NCJ Number
237361
Date Published
February 2010
Length
62 pages
Annotation
This participant booklet for the 2010 Strategy Implementation Workshop (February 24-26, 2010), which was designed to provide assistance for the "Weed and Seed" strategy, contains the agenda session descriptions, speaker biographies, and an exhibitor directory.
Abstract
The workshop focused on training in new capacity-building strategies that include community engagement, sustainability, community policing, gang reduction, drug education, and offender reentry. The morning of the first day consisted of 10 workshop sessions that pertained to building an effective Individual Development Account (IDA), law enforcement and Hip Hop, the establishment of partnerships between Weed and Seed communities and professional sports organizations, neighborhood restoration, nuisance abatement and code enforcement, protection of children from predators, supportive housing for offenders reentering the community, a sustainability clinic, steps in organizing for the achievement of a community's vision, and understanding and implementing a strategic plan. Ten afternoon workshop sessions repeated some topics of earlier workshops. New topics covered gang reduction and youth development, the development of community-police teams, interactive network training, a Web forum for Weed and Seed communities, and making "Wall Street" work for "Main Street." The second day consisted of 12 morning workshops and 12 afternoon workshops. Some of the workshops from the first day were repeated; and other workshops focused on countermeasures for specific offense types (gun crime, juvenile drug prevention, and the prevention of identity theft) and various strategies for building and sustaining community resources. The third and final day of the workshop consisted of eight sessions and six roundtable discussions that addressed various strategies for developing community resources for funding and implementing various Weed and Seed strategies for improving public safety.