For Communities

If your community wants to improve the relationship between youth and police, including school police, Strategies for Youth has skills and strategies to assist. SFY has extensive experience working with parents and community leaders to develop strategies to improve police/youth interactions through dialogues and relationship-building efforts, training sessions for parents and youth, and the development of community oversight mechanisms.

Strategies include:

Juvenile Justice Jeopardy™ Games for Youth & Parents:
This training takes the Juvenile Justice Jeopardy™ game one step further to discuss police/youth relations in greater detail. The game clarifies legal procedures, effective approaches for challenging conduct constructively, and ways to ensure that improvements are lasting.

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Getting a Handle on The Conflict:
SFY helps communities address conflict through research, assessment of the sources of conflict, and facilitating dialogues between communities and police. Getting a Handle focuses on documenting the sources of conflict and developing approaches to reduce conflict through collective efforts, innovative responses, oversight, and sustained dialogue.

Youth/Police Programming:
Strategies for Youth develops programming that offers structured opportunities for police and youth to meet and work together. Features of these programs include promoting employment with the police, service projects, mentoring and ice-breaking/relationship-building exercises.

“First Strategies helped us find common ground with the police and then Strategies helped us focus police attention on where the problems were and listen to what we thought would be more effective policing for our kids.”

-Cynthia Spriggs, Harbor Point, Boston, MA

For Communities

Strategies include:

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