What can I do to reduce crime
in the Yakima Valley?
Open Space Public Forum
Yakima Convention Center
May 28th, 2014
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Session Title: Rebranding away from self-fulfilling prophesy from fear to love, positive
Facilitator: Carole Folsom-Hill
Participants: Brian Hollenbaugh, Kailan Dunn, Bob Hall, Kim Thompson, Chuck Gaul, Jenny
Knight, Ruthanne Cortez, Earl Hall, Mike Szuba, Carole Folsom Hill, Matt Fairbank.
Synopsis and key points from the session: Need to focus on the positives of our valley, much
more than the negatives, change self, public and media perspectives, people have chosen to
move back or move to Yakima because of what it has to offer, change attitudes/the way we
think about ourselves as a community. Celebrate our cultural diversity as a valley.
“Yakima Valley is a valley of abundance where dreams come to life.”
Progress is being made in many areas. Transitions from family businesses to well run
businesses.
Rebrand efforts to “Safer Yakima Valley” acknowledging Yakima valley is a safe place now.
Action steps: Try to involve all the other leadership groups and entire community from ground
up and leadership down to rebrand Yakima Valley in a positive light. How to engage others in
these efforts? How to help make these efforts lead to a positive reduction in crime as that is
the focus of SYV?
Change the minds/values of all to the positive focus of our communities.
Same core values across cultural divides.
Get those who want to do something the chance to do it. e.g. Bob’s car club story. Young
people not knowing how to contribute.
“This I believe” model of values clarification gathering. Conversations between people who are
different from each other to help build bridges between cultures, communities, age groups,
parts of the valley.
I am campaign (Brian). “We are Yakima Valley” diverse age, culture, background folks in ad
style campaign. T shirts, buttons etc. involve kids and school, interest is amplified.
Change perception of valley as ABAGTE has regarding motorcycle clubs and riders. )(Mike
Szoba)
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Session Title:
Improving Intervention In Drug Addicted Lives
Facilitator:
Ken Irwin
Participants: Bruce Seghers Jone Arent, Heidi Barnett , Joe Brusic, Janice Luvaas, Lee
Murdock, Bill Starr
Synopsis and key points from the session:
DRUG INTERVENTION
Current: one off meth
Equals 5-6 less crimes in a day
Joe: says Yakima Drug court works
Problem: Client pays for treatment
IDEAS:
Intervene WHEN they are YOUNG Start at age 8 to 14
PREVENTION
PARENT education and resources
Peer to peer mentoring
Check out YC life
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Session Title: Teaching Self Governance
Facilitator: Bob Sharp
Participants: Anna Marie Dufault
Synopsis and key points from the session:
The Center for Self Governance is in the state of WA. It was founded in Tennessee with the idea
of teaching people how to communicate with elected officials.
Sandy Belzer is one of the instructors. Pam Leslie is out of Okonangon County and is also an
instructor.
$40/ class
There are 5 classes; Bob has taken the first class called Introduction to Self Governance
A way of empowering people, to help people learn about the consequences of actions, the
consequences of laws
Action steps:
Look at sponsorships, e.g. a Church in Zillah sponsored a training 8 am to 3 pm
A challenge is getting young people interested and involved
Interest the young people by answering the question “what I am going to get out of it now?
All of the pressure isn’t on ONE individual but we can leverage the power of the collective
individuals
Who else do needs to be involved:
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Sessions Title: Breaking Toxic Relationships
Facilitator Name: Patricia Byers
Participants:
Elisa Powel, Jesse Torres, Verlynn Best, Heather Elmore, Erica Parkinson, Christine Goodwin
Synopsis and key points from session:
Need more involvement from churches. “Souls on sidewalks” Lift up neighborhoods by getting
in and helping to change it. Maybe even a group going in to pray for particular neighborhoods.
