Detroit Safety Team

About

DST believes we must re-define safety. The policing system is dangerous for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We seek a new definition of safety—one that refuses systemically racist practices and supports a framework for equity.

In collaboration with the communities we work with, we build safety infrastructures by weaving together proactive and responsive practices in private settings and public community spaces.

DST services include: 

• Safety Training: DST engages Detroiters with tools and trainings in proven safety methods.
• Community Building: DST transforms communities by moving to a non-punitive safety response that changes our relationship with harm, abuse, and conflict to one that allows for healing and refuses violence.
• Restorative Processes: DST uses responsive measures that allow those who have harmed and those who have been harmed, to work through conflict together through our restorative circle practices.

Gradient Pricing Model:

Detroit Safety Team uses a Gradient Pricing Model.  Combining existing ideals from Gift Economics and Sliding Scale models, we offer various tiers of pricing based upon a client’s capacity to pay.  Cost should never be a barrier to entry.