GAIN Block Watch Support

Seattle Night Out is coming up soon! This is your chance to close down your street to auto traffic and hold a block party.
Start planning now for the summertime annual block watch event - your own Seattle Night Out!

In 2006, the GAIN area had more than 23 block parties on Seattle Night Out (up from only 11 the previous year). We are available to offer support and assistance for new block captains in our area, 75th to 95th, Greenwood to Aurora.

Being a block captain is easy. You can choose your own level of participation. Some block captains focus on the once-a-year block gathering for “Seattle Night Out” (first Tuesday of August – see Seattle Night Out) . Other block captains choose to get more involved in GAIN and greater crime prevention efforts in their neighborhood.

To learn more about becoming a block captain, contact GAIN at gaingroup@gmail.com and/or the Police Department’s Crime Prevention Coordinator, Neil Hansen, 684-4689 or neil.hansen@seattle.gov. For more information on the Police Department’s Block Watch program, see Block Watch Program.

Most block captains start by organizing a meeting with as many of your neighbors as possible. The most successful way to organize this is to work with Neil Hanson at the Police Department (see contact information above). Choose a date/time/location, create a flyer with the date/time and reason to organize, and then pass out the flyer to your block.