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Mobilizing the Nation To Prevent Crime, Violence, and Drug Abuse, 2005 Edition

Mobilizing the Nation is the 2005 annual report of the Crime Prevention Coalition of America (CPCA), a nonpartisan group of more than 300 national, federal, state, and local organizations representing thousands of constituents who are committed to preventing crime. This report celebrates the work of CPCA members, highlighting the breadth and diversity of prevention efforts in communities across the nation. Examples include the multifaceted approach of the Citizen Corps program, which includes the Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS), Neighborhood Watch, and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) programs; the Amachi Big Brothers Big Sisters program for mentoring children of prisoners; and the Virginia Crime Prevention Association’s Call To Protect Program, which uses cell phones to fight domestic violence.

Members of the CPCA are law enforcement agencies, federal and state government agencies, state crime prevention programs and associations, youth development organizations, neighborhood and block watch groups, city and county government agencies, and national organizations. These organizations share a common vision that, by working together, they can create communities that are free from crime and the costs—physical, emotion, and financial—that crime imposes.

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your copy today. Ask for Item M79B. Single copies are free; bulk copies are $1 per copy plus shipping and handling. You can also order online at www.mcgruffstore.org. 

Parents and Their Children: Talking Together

This set of nine reproducible tip sheets, in English and Spanish, will help parents communicate more effectively with their children and teenagers. Important for all parents is “Talking With Your Child or Teen.” This tip sheet outlines strategies to help parents have productive conversations with their children. “Building Resiliency in Your Child or Teen” advises parents on ways to help their children develop safety skills, make the right kind of friends, and establish connections to other caring adults. While all parents will probably find valuable information in each of the tip sheets, four are directed to parents of teens, and three to parents of young children. Parents of teenagers may fear that they have little influence over their children’s decisions. But teens report that parents are more influential than friends, teachers, coaches, and the news media. These tip sheets give advice on alcohol and drugs, safe schools, dating violence, and gangs. Parents of young children will benefit from the tip sheets that address bullying, conflict, and diversity.

The reproducible tip sheets come in a folder with suggestions on their use.

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your package today. Ask for Item K33. Copies are $9.95 for the set, plus shipping. You can also order online at www.mcgruffstore.org. 

Also From NCPC

Standing in the Gap: Local Family Strengthening Initiatives for Safer, Better Communities

All families strive to bring up their children to be safe, healthy, nonviolent, and productive members of their communities. Through citations of research and local experience, this publication emphasizes the many strong linkages between support for families and the prevention of juvenile delinquency and crime in the community.

Standing in the Gap defines and describes the ways in which many community and local government resources can contribute to family support and crime prevention goals. It asserts that local government is a powerful pulpit from which to advocate for policies, programs, and resources that support strong and stable families. Moreover, it provides local decision makers with a rich array of tested approaches from which they can draw insight into how to make a difference on such a complex issue.

This book is intended for local officials and activists. Priced at $13.95 in NCPC’s catalog, it’s now available for a limited time for $8, a discount of $5.95. Call 800-NCPC-911 to order today. Please specify Offer A21 when you order. Shipping and handling charges are extra.

Creating a Blueprint for Community Safety: A Guide for Local Action

This book is meant for the person who will be doing the hard work of managing, coordinating, and spurring a local initiative to action. The process of forging a community safety plan is not easy, but it is not impossible either. It is not simple, but equally it is not overly complicated. It requires commitment, belief in the potential for success, expectation that agencies can work in new ways, and confidence that average citizens can do the extraordinary. Creating a Blueprint for Community Safety, designed to help communities take charge of solving their crime problems by focusing on prevention and early intervention, is the product of the work of thousands of people whose experiences are distilled and presented to benefit those charged with leading major action-planning initiatives at the local level.

For a limited time, you can order this publication at the reduced price of just $8 ($7.95 off its NCPC catalog price of $15.95). Call 800-NCPC-911 to order today. Please specify Offer A20. Shipping and handling charges are extra. Bulk discounts: Order ten or more copies and get an additional 20 percent off!

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Survey Shows 3.6 Million Households Were Identity Theft Victims

Identity Theft, 2004 shows that an estimated 3.6 million households were victims of at least one type of identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, according to the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.  For more information on the survey, visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs.