Seminar Description
The American Crime Prevention Institute (ACPI) has developed a dynamic new crime prevention training program entitled Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement. This timely three-day seminar is designed to energize and invigorate law enforcement agencies' community outreach and engagement efforts.

The Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement Seminar will provide practical, proven ways of engaging on-going community support for crime prevention programs and initiatives. It will encourage active involvement by members of the community in a continuing partnership in the fight against crime and disorder.

Who Should Attend

This seminar is intended for crime prevention officers and specialists responsible for developing and implementing community crime prevention programs. It is an advanced crime prevention training program providing information and material usually not addressed in a basic crime prevention training program.

Seminar Details

The Crime Prevention Throgh Community Engagement Seminar is a unique crime prevention training program. It is not a passive clasroom seminar but is instead an interactive participatory crime prevention training forum. Building and maintaining enthusiasm for successful community crime prevention initiatives is the central theme of this seminar.

What is Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement Seminar
While the initial response to law enforcement agencies' crime prevention programs or initiatives is often positive, it is frequently difficult to sustain community enthusiasm and support. Barring a series of newsworthy criminal incidents, a communities' appetite for crime prevention programs can easily wane or diminish. It is not unusual for worthwhile crime prevention programs to languish or fail due to a lack of active community support.

The Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement Seminar will provide innovative guidance on how to organize and implement crime prevention programs with a discernable, lasting result. Based upon ten principles of implementation, Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement Seminar provides proven templates and formulas on how to develop and sustain community support for crime prevention programs. Seminar participants will receive recommendations and guidance on how to effectively "sell" crime prevention to the community.

Topics

Principles of Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement (CPTCE)

Community Engagement: The 4-Step Process

How to Determine if Your Community Outreach Programs are Working

Community Partnerships: Significance and Importance

Setting Community Outreach Goals

Engaging Community Leaders and Stakeholders

How to Energize Neighborhood Watch Programs and Encourage Active Participation

"Selling" Your Crime Prevention Programs to the Public

Understanding the Media’s Role in Community Engagement

How to Develop the WOW! Factor in Crime Prevention

Current Trends in Crime and Crime Prevention

How to Design and Use Community Surveys

Strategies to Engage the "New Millennium" Generation

Fundraising for Successful Crime Prevention Programs

Using Citizen Police Academies to Encourage Community Engagement and Generate Support for Crime Prevention

Outreach Strategies to Engage Traditionally Under-Served Segments of the Community

Developing Internal Support For Crime Prevention Programs

Learning from the Corporate Community – How to Market Crime Prevention

Developing an Outreach Partnership With the Faith-based Community

Templates for Effective Crime Prevention Programs

The Role of Volunteers in Community Engagement

Engaging the "Low-Crime" Community in Crime Prevention

Developing Effective Websites for Crime Prevention

Engaging Community Activists in Crime Prevention

Developing Corporate Partnerships

Course Logistics
The cost of attending the Commercial Crime Prevention Through Community Engagement Seminar is $350.00. If more than one person from the same law enforcement agency attends the seminar, the cost for each participant is $300.00.

Each seminar participant will receive the following crime prevention materials:

• A comprehensive seminar manual containing inclusive material and a CD-ROM with PowerPoint presentations covering each seminar topic.
• A gratis copy , on CD-ROM, of The Commercial and Retail Crime Prevention Manual ($89.00 value)
• A gratis copy , on CD-ROM, of the Fundraising Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies ($89.00 value)