National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
NCPC’s History with FASTEN
The National Crime Prevention Council (www.ncpc.org) is the nation’s focal point and voice for crime prevention. NCPC’s mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. NCPC recognizes the unique and indispensable contribution faith communities make to building safer and more caring communities.
One of NCPC’s greatest strengths is in forging partnerships. Through its myriad partnerships, NCPC is able to work with mayors, civic leaders, government officials, law enforcement officials, grassroots organizations, youth groups, churches, schools, neighborhoods, and individuals to show them how to create and sustain healthy communities that do not produce crime. The faith-based community and criminal justice agency partnership is key in reducing the crime and violence in distressed communities. By providing interactive training and technical assistance, and producing how-to guides, tool kits and timely publications in this arena, NCPC has set a high standard that has been unmatched for over two decades. The result has been safer, less fearful individuals and families; stronger and more vital neighborhoods; and vibrant, crime-free communities.
NCPC’s Contribution to FASTEN
The National Crime Prevention Council has a two-fold role within the FASTEN initiative:
- NCPC serves as the fiscal and administrative hub, acting as the fiduciary for the grant and the main coordinator of the four partners’ (BaylorUniversity, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, HudsonInstitute, and NCPC) interactions.
- Capitalizing on our expertise, NCPC is the main investigator for effective practices in faith-based crime prevention programs, violence reduction efforts, and mentoring of prisoners’ children. NCPC goes on-site to examine promising models and convenes local partners engaged in innovative collaborations, capturing the insights and experiences of the people actually solving the problems. NCPC produces publications and content for the FASTEN website and presents training events on ideas, program models, and effective leaders, leading to dissemination of effective practices.
NCPC also shares with the faith community another valuable resource – the Crime Prevention Coalition of America (www.crimepreventioncoalition.org). This membership organization is a group of over 4,500 national, state, federal, and community-based organizations united to promote and work toward citizen action to prevent crime. Access to the coalition provides monthly program, practice, and policy briefs; national and state legislative tools to communicate with policy makers; access to local, state, and national media, links to other members’ web sites; a calendar of upcoming state and national trainings and conferences; and news updates to provide faith-based organizations with timely information they need to know in order to run successful programs.
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