Empowering Youth Voice to Build a Safer, Stronger Hough
With support from The Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Freedom Project is relaunching the Our Voices Matter LiveSafe App to engage youth and families in co-creating safer, more connected neighborhoods.
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Anonymous Reporting
Using our mobile app, students, staff, and parents can easily submit safety and security information, upload relevant photos or videos, and provide additional details through two-way chat with security.
Keeping Schools Safe For All
Users receive emergency notifications and critical safety communications across channels (email, SMS, push notification, and phone call) through broadcast messages.
Security personnel can engage employees, students, and workers with configurable check-in messages that allow them to acknowledge and respond to the message.
Help Is At Your Fingertips
One-touch emergency options connect users to security personnel or local emergency services. You can place an emergency call to security directly through the app. Discreet emergency messaging with the security team is also available in situations where a call may not be possible.
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Emergency options also provide the option to call 911 to be connected with the proper emergency personnel.
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About The Initiative
The Cleveland Freedom Project has been awarded a grant from the Cleveland Foundation to activate youth leadership and family engagement in the Hough neighborhood through the Our Voices Matter LiveSafe Safety App.
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This initiative builds on the idea that student success and family stability go hand in hand. By giving young people a voice and parents a platform for involvement, we’re working together to design safer neighborhoods and stronger school communities.
Our Goals
When youth and families help design the systems that keep them safe, the solutions are more trusted, lasting, and effective. This project gives Cleveland’s next generation the tools to speak up, take action, and strengthen their own communities from within.
Activate Youth Voices
Engage 11–14-year-old students living in Hough to lead the design of neighborhood safety plans and share their perspectives directly through the LiveSafe app.
Strengthen Family Engagement
Support parents to participate in school-based safety and engagement workshops—aiming for 50% of school parents to attend at least two workshops by the end of the 2025–26 school year.
Build Community Connection
Create a continuous loop of communication between youth, parents, and local leaders—ensuring that neighborhood safety and family stability are shaped by those who live it every day.
