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JUNE 24 KICK-OFFS
Guntersville, AL -
Los Angeles, CA - National Direct
District of Columbia - VISTA
- Learn and Serve
Fort Lauderdale, FL - YouthCorps
Cocoa Beach, FL - Senior Summer Corps
Chicago, IL - National Direct
Wichita, Kansas - Senior Summer Corps
Boston University, MA
Augusta, ME - YouthCorps
Flint, MI
St. Louis, MO - National Direct
Bozeman, MT
New York City - Harlem Peacemakers
- City Volunteer Corps
Philadelphia, PA - VISTA
Newport News, VA - Senior Summer Corps
SOS Launches
June, 1994
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Portland
San Bernadino
Phoenix
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Arkansas
Portland, OR
Denver PACT
San Antonio
Durham
East Bay
Cleveland State
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Bismarck @ 1pm
Roseburg
Madison
Lawrence
St. Pete
Kansas City
Las Vegas @ 5pm
Stockton
Dorchester @ 1:30pm
Gary
SEE ATTACHED
New Hampshire @
Austin Housing @ 11am
11:30am
San Fran. Culture of
Peace @ 10am
26
27
28
29
30
1
2
Yakima
U. of Maryland
Seattle
Shriver Center
Olympia
Civic Works
To:
Rick Allen
From:
Sylvia Hacaj
Re:
AmeriCorps Direct Grant Announcements to the Hill
Date: June 15, 1994
I want to update you on the timetable for announcing the
AmeriCorps Direct grants to the Hill. All information is under a
press embargo until Monday, June 20th, the date of the White House
press conference.
Afternoon of Thursday, June 16th:
We will telephone and fax letters to key Members of the
Committees listed below whose districts have received AmeriCorps
Direct grants:
House Education and Labor Committee
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
House and Senate Va/Hud and Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittees
Additionally, Member of House and Senate leadership and strong
supporters of national service
Morning of Friday, June 17th:
Letters will be received via Inside Congressional mail
(letters will have been mailed Thursday, p.m.) by all Members of
Congress receiving grants in their districts, as well as Members of
Committees with jurisdiction over Federal Agencies which have
received AmeriCorps Direct funding (Labor, Agriculture, Energy,
Interior, Transportation, EPA, VA, HHS, HUD, Justice,)
June 15, 1994
To:
Rick, Diana, Arlison
From:
BrianTrelstad and ACD Staff
Re:
AmeriCorps Direct Facts for the June 20 Press Conference
1)
Number of Grantees
Total Number of Grantees
Federal
15
Non-Profit
34
Planning
10
TOTAL
59
2)
Total Number of AmeriCorps Members*
FTEs
6138
Full Time
5010
Part Time
2256
AmeriCorps Members (bodies)
7266
*
Many of these numbers reflect pre-negotiation Members. Staff estimates that after
negotiation, these numbers may go down or up by as much 3-5%.
3)
There are 15 Federal Agencies Receiving Grants for 23 total projects
Agency
Project
Issue
Department of Labor
Youth Fair Chance
all
all
Legal Services Corp
National Endowment for Arts
Writers Corps
education
Department of Agriculture
Rural Development
human
Public Lands Corps
enviro
Anti-Hunger Corps
human
Department of Energy
Salmon Corps
enviro
enviro
Department of Interior
Department of Navy
Seaborne Conservation Corps enviro
Department of Transportation
enviro
Environmental Protection Agency
Well Water Protection
Green Lights Program
Solid Waste in Alaska
Urban Rivers
(all enviro)
Urban Green Spaces
Department of Veteran's Affairs
Department of Health and
Administration on Dvpt & Disabilities
Human Services
Health Resources Administration
Head Start
(all 3 human)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
human
National Institute for Literacy
human
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
human
Department of Justice
Weed and Seed
safety
The total number of AmeriCorps FTEs in the Federal Agencies is 2647.
