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Public Safety
Long a concern for FEC, public safety remains a source of fear for East Chicagoans. Ironically, FEC has received relatively few grant applications from community-based groups seeking to address this critical need. We engaged as many willing partners as possible to determine the best approaches to improving public safety, and so engaged with representatives from over 20 entities to adopt our working definition of public safety:
“Public safety occurs when municipal agencies, community-based organizations, neighborhood associations and citizens build networks that help people to feel secure in their residences, workplaces, schools and public spaces.”
The group concurred that public safety is a process, not a thing. Moreover, we believe that citizens, churches, and community-based organizations share responsibility in ensuring that public safety prevails. Elected officials and municipal agencies are not solely responsible, nor do they deserve all the blame when public safety is breached.
Our group identified five strategic initiatives to improve public safety:
- Target enforcement and other preventive efforts on specific ‘at risk’ or ‘offender’ populations
- Build neighborhood networks so that residents can feel safer, enforce community norms, and reclaim their public spaces
- Strengthen families by helping targeted adults improve their parenting capacities and skills
- Build a continuum of care, including case management, by mobilizing the earliest possible interventions with the highest risk families where young children are present, or will soon be present
Since 2008, with our partners, we’ve engaged deeply in all of these initiatives, and enjoyed some success. There is still work to be done.
20-01-2012 | In Nosotros Magazine: Adults Teaching Adults »
EAST CHICAGO | Laura Smith Wynn shares her parenting expertise at East Chicago’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, part …
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01-19-2012 | Neighborhoods Inc. encourages residents through contests »
EAST CHICAGO | On December 20, Neighborhoods Inc. (NI) held an awards ceremony for the participants of the Fall Spruce …
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27-10-2011 | Putting East Chicago Back to Work »
By Rob Earnshaw, Times Correspondent
EAST CHICAGO | – An initiative to target unemployed city residents and provide them with …
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27-10-2011 | Putting East Chicago Back to Work »
By Rob Earnshaw, Times Correspondent
EAST CHICAGO | – An initiative to target unemployed city residents and provide them with …
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11-4-2010 | Grantee Public Presentation »
A Foundations of East Chicago (FEC) Grantee Public Presentation will be held on Thursday, November 4, from 6:00 p.m. – …
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4-1-2010 | Grantee Orientation Meeting »
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: Healthy East Chicago, 100 W. Chicago Avenue, East Chicago, IN 46312
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Collaboration Grant Request Forms for Review »
The deadline to submit a Proposal for a 2011 Collaboration was Tuesday, 31 May, 2011. We are no longer accepting …
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Interim Grant Report »
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Updated Grant Policies »
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FEC Continuing Education Recommendation Form »
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FEC Continuing Education Scholarship Application »
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FEC High School Recommendation Form »
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Foundations of East Chicago – High School Scholarship Application »
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Grant Application Revised Budget Sheet »
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06-10-2011 | Our Audited Financials, 2009-2010 »
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