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FLORIDA CRIME PREVENTION RESOURCES
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| Your State - Crime Statistics and Research | |
| Disaster Center Crime Rates in Georgia from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/flcrime.htm |
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| Teen Violence Prevention Programs | |
| Florida Gang Investigators Association Cory A. Godwin, President 2601 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, FL 32399-2500 Phone: 850-410-4582 Fax: 850-413-8184 E-mail: godwin.cory @mail.dc.state.fl.us URL: www.fgia.com |
The Florida Gang Investigators Association is a non-profit organization comprised of criminal justice professionals who possess the knowledge, information, and ability to dramatically impact gang crime in this state. This powerful intelligence force is organized in a manner that facilitates routine information-sharing that makes F.G.I.A. a true tool in the battle against gang crime, and not just a social organization. |
| MAD DADS of Ocala, FL Patrick Hadley, Executive Director PO Box 3704 Ocala, FL 34478 Phone: 352-629-3100 Fax: 352-629-1833 |
They got involved in community and turned it around. Eventually got their city named an All-American City. Did it with a Weed and Seed grant and with help of police and city officials. |
| National Youth Gang Center John Moore, Senior Research Associate Institute for Intergovernmental Research PO Box 12729 Tallahassee,FL 32317 Phone: 850-385-0600 x226 or 800-446-0912 URL: www.iir.com/nygc |
The purpose of the NYGC is to expand and maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective responses to them. The Center assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising program strategies. It also coordinates activities of the OJJDP Youth Gang Consortium - a group of federal agencies, gang program representatives, and other service providers. |
| Summer Youth Intervention Program Sgt. John Mike, Program Coordinator Community Affairs Division - Jacksonville Sheriff's Office 501 East Bay Street, Room 204 Jacksonville, FL 32202 Phone: 904-630-2160 Fax: 904-630-1751 |
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office police officers meet with at-risk students ages 13-17 during the summer to teach them life skills, including discipline, in order to positively impact these students' lives. |
| The Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BRJ) of the Community Justice Institute Gordon Bazemore, Director Florida Atlantic University 220 S.E. 2nd Avenue, Room 612C Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Phone: 954-762-5668 Fax: 954-762-5626 E-mail: Bazemor@fau.edu URL: www.fau.edu/divdept /cupa/centers.htm |
Project researchers and juvenile justice professionals work with jurisdictions nationwide seeking systemic change in juvenile justice policy and practice. As a model of "community justice," BRJ seeks to involve and meet the needs of three coparticipants in the justice process -- victims, offenders, and communities. |
| Youth Crime Watch of America Dwight Edwards, Community Coordinator and Technical Assistance Director 9300 South Dadeland Boulevard, Suite 100 Miami, FL 33156 Phone: 305-670-2409 Fax: 305-670-3805 URL: www.ycwa.org |
Youth Crime Watch of America is a non-profit organization that assists youth in actively reducing crime and drug use in their schools and communities. With hundreds of school and community programs throughout the United States, Youth Crime Watch programs are credited with the significant decline of drug use and crime in America since the early 1980's. |
| Hate Crime Prevention Programs | |
| Anti-Violence Program of the Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Community Center of Central Florida, Inc. Chris Alexander-Manley 934 N. Mills Avenue Orlando, FL 32803 Phone: 407-425-4527 Fax: 407-228-8230 URL: www.glbcc.org |
The Anti-Violence Program helps victims report incidences to the local law enforcement agencies and distribute brochures and information on ways to prevent crimes, including safety tips. Educating the community about hate crimes and the need to halt them is another component of the AVP. |
| Community Crime Prevention Programs | |
| Attorney General of Florida - Florida Bureau of Criminal Justice Programs Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs The Capitol, PL-01 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050 Phone: 850-414-3300 Fax: 850-413-0633 URL: legal.firn.edu |
Includes a Crime Prevention Training Institute with three curricula including crime prevention training, school resource officer training, and victims services training. |
| Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office - Community Stations Major Gene Stokes Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office PO Box 3371 Tampa, FL 33601 Phone: 813-247-8000 Fax: 813-247-8594 URL: www.hcso.tampa.fl.us |
The community stations set up in the neighborhoods function as hubs of the respective communities. Open 7 days a week, 12 hours per day, they host neighborhood meetings, crime prevention programs, and recreation groups; provide information referrals; and serve as a site for receiving police calls for service. |
| The Community Justice Institute (CJI) Gordon Bazemore, Director Florida Atlantic University 220 S.E. 2nd Avenue, Room 612C Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Phone: 954-762-5668 Fax: 954-762-5626 E-mail: Bazemor@fau.edu URL: www.fau.edu/divdept /cupa/centers.htm |
The specific objective of the CJI is to serve as a conduit for state, local and national research, training, technical assistance, and education related to initiatives which seek to involve citizens and neighborhood groups in prevention, sanctioning, offender reintegration, and victim restoration. Such initiatives include, but are not limited to, community policing, citizen sanctioning panels, community service, victim-offender dialogue, youth development, and mentoring/service learning initiatives. |
| Check with your local police department for more crime prevention resources in your area. | |
