Effective Practices Provided by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC): Center for Faith and Service
Focus: Faith-Based and Small Community-Based Organizations
- Building successful partnerships with faith-based organizations
- Centralizing social services to reduce crime
- Designing a community disaster preparedness plan
- Encouraging positive responses to members' stresses throughout a service term
- Forging strong partnerships between the philanthropic and faith-based communities
- Improving active listening skills for more effective supervision
- Involving youth as partners in crime prevention
- Keeping schools open during non-school hours
- Linking prison and community-based services to reduce recidivism among young ex-offenders
- Motivating and sustaining members
- Recognizing and reporting terrorist activity
- Reducing recidivism by employing former offenders as furniture crafters
- Supporting family and friends of homicide victims
- Supporting female victims of crime and their families
- Teaching peer conflict resolution skills
- Understanding faith-based community
- Utilizing Corporation programs and services: tips for faith-based and community-based organizations
- Working towards a bachelor's degree while incarcerated
- Working with faith-based organizations: challenges and benefits
Additional effective practices related to faith-based and community organizations.