Members of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department recently visited South Boston Catholic Academy to participate in Child Safety Day. Held as part of a weeklong series of events celebrating Faith & Blue 2023, our participants distributed the Department’s “Safety Tips for Kids” coloring books, crayons and “Junior Deputy” badges to attendees. Faith & Blue was “inaugurated in 2020 by MovementForward, Inc., working with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) at the U.S.Department of Justice. The idea was a simple but powerful one — the ties that bind officers and residents must be reinforced if we are to build neighborhoods where everyone feels safe and included. Faith-based organizations are key to building these bonds because they are not only the largest community resource in the nation, with 65 million participants in weekly events, but because they are as diverse as our nation. Moreover, they speak to Americans’ shared conviction that we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.”