How to Start a Youth Crime Watch of America Program
Starting a Youth Crime Watch of America Program can be a very demanding and often times, expensive, to start. However, starting this program can be very beneficial to the school or community you belong to. If you have the money, time and dedication to start this program, you will make a tremendous difference in many lives. Here are the steps you should follow to start a Youth Crime Watch of America Program in your area.
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Review the Youth Crime Watch of America standards and make sure you and your team will be capable of meeting every one of them.
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Contact the nearest Youth Crime Watch of America expansion center. There are links to this center on their website. Once in contact with one of these centers, they will provide you support throughout the process of starting the new program.
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Meet with the officials in your school and community where you want to start the new program. Present the information you have received about starting the new program to them, as well the start-up video. Gain their approval before moving on to the next step. Once you have received their approval, have them sign the formal Youth Crime Watch agreement form. This simply states the community has agreed to this program being started in their area.
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Find an advisor. This person will be the group's spark plug. Make sure this individual has the time and dedication to take on such a challenge. Some great advisors have been parents, school administrator, a teacher, or an involved member of the community. They should enjoy working with students as well as have their trust and respect.
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Establish a strong core group. This core group is made up of dedicated and serious students who want to run this program to the best of their ability. Have teachers recommend students they feel would do a great job in this position.
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Register your program with the national organization. Download, fill out, sign, and send in the site agreement form and site survey. It is important to get your program registered as soon as possible so you can start receiving important information from the national offices.
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Get trained and gather the materials you will need to start your program and make it successful. The start-up kit you will need to purchase is $99, and there are training conferences and weekends nationwide.
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Hold your first meeting. Do not be disappointed if many students do not show. Give it time and your numbers will grow. Discuss the problems your school or community are facing and what can be done. Also, elect officers.
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Make the group well-known. Pass out sign up sheets, flyer's, and announce the meetings over the school PA system and in the newspaper. Your group will be a success in no time.
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YouthCrimeWatch
Oct 24, 2008
Very much to the contrary, a Youth Crime Watch program is very inexpensive to start and is what we like to call "cost effective crime prevention".. Is it demanding to start? How demanding is it to be a victim of a violent crime? How demanding is it to not have a say in how to make your school and or community safe? And of course I can go on and on..As a matter of fact, I personal assist in starting programs every day for $0.00 (zero) dollars.. and then watching them run with budgets small than taking a family of 4 out to dinner in the US for the evening. Certainly if one has the funds to initially purchase program start-up kits that run for less than $100 each but that contain hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of information, video's and CD's, then it is appreciated and encouraged, but if not no person (s) are not going to be inhibited from having a program due to the lack of funds.
