For too long, the community has been in a passive stance on many of the issues that gravely affect us. The study circles showed me that everyone is concerned. I needed to hear that because of my mother's murder. Helping to organize this program was a way to release my agony and help prevent other people's mothers from getting killed. In cities all across the country, thousands of citizens are meeting in study circles and making real progress on some of the most difficult issues of our time.
Study circles build a community's capacity to fight crime and violence.
The Study Circles Resource Center has created this guide to help other cities apply the study circle model used so successfully in communities across the country. To encourage all participants to voice their ideas, the guide presents a broad range of viewpoints. In Our Communities We must enlist all who love their communities and nation in a rebellion against violence that is waged locally, neighbor by neighbor, building by building. SCRC provides the kind of help we need to build the bonds of community that render violence moot. When it comes to serious social problems like violence and racism, all the legislation and law enforcement in the world won't help if the underlying causes aren't addressed.