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A Cut Above: WRMC’s AAMC Designation Being one of the select few in Texas with an AAMC designation isn’t just a title; it's a promise to our clients. 🔹 Excellence in Management: This designation by CAI represents the highest standard in association management. 🔹 Assurance to Clients: With WRMC, you’re choosing a partner dedicated to the highest levels of service and community stewardship. #AAMCExcellence #WRMCDifference #TrustedPartner #AssocationManagement

From educational institutions to community safety initiatives and health foundations, it is our privilege to give back each year, as a gesture of appreciation and humility towards those who selflessly sacrifice to educate, protect, heal and serve others. #giveback #payitforward #sitedevelopment https://ow.ly/wXaH50QQyvl

From educational institutions to community safety initiatives and health foundations, it is our privilege to give back each year, as a gesture of appreciation and humility towards those who selflessly sacrifice to educate, protect, heal and serve others. #giveback #payitforward #sitedevelopment https://ow.ly/wXaH50QQyvl

Did you know that NLC launched the Municipalities Reimagining Community Safety (MRCS) initiative in 2022? With reducing crime being a political priority for many Americans, the MRCS initiative was created to invest in local action to reduce and prevent violence while advancing new visions for safety in communities. One of these visions includes Group Violence Intervention (GVI), an impactful strategy to reimagine public safety. So what does GVI look like? Read our new post — and attend our open meeting on Aug. 22 — to learn more. https://bit.ly/3Aq3I0I

#ICYMI 📌 Transforming Community Safety: How Newark's Approach is Leading the Way From mentoring youth to mediating conflicts, the NCST Newark Community Street Team (NCST) embodies a revolutionary model of community-based violence intervention (CVI). As homicides decrease by over 50% 📉 Newark proves the power of investing in trusted messengers and proactive social services. It's time to reimagine public safety, with CVI at its core. Let's acknowledge NCST's impactful work, made possible in part by the generous support of the Ford Foundation for their commitment to funding change. Read Full Article: https://lnkd.in/ef8542Gq #CommunitySafety #cvi #EmpowerChange #ncst #CommunityIntervention #safestreets #CommunitySafety #publicsafety #PublicHealth #newark

Sharing the report and recommendations for UK Special Constabularies from my Churchill Fellowship visiting volunteer police in the USA, Canada, and the Netherlands. With huge thanks to all those who hosted me, supported me, and made my Fellowship such a great experience. Visiting so many different models of volunteer police has reinforced to me what a huge, important, thing volunteering in policing is - and the potential for the future. There is much that is great about our UK Special Constabularies. Particularly the people who serve as Special Constables. As my report reflects - "volunteering as a Special Constable is to be part of something of substance, and to do something of genuine significance". However the long, proud tradition of the Special Constable needs to reform, and re-form, or it is going to die away. We are sadly already quite a long way down that journey of shrinkage and decline. As my report summarises, I think there is a lot we can learn from the countries I visited to help turn this around, and to point us in the directions we need to take. There is a bright future, if there is the courage, commitment, and importantly the coordination, to pursue it. Broadening and deepening what volunteer police are able to do. Raising standards and improving appeal and accessibility. Purposeful attraction. Improving experience and retention. Building the right leadership, coordination and support. Bringing it all together into a strategic and evidence-based approach. As my report reflects, "narrow programmes will die". None of the specific models visited and summarised in my report are necessarily 'right' or 'better', the point is the most effective sustainable approach needs to embrace them all. https://lnkd.in/ecJ8u8A7

Day 21 of a #sharednarrative for #Plymouth: Our dreams must grow out of those most impacted by historic and current harm. Marginalisation, minoritisation and exclusion are not inevitable aspects of how we work, they are the direct result of how we organise our systems and organisations. Being in the minority does not need to lead to marginalisation. It is hugely complex, but these violences cause harm and trauma especially if this is generational and rooted in a colonial past. Violence is a strong word, but is used intentionally to reflect the emotional and physical reality of people who are systematically marginalised. To be able to re-design our systems and organisations to intentionally include we not only need to voice of the majority, but that of the minority too. We must hold the tensions between giving a primacy to these voices, but not to infantilise or idolise. Together our experiences will create a future where this does not happen - and the leadership that can carry us forward. What would Plymouth need to do to be a city where we have ceased violences and started to heal from them - unleashing the knowledge and leadership that can help us design the future? Full Plymouth Octopus(POP) narrative: https://buff.ly/4dQZbD1 POP learning and thinking: https://buff.ly/4fZAcPG Dark Matter Labs @Annette https://buff.ly/3YSF4Ac Sky Space Team Development Cic @Jen https://buff.ly/3yMsPK #BEMOREPLYMOUTH #fairer #greener #futurism #regenerativefutures #learning #sharednarrative #plymouth #systemconvening #community #grassroots #funding #grantmaking

#NASW SPS Webinar: January 29, 1-2 pm ET - Addressing Food Insecurity: A Community Approach; CEs: 1 Social Work Contact Hour. As the liaison between the home, school, and community, two school social workers were able to leverage community partnerships to increase access to food resources for families within a large suburban school district. All food-security initiatives were located in different areas within the school district to accommodate the diverse needs of different areas. This webinar will discuss food insecurity initiatives that were piloted before the pandemic, during the pandemic, and post-pandemic and the community resources that aided in these efforts. The benefits of food insecurity initiatives community will be discussed in addition to best practices that maintain community partnerships and monitor community needs. https://buff.ly/3S4rshq

The value of collaboration in working towards a #Westmidlands monitoring, #evaluation and #learning approach to understanding social change to reduce inequalities and get more people active.

#NASW SPS Webinar: January 29, 1-2 pm ET - Addressing Food Insecurity: A Community Approach; CEs: 1 Social Work Contact Hour. As the liaison between the home, school, and community, two school social workers were able to leverage community partnerships to increase access to food resources for families within a large suburban school district. All food-security initiatives were located in different areas within the school district to accommodate the diverse needs of different areas. This webinar will discuss food insecurity initiatives that were piloted before the pandemic, during the pandemic, and post-pandemic and the community resources that aided in these efforts. The benefits of food insecurity initiatives community will be discussed in addition to best practices that maintain community partnerships and monitor community needs. https://buff.ly/3S4rshq