(2215 Full-time, 864 Part-Time; or 3079 AmeriCorps Members)
ACD Press Sites
Alabama
66
Alaska
15
Arizona
172
Phoenix-- 29; Tucson --20
Arkansas
145
California
785
Los Angeles-- 274; San Francisco-- 162
Colorado
10
Connecticut
38
Delaware
20
District of Columbia
245
Florida
242
Miami-- 71; Everglades -- 105
Georgia
186
Altanta-- 129
Hawaii
3
Idaho
10
Illinois
163
Chicago-- 158
Indiana
34
lowa
6
Kansas
122
Kentucky
3
Louisiana
226
Maine
31
Maryland
147
Baltimore-- 141
Massachusetts
139
Boston-- 90
Michigan
70
Minnesota
55
Mississippi
254
Missouri
146
Kansas City-- 177 (including KC)
Montana
14
Nebraska
0
Nevada
0
New Hampshire
75
New Jersey
222
Newark-- 76
New Mexico
78
New York
285
NYC-- 247
North Carolina
118
North Dakota
28
Ohio
121
Oklahoma
96
Oregon
205
Portland--73
Pennsylvania
384
Philadelphia--272; Pittsburgh-- 80
Rhode Island
13
South Carolina
75
South Dakota
13
Tennessee
32
Texas
557
Houston-- 117; Rio Grande (El Paso)- 159
Utah
44
Vermont
95
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ACD Press Sites
Virgnia
45
Washington
182
Seattle-- 170
West Virgnia
42
Wisconsin
81
Wyoming
0
6138
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ACD Press Overview
4177-0
Dept of Labor-Youth Fair C all
$600,000
56
F
4001
Legal Services Corporation
all
$750,000
51
F
4228
City Year
all
$2,800,000
220
N
4217
:.
a
N
4017
Delta Service Corps
all
$3,197,868
330
N
4044
Kansas City Consensus
all
$1,000,000
76
N
4083
Magic Me
all
$750,000
41
N
4238
Phila Bar Foundation
all
$2,050
5
N
4047
Public Allies
all
$650,000
80
N
$9,749,918
859
4081
National Endowment for A
educ
$400,000
26
F
4073
I Have a Dream Foundation
educ
$700,000
71
N
4075
Public Education Fund Net
educ
$700,000
50
N
4119
Summerbridge
educ
$500,000
45
N
4224
Teach for America
educ
$2,000,000
1000
N
4236
UT Austin
educ
$280,000
20
N
4056
Woodrow Wilson
educ
$1,500,000
125
N
4033
YMCA of the USA
educ
$600,000
40
N
4036
Youth Volunteer Corps
educ
$800,000
85
N
4219
Nat'l Center for Family Lit.
educ
$600,000
90
N
4150
Council of Great City School
educ
$200,000
0
p
4169
Nat'l Council of Educ Opps
educ
$100,000
0
p
4049
Nat'l Council of La Raza
educ
$165,975
0
p
4157
US Catholic Conf
educ
$98,978
0
p
Neastern Sports & Society
educ
$100,000
0
p
4141
ASPIRA
educ
$650,000
40
N
$9,394,953
1592
4250
Dept of Agriculture
enviro
$2,600,000
1200
F
4091-0
Dept of Energy-Salmon Cor
enviro
$792,718
72
F
4106
Dept of Interior
enviro
$2,055,000
280
F
4146
Dept of Navy- Seaborne
enviro
$920,000
67
F
4214-0
Dept of Transportation
enviro
$389,655
60
F
4253
Environmental Protection
enviro
$1,800,000
116
F
4076
Assoc of Farmworkers Opp
enviro
$1,200,000
61
N
4153
Envt'l Careers Organization
enviro
$100,000
23
N
4063
Green Corps
enviro
$800,000
60
N
4204
Navajo Nation
enviro
$2,050,000
120
N
$12,707,373
2059
4046
Dept of Veteran's Affairs
human
$500,000
40
f
4252-0
HHS- Devptl Disabilities
human
$897,500
42-
F
4252-0
HHS- Head Start
human
$532,000
53
F
4252-0
HHS- Health Resources Adr
human
$676,000
67.5
F
4251
Housing & Urban Devpt
human
$0
100
f
4050
Nat'l Institute for Literacy
human
$850,000
76
F
4223
Neighborhood Reinvestmer
human
$0
70
F
4121
ACORN Housing
human
$950,000
64
N
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ACD Press Overview
4216
BU School of Public Health
human
$500,504
31
N
4069
Children's Health Fund
human
$374,000
15
N
4078
Habitat for Humanity
human
$1,400,000
150
N
4222
Local Initiative Support Col
human
$1,000,000
92
N
4202
Mid-Atl. Network of Youth
human
$385,000
27
N
4147
Nat'l Assn of Child Care
human
$600,000
45
N
4059
Nat'l Community AIDS Prtn
human
$525,000
40
N
4108
Nat'l MS Society
human
$750,000
50
N
4128
YouthBuild USA
human
$1,500,000
125
N
N
4025
YouthBuild USA-Ed Awards
human
$0
150
4167
Council of State Govts
human
$100,000
p
4232
Nat'l Assn of Cmty Health
human
$103,116
P
4010
The ARC
human
$90,708
P.
