Drawing on forty years of distinguished service in delinquency prevention, John Calhoun, founder of the National Crime Prevention Council, lays out the essential ingredients for preventing violence. These include strategies for connecting with alienated youth, building community norms of caring, reducing access of weapons of violence, and claiming unclaimed kids. The Department of Youth Services […]
Article: Transforming How the Nation Fights Crime
* written by Jeffrey Klineman in the April 15, 2004 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy When he went to the nation’s capital, John A. Calhoun thought he would spend two or three years there, just long enough to do some work for President Jimmy Carter. He ended up spending nearly three decades […]
Pain Must Not Be Wasted
I met Gerda Weissmann Klein at the White House Conference on Teenagers in May 2000. We sat next to each other in an afternoon breakout session on the Youth as Resources program. We spoke briefly about how we happened to be at this conference where we spoke of the human spirit and of our shared […]
Finding a Rallying Point for Community Change
Crime prevention is among the most exciting tools of the new millennium for building and sustaining communities in which people can safely live, work, learn, and play. It motivates, bonds, and mobilizes people around a shared goal. It also builds community. Crime prevention includes the basics of personal safety- locks, lights, alarms, and the like. […]
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