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Your State - Crime Statistics
Disaster Center Crime Rates in Massachusettes from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/macrime.htm
Teen Violence Prevention Programs
National Ten-Point Leadership Foundation Mark Scott, Executive Director Ella J. Baker House 411 Washington St. Boston, MA 02124 Phone: 617-282-6704 Fax: 617-822-1832 E-mail: ellajbaker@aol.com URL: www.ntlf.org	The National Ten-Point Leadership Foundation (NTLF) is a non-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. NTLF's primary mission is to help provide African-American Christian churches with the strategic vision, programmatic structure, and financial resources necessary to saving at-risk inner-city youth-saving them from child abuse and neglect, street violence, drug abuse, school failure, teen-age pregnancy, incarceration, chronic joblessness, spiritual depravity, and hopelessness about the future.
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.
YouthBuild USA Dorothy Stoneman, President 58 Day Street Somerville, MA 02144 Phone: 617-623-9900 Fax: 617-623-4331 URL: www.youthbuild.org	YouthBuild is a comprehensive youth and community development program as well as an alternative school. YouthBuild, designed to run on a 12-month cycle, offers job training, education, counseling, and leadership development opportunities to unemployed and out-of-school young adults, ages 16-24, through the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in their own communities. Many graduates go on to construction-related jobs or college.
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Community Crime Prevention Programs
Boston Safe Neighborhood Initiative Sandra McCroom, Safe Neighborhoods Initiative Attorney General's Office 1 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617-727-2200 x2634 Fax: 617-727-5755 E-mail: sandra.mccrom @ago.state.ma.us	The Safe Neighborhood Initiative provides an opportunity for residents to address specific neighborhood issues with the police and government. General Crime Prevention
Brockton Safe Neighborhood Initiative Christina Diiorio, Community Liasion Plymouth County District Attorney's Office 32 Belmont St. Brockton, MA 02301 Phone: 508-584-8120 x2617 Fax: 508-586-3578 URL: www.magnet.state.ma.us/da/plymouth/	A collaboration of residents, the Brockton and State Police Departments, Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, Attorney General's Office, and the Mayor's Office, the Safe Neighborhood Initiative provides an opportu\nity for residents to address specific neighborhood issues with the police and government. The program has instituted the Peer Leadership Training Program, Gang Outreach and Prevention Project and the Community Mediation Project, facilitated by the Boys and Girls Club and YMCA. Other initiatives include the Abandoned Houses Project (allows City to tear down abandoned buildings), Juvenile Diversion Program (Juvenile offenders perform community service rather than going to court), the Mock Trial Program (students are the defendants and interact with real prosecutors and police), and the DARE program.
Join Together - A National Resource for Communities Fighting Substance Abuse David Rosenbloom, Executive Director 441 Stuart Street, Sixth Floor Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-437-1500 Fax: 617-437-9394 URL: www.jointogether.org
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Hate Crime Prevention Programs
Facing History and Ourselves Margot Stern Strom, Executive Director 16 Hurd Road Brookline, MA 02146 Phone: 617-232-1595 Fax: 617-232-0281 URL: www.facing.org	Facing History and Ourselves is a national educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.
Fenway Community Health Center Violence Recovery Program David Shannon, Sr. Advocate 7 Haviland St. Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 617-927-6250 Fax: 617-267-3667 URL: dshannon@fchc.org
MA Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes Christina Bouras Executive Office of Public Safety 1 Ashburton Place, Room 2110 Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617-727-6300 x25339 Fax: 617-727-5356 E-mail: christina.bouras @eps.state.ma.us URL: www.magnet.state.ma.us /StopHate/core.htm or www.stopthehate.org	The Governor's Task Force on Hate Crime is an agency linking representatives of state and local law enforcement with community advocates to ensure state government's commitment to the eradication of bias-motivated crime throughout Massachusetts. Sponsors the Student Civil Rights Project and the Stop the Hate website.
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Check with your local police department for more crime prevention resources in your area.