Work together in unity. Let the empty chairs be an example. Need bilingual. Need to bring the
gap among groups, ie races, donors, etc. bridge gaps by working with schools. Adams made
efforts to engage parents. Starts with good communication and good customer service. Get
information into the community to the people directly, maybe through. This forum is for the
whole county, not just Yakima city. Take these forums to the lower valley communities in the
community centers, or in the churches, or schools so their voices are represented. We want to
hear what the youth in the valley say, and their parents, and their grandparents. This forum is
probably not a comfortable setting for many folks in the valley. Maybe at the Southeast
Community Center.
Regarding breaking toxic cycles – can’t do it without spiritual pieces. The fruit doesn’t fall far
from the tree..heavy emphasis on parents. Focus on the positive. People respond to love.
What are the avenues to do that? Collaboration among resources and services. Use the
housing sites to provide education. Making the touch and building the trust. The importance
of touch (use an example of a group stroking hair). There are 2 chambers right now, why aren’t
they joined. Right now there seems to be a need to 2. Redo some of the old boarded houses
and let new police officers live in them for free so there is a police presence in the communities
and build relationships with residents. Kissel park has been a great asset to that neighborhood.
Mixed races and people living together in the neighborhood.
Love home, but don’t feel safe in the neighborhood (near YvCC in 14th). Neighbor wants to
have a neighborhood block watch. Need to come up with solutions. Can’t keep to yourself.
Abandoned homes – can the city enforce regulations for owners to keep up the property?
(Virginia State model). Turned them over to Habitat for Humanity to revitalize and turn back
over to the community. Have to make hard decisions to hold people accountable. Might make
some people uncomfortable but need to do something.
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People staying the night in the parks, like Miller Park. Fix up the old homes and give homeless
space to live. The city government has an obligation to serve their constituency. Yakama
Nation needs to be brought to the table as well. Assisting homeowners that are struggling to
keep up their homes.
A lot of slum loards in Yakima that are taking advantage of renters.
A New Normal – some people don’t have a value system or one that is diluted. Cosmetic stuff
will only help in some way, but getting back to core values. How do we get people to focus on
others, not just me.
Back to idea of having small forums throughout the valley in communities.
Action steps including who will be involved:
Elisa and Pratricia are going to talk with Yakima School Superintendent.
Heather can help organize smaller forums in lower Yakima Valley communities
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Session Title: Healthy Lifestyles
Facilitator: Melanie Willis, Northwest Community Action Center - YVFWC
Participants: Lisa Hall, Northwest Harvest, Susan Martin, Community Volunteer, David Lynx, Larson
Gallery, Allen Jokerst, YMCA
Synopsis and key points from the session: sense of wellbeing crime and some need not being met,
yogo collective donation empowerment and meditation, yogo calm for youth and offering at afterschool
or before and after lunch to
- Walking on greenway, hiking, identifiable trails, places for kids to go, community gardens
- How to find out about opportunities
- Maps leave at doctors offices, google, neighborhoods,
o Kid friendly places
o Free places for families
o Explore central Washington passes
o Connectivity to neighborhoods, emerald greenways, convenient and welcoming
o People for people county transportation plan
o Insert in county something for kid friendly stuff
o Walk need somewhere to go to. Destinations.
o David Lynx has data to comprehensive map plan that was dropped!!!
 Need someone who can commit and donate time to it
 Dalles has beautiful plan
- Outdoor adventure club… wetlands protected land selah ridge cowiche
- Geocaching, gives a destination, something to look for,
- Takes a while to get used to being outside but then they embrace it
o Middle schoolers. Out of the house
- Volkswalk.. medals for walks, certificates
o Info on next walk… incentive
o Feet first seattle. Businesses incentivize getting points.
 Employee wellness
- Young people to take responsibility for their wellness
o It will help their anger... how to reach them? It will meet their needs
 How will it help their pocketbook. Health care costs
- Caregiver support for young people
- Rev it up should reconvene.
o Safe routes to school grants
o How do we sustain?
- Website? One stop shop.
- Access to healthy foods, spiritual health, financial health, mental health,
- Enough self esteem
- How do kids get $$$
o Most jobs you have to be 18
o How do we help them find skills and talents, importance of volunteering
- Childhood care classes
o Childcare so that those that have to watch their siblings can go and hs can watch them
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Safe places to walk
Volunteer fix it up day. Someone shares their skills – bike, clothes repairs
Neighborhood community engagement… event
If we clean it up then what? Planting day?
