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Safety cannot wait!
TCS specializes in violence reduction strategies & capacity building support for municipalities and nonprofit organizations.
To achieve violence prevention and reduction, we utilize the following tools:
COMMUNITY ASSESSMENTS
We use inventories of local landscapes to assess current assets and determine which strategies are most appropriate to establish new relationships or to enhance existing relationships.
DATA ANALYSIS
CAPACITY BUILDING
Board Development
Branding
Community Network Building
Diversity & Inclusion
Effectively Managing Staff
External Relations
Performance Management Strategies
Staff Wellness
Strategic Planning
Trauma Informed Approaches
Trauma Screening Tools
TRAINING & SUPPORT
OUR VISION
Trajectory Changing Solutions (TCS) is a consulting firm specializing in violence prevention and reduction strategies and capacity building, designed to comprehensively create safer communities, locally and globally. TCS works with cities and municipalities, foundations, law enforcement and non-profits to support and elevate local entities that are best-suited to implement proven approaches to reduce violence.
TCS was founded by Norman Livingston Kerr, MSW, an international expert in the field of addressing violence and trauma, and who has promoted community wellness in various contexts for 30 years.
The TCS team is made up of seasoned professionals who are primed and ready to assist entities across the globe, in-person and virtually, that have been stagnant and are in need of a "refresh". This energy sets our clients on a new and distinct trajectory.
To achieve violence prevention, intervention and reduction, we utilize the following tools:
COMMUNITY ASSESSMENTS
CAPACITY BUILDING
We conduct scans to determine the inventory of local assets and to determine the most appropriate strategies to effectively reduce violence for each context
DATA ANALYSIS
With local law enforcement and research partners, TCS obtains and examines current violence data to ascertain the contributors of violence for each specific context.
As a result, the data is reviewed regularly to analyze violence trends and used to determine the most effective strategies to address each circumstance.
Board Development
Branding
Community Engagement Strategies
Diversity & Inclusion
Effectively Managing Staff
External Relations
Fiscal Management
Performance Management Strategies
Staff Wellness
Strategic Planning
Trauma Informed Approaches
Trauma Screening Tools
TRAINING & SUPPORT
Building and Strengthening Community Relations with Law Enforcement
Procedural Justice and Implicit Bias Training
Street Outreach and Violence Interruption
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NORMAN LIVINGSTON KERR
FOUNDER
Norman Livingston Kerr recently served as the Assistant Deputy Mayor for Public Safety for the City of Chicago, where he led the City's first ever Office of Violence Reduction. The Mayor's Public Safety team is charged with implementing a violence reduction strategy that convenes existing efforts, incorporates evidence-based strategies, and promotes collaboration at all levels, to create a safer Chicago. He interfaced with elected officials, heads of city departments, and leadership in the nonprofit and corporate arenas on a daily basis, at the local and national levels.
During the period from 2012 to 2019, Mr. Kerr was employed at UCAN, a 153-year-old organization, where he started a new department and built a team of over one hundred, serving as the vice president for Violence Intervention & Prevention Services. He led various efforts designed to address the violence crisis plaguing several Chicago neighborhoods.
Mr. Kerr, also worked for four years at a local university as an adjunct faculty, teaching a variety of social work classes that he feels strengthened his ability to more effectively convey information to a range of different audiences. In addition, he has trained law enforcement on procedural justice and improving community relations.
Prior to UCAN, he worked for fourteen years at Cure Violence (Cease Fire), a violence prevention program in which he was instrumental in crafting through his previous experience as an outreach worker supporting high-risk individuals, mentor, and as a grass roots community worker. He served as the Director of CeaseFire and later worked as a CeaseFire International Liaison focused on installing new and innovative approaches to reducing violence in the Caribbean (Jamaica and Trinidad) and also in Ontario, Canada. This work has been highlighted in numerous international new stories and in the documentary "The Interrupters."
Mr. Kerr received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Illinois State University and his master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago, with a special interest in addressing the impact of trauma on communities of color.
Mr. Kerr migrated with his parents and siblings as a boy from the island of Jamaica and has been dedicated to creating change in Chicago for thirty years. As a strong proponent of self-care, he is unapologetic about making time to cook/bake, travel, play sports, socialize with friends and sing in his reggae band.
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