Mission

Care-Based Safety's mission is to provide a non-police response program that will grow life-affirming support and opportunities for all community members in Washtenaw County. We deliver a community co-created program with two mutually reinforcing aspects: Community Building and Crisis Response. We respond to conflict and crisis with trauma-informed care; prevent destructive conflict and crisis through skill-building and social support; and collaborate with community partners in addressing the root causes of crisis in Washtenaw County, MI. We are peer-led, and we center those most impacted by state violence--our community members who are Black & brown, live with mental illness and disabilities, use substances, or are housing insecure and/or poor--as we work to build a future where crisis is met with compassionate care, not criminalization. We demand care-based safety for all.