Leaders from middle schools on tour and become ambassadors
Open forum for youth
What is unique about your neighborhood? Will have to come up with our own plan
Peer health mentors
Action steps:
- Create a comprehensive trails map that connects neighborhoods
o Key where child friendly, dog, and family friendly, community gardens, sights on interest
o Incentivize for individuals, families, youth with points and rewards from local businesses
o Make it into an app, a website, a city info insert, post at schools, dr.
o Create more safe places for people to walk that open up isolated parks
- Promote geocaching and volksmarch which already offers certificates, stamps, and recognition
- National Night Out more than once a year
- Replicate the Rev Up coalition
Who else do needs to be involved:
- Fred Hutchinson
o Survey people about needs, parks,
- Rev It Up Coalition
- Yakima VolksMarch
- Local businesses who are interesting in promoting health
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Session Title: Mentoring – Businesses & Organizations – Barge-Lincoln and Garfield Elementary
Schools (Jeff Hagler – YMCA)
Participants: Solarity Credit Union; Cashmere Valley Bank; Yakima School District; State Farm
Insurance; Toppenish Police Department; West Valley Church; City of Union Gap; Habitat for Humanity;
Ellensburg Police Department; Prosecutor’s Office; EPIC Early Childhood; Community Volunteers;
Molina Healthcare; People for People
Synopsis and key points from the session:
3:15 to 4:30 is the current time frame for Barge-Lincoln and Garfield
Build relationships with elementary students –one on one – build trust.
High school students should have to go out and volunteer in their communities – that way they build
relationships with adults and learn to make wise life choices.
Elementary students (4th and 5th grade) are identified by school counselor.
Solarity Credit Union has allowed employees to get off early and volunteer in this program.
Applicants fill out form and screen them – background checks.
How can we use social media? Could even be the only method of communication with mentor. Way to
touch base with mentor/student.
How do we get more mentors? Barbershops, churches, stores – plant the seed. Convince gatekeepers
to buy into it – then approach employee. (Solarity is a good example). Be succinct in what you want.
Different game depending on age of student – maybe have older students go to the site of the mentor.
Contact representatives of youth exchange programs. Latino Professional Association – want to mentor!
Every Block Watch should have a mentor to children. New Leaders – United Way organization. Jeff has
a PowerPoint presentation for organizations if you’re interested in viewing it. When you pitch, be
specific to the organization.
Eric Silvers (State Farm) organized a mentor program for African-American students at Davis High School
– very successful!
Overall vision: 30 students at each school with a mentor
Each administrator at Davis is assigned 10 students (incoming freshmen) to work with and mentor –
would like to know how YMCA is doing it and what they are doing.
Obstacles: Time off. Fear.
Action steps:
Who else do needs to be involved:
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Session Title: Youth Sex Trafficking
Facilitator Name: Drew Rodman and Gina Teran
Participants: Ron M, Joe Willis, Edith Alvarez, Tracy Dumas, Karolynn Tom, James Abbenhaus,
Misty Liles, Dave Oldenkamp, Dave Hansen, Drew Rodman, Ken Marble, Michael Moore, Steve
Bernard
Synopsis and key points from session:
Trafficking through gangs.
Sex trafficking ages 25-30 and youth from 12-18years of age
Some indicators for youth that might be exploited: runaways, homeless youth, multiple phones,
expensive clothes, looking much older, older boyfriend, addicted to drugs, involved in gangs,
victims of sexually assault, traveling a lot, dropped out of school,
Juvenile system has a survey included in the intake processes in which has some flagging
indicators.
Rods house has been offering services for gang members and homeless youth that need help
being taken out of their situation.
Teaching young ladies what it means to be taken care of or cared for without mixing the need
of it and want.
Opportunities of help! One part of the community not wanting to help other parts of the
community. Youth not moving from one side of town to another because of an imaginary fence.