$11,733,828
1238
4164-0
Dept of Justice- Weed & S
safety
$1,500,000
270
F
4080
Nat'l Council of Churches
safety
$850,000
60
N
4140
New York University
safety
$800,000
60
N
4172
Congress of Nat'l Black
safety
$87,800
P
4074
Natl Org for Victims Asst
safety
$106,403
p
$3,344,203
390
$46,930,275
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S.O.S.
SUMMER OF SAFETY
Projects by City and State
Alabama
Statewide:
Project:
Alabama Association of Housing & Redevelopment Authority
Participants: 20 (plus 10 cost-share) (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will be involved in numerous activities including conflict resolution,
neighborhood watch programs, and senior escort services.
Contact:
Tina King; 205-774-4628
Project:
Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Participants: 20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will work in the fields of victim's assistance, education, and domestic
violence.
Contact:
Carol Gundlach; 205-832-4842
Guntersville:
Project:
Guntersville Summer of Safety
Participants: 160 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will work in four targeted towns and organize educational and recreation
activities at community centers to reclaim public use areas of public housing complexes;
organize paint/clean/fix-up projects; community crime prevention campaign to include
conflict resolution and anti-burglary measures.
Contact:
Jean Ann Moon; 205-571-7734
Arizona
Phoenix:
Project:
Phoenix Senior Summer Corps
Participants: 140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will conduct home crime assessments of 400 homes of seniors to identify
crime prevention steps and organize block watches.
Contact:
Karen Williams; 602-262-6899
Round Rock:
Project:
Round Rock Summer of Safety
Participants: 25 (Youth Corps)
Description: The participants will reseed and improve the range land, develop catch dams and
water retaining projects, plant trees, improve camp sites, and determine the presence
of radon gas and lead paint in area homes.
Contact:
Ruth Roessel; 602-787-2370
Arkansas
Statewide:
Project:
Northeast Arkansas Council on Family Violence
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work with health care professionals on domestic violence education.
Contact:
Cathy Mackey; 501-933-9449
Project:
El Dorado Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
150 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will form a public safety marketing corps to publicize anti-crime efforts,
recruit volunteers, solicit community interest in developing crime prevention projects;
form a Family Network Corps to mentor at-risk youth; form a Information & Referral
Corps as part of a community crime education effort; form a speaker's bureau; and be
safety counselors to victims of crime.
Contact:
Delores Thomas; 501-862-6769
California
Los Angeles:
Project:
Los Angeles Unified School District 1994 SOS Project
Participants: 1,000 (Leam & Serve), 50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities will include safety education, neighborhood safety inspections,
drug use prevention, and neighborhood clean-ups.
Contact:
Dennis Windscheffel, 213-753-4551
Oakland:
Project:
East Bay Conservation Corps
Participants:
32 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities will include assessment of public safety concrns and community
improvement work related to enhancing public safety.
Contact:
Joanna Lennon; 510-891-3900
San Bernadino:
Project:
San Bernadino Housing
Participants:
30 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work on the formation of the Neighborhood Watch Committees,
integration of adult residents into Police Department-sponsored Citizen Patrols, and
involve youth residents into a Safety Cadet Program.
Contact:
Bill Meyers; 909-384-1136
San Diego, Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, Rancho San Diego, and Mira Mesa:
Project:
Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
100 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will work in citizen volunteer patrols and make safety presentations at
year-round schools and summer camps.
Contact:
Ginger Brady; 619-291-2620
San Francisco:
Project:
Culture of Peace Summer of Safety
Participants:
50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will assess local neighborhoods and initiate projects to form safe streets
and neutral zones in targeted neighborhoods. Participants will work to build a non-
violent "Culture of Peace".
