Neighborhood

Mayor John Peyton, Councilman Dr. Johnny Gaffney, United States Attorney’s Office, Jacksonville Eastside Community Association and Dr. Robert Lee with Fresh Ministries announce Neighborhood Weed and Seed Grant to create a blueprint for community policing.

Weed and Seed is foremost a strategy—rather than a grant program—that aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in targeted high-crime neighborhoods across the country. Weed and Seed sites range in size from several neighborhood blocks to 15 square miles. – www.ojp.usdoj.gov

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/pub/pdf/strategy.pdf

In 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice established Operation Weed and Seed—a community-based multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and neighborhood restoration. Operation Weed and Seed is administered by the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO), Office of Justice Programs. The goals of Weed and Seed are to control violent crime, drug trafficking, and drug-related crime in designated high-crime neighborhoods and provide a safe environment free of crime and drug use for residents. The Weed and Seed strategy brings together Federal, State, and local crime-fighting agencies, social service providers, representatives of the public and private sectors, prosecutors, business owners, and neighborhood residents under the shared goal of weeding out violent crime and gang activity while seeding in social services and economic revitalization. Weed and Seed began with three pilot sites in 1991 and has spread quickly to more than 300 high-crime neighborhoods across the Nation.

The Weed and Seed strategy is a two-pronged approach to
crime control and prevention:
❥ Law enforcement agencies and prosecutors cooperate in weeding out criminals from the designated area.
❥ Seeding brings prevention, intervention, treatment, and neighborhood revitalization services to the area.

The Weed and Seed approach is unique when compared with traditional crime prevention approaches of the past. The strategy is based on collaboration, coordination, community participation, and leveraging resources. Weed and Seed sites maximize existing programs and resources by coordinating and integrating existing Federal, State, local, and private sector initiatives, criminal justice efforts, and social services. The strategy also puts heavy emphasis on community participation. Residents of Weed and Seed neighborhoods are actively involved in problem solving in their community. Neighborhood watches, citizen marches and rallies, cleanup events, drug-free zones, and graffiti removal are some of the common programs that encourage community participation and help prevent crime.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/funding/FY09_recipient2.pdf

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/ws/logo.html

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/ws/manuals.html

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/pub/promotingws/2004OR_ApplicationFinalDraft.pdf

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Supervisor John Avalos and Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services director Mike Farrah discuss the extent of the city’s fiscal problems and the steps being taken to alleviate them

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Bittner’s statements on behalf of Supervisor Peskin to the Neighborhood Services Committee on May 10

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When people pay rent, this is considered as a payment for the services of shelter and is counted in C (personal consumption expenditures). If you own your home, how is that handled?

A. None of the above

B. It is not counted

C. The mortgage payment is counted in C as the payment for the service of shelter

D. For homes that are owner-occupied, the government estimates what the rent would be for that type of house and neighborhood and adds that amount to the GDP under C

c

A peek into the wonderful people and services of the Washington Humane Society CatNiPP and a broad overview of the issues surrounding TNR in an urban setting. Produced by WHS CatNiPP volunteer extraordinare – Glynnis McPhee! THANK YOU, GLYNNIS!

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I am 15 and want to start a lawn mowing business in my neighborhood. How can i do this what should i charge? the yards are not huge but they are not that small

You could do pretty good mowing lawns because you probably wouldn’t have insurance nor pay taxes and those types of overhead. You could have prices much lower then your competitors. Some people don’t really care about the quality of work, they just want a low price. That would be your market to start. Put flyers out and knock on some doors, people will appreciate a young guy out looking for work.

I want to put out a flier in my neighborhood, saying I will help them sell thier stuff on Ebay. I was wondering what to charge ?
and what would be a good way to collect it ?

yeah i did this for a few months. made a good buck. charged 10% commission with minimum $10 cut for myself per item. did it all through my ebay account, went into my bank account, then just gave the seller the cash.
Took photos for them, wrote up descriptions blah blah. Mostly it was appliances and big stuff so just told them when the people who bought it were coming around and they would pick it up and take it away. hassle free for the seller.

JWB has a new department called Childrens Neighborhood Services. Trenia Cox and Danielle Ricciardi join Benjamin Kirby in studio to explain what they do.

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I already am including a brochure in a neighborhood newsletter that goes to 2000 households. I want to know if any tax preparers have ever advertised using Valpak, Clipper, etc, how much did it cost, and what type of response rate you received. I am a sole proprietor doing taxes out of my house as a side business. I am also a CPA. Thanks!

We used the Clipper last year. I do not remember the exact cost, but I do remember it not being very successful. Depending on what type of customers your are targeting, coupons can go a long way. We paid a couple teenagers to stand outside a couple of different locations to hand out coupons, and another to place fliers in people’s doors. We had the most success with the coupons.

Outside Ins Neighborhood Sparks Project is a great example of service providers joining together to succeed at what they could not do alone. The program is funded by United Way of th Columbia-Willamette. Neighborhod Sparks provides integrated medical and behavioral healthcare and social services to homeless, uninsured people in North Clackamas county. Neighborhood Sparks joins together Outside In, the Clackamas Service Center, Human Solutions, Portland Womens Crisis Line, Clackamas Womens Services, and the New Urban High School.

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