Finding ways to engage youth to be involved with youth.
Some things that we might be missing for youth before age 12 that could prevent them from
reaching the point of being victimized.
Look at the problem at home. Youths tend to have they’re first alcohol and drug with they’re
parents.
Getting them before! Teaching the young girls that they are worth and value, before it reaches
a point of coming a victim.
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Teens educating teens. Teens are more able to communicate with teens and find indicators,
since they are the ones talking to each other.
The recovery of the youth is difficult to begin. Teaching them basic skills to start the process
with professionals and having resources to the table.
Action steps including who will be involved:
Finding a way to get into the school to train educators.
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Session Title: Civic Duty
Facilitator Name: Verlyn Best
Synopsis and key points from session:
Civic Engagement is everyone’s responsibility.
Get involved in the community make a difference. Working in the community to provide what
they need and working toward those goals.
Working tirelessly for common purpose without concern for credits.
There is a division in the community along lines of raise. Erasing the lines that separate are
community.
Action steps including who will be involved:
Create more opportunity that are within their communities
Give an hour to make a difference in your community.
What are the examples that other cities are doing to cross divides.
Enforce zoning violations. Redeveloped distressed neighborhoods.
Is our law enforcement engaging the community. reflect the makeup of the community.
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Session Title: Inclusion of People in Poverty
Facilitator: Deidre Dennis
Participants: Elisa Powell, Adrianne Garner, Lisa Hall, Rev. Juliet Hemphill, Lee Murdock, Steve Mitchell,
Christine Goodwin, Joan Arendt, Anna Marie Dufault, Dana Dwinell, Bryon HallenBauch, Taylor Storm,
Ron McClurkin, Matt Fairbank, Chuck Goll, David Lynx
Synopsis and key points from the session:
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Create a Community Voice.
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What are the issues within the family structure?
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How do we assist/teach families in becoming self- sufficient?
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How do we help people out of poverty?
Action steps:
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Host focus groups in different parts of town to garner information from families about what is
needed.
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Who is going to be the conduit? Safe Yakima?
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How do gain access or identify those families? Partners Yakima would include Yakima School
District, People for People, DSHS CSO, Goodwill Industries.
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How do we connect people in poverty to 211 to identify resources?
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How do we get adults engaged? Working through the children.
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Family to Family mentoring.
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Create a Community Survey, similar to the United Way Compass.
Who else do needs to be involved:
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Families that live in Poverty be brought to the table.
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Think about serving 3-4 families per year, and provide services.
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Session Title: Jesus Christ is the hope and answer to the problems
Facilitator: Jesse Torres
Participants: Bill Starr Heidi Barnett Jakki MacLean Joel Ackeret
Synopsis and key points from the session:
Let people know
One day of prayer for Yakima neighbors to love neighbors, prosperity, drug intervention for the drug
addicted,
Coordinate with all churches allocate resources and not duplicate services
Web site can be used as a clearing house for any ministries or individuals who want or need resources.
FOCUS ON THE POSSITIVE
YAKIMA WILL BE KNOWN AS A PLACE OF MIRACLES
VALLEY OF ABBUNDANCE AND PROSPERITY
Action steps:
PRAYER
See web site transformyakima.org
Jakki Maclean will continue to develop this web site.
Who else do needs to be involved: ALL CHURCHES
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Session Title: Neighborhood Engagement
Facilitator: Michael Morales
Participants: Earl Hall, Mary O’Brien, Steve Luten, Michael Morales, Tom Oliva, Ken Marble, Rod
Otterness, Michael O’Neill, Edwin Radder, Caroline Folsom-Hill, Steve Hill, Verlynn Best, Ken Irwin, Ruby
Bartz, Mike Szuba, Paul Diamond
Synopsis and key points from the session:
The way to go is taking small bites one block at a time.
Opening up communication between residence and leadership (government, civic, non-profits)
Needs to come from residence.
Trying to get businesses or social clubs to adopt a block.
Helping partners come into do small fix it projects
Being really careful not to shame people, helping the community set the standard, raise the standard,
for the community.