Contact:
Marivic B. Mabanag; 415-554-9535
Stockton:
Project:
CCC Summer of Safety
Participants:
40 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participant activities will include escort services for the elderly and disabled, and
neighborhood beautification.
Contact:
Marie Mijares; 209-948-7110
Colorado
Denver:
Project:
Metropolitan Denver Summer of Safety
Participants:
200 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will work the metro-Denver PACT agencies on a wide range of public
safety programs, including community policing, victim assistance, crime prevention,
and neighborhood revitalization.
Contact:
Lance Clem; 303-894-2750
Project:
Denver Mayor's Commission
Participants:
35 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will encourage neighborhood block watches and identify potential block
leaders, and disseminate crime prevention material.
Contact:
Gene Giron; 303-894-2750
Denver, Ft. Collins, and Boulder:
Project:
Colorado Summer of Safety
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will work with a neighborhood watch in 10 inner city neighborhoods;
"Safe City* crime prevention projects in 8 communities; home shopping services; safe
transportation assistance; newsletters; road shows to 30 locations titled "Personal
Safety, Home Protection, and Consumer Fraud".
Contact:
Morey Katz; 303-831-6910
Connecticut
Bridgeport:
Project:
Youth In Service Ambassadors
Participants:
30 (SOS Participants)
Description: A community service collaboration designed to reduce crime, violence, and fear in
targeted neighborhoods by building intergenerational relationships.
Contact:
Thomas J. Sweeney; 203-576-7611
New Haven:
Project:
Fighting Back
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will be engaged in conflict resolution, community policing, and drug
prevention and education activities.
Contact:
Sergio Rodreguez; 203-787-8445
Norwalk:
Project:
Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now, Inc.
Participants:
100 (Leam & Serve)
Description: Participant activities will include conflict resolution, neighborhood block watches, and
education on the legal system.
Contact:
Eileen L. Kitzerow and Teryl Reynolds; 203-854-1800
District of Columbia
Project:
Metropolitan Police Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc.
Participants:
100 (Learn & Serve)
Description:
Participants, ages 5 to 17 will be involved in public safety service-learning activities
in at-risk communities.
Contact:
Eddie Banks; 202-397-2582
Project:
Mayor's Youth Initiative Office
Participants:
26 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will be engaged in conflict mediation and resolution, and resource/service
development.
Contact:
Lou Woolard; 202-727-4970
Florida
Clearwater:
Project:
Broward Coalition for Community Service
Participants:
50 (Youth Corps)
Description: Participants will engage in public safety, education, and service-learning projects
designed to impact crime, violence, drug use, and community safety.
Contact:
Frank Phelan; 813-461-2990
Cocoa:
Project:
Brevard County Senior Summer Corps
Participants: 140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will work in the police department's Citizens on Patrol program in teams
to conduct routine neighborhood patrols, report suspicious activities, conduct house
checks, and follow-up interviews with crime victims. They will conduct home
security surveys; support victims by familiarizing them with the proceeding of the
court system; check pawn shops for stolen merchandise; and serve as mediators in
misdemeanor cases.
Contact:
Paula Preston; 407-631-2749
Orlando:
Project:
Orlando Summer of Safety
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will organize a "Grandma's House" concept, where each block of high
crime neighborhoods will have a safe house (home of a senior citizen) that is a safe
haven or alert point at the first sign of trouble; work with the Coalition for the
Homeless and Salvation Army to develop a crime prevention program for homeless
individuals; organize books for toy guns of children; and clear vacant lots.
Contact:
Ann Smith; 407-298-4180
St. Petersburg:
Project:
St. Petersburg Police Department
Participants:
30 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will work directly with Community Police Officers in target
neighborhoods, clean-up neighborhoods, provide victims assistance, and recruit
residents to carry on the crime prevention work beyond the Summer of Safety.
Contact:
Nancy Daly; 813-892-5443
Project:
Juvenile Services Program
Participants:
48 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work to support delinquency intervention activities provided in low-
income high-crime neighborhoods.
Contact:
Dr. Peter Parrado; 813-327-2443
Georgia
Atlanta:
Project:
Save the Children World Relief
Participants
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will provide summer programming on crime prevention; school safety;
gangs and substance abuse to youth, particularly refugees.
