gang reduction summit (9-15-10)
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September 15, 2010United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Gang Reduction Summit
WELCOME
Vivian H. Burke,
Mayor Pro-Tempore
Purpose• Identify best practice models of gang prevention
and intervention. • Inspire community collaboration between
organizations, initiatives and programs. • Foster sustainable partnerships to effectively
deter gang activity within our community.
Visibility of Gangs in Forsyth County
• Sergeant Mike WeaverWinston-Salem Police Department, Gang Unit
• Bill McClainSite Director of Twin City East West Partnership
• Patrick Merrill Drug and Gang Awareness Investigator of Winston-Salem
Forsyth County Schools
OJJDP Best PracticesKismet Loftin-Bell
15 MINUTE BREAK
Prevention• Primary prevention focuses on the entire population at risk and the
identification of those conditions (personal, social, environmental) that promote criminal behavior.
• Secondary prevention targets those individuals who have been identified as being at greater risk of becoming delinquent.
Intervention• Intervention targets those individuals who are already involved in
criminal activity or who are gang members.
Using Initiascapes© to Facilitate our Commitment to Collaboration
Doris Peas, Ph.D., Associate Director
Gang Reduction Summit Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:15-10:45PM EDTDoris Páez, Ph.D., Associate Director, Forsyth Futures
What is Forsyth Futures?
• Non-profit, community collaborative of residents, organizations, and institutions.
• FORSYTH COUNTY, NC ONLY• “People’s Institute”• Unique: NOT UNIVERSITY- OR
GOVERNMENT-BASED• Financially supported by top 40 entities in
community (grants, contributions, in-kind supports)
• Lead, support or monitor indicators & initiatives
Community Indicator Projects
• Goal: Catalyst for Community Change or Sustaining the “good”
• View the WHOLE community as ONE System
• Need to measure…Indicator(s)1. How are we doing? 2. Where are we on some measure X? 3. Where do we want to be?4. How long before we get there?5. Are our efforts making a difference?
Initiascape=Initiative + Landscape
• Expand the concept of indicator “data” and analyses to include the scope of efforts/initiatives/solutions
• Visual and descriptive representations
• Document and depict the connections between a community’s initiatives toward a common goal or indicator
• Specific point-in-time
Indicator-Initiascape Relationship
What Forsyth Futures does…
• Tie to indicator(s) (scope of an issue)
• Study the “best practices" models
• Study the scope of our solutions
• Each Initiascape is conceptualized as a Project
• Project management system/phases put in place
Initiascape Phases
Data Layers
• Initiascapes are designed for user access to data layers relevant to an issue/indicator, etc.
• Layers can be, but are not limited to,– objectives, – target audiences/clients, – levels/types of services, – costs, funding sources, and – personnel allocations.
What we look for….
• Links to other Community Entities• Funding (types and dollar amounts)• Mission• Objective(s)• Administrative Structure• Clients• Target Audience• Current/Planned Initiatives/Activities• Data Generated• Data Needs/Interest
What our community uses this for..
1. Policy design2. Program design3. Resource allocation 4. Grant applications5. Program evaluation6. Advocacy7. Research
Doris’ Wall at Forsyth Futures
FF NEXT STEPS
• Differentiate further the available data by population (e.g., gender, ethnicity/race, age, diagnosis, area of residence, and types of service providers).
• Create opportunities to gather or create more specific local data sets.
• Continue to pursue local data sets not complete enough for the current analysis.
• Initiate an analysis of related/new indicators.
• Obtain and compare actual funding data (dollar amounts) from all entities in the Initiascape map; trace governmental funding.
• Update the relevant Initiascape after this summit.
Continue Building the Data Warehouse
Making Progress Report Updates
Updates
Requests
Collaborate
www.forsythfutures.org
Doris Páez, Ph.D., Associate Director
601 N. Cherry Street, Suite 250Winston-Salem, NC [email protected](336) 724-2831 EXT 16
WORKING SESSION
• Commitment to Collaboration Cards
• Create an Initiascape at your table
• Tell ‘The Story Behind the Line’
CLOSING REMARKSSolomon Quick, Gang Reduction Specialist, WSPD
Alvin Atkinson, Executive Director
The Center for Community Safety
www.centerforcommunitysafety.org
Kismet Loftin-Bell, Consultant