Outlook story – high crime for long period of time, gathering people together, (CWMH, YVFW,…) took a
survey, community gathering (people were hostile) asking “what do you want?”, meeting every month
for about 6 months, supplied food, clean up (spring & fall), brought a lot of focus. Kids can play outside
now.
If you had someone who was really involved and focused on the neighborhood it might go faster.
The most important asset is the people in any community. You need to find the good people and find
ways to connect them.
In is important to find the neutral place to help make the connection.
Other issues NE SE Yakima are too categorically too big. We need community organizer in each block.
We need investments into those neighborhoods. We need to rethink how we approach the
neighborhood. Smaller may be better.
Action steps:
Figure out ways to help people organize smaller scale community engagement events.
Who else needs to be involved:
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Session Title: The Big O sports complex
Facilitator Name: Rick Devila
Participants:
Bob Hall, Kailan Dunn, Jennifer Knight, Rick Devila, Susan Martin, Lynn Harlington, Freya Burgstaller
Synopsis and key points from session:
Idea is to support sports expansion in Yakima that promotes family and youth activities including soccer,
rugby, lacrosse and other sports.
Great community support for sports
Great weather
Great ripple on funds into community (food, lodging, business)
Place for local kids to demonstrate skills to recruiters from institutions of higher education.
Action steps including who will be involved:
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Session Title: Juveniles/Youth Activities
Facilitator Name: Ruth Ann Cortez & Melanie Willis
Participants:
Yakima School District; Northwest Community Action Center; Wapato Police Department; Juvenile
Court; County Commissioner; Prosecutor’s Office; State Farm; Homeland Security; EPIC; Solarity Credit
Union; YMCA; Yakima Alliance Church; People for People; Retirees; Heritage; Rod’s House
Synopsis and key points from session:
Crime rate is down, but you look around and it’s hard to believe – so many unhappy victims.
Community members have to be the parents as well. How do you make parents, parent. Some parents
are afraid of their own kids.
Kids are bored.
Wapato PD met with three graffiti captains – the kids asked for a wall. They ended up finding a wall and
supplying the paint. The kids picked the rules – no gang inference. You just have to do what you can to
try and get out of the box. “What works in Wapato may not work in another community.”
There are some wonderfully talented artists in our community – how can we provide a place or service
for them – value of a human being.
Need community center(s) – something for kids to do after school
The community needs to be an active participant in the solution – don’t always look to the government
(city, county, schools)
Need to start dealing with the “heart” of our people. Honor their talents. A lot of great ideas are not the
students’ ideas. The kids you are seeing today are not the kids of the past. You have to keep up with it.
No one size fits all. A wall – a Boys & Girls Club – a couple of each. Go outside the box. Give them
options. This is a good start, but let’s include the kids in the process. Host a youth forum. I t’s about an
ongoing relationship. Youth voice needs to be represented – have youth advisory committees. An Open
Space for youth. Include Lower Valley youth. Make sure it’s a cross-section of youth – recruit to make
sure. Empower the youth! Have an electronic version of whatever we do – Facebook as well.
Plea by Dave Hanson: Mentors for Washington Middle School – homework. Action steps including who
will be involved: Youth Forum – involve the kids! A couple of walls. Mural
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Session Title: Art
Facilitator: Karolynn Tom
Participants:
David Lynx, Adrianne Garner, Edith Alvarez
Synopsis and key points from the session:
Art! We are losing the art opportunities.
What else can we do to make our community better with art?
Allied Arts, Warehouse Theater?
A good way for youth to participate in and keep them away from crime.
Graffiti being a form of art, youth use it as a way of expressing themselves.
Panels in which art can be placed and replaced within a year. Would that encourage and support
graffiti?
The importance of Art, youth tend to learn differently and can have a way of expressing themselves. Art
just doesn’t consist of painting and drawing but there is also dancing.
Having a way of making artist feel proud, by allowing their art to be shown to family and friends in a
gallery.
It’s a way to have parents work with their kids.
Encouraging youth in participate in art as a way of self-expressing.