Contact:
Michael Burnham; 404-321-6992
Illinois
Chicago:
Project:
Friends of Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences
Participants:
50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities will include urban agriculture, creation of safe spaces in at-risk
neighborhoods, conflict resolution training and implementation, and community
policing projects in public housing.
Contact:
Joel Berg; 202-720-6350
Project:
Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will be involved in community policing and neighborhood block watches.
Contact:
Warren Friedman; 312-461-0444
Indiana
Gary:
Project:
Horace Mann-Ambridge Neighborhood Organization
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work to develop problem solving strategies and build elasticity of
neighborhoods to consolidate and sustain process in reducing crime.
Contact:
Finis Springer; 219-885-6628
Kentucky
Covington:
Project:
Children's Law Center
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participant activities will include provision of direct victims' assistance and
recruitment of additional lay advocates.
Contact:
Kim Brooks; 606-431-3313
Kansas
Wichita:
Project:
Wichita Summer of Safety
Participants:
288 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will work to reduce crime in Sedgwick County which has the highest
number of violent crimes per county in Kansas though community policing, victim
assistance, dispute resolution, fraud detection, and creating safe havens restoring
safety to public spaces. This is a well coordinated effort with the police department
and community agencies.
Contact:
Delpha Vincent; 316-946-8696
Maine
Augusta:
Project:
Jobs Training Administrative Office
Participants:
36 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will plan, develop, harvest, and distribute produce and nursery stock to
low income and homeless families.
Contact:
Kenneth E. Spalding; 207-287-4931
Portland:
Project:
Portland Youth Service Conservation Corps
Participants:
90 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participant activities will focus on environmental education.
Contact:
James V. Oliver; 207-775-0105
Maryland
Baltimore:
Project:
City of Baltimore-Baltimore City Public Schools
Participants:
54 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will involve students to help establish "safe corridors" and community
organizations to fight crime.
Contact:
Carl Hyman; 410-396-8803
Project:
Civic Works Summer of Safety
Participants:
36 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will work to increase the safety of senior escort services, safety audits of
senior residences, and other senior safety issues.
Contact:
Dana Stein; (410) 366-8533
Project:
University of MD Baltimore County/The Shriver Center
Participants:
25 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will target two neighborhoods working with at-risk youths to assess the
public safety needs of the community.
Contact:
John Martello; (410) 455-2494
Project:
Enterprise Foundation
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participants will establish three public safety centers in key areas of the Sandtown-
Winchester neighborhood.
Contact:
Constance Parker; 410-964-1230
Leonardtown:
Project:
St. Mary's County Government
Participants:
364 (Learn & Serve)
Description: Participants, ages 6 to 17, will attend day camps focuses on public safety, violence
prevention, and conflict resolution skills.
Contact:
Walter Biscoe, 301-475-4461
Massachusetts
Boston:
Project:
Dorchester Summer of Safety 1994
Participants:
50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will organize crime watches, conduct crime prevention workshops, and
provide gang prevention at local parks.
Contact:
Kristen J. McCormack; 617-282-5034
Project:
Boston University Summer of Safety
Participants:
100 (National Civilian Community Corps Participants)
Description:
In Boston, participants will conduct violence prevention training in summer youth
camps and assist police in establishing neighborhood crime watches. In five other
area cities, participants will conduct peer mediation and violence prevention
workshops and board up abandoned buildings.
Contact:
David Mansfield; 617-353-4126
Project:
Boston Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
70 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will engage in 8 intergenerational bilingual teams to increase the safety of
public housing residents.
Contact:
Ruth Blackman; 617-357-6000
Lawrence:
Project:
Greater Lawrence RSVP
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will work with the Lawrence Police Department to community police five
neighborhood buildings on "Weed and Seed" efforts. They will also perform crisis
intervention for seniors who have been or are at-risk of crime.
Contact:
Guy Kelley, Jr.; 508-686-9407
Lowell and Lawrence:
Project:
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Participants:
27 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participant activities will include violence prevention education, assault prevention
education, and substance abuse education.
Contact:
Mark Levine; 508-934-3219
Lowell/Fall River:
Project:
Massachusetts Summer of Safety
Participants:
48 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participant activities will include organizing a self-sustaining community clean-up,
providing senior escorts and mentoring to young children.
