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Your State - Crime Statistics
Disaster Center Crime Rates in Missouri from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/mocrimn.htm
Teen Violence Prevention Programs
Guadalupe Center Raul Murguia, Crime Prevention Specialist 1015 Avenida Cesar E Chavez (at 23rd) Kansas City, MO 64108 Phone: 816-471-2582 Fax: 816-472-4773	Offers many programs for the Latino community: after school education, adult aducation, mentoring, childcare, emergency assistance and homeless programs, senior activities, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, AIDS education, youth activities and athletics, anti-crime program, job placement, immigration assistance, etc.
Heart of America Indian Center Justin Orr, Executive Director 1340 East Admiral Blvd. Kansas City, MO 64106 Phone: 816-421-7608 Fax: 816-421-6493 E-mail: haicindian@aol.com URL: members.aol.com /indianbrav/haic.html	A multipurpose Native American agency. 3 primary programs: emergency assistance (clothing, shelter, food, tec. and referral to other agencies); alcoholism (non-medical counseling, detox, outpatient services, etc); and youth (legal - courts; social - summer youth program).
Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. Mildred Winter, Executive Director 10176 Corporate Square Dr., Suite 230 St. Louis, MO 63132 Phone: 314-432-4330 Fax: 314-432-8963 E-mail: patnc@patnc.org URL: www.patnc.org
Partnership for Children James M. Caccamo, Executive Director 1000 Broadway, Suite #302 Kansas City, MO 64105 Phone: 816-842-7643 Fax: 816-842-7907 URL: www.pfc.org	Children's advocacy organization for kids in 5 county area, immunization, teen violence, get adults to ask themselves - is what we're doing good for our children?
Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) Mike Lowther, Project Director Southwest Prevention Center, The University of Oklahoma 555 Constitution Street, Ste. 132 Norman, OK 73072 Phone: 800-853-2572 E-mail: molowther@ou.edu URL: www.swcapt.org	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 Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Visible Horizons Melicent Boysen, Executive Director 4112 Pennsylvania, Suite 202 Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone: 816-960-1500 Fax: 816-960-1902 E-mail: visible@planetkc.com	They are the only Native American youth organization in KC area and beyond. Provide teen pregnancy and suicide education and prevention, tutoring, etc. as well as full case management services.
Hate Crime Prevention Programs
St. Louis Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project Suzanna Rose University of Missouri, St. Louis Department of Psychology, 8001 Natural Bridge Raod St. Louis, MO 63121 Phone: 314-516-5467 Fax: 314-516-5392 E-mail: srose@ umslvma.emsl.edu URL: www.umsl.edu /~srose/avp.html	The St. Louis Lesbian & Gay Anti-Violence Project has been helping survivors of homophobic harassment and violence and of same-sex domestic violence since 1994.
Community Crime Prevention Programs
Crime Free Multi-Housing Program Officer Gary Starks, Crime Prevention Officer Independence Police Dept., Community Services Unit 2150 Independence Center Independence, MO 64057 Phone: 816-325-7875 Fax: 816-325-7873 E-mail: wpross@indepmo.org	They do a training program for rental property owners and managers to prevent crime from happening on their properties - background checks, evictions, how to deal with the problems, a certification program.
Human Relations Department of the City of Kansas City, Missouri Rhonda Harris, Manager of the Community Relations and Dispute Resolution 414 East 12th Street, 4th Kansas City, MO 64106 Phone: 816-513-1836 Fax: 816-513-1805 E-mail: humrel@kcmo.org URL: www.kcmo.org (search under departments)	The Human Relations Department houses the Community Relations and Dispute Resolution office and works to mediate neighborhood conflicts including landlord-tenant problems and student conflicts in neighborhood schools.
Nanci Regan, Manager of the Neighborhood Assistance Center 414 East 12th Street, 4th Floor Kansas City, MO 64106 Phone: 816-513-3200 Fax: 816-513-3229 E-mail: ncs@kcmo.org URL: www.kcmo.org	The Neighborhood and Community Services Department houses the Neighborhood Assistance Center and helps neighborhood groups to organize; part of this includes a crime prevention component.
