Collective action by residents, institutions, and businesses will ensure a neighborhood will compete well with other neighborhoods for resources. Residents will have the capacity to manage the day to day activities on their blocks. Neighbors will feel comfortable being "neighborly" – looking out for each other, getting together to work on problems, taking action to reinforce positive standards and actions, etc. Neighbors will feel safe in the neighborhood. 

                
• Healthy neighborhoods address concerns and problems as they arise.   
• Unhealthy neighborhoods feel powerless, overwhelmed, and apathetic.   

Take the Neighborhood Management Test to assess your neighborhood management level.

Strategies to Get Neighbors Working Together

• Organize a Neighborhood Association, Crime Watch or Hobby Club.
• Research and apply for small grants to implement projects that you have developed as a neighborhood.
• Organize annual social events.
• Create a community garden.
• Recognize the beautification efforts of neighbors.
• Form a committee to meet and greet new neighbors with welcome packets.

Strategies to Increase Sense of Safety

• Organize a neighborhood Crime Watch
• Cultivate relationships among neighbors
• Set up a nightly neighbor-walk schedule to keep an "eye on the street" and to check on neighbors who would like it.
• Turn on the porch light in the evening 

Strategies to Cultivate Neighborhood Leadership

• Attend Garland Neighborhood Management Academy Classes 
• Enroll your Crime Watch in Citizens on Patrol
• Model the behavior you would like to see among neighbors
• Volunteer to serve on a city board
• Volunteer at the neighborhood school