Mission
Guided by the Mayor’s vision for Baltimore and rooted in a holistic approach to neighborhood health and safety, the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) empowers community partners and city agencies to play a more active role in the co-production of public safety and prevention of violence through a trauma-responsive, healing-centered, and equity-based approach for the benefit of all Baltimoreans.
Guiding Values
In everything that it does, MONSE is committed to upholding its core values of being:
- Equity-based. Focused on promoting justice in reducing disproportionate negative impacts of current and future policies and practices.
- Healing-centered. Preventing violence must be paired with repairing harm.
- Trauma-informed. Based on understanding and integrating knowledge about the causes and consequences of trauma.
- Justice-oriented. Real justice is about more than punishment; it is also about restoration, renewal, and healing from past harms.
- Partnership-based. Just as violence is intersectional, so must the solutions, relying on cross-system partners and partnerships.
- Transparent. Strong partnerships require trust, and trust demands transparency and accountability.
- Data- and research-driven. Relying on data and the best available experimental and experiential evidence to guide decision making.
- Results-oriented. Devoted to delivering impact.