There is a well-known saying: “It takes a village to raise a child”, and in this day and age it is truer than ever. All too often children are left with computers, gaming systems, or television as babysitters while overworked parents are busy trying to make a living. This can result in children who are [...]

Streetwork is a community organized program that involves keeping negative activity and conditions “on the street” to a minimum. In many communities, activities such as selling drugs, prostitution, and crimes such as mugging or pocket-picking take place regularly. Streetwork programs are designed to help minimize these things by teaching the people involved alternative, productive, and [...]

Disobedience of traffic laws has become a major problem in some communities. Failure to adhere to posted speed limits poses one of the biggest threats on the road, and there are often not enough law enforcement officials available to curb this problem. Road rage is another serious issue, resulting in major confrontations and sometimes even [...]

In communities where crime and violence are a problem too large to be handled by community organizations such as neighborhood watch programs, having the organization take share in the cost for a private security agency may be the best answer. All too often, there are not enough patrol officers available in high crime areas to [...]