Contact:
Jack King; 617-626-5180
Michigan
Detroit:
Project:
Detroit Public Housing Department
Participants:
50 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work on a variety of tasks including creating an escort service/buddy
system for senior citizens, establishing crime hotlines, revitalizing neighborhood
watch programs, and assisting residents with lock and firm alarm improvements.
Contact:
Betty Turner; 313-224-6555
'lint:
Project:
Flint Summer of Safety - Dukette Catholic School
Participants:
300 (Learn & Serve)
Description:
Participant activities will include tangible neighborhood improvements, safety
awareness programs for youth, and conflict resolution.
Contact:
Michael Brown and Carol Walker; 810-232-1401
Lansing:
Project:
City of Lansing
Participants:
30 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participant activities will include organization of "park patrols," crime watch clubs,
and crime prevention and education.
Contact:
Dennis Sykes; 517-483-4060
Project:
Safe Summer Project
Participants:
200 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will serve in "Care A Lot" community patrols; organize vacant lot and
graffiti clean-ups; monitor and help shut-down drug/prostitution houses; conduct
neighborhood crime surveys, community crime education campaigns; help homeless
not become victims; and organize youth activities.
Contact:
Janet Clark; 517-887-6116
Minnesota
Minneapolis/St. Paul:
Project:
Project for Pride in Living
Participants:
24 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Activities will include crime prevention education, youth leadership development, and
organization of neighborhood block watches.
Contact:
Joseph Selvaggio; 612-874-8511
Red Lake:
Project:
Red Lake Summer of Safety
Participants:
75 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will disseminate crime prevention information and surveys and assist in
the enhancement of Tribal forest resources.
Contact:
Gerald F. Brun; 218-679-3341
Mississippi
Hattiesburg:
Project:
DREAM of Hattiesburg, Inc.
Participants:
100 (Learn & Serve)
Description:
Participants, ages 5 to 17, will be involved in public safety service-learning projects
in subsidized housing neighborhoods.
Contact:
Bettie S. Ross; 601-545-2102
Missouri
Kansas City:
Project:
Blue Hills Together
Participants:
25 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities will include community organizing, neighborhood revitalization,
and conflict mediation.
Contact:
Rick Malsick; 816-861-7211
Project:
Community Development Corp.
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will identify physical hazards, survey neighborhoods, and assist residents
with minor home repairs and beautification.
Contact:
Karen Curtis; 816-924-5800
St. Louis
Project:
St. Louis Safety Service Corps Partnership
Participants:
40 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities will target violence, victim assistance, and target hardening and
creation of safe spaces in two senior developments and four targeted neighborhoods.
Contact:
Col. Clarence Harmon; 314-444-5555
Montana
Bozeman:
Project:
Montana Summer of Safety
Participants: 120 (Youth Corps)
Description: Participants will address Montana's natural resource problem through wilderness
education, restoration of public lands and parks and landscaping and conservation
activities.
Contact:
Steve P. Nelson; 406-587-4475
Nevada
Las Vegas:
Project:
Las Vegas Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
135 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will increase the number of neighborhood watch programs from 650 to
1,000. Participants will work with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
and organize neighborhood watch programs. Some participants will serve as "Watch
Captains".
Contact:
Diane Guinn; 702-385-1328
New Hampshire
Concord:
Project:
NH Summer of Safety Domestic and Sexual Violence Victims Assistance Program
Participants:
20 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will serve as advocates for victims and witnesses of domestic and sexual
abuse.
Contact:
Grace Mattern; 603-224-8893
New Jersey
Newark:
Project:
Newark Fighting Back
Participants:
40 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description: Participant activities include identification of drug hot spots and outreach on crime
prevention.
Contact:
John Brown; 201-242-8200
New Mexico
Jemez Pueblo:
Project:
Pueblo of Jemez Summer of Safety Program
Participants:
50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participant activities include reduction of gang-related crimes and of gang-related risk
factors, and improvement of juvenile coping skills.
`ontact:
Ada Melton; 505-842-1122
New York
Brooklyn:
Project:
Black Veterans for Social Justice Inc.
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants' activities include crime victims assistance, Block Watch programs and a
hotline for troubled youth and concerned community members.
