The Dayton Southeast Weed and Seed Initiative is a five-year U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)-sponsored strategy with the goal to "weed out" violent crime, drug trafficking, prostitution and gang activity in east Dayton and work towards preventing crime from reoccurring by "seeding" those neighborhoods with a variety of social and community oriented services.

In 2003, the southeast Dayton neighborhoods comprised of the Burkhardt, Huffman Historic, Newcom Plain and St. Anne’s Hill Historic and Springfield were designated an official Weed & Seed target area.

Because of the complexity of problems in this target area, the Southeast Dayton Weed and Seed chose to have a separate Weeding and Seeding site coordinators.

These site coordinators manage the Weed and Seed Initiative from offices at the Montgomery County Sunrise Center facility. This provides effective cooperation between the community and local, state, and federal agencies into a highly focused collaboration dedicated to improving the lives of target area residents.

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