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How You Can Help
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New Hanover county, Pender county, district 5, District Attorney
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- Encourage elected officials to adopt the goals of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. Fight Crime: Invest in Kids has a four step plan to reduce school and youth violence.
- Assure all school-age children and teens access to after-school, weekend and summer youth development programs to shut down the "Prime Time for Juvenile Crime."
- Assure all babies and preschool children access to the quality educational child care programs proven to cut crime.
- Help schools identify troubled and disruptive children at an early age, and provide children and their parents with the counseling and training that can help kids get back on track.
- Improve deficient parenting and prevent child abuse and neglect by: a) Offering high-risk parents in-home parenting-coaching; and b) making sure child protective, foster care and adoption agencies services have policies and enough well-trained staff to protect and heal abused and neglected children.
- Call 791-8510 and volunteer to be a Big Buddy to some boy or girl. This is an extremely successful program. Often there are 135 young people on a waiting list to get a Big Buddy in New Hanover County. The commitment is four hours a week for a year. Over ninety percent of the young people that have a Big Buddy for a year do not return to court.
- Encourage addicts to enter the drug court program if they are arrested for a drug offense. They can call TASC at 762 5333 and ask to speak to Dennis Hufham to apply.
- Report Crimes that you witness and testify in court.
- Be a role model for young people in your community.
- Serve on jury duty.
- Insure that law enforcement has adequate resources to get the job done.
- Do not ride with a drinking driver or let anyone drink and drive your automobile.
- Volunteer to work at the Domestic Violence Shelter, Rape Crisis Center,and any agency preventing child abuse.
- Tell people that real men do not batter their partners and children.
- Volunteer to be a mentor for a young person.
- Volunteer to work in the public schools.
- Become active in promoting elder rights.
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