# Presentation: 828092

## Youth Crime Watchof America

*Meeting the Needs of our Youth for Safety and Positive Involvement*
- Presentation To
- US Department of Education, OSDFS
- 8th National Technical Assistance Conference
- Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Program (GRAA)

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## Youth Crime Watch History

- Began in the late1970s in Miami Florida
- First YCW school program in North Miami Beach HS in 1979
- Established in all schools in the Miami-Dade County School System in 1983
- Youth Crime Watch of America was established in 1986
- Now in 28 states, DC, US territories, and 15 other countries

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**Youth Crime Watch **
**of Kentucky**
- Expansion Center Sites 42
- Kentucky

**Mid-Atlantic Regional**
- Expansion Center Sites 24 States 2 DC,MD

**OH**

**PA**

**NY**

**TN**

**VA**

**AL**

**NC**

**Florida ****Expansion Center**
- Total Sites 263

**TX**

**CA**

**WA**

**UT**

**OR**

**South Texas **
- Expansion Center
- Total Sites 17

**FL**

**MO**

**KY**

**Youth Crime Watch of America **
**Sites in United States**

***Total Sites ******Outside Expansion Center States: ***
***144 (as of 9/15/06)***

**MS**

**AL**

**DC**

**MD**

**Alabama**
- Expansion Center
- Total Sites 8

**Rocky Mountain Regional **
- Expansion Center Sites 85
- States 4  UT,WY,NV,ID

**Guam**
- Expansion Center
- Total Sites 47

**Non-EC **
**States**

**  ****EC States**

**As of September 2006**
**Number of States with Sites—28, DC, Guam, **
**Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands**
**Total Sites—662**

**AR**

**GA**

**VA**

**OH**

**NV**

**ID**

**HI**

**IL**

**IN**

**AZ**

**WY**

**NJ**

**RI**

**New England**Expansion CenterTotal Sites 35 States 6 RI, MA, NH, VT, ME, CT

**Puerto Rico**

**US Virgin **
**Islands**

**NM**

**MA**

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## Goals

- Provide crime-free, drug-free environments for learning and living
- Instill positive values, foster good citizenship, and build self-confidence in youth
- Mobilize youth as crime prevention resources for preventing drug use and other crimes in their schools and neighborhoods.

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##      Structure at the Local Site

- Core Group of youth decide activities based on survey/consultation
- Adult Advisor is key relationship
- Expanded Core Group takes on specific projects
- Optional components by special teams
- Optional participation by SROs, local law enforcement agencies, local businesses, and community-based organizations

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##    Crime Reports Have Saved Lives and Futures

- Stranahan High, Fort Lauderdale, Fl - 1996
- South Panola High, Batesville, MS – 1997
- Provo High, Provo, UT – 2001
- Milwee Middle School, Milwee, FL - 2002
- Brooksville High School, Brooksville, MS – 2002
- Orange Grove Middle School, Tampa, FL - 2005

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## Effectiveness

- In 2001-2 evaluation YCW students reported
- they owned the program and had a high sense of belonging to their school and YCW.
- that YCW made them want to come to school more often (2/3).
- YCW made them want to be a part of other school activities (71%); made them feel better about themselves(64%); helped them to improve their grades (50%); and made them feel safer at school (70%).
- that they would feel safe reporting a crime they saw at school (80%); that they would report a crime at school if they saw one (94%).

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##    Abt Associates Interim Results

- 90% of advisors said they would start a YCW if they were assigned to a new school that did not have one.
- 80% of advisors say their principal is “very supportive.”
- 76% of advisors say they are “very confident” that their YCW members on patrol report misconduct, while another 22% said “confident.”
- Three-quarters of students said it was “very true” and “pretty much true” that they watched more carefully for program at schools and were more likely to prevent crime.
- More than two-thirds of YCW members reported that YCW gave them more respect for the police, brought them into contact with those they otherwise would not know, learned leadership skills, felt more confident about themselves, and felt better about themselves.

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## Contact Information

**Youth Crime Watch of America**
- 	Terrence Modglin, Executive Director
- 	9200 S. Dadeland Boulevard, Miami, FL 33156
- 	305-670-2409 (FL Ofc. ) 202-466-3322 (DC Ofc.)
- 	_[tmodglin@ycwa.org](mailto:tmodglin@ycwa.org)_
**Huber Heights Public Schools**
- 	Wayne HS
- 	5400 Troy Pike, Huber Heights, OH 45424
- 	937-604-6691
- 	_[rnielsr@sbcglobal.net](mailto:rnielsr@sbcglobal.net)_
**www.ycwa.org**

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