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PENNSYLVANIA CRIME PREVENTION RESOURCES
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| Your State - Crime Statistics | |
| Disaster Center Crime Rates in Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/pacrime.htm |
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| Teen Violence Prevention Programs | |
| Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of America Jerry Lapham, Director of Agency Development 230 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-567-7000 Fax: 215-567-0394 E-mail: national@bbbsa.org URL: www.bbbsa.org |
BBBSA distinguishes itself from other mentoring programs via rigorous published standards and required procedures. Service delivery is by volunteers who interact regularly with a youth in a one-to-one relationship. Agencies use a case management approach, following through on each case from initial inquiry through closure. The case manager screens applicants, makes and supervises the matches, and closes the matches when eligibility requirements are no longer met or either party decides they can no longer participate fully in the relationship. |
| Northeast Region Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) Michael Rosati, Project Director Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158-1060 Phone: 617-969-7100 E-mail: michaelr@edc.org URL: www2.edc.org/capt |
The fundamental mission of the national CAPT system is to bring research to practice. The CAPT system is designed to work with States and local communities, policymakers and local leaders, agencies and task forces to apply the science-based prevention technology that works. This group works in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. |
| Peace Center Brian Conklin, Executive Director 102 West Maple Avenue Langhorne, PA 19047 Phone: 215-750-7220 Fax: 215-750-9237 E-mail: peace@comcat.com URL: www.comcat.com /~peace/PeaceCenter.html |
Our Mission: To educate, empower and support individuals and organizations in efforts to prevent violence, promote peaceful resolution of conflict and foster inclusive, equitable and safe communities locally, nationally and worldwide. |
| Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies - PATHS Mark Greenberg, Bennett Chair in Prevention Research Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University 109 Henderson Building South University Park, PA 16802-6504 Phone: 814-863-0112 Fax: 814-865-2530 E-mail: prevention@psu.edu URL: www.psu.edu /dept/prevention |
The PATHS Curriculum, taught 3 times per seek for a minimum of 20-30 minutes per day, provides teachers with systematic, developmentally-based lessons, materials, and instruction for teaching their students emotional literacy, self-control, social competence, positive peer relations, and interpersonal problem-solving skills. PATHS lessons include instruction in identifying and labeling feelings, expressing feelings, assessing the intensity of feelings, managing feelings, understanding the difference between feelings and behaviors, delaying gratification, controlling impulses, reducing stress, self-talk, reading and interpreting social cues, understanding the perspectives of others, using steps for problem-solving and decision-making, having a positive attitude toward life, self-awareness, nonverbal communication skills and verbal communication skills. |
| Quantum Opportunities Program - QOP Mr. C. Benjamin Lattimore, Director of National Literacy Programs Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America 1415 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 Phone: 215-236-4500 X 251 E-mail: oica@aol.com URL: www.oicofamerica.org |
QOP provides education, service, development activities, and financial incentives over a four year period, from ninth grade through high school graduation. QOP is designed to serve adolescents from families receiving public assistance. |
| Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia Julie Good, Executive Director 633 W. Rittenhouse Street, #C-14 Philadelphia, PA 19144 Phone: 215-438-9070 Fax: 215-438-9096 E-mail: avp@netreach.net URL: www.netreach.net/ ~avp/ |
Through its two main programs--Families of Murder Victims (FMV) and Student Anti-Violence Education (SAVE)--the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP) addresses the cycle of violence providing intervention, prevention and support services. The name of this umbrella organization is symbolic of the organization's commitment to address the entire cycle of violence, both proactively and reactively. AVP is committed to advocacy and support for individual homicide co-victims, violence prevention training for children and adults, and effecting change in public and private institutions and society at large. |
| Community Crime Prevention Programs | |
| Bucks County Anti-Violence Coalition Jackie Liney PO Box 1044 Newtown, PA 18940 Phone: 215-230-0160 Fax: 215-230-8091 URL: www.comcat.com /~peace/bcavc.html |
Our purpose is to reduce violence by generating awareness of its presence in our community and its widespread impact. We are an association of social service agencies and concerned citizens whose mission is to create awareness of issues underlying violence and to present successful prevention strategies.
Members of the Coalition include: |
| COPS - Community Oriented Policing Services Robert Price, Mayor City of Sharon 155 W Connelly Blvd. Sharon, PA 16146 Phone: 724-983-3220 Fax: 724-983-1961 |
With a grant from the COPS program of the US Department of Justice, the City developed a full service sommunity center in partnership with public and private agencies and firms. This center has become a catalyst of a distressed neighborhood to improve itself. After word of the grant was received, a citizens and youth committee of the area was organized. Over 300 flyers were sent home with kids from CM Musser Elementary School and more than 55 people showed up at the first development meeting. The development meetings were open forums in which the citizens and youth were requested to give us their ideas of how to improve the quality of life. The citizens of this area have formed an alliance with the officers walking the beat which is an unbeatable combination in the war against crime. |
| Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network - PAGN Thomas Conway, Deputy Managing Director 1401 JFK Blvd., Room 680 Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-686-2024 Fax: 215-686-1458 |
PAGN seeks to remove graffiti, prevent defacements, hold perpetrators accountable, and raise public awareness about these issues. To meet its goals, PAGN organizes anti-graffiti task forces in affected neighborhoods, enlists the assistance of the Philadelphia police to apprehend offenders, and provides alternative programs to channel the energies and talents of former wallwriters toward neighborhood beautification. PAGN identifies defiled public and private buildings and organizes community cleanups. |
| Check with your local police department for more crime prevention resources in your area. | |
