Four Training Tracks: 

• Community Policing: The Evolving Organization
• Future Trends and Issues in Community Policing
• Community: Building Blocks
• Safe Schools Through Community Policing

James R. Coldren, Jr., Ph.D., Director, University of Illinois, Chicago, Center for Research Law and Justice. 

Harry P. Dolan, Chief , Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1998, prior to that he was Chief of Police in Lumberton, North Carolina. While serving as Lumberton’s Chief, he instituted a community policing model that is used as an example nationwide. 

J. Kevin Ford, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, has research interests in improving training effectiveness through efforts to advance our understanding of training needs assessment, design, evaluation, and transfer. Dr. Ford concentrates on increasing our understanding of training as a system and the building of continuous learning orientations within organizations. He has published over 30 articles and chapters, serves on the editorial board of Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, and the Training Research Journal, and is an active consultant with private industry and the public sector on training and organizational development issues. 

Paul Haan, Executive Director, Creston Neighborhood Association, an independent 501 C(3) non-profit organization that has been serving the 5,000 households of the near northeast side of Grand Rapids for more than 21 years. CNA mobilizes hundreds of volunteers against a wide variety of issues including crime, access to health care, youth activities, home ownership and repair, access to banking services, neighborhood beautification, and more. CNA’s core strategies are community organizing and leadership development. Paul has broad experience in block organizing, issue organizing, coalition building, strategizing, and program development. 

Karen Hayter, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Edison Neighborhood, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

Robert Johnson, Chief of Police, Lansing, Michigan, has been responsible for significant initiatives and innovative police programs resulting in safer neighborhoods in both Michigan and Mississippi. 

Barbara Markle, Ph.D., Director of K12 Outreach, College of Education, Michigan State University, develops and implements programs for classroom teachers, school administrators, university faculty, and policy-makers that translate educational research to application in schools and settings where education policy decisions are made. Dr. Markle has public school experience including service as a classroom teacher, school counselor, building principal, and director of curriculum. She also served as Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Michigan Department of Education where she was responsible for Michigan’s education reform initiatives. 

Barbara B. McDonald, Assistant Deputy Superintendent, Chicago Police Department, serves as co-manager of the Chicago Police Department’s unique community oriented policing strategy -- the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS). She is one of the principal authors of Together We Can: A Strategic Plan for Reinventing the Chicago Police Department -- the vision document developed to guide CAPS implementation, and numerous CAPS training curricula. Prior to her most recent promotion, she served as the Director of Research and Planning. 

Jean Mendenhall, President, Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Rosie O’Grady, President, Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Theodore F. O’Keefe, Project Manager, Chicago’s CAPS Implementation Office. In this capacity, he coordinates the city’s marketing campaign, which is designed to increase awareness of and stimulate greater participation in CAPS; he coordinates the delivery of city services to alleviate conditions that can foster crime; and he supervises a staff of community organizers to mobilize city neighborhoods. Prior to joining the CAPS Implementation Office, he served as project manager for Chicago For Youth, a program focusing on the development of a community infrastructure for the delivery of a comprehensive array of youth programs and services. 

Steve Person, Lieutenant, Technical Services Bureau, Lansing, Michigan, Police Department, is in charge of creating decentralized mapping and crime analysis for field office use. 

Kay Pranis, Restorative Justice Planner, Minnesota Department of Corrections. 

Charles H. Ramsey, Chief, Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department, began his career as a Chicago police cadet in 1968, rising through Chicago ranks to Deputy Superintendent of the Bureau of Staff Services. Chief Ramsey was instrumental in designing and implementing the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), the city’s nationally acclaimed model of community policing. He also designed and implemented the CAPS operational model, helped to develop new training curricula and communications efforts to support implementation, and oversaw a five-year, independent evaluation of community policing in Chicago. 

Patricia Reynolds, President, The Capital Region Community Foundation, Lansing, Michigan. The foundation is a non-profit public charity with assets in excess of $15,000,000 providing donor service, community collaboration, and grant awards to non-profit organizations and endeavors. She has 18 years experience as a non-profit administrator and a community/healthcare fund-raiser. 

Barbara Schoppman, Director of Neighborhoods/Citizens Advocate Office, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Darrel W. Stephens, City Administrator, St. Petersburg, Florida (Invited), served as Police Chief in the St. Petersburg Police Department, prior to becoming that city’s City Administrator. Prior to that he was Police Chief in Newport News, Virginia, where that department became nationally recognized for its work with problem oriented policing. 

Julie Wartell, Institute for Law and Justice, San Diego, California, has recently completed a fellowship with the National Institute of Justice Crime Mapping Research Center where she coordinated training development and co-edited a book on crime mapping case studies. 

Lodging: 
Lodging is available at the Crowne Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Each participant must contact the Crowne Plaza at (616) 957-1770 or 1-800-2CROWNE and make arrangements. A block of rooms is reserved under “Michigan State University, Community Policing.”  The last day to register for rooms is August 2, 1999. 

REGISTRATION: 
The registration fee is $195/person; $150/person if 3 or more from the same community attend. This entitles the registrant to Sunday’s Reception, lunch Monday and Tuesday, Monday dinner and break refreshments. Seats are limited to 300. Registration forms accompanied by the fee or a purchase order will guarantee participation within the 300 seat limit. 

Mail Payment and Registration Information to: 
Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute 
Attn: Kathy Shell 
Michigan State University 
1407 S. Harrison Road 
324 Nisbet Building 
East Lansing, MI  48823-5239
Phone: 355-9648

 

SUBMISSIONS: All articles and photographs will be considered for publication. Community Policing Partnerships seeks articles on successful community policing stories, community partnerships, problem-solving strategies and other topics that are helpful to communities and law enforcement agencies. Please send articles and photographs (black and white glossy preferred) to:  Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute,  Community Policing Partnerships,  Attn: Christina Wilkerson,  1407 S. Harrison Road,  336 Nisbet Building,  East Lansing, MI 48823  or e-mail – christina.wilkerson@ssc.msu.edu.