Having a style of art. There are two different types of youth or taggers art. There’s the youth that are
doing tagging to be destructive and others are in a way of expressing.
Having an open space wall for youth to express themselves without it being illegal. Having art contests in
which t-shirts can be done, by the youth. Greeting Cards! Scrap booking!
Action steps:
Follow up with how Mighty Titan is working.
The walls!!
Arts van!
Who else do needs to be involved:
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Session Title: Auto Theft Prevention
Facilitator Name: Nikki Sandino
Participants: Nikki Sandino, Amy Hayes, Karri Livingston, Lynn Harlington, Eric Silvers, Ken Marble, Bob
Hall
Synopsis and key points from session:
How to prevent auto thefts in Yakima
Community education is a major part: how fast it happens, what thieves are looking for
Preventative actions
Car clubs: community services, prevention
Group effort: discussion between police, insurance companies, car dealers, accessory installers
(Hendo’s, etc.); Washington State Patrol
What happens after your car is stolen?
GPS device/smartphone app (State Farm): share the technology with the public, sticker or window decal
that indicates vehicle is monitored, discounted insurance
Encourage local businesses (grocery stores, convenience stores), schools, YVCC need to post signs to
remind people to lock their cars, take their valuables
Things you can do around your home to prevent auto thefts: lighting, cameras, etc
12 major insurance companies in Yakima: each one takes a month and incorporates auto theft
prevention into their advertising
Farmer’s Market booth
Action steps including who will be involved:
Task force involving police, insurance companies, accessory installers, car dealers
Auto Theft Prevention Week
Talk to local businesses/YVCC about posting in their windows, reminding drivers to lock up/don’t keep
valuables in the vehicle
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www.safeyakimavalley.com or contact us at 509-248-2021 ext. 112
Session Title: Restorative Justice
Facilitator: Earl Hall
Participants: Taylor Storm, Dirk Bernd, Drew Bernd, Dave Hanson, Jakki MacLean, Mike Szuba, Bill Starr,
Jenny Knight, Ruthanne Cortez, MaryBeth Wright, Dave Oldenkamp, Martt Fairbank, Kathleen Carter,
Randal Carter, Adrianne Garner, Troy Clements, Curt R., David Hawkins
Synopsis and key points from the session:
Bad things happen, how do we get them back into to community to do positive things.
Matt Fairbanks-Spoke on before and after events that caused damage, how did that affect
When kids go through court, they have community service to perform.
Gang court mentorship program, kids are still bombarded on a day to day basis. Build a long term
relationship with the kids.
Public sponsored youth center in the community, providing or filling the void for the missing parent or
lack or mentorship. Similar to Madison house, YMCA midnight madness. This was a key topic.
How can we educate the youth about respect for the law and law enforcement, kids and those in there
20’s and even 30’s seem to have a lack or respect for the law.
YSD does have resource officers with them in the school, and they are available to go to the elementary
schools, but there is a lack of funding on both sides. Teaching kids how the respect the law and
everyone.
Today is a rights culture and not a responsibility culture.
Action steps: David is going to do the Revival.
Mentorship program, one is available through YMCA.
Afterschool programs, Get parents into the classroom with the kids.
Dave Hansen spoke on a program in the Mabton schools that they did
Who else do needs to be involved: Churches and service organizations.
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Session Title: YC Life Better Decisions through Better Data
Facilitator: Michael Moore, Lee Murdock Steve Hill
Participants: Sharp, Jim Keightley, Steve Hill, Bryan Hollenbaugh
Synopsis and key points from the session:
½ of the county is under the age 21
1/3 under the age of 18
High percentage of population over the age of 25 without 9th grade education
With four years of data we can now start looking at trends
Use the data to match programs to where services are needed
We live in a community that has a major minority
Very valuable for grants
Action steps:
How can we impact voter participation—how to empower individual to engage in their community.
Get people engaged.
Do these sessions in the lower valley.
Who else do needs to be involved:
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www.safeyakimavalley.com or contact us at 509-248-2021 ext. 112