Contact:
Stephen Williams; 718-935-1116
Project:
Community School District #23 - Project "ACT NOW"
Participants:
100 (Learn and Service Participants)
Description:
Youth participants, ages 5 to 17, will be involved in public safety service-learning
activities: crime prevention education, conflict resolution, neighborhood watch
groups, anti-violence education, peer mediation, mentoring, neighborhood clean-ups,
violence prevention training, and intergenerational programming. Youth participants
will safer. demonstrate to the community that they can play a role in making communities
Contact:
Edward Millman and Nelson Charles Wilson; 718-270-8663
New York City:
Project:
City Volunteer Corps: Youth Opposing Violence
Participants:
90 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will train youth in conflict resolution and in transformation of dangerous
vacant lots into safe areas.
Contact:
Toni Schmigelow; 212-475-6444
Project:
New York Council of Smaller Churches
Participants:
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will be involved in conflict resolution, gang deterrence and neighborhood
block watches.
Contact:
Winston Smith; 212-876-7667
Project:
Harlem Peacemakers Project
Participants:
20 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will train middle and high school youth in Harlem and Williamsburg in
conflict resolution, peer mediation and violence reduction.
Contact:
Geoffrey Canada; 212-866-0700
Project:
Youth Action Summer of Safety
Participants:
20 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will develop a major clean-up and recycling campaign, and an education
campaign around lead poisoning.
Contact:
Sonja Bu; 212-860-8170
Project:
New York Police Department Summer of Safety Program
Participants:
100 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will serve in a summer of safety cadet corps and will work in precinct-
level problem-solving teams addressing community concerns with patrol officers to
develop strategies for crime prevention in collaboration with precinct directors.
Contact:
Captain Dan Oates; 212-477-9218
Project:
United Neighborhood Houses, Inc.
Participants:
144 (Learn and Serve)
Descriptions: Youths will escort or provide shopping assistance to senior citizens, clean-up parks,
provide safe routes for children walking to and from school and home, and provide
art work in public areas where graffiti and other forms of vandalism are problems.
Contact:
Emily Menlo Marks/Natasha Ruiz-Gomez; 212-481-5570
New York City and Staten Island:
Project:
"Take Back Our Block"
Participants:
75 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will patrol public housing complexes, conduct crime prevention seminars,
provide safe shopping escorts, and assist victims of crime.
Contact:
Maureen Curley; 212-614-5564
Oneida:
Project:
Oneida Indian Nation
Participants:
32 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will be involved in wetlands renovation and restoration, water quality and
monitoring, and child abduction awareness.
Contact:
Ray Halbritter; 315-361-6300
Rochester:
Project:
Monroe County Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will work in intergenerational teams with the Rochester Police
Department's mini-stations to perform neighborhood watches and victim assistance
efforts.
Contact:
Mary Rose McBride; 716-454-3224
North Carolina
Durbam:
Project:
Durham Service Corps
Participants:
40 (Youth Corps)
Description: Participants will be involved in conversion of vacant lots, mentoring juvenile
offenders and conflict resolution.
Contact:
Harry Bruell; 919-683-6602
North Dakota
Bismark:
Project:
Bismark Summer of Safety
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will meet special needs of children and elderly by conducting
neighborhood crime surveys, chart location/frequency of areas requesting police
assistance, and document gang activity; recruit and organize neighborhood watches in
30 Bismark and 30 Mandan neighborhoods; and form public awareness team to
conduct community crime education presentations.
Contact:
Loretta Lord; 701-258-5436
Ohio
Statewide:
Project:
Ohio Crime Prevention Association
Participants
150 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will be placed with 10 public or private non-profit organizations whose
missions are to reduce crime. VSA will disseminate public safety information, recruit
local volunteers for participation in youth block watch groups, and establish rape
prevention/self defense workshops.
Contact:
Domingo Herraiz; 614-459-0580
Cleveland:
Project:
Cleveland State University: Community Coalition Building for Crime Prevention
Participants
84 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will help community residents to establish youth, senior and
intergenerational councils in resolving conflicts.
Contact:
Charles Urbancic; 216-687-3630
Project:
Urban Center Summer of Safety
Participants:
40 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will increase the safety of at-risk youth and seniors in four targeted high-
crime neighborhoods through conflict resolution, block watches, neighborhood
crime/safety surveys, mentoring of at-risk youth, and organizing recreational
activities.