Successfully Collaborating With Business:  TheTraverse City Job Fair For Youth  Cathy J. Siebert, Ph.D.,  Priscilla Holmes, Community Specialist  Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute  May 1, 1999 witnessed an extremely successful Job Fair for Youth in Traverse City, Michigan.  Initiated by the Traverse Heights Neighborhood Association and working in close partnership with Traverse City area businesses and schools, more than forty fourteen to eighteen year olds participated in a morning of job interviews.  Teenagers talked with over twenty-one personnel directors and managers of businesses representing the gamut of food services, hotel/motel, grocery stores, retail, and the Interlochen Music Camp.  Early data reflects a seventy-five percent employment rate, with many youths actually employed before leaving the job fair.  Priscilla Holmes, Community Specialist with the Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI), collaborates with the Traverse Heights Neighborhood Association and Traverse City Police Department to strengthen neighborhood organizations.  As part of this collaboration, a need was identified to productively channel the time and energy of area youth for periods when they were not attending school.  From this need came the ideas for sponsoring a Job Fair for Youth.  In support of this endeavor, the RCPI held a workshop entitled “Planning a Job Fair for Neighborhood Youth” for all community members interested in participating in the project.  From this seminar, community members learned the nuts and bolts of planning and implementing a successful job fair for youth including how to recruit employers and prospective employees.  Although the Job Fair for Youth was initiated by a neighborhood group, other community partners very quickly agreed to become part of the project.  Representatives from Traverse City Public Schools, local businesses, the police department, and City Manager’s office joined the planning committee.  Committee members assisted with publicity, building layout, employer/youth orientations, and served as volunteers at the job fair.  Prior to the actual Job Fair, efforts were made to prepare both teenagers and employers to ensure a successful event.  An Oversight Committee composed of representatives from the school, the police department, and local businesses defined Philosophical Guidelines for the event.  These included decisions that every employer should interview as many teenagers as possible, each teenager should have a minimum of three or four interviews, and interviews should occur by appointment only.  Teenagers were provided with guidelines and prepared one-page resumes which included their job preferences well in advance of the event.  An orientation for participating employers was held at which time logistical information was provided and reviewed.  The Oversight Committee also took responsibility for matching job applications with employers and developed an interview schedule for each youth and employer.  Each teenager had a minimum of five interviews with some scheduled to meet with up to eight interviewers.  Interviews took approximately twenty minutes each, with prospective employers averaging ten interviews over the four and a half-hour event.  In order to prevent missed interviews and to ensure that each teenager would experience as many interviews as possible, employers were requested not to hire on the spot.  However, Job Permit Application forms were available to teenagers the morning of the event, and it was evident that many teenagers were leaving the Job Fair at the end of the morning already employed.  Formal evaluation of the event is currently underway.  Each participating employer will be called to determine hiring decisions and to solicit feedback regarding what went well and suggestions for ways in which to improve the event.  However, immediate reactions from participants the morning of the Job Fair for Youth reflect overwhelming enthusiasm.  Both employers and youth gave high marks for the great opportunities the event provided for participants and applauded the caliber of organization which ensured a successful event.  In fact, while the Neighborhood Association is considering sponsoring an annual Job Fair, participating businesses are strongly advocating biannual opportunities.  As one employer commented, “You did all the work for us.  We did the easy part – just hired people.”  As Priscilla Holmes points out, “This event was a win-win situation for a number of stakeholders in the community.”  The Traverse City Job Fair for Youth clearly illustrates the potential for successful collaboration among stakeholders in a community. It identifies and successfully addresses problems which might contribute to crime and social disorder.  Working together, Community Police Departments, governmental officials, businesses, and community members become powerful allies in the effort to improve the lives of all citizens within their community.

Upcoming Training – Open Sessions  August 12, Crime and Data Analysis, East Lansing August 18-19, Community Policing Initiatives, East Lansing August 30-31, Problem-Solving, Novi September 13-14, Problem-Solving, Novi September 30, Community Policing Initiatives, East Lansing For more information call 1-800-892-9051 or visit our website at:  www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/rcpi

Hold This Date !!  Neighborhood Association of Michigan (NAM) Annual Conference will be held September 17 &18, 1999 in Battle Creek, Michigan.  There are a limited number of scholarships available through the Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute.  For more information, contact: Priscilla Holmes,  Community Specialist  at (517) 432-3345  or e-mail priscilla.holmes@ssc.msu.edu

Nexus of Community Policing and Domestic Violence Conference  On October 27-29, 1999, The Nexus of Community Policing and Domestic Violence Conference will take place at the Midway Best Western, Lansing, Michigan.  With funding from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) through the Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI), this conference will not be the traditional domestic violence conference.  Lodging with restrictions will be paid from grant funds. Each participant must contact the Best Western Midway Motor Lodge at (517) 627-8471 and make arrangements. A block of rooms are reserved under the conference name. Be sure to mention you will be attending the “Nexus of Community Policing and Domestic Violence Conference”. The last day to register for rooms is September 27, 1999.  Registration is on a first come first serve basis. Seats are limited. Online registration is available on our website at: www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/copsdv Receipt of your registration form accompained by the fee or purchase order will guarantee your place at the conference.  If you have any questions, or wish to receive a brochure or registation form please contact us at:  Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute  Attn: Christina Wilkerson  Michigan State University  1407 S. Harrison Road  336 Nisbet Building  East Lansing, MI    phone: (517) 432-3156 or    e-mail christina.wilkerson@ssc.msu.edu.