Youth Crime Watch Community Style

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Youth Crime Watch Community Style

• Ordinary actions can take you to extraordinary
  places

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Youth Crime Watch is
Youth Taking Action
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• There are so many things that YCW has done for
  my kids. It helps them stay out of trouble. It
  enables them to help others and gives them
  confidence that they can make a difference. YCW
  has helped the eighth grader come out of his
  shell and take ownership of his school and
  community.
• - Patricia, Parent of a 15, 14, and 11 year-old
  
• Youth Crime Watchers

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Youth Taking Action

• Every October, Youth Crime Watchers in Winston
  Salem, North Carolina participate in a community
  clean-up called The Big Sweep.

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Youth Taking Action

• Groups throughout YCW are organizing graffiti
  removals and painting murals.

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Youth Taking Action

• Young people in Guam worked with police during
  speed checks in the summer to ask drivers to
  watch out for the children playing in the
  village. The drivers apologized and promised to
  drive more carefully.

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• Since joining YCWC I don't have time to get in
  trouble. Everyone wants to know what I am doing
  and now they come to YCWC with me. Now the school
  lets me out early just to work on YCWC activities
  and sees that we are part of the community and
  want to make Chillicothe a better place. YCWC has
  made an impression in my school and in the
  community. Now people ask us to help and
  participate. Before we youth were ignored.
• - Misty, Age 16, Tenth Grade

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Youth Taking Action

• The North Manatee Youth Crime Stoppers in
  Palmetto, Florida organized a community-wide gang
  prevention awareness dialogue, giving 65 parents
  and community members the opportunity to interact
  with the local sheriffs department.

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Youth Taking Action
Young people of Rochester, New York are working
with local corner store owners to educate them
about sound nutrition and persuade them to add
fresh fruits and veggies in neighborhoods where
chain grocery stores have moved out.
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My YCW program helps me to stay out of
trouble. We do lots of fun activities. My
favorite is cleaning up the community by painting
over graffiti. Being a leader in my school makes
me feel great because I get to help people. -
Stephen, Age 12, Seventh Grade
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Youth Taking Action

• Youth In Action in Jacksonville, Florida
  sponsored a "Holiday Gourmet Theme Basket. Their
  results fed 100 needy families at Thanksgiving by
  providing all the food items but the turkey.
  They are doing the same thing for Christmas and
  now involving the Duval County Schools.

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Youth Taking Action

• Young people throughout the U.S. are taking time
  to honor both those in active service and
  veterans by
• Visiting or sending cards to vets in hospitals
• Collecting items to send overseas
• Making ABC books for children in Iraq
• Organizing concerts to honor vets.

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It teaches me to stay out of trouble, dont
be a follower, and how to make the right
choices. I like the speeches the best. -
Krishayla, Age 8, Third Grade
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Youth Taking Action

• The Truly Blessed Youth Mass Choir in Palmetto,
  Florida has made over 25 appearances in the last
  three months.

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Youth Taking Action

• Each year on Lei Day, Youth Crime Watchers on
  the Big Island visit the elderly to dance the
  hula and honor each of the Hawaiian Islands and
  their heritage.

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• All youth programs are an institution where
  you get a new family. Thats where you find out
  that there is always someone to care for you or
  help you out with a situation or problem.
• - Taylor Levy, Local Youth Board Member

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Youth Taking Action

• Warriors Crime Watch collaborates with the Huber
  Heights, Ohio Police Division to produce the
  annual National Night Out festivities.

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Youth Taking Action

• Youth Crime Watchers have adopted a street to
  beautify and maintain in places like Chillicothe,
  Ohio and Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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• Since I joined YCWC I have learned to respect
  others, work with police, and share my time with
  the elderly. Before YCWC I spent my time on my
  skateboard running in and out of traffic, getting
  yelled at by motorists, scolded by my parents,
  and grounded for my actions. Now life is so much
  more fun.
• - Eriq, Age 12, Eighth Grade

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Youth Taking Action

• Young people in San Antonio, Texas create
  greeting cards and deliver them to the elderly on
  holidays such as Christmas, Valentines Day and
  Mothers Day. Sometimes, this is the only visit
  the person receives for these special times.

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Youth Taking Action
Young people in Chillicothe, Ohio, raised funds
for food and care for animals suffering in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They also sent
down personal care packs and schools supplies to
the youth.
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The best parts of my Youth Crime Watch group are
that we get to help people in the community,
watch out for fellow students and learn to be
leaders. - Matthew, Age 14, Eighth Grade
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Youth Taking Action

• Youth in Rochester, New York are working with
  local neighborhood corner stores to remove
  alcohol and drug messages near cash registers and
  replace them with positive messages. One store
  owner even purchased a billboard for the group.

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Youth Taking Action

• Young people in North Carolina turn out in
  droves during the Bulb Blitz where they
  spend time planting trees and working on
  neighborhood
• beautification projects.

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Youth Taking Action

• Youth Crime Watchers in Virginia collected over
  2,000 pounds of food this year in a Thanksgiving
  food drive based on Chillicothes Four Hour Food
  Drive.

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• Youth Crime Watch is cool and fun. It helps
  me fix problems in my community.
• - Nathan, Age 11, Seventh Grade

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen, but those who make
  them a reality are worth a million.

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• Thank you Youth Crime Watchers for all you do to
• repair the world.