Contact:
Margaret McCarthy; 216-566-9192
Project:
Cleveland Task Force on Violent Crime
Participants
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will assist six neighborhood coalitions in enhancing anti-crime programs
by organizing activities for inner-city children, identifying neighborhood safety
concerns, and supporting neighborhood watch programs.
Contact:
Richard McCain; 216-781-2944
Oregon
Portland:
Project:
Leaders Roundtable (P.A.L.)
Participants
35 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work with the Police Activities League Youth Center to provide
substance abuse prevention, organize a community-wide Night Out, and increase
awareness within the Latino community.
Contact:
Janice Yaden; 503-257-1509
Roseburg:
Project:
Douglas/Joseph County's Summer of Safety
Participants:
140 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will work to expand existing citizen crime prevention initiatives. In
addition. they will help with community policing, 200 home crime prevention audits,
and 20 community safety workshops.
Contact:
Florence Shively; 503-440-3640
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia:
Project:
Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements
Participants
35 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work as liaisons with police mini-stations, organize Block Watch
programs, and train Senior Companions in victim's assistance.
Contact:
Diana Kalenga; 215-627-1710
Pittsburgh:
Project:
National Conference of Christians and Jews (Hill House)
Participants
30 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will establish Safe Haven programs and work with satellite community
police units to provide outreach related to week and seed programming.
Contact:
Betty Pickett; 412-281-1237
Texas
Austin:
Project:
Austin Housing Authority
Participants
50 (SOS Participants)
Description:
Participants will support community policing activities, assist with the rehabilitation of
AHA sites that have been vandalized, and work to provide support to victims.
Contact:
Dr. Lodis Rhodes; 512-478-4685
San Antonio:
Project:
City of San Antonio
Participants
27 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will engage 18,000 at-risk youth of in alternative activities in an effort to
reduce gang and youth violence and crime. They will also provide mentoring and
tutoring programs as well as summer youth employment programs.
Contact:
Carlene Lowrie; 210-299-8119
Virginia
Newport News:
Project:
Newport News Senior Summer Corps
Participants:
151 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description: Participants will be a part of tenant patrols in 10 sites, crime prevention education
programs at 6 sites, victim/witness assistance, police/citizen liaison at 3 sites, and
assist the Crime Watch Coalition.
Contact:
Nan York; 804-838-9750
Washington
Olympia:
Project:
The Washington Service Corps; State of Washington Employment Security
Department
Participants
160 (Youth Corps)
Description:
Participants will engage in team-based projects to curb violence in the public housing
neighborhoods in Seattle, interact and assist elderly senior citizens, and provide
children with safe places for recreational and educational activates.
Contact:
Dave Broom; 206-438-4005
Seattle:
Project:
Fremont Public Association
Participants
58 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will work with a number of different agencies to promote community
policing, perform anti-crime programs for youth, and organize Block Watch outreach.
Contact:
Lynn Livesley; 206-441-5686
Tacoma:
Project:
Tacoma/Pierce Summer of Safety
Participants:
70 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will collaborate with the TRIAD program, a collaboration of AARP, the
International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the National Sheriff's Association to
reduce victimization of the elderly and enhance law enforcement service delivery to
seniors. Crime prevention education and victim assistance are the key activities.
Contact:
CJ Knaggs; 206-597-7312
West Virginia
Statewide:
Project:
Family Crisis Center
Participants
20 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will conduct summer programs for the children of domestic violence
victims residing in shelters at 13 sites throughout the state. They will also work to
raise the awareness of domestic violence and assist victims with court appearances.
Contact:
Marie O'Donald; 304-788-6061
Wisconsin
Madison:
Project:
Madison Summer of Safety
Participants:
98 (Senior Summer Corps Participants)
Description:
Participants will be trained in order to make presentations on scams, confidence
games and swindles; organize neighborhood initiatives like playground clean-ups,
home safety, bicycle theft prevention, neighborhood watch newsletters, and do crime
education at festivals and fairs.
Contact:
Mary Stamstad; 608-238-7787
Milwaukee:
Project:
Social Development Commission
Participants
30 (VISTA Summer Associates)
Description:
Participants will assist the Youth Liaison in providing mentoring and personal
counseling to at-risk youth, plan and facilitate conflict mediation training, assist with
the development and delivery of alternative activities, and plan age-appropriate
outings for neighborhood youth.
Contact:
Mary Riley-Brooks; 414-272-5600
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