The mission of the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) is to work with local communities to design strategies for deterring crime, promoting economic growth, and enhancing quality of life. CCDO, under the leadership of Director Dennis E. Greenhouse, helps communities help themselves, enabling them to develop solutions to public safety problems and to strengthen leadership to implement and sustain those solutions.

The highly successful Weed and Seed initiative is CCDO's flagship strategy. Weed and Seed is an innovative and comprehensive multiagency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and community revitalization. CCDO oversees a network of more than 300 Weed and Seed communities.

Find out more at CCDO's Web site.