The document outlines the vision and strategies of the Neighborhood Services department in Joplin to build safe, strong, and vibrant neighborhoods. The strategies include using social media and various city pages to connect neighbors, coaching neighborhood groups, providing volunteer opportunities, conducting routine neighborhood inspections, empowering residents to create change and navigate policies, educating residents on codes and neighborliness, enforcing nuisance and maintenance codes, and increasing engagement through leadership programs, events, newsletters and fines.

1. STRATEGY
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES VISION
Inspiring and empowering Joplin
neighbors to build safe, strong, and
vibrant neighborhoods
Neighbor Connect
Social Media
City's Nextdoor Page
City's Facebook Page
Neighborhood
Improvement District
IV
Coaching on Starting
Neighborhood
Groups
Volunteer
Opportunites for
Individuals & Groups
Routine
Neighborhood
Inspections
Door Hangers, Phone
Calls, Personal Visits
EMPOWERMENT
Creating Change in
Neighborhood
Navigating
Municiple Policies
& Systems
EDUCATION
City Codes
Neighborliness
ENFORCEMENT
Nuissance Codes
Maintenance
Codes
Neighborhood
Leadership Program
(Spring 2017)
Quarterly Connect
Events
Code Enforcement
Ride Alongs
Respond to Citizen &
Internal Concerns
Court Process to
Force Compliance or
Abate Property
Speaking
Engagements
Citizen Newsletter
Flyers & Handouts
Increasing Fines for
Repeat Offenders
Tool Lending Library
Statistics &
Reporting