revealed the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods will now become the Office of Violence Prevention. The new office will be led by interim director James Tatum, and the search for a new director is now underway. Those who are part of OSHN’s programs now wonder how this change will impact them. One of those programs was Sacred Earth Community Garden, a program that allows at-risk teens and young adults to be paid to work in a community garden. The garden, located in the Shawnee neighborhood, was built from the ground up by the program’s participants. It started when the city purchased the land on Tait Place, which was formerly the site of an abandoned building, with the plan to transform it into a neighborhood garden.