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Volunteers in
Prevention,
Probation & Prisons, Inc. |
Because crime is a serious threat to the vitality and quality of
life of the community, the Foundation supports projects to improve
public safety.Over the years, the Foundation’s interests have
included mentoring initiatives, prisoner re-entry program
improvements, and interactive partnerships between citizens,
independent service agencies, and criminal justice agencies.
With the addition of the
15x15 Strategy to the Foundation’s agenda in 2008, the
Foundation’s Safe Community mission has become more focused upon
efforts to improve safety and the perception of safety in Greater
Downtown Detroit.
2006-2007 Grant Highlights:
$125,000 to
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to assist in the
creation of the Detroit Safe Communities Collaborative to target
prisoner re-entry efforts, working with the correction system to
curb the amount of crimes committed by the estimated 5,000 to
6,000 formerly incarcerated citizens annually released in the
Detroit region from prison.
$100,000 to
Volunteers in Prevention, Probation & Prisons, Inc. to
reduce at-risk youth involvement with the criminal justice system by
increasing their capacity to recruit and train mentors.
$45,000 to
Wayne State University for population trends research
and service gap analysis related to prisoner reentry.
$125,000 of a $200,000 commitment to
Wayne Mediation Center
to reduce criminal behavior in at-risk young people by supporting
a cooperative pilot program with schools and the juvenile courts to
mediate problems that lead to children being truant from school.
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