Ad Hoc Group Against Crime Alvin L. Brooks, President 3330 Troost Avenue Kansas City, MO 64109 Phone: 816-531-0000 Fax: 816-753-6565	They work with crime victims: holding vigils and protests, providing victim assistance support groups, and offering support to youth runaways.
Blue Hills Neighborhood Association Linda Spence, President 5309 Woodland Street Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone: 816-333-7232 Fax: 816-361-9583 E-mail: bhnakc@ibm.net
Brush Creek Community Partners Stan Count, Jr., Communications Director 6814 Troost Avenue Kansas City, MO 64131 Phone: 816-523-2991 Fax: 816-523-2281 URL: www.bccp.org	They are made up of 18 neighborhood organizations along Brush Creek.
Crime Prevention Information Center Gary B. Kempker, Director Missouri Department of Public Safety - Office of the Director Truman State Office Building, Rm. 870 - P.O. Box 749 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0749 Phone: 573-751-4905 Fax: 573-751-5399 URL: www.dps.state.mo.us /dps/PROGRAMS/CMPREV /hmpg.htm	The Center's purpose is to develop and implement a comprehensive, long-range, integrated program which will mobilize all Missouri residents, including the youth of this state, in a year-round preventive effort to reduce crime, violence, drug abuse and delinquency.
COMBAT Jim Nunnelly, Director of Anti-Drug Unit Robert Beaird Jackson County Prosecutor's Office 415 E. 12th Street, 11th Floor Kansas City, MO 64106 Phone: 816-881-3555 Fax: 816-881-3843	Combat is a community anti-drug tax that goes for the treatment, prosecution, and prevention programs/services in Kansas City, Missouri.
CommUnity-St. Louis (program of the National Conference for Community and Justice) Maggie Potapchuk, Project Director 721 Olive Street, Suite 915 St. Louis , MO 63101 Phone: 314-241-5103 Fax: 314-241-4356 E-mail: mitchuk@aol.com URL: communities.postnet.com /stlouis/nccjstlouis	Purpose: To decrease racial polarization in the St. Louis community. CommUnity offers many diverse programs including the Dismantling Racism Institute and Anytown Youth Leadership are 6-day residential programs that develop skilled leaders to address issues in their respective institutions. CommUnity also offers dialogue groups and a collaboration council in order to create and strengthen long-term, anti-racism processes.
Kansas City Church Community Organization Warren Adams-Leavitt, Executive Director 5814 Euclid Avenue Kansas City, MO 64130 Phone: 816-444-5585 Fax: 816-444-9345 URL: www.crn.org/cco/	Provide community organizing to churches in Kansas City Missouri and Kansas.
Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance Larry R. Washington, Neighborhood Preservation Initiative Director 3822 Summit, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone: 816-753-8600 Fax: 816-753-6397
Northwest Community Development Corp. Grace Grado, Executive Director PO Box 520532 Independence, MO 64052 Phone: 816-252-5094 Fax: 816-252-5118	Works to revitalize the Fairmount neighborhood of Independence, Missouri
Project Neighborhood David J. Sullivan, Interim Executive Director 1900 Vine Street Kansas City, MO 64108 Phone: 816-842-8515 Fax: 816-842-5226 URL: www.pnh.org	It is the mission of Project Neighborhood to collaborate with neighborhood residents, community groups, and resource providers to restore neighborhoods to safe, drug-free, economically viable communities. PNH is an innovative not-for-profit organization that is leading efforts by community leaders, experts, and ordinary people to make extraordinary changes. It acts as catalyst for socioeconomic and systems change.
St Louis SafeFutures Olivia J.M. Quarles, Executive Director 2433 North Grand St Louis, MO 63106 Phone: 314-534-5437 Fax: 314-534-2169 E-mail: ojmq2000@aol.com URL: stlouis.missouri.org/safefutures
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