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CONNECTICUT CRIME PREVENTION RESOURCES
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| Your State - Crime Statistics and Research | |
| Disaster Center Crime Rates in Connecticut from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/ctcrime.htm |
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| CT Department of Public Safety, Crimes Analysis Division Jackie Sanford 1111 Country Club Road P.O. Box 2794 Middletown, CT 06457-9294 Fax: 860-685-8352 |
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| Teen Violence Prevention Programs | |
| National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise Robert Woodsen, Executive Director 1424 16th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-518-6500 Fax: 202-588-0314 E-mail: info@ncne.com URL: www.ncne.com |
The mission of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise is to empower neighborhood leaders to promote solutions that reduce crime and violence, restore families, revitalize low-income communities, and create economic enterprise. They run a violence free zone initiative in the Hartford, CT area. |
| 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. |
| Southeastern Connecticut Gang Activities Group William C. Naholnik, President P. O. Box 634 Waterford, CT 06385-0634 Phone: 860-437-0552 Fax: 860-437-3120 E-mail: segag@ctol.net URL: www.ctol.net/~segag/ |
The Southeastern Connecticut Gang Activities Group (SE-GAG) was founded as a non-profit, Connecticut Registered, law enforcement association, by the combined efforts of the law enforcement and criminal justice agencies of South Eastern Connecticut, to combat the rise in violent youth and gang activities in the region. |
| Yale Child Welfare Project Victoria Seitz, Research Scientist Yale University - Department of Psychology PO Box 208205 New Haven, CT 06520 Phone: 203-432-4588 Fax: 203-432-7147 E-mail: victoria.seitz@yale.edu |
The Yale Child Welfare Project offers team-based, personalized family support to help disadvantaged parents support their children's development. The Project is based on the theory that improving bonds between parents and their offspring will result in better social and school adjustment for the children. It specifically targets impoverished families who lack adequate resources for their children and seeks to improve the quality of family life by providing medical, educational, social, and psychological services. |
| Community Crime Prevention Programs | |
| Hartford Areas Rally Together - HART Jim Boucher, Executive Director Hartford Areas Rally Together 227 Lawrence Street Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-525-3449 Fax: 860-525-7759 |
HART is made up of neighborhood associations active in South Hartford, whose 60,000 people are 45% HIspanic, 43% other European descent, 10% African American, and 2% otehr ethnic background. The coalition emphasizes education, early intervention, enforcement, housing, aftershool activities, and treatment. HART's activities include rehabilitating 15 buildings of subsidized housing in one neighborhood; establishing drug-free school zones; parent support groups; providing youth and adult employment training; treatment centers for adult and adolescent abusers; closing drug-infested houses; identifying "hot spots;" and supporting homerownership initiatives. |
| Check with your local police department for more crime prevention resources in your area. | |
