Allstate Foundation Partners with National Crime Prevention Council
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Allstate
Foundation is organizing interactive youth workshops on law enforcement-teen
communication, preventing hate crimes, and understanding diversity. The
workshops are part of the National Crime Prevention Council's 2003 National
Youth Summit on Preventing Violence. The National Youth Summit takes place
February 15th-18th in Anaheim, California. The summit is expected to bring 800
youth from around the country to Southern California. Teens will be learning,
sharing their experiences, and building solution-oriented action plans to
bring back to their communities.
"These workshops will be a tremendous sounding board of youth opinion and
feelings from around the country," said The Allstate Foundation's Executive
Director Jan Epstein. "Empowering youth to make their communities and schools
safer is one of the most effective ways to help build safe and vital
communities. Helping foster safe and vital communities is one of The Allstate
Foundation's primary objectives."
The workshops ...
How would you react if approached by the police? "The Law and You" is a
90-minute program conducted in cooperation with local law enforcement
professionals to encourage appropriate interaction between teenagers and
police. The session includes video and open discussion between teens and law
enforcement, emphasizing proper and effective communication between both youth
and the police. In this session, both law enforcement officials and teens have
the opportunity to teach each other.
"Exploring Diversity: Valuing Self and Others" is a highly interactive
three hour mega-session where teens learn how people differ and why diversity
is something of value. They will explore the factors that create prejudice,
clarify the distinction between noticing differences and developing bias
attitudes, and the importance of individual identity. They will learn
strategies for managing their behaviors in order to promote inclusion and
leverage diversity. Through activities and exercises, they will get in touch
with personal feelings, experience difference perspectives, and learn how to
leverage diversity.
Devastating Consequences: The Real Story behind Hate Crimes is conducted
in cooperation with the Organization of Chinese Americans. The workshop will
break down the issues surrounding hate crimes and their impact on the
community. We will provide the youth participants with valuable information
about how to prevent these crimes and how to act in the event they are witness
to one. Teens participating in the workshop will share their feelings on hate
and how they feel it impacts them.
The National Youth Summit on Preventing Violence is a four-day event that
combines hands-on learning with action. It is an opportunity to mobilize our
nation's youth and involve them in changing the negative perception about
youth and crime. Summit programs teach young people how to create change and
have them act on their knowledge while still at the Summit. Participants will
attend training sessions, an off-site educational field trip, and voice their
ideas for reducing crime and violence through roundtable discussions. McGruff
Ambassadors representing each state will compile these ideas and present
policy recommendations at the culmination of the Youth United for a Stronger
America March and Rally, which closes the summit.
"Upon returning to their communities, participants will be challenged to
use the new skills they learned at the Summit. The Summit engages participants
at several levels mentally through education, emotionally through passion for
the issue, and physically through the march and the off-site mega-sessions,"
said National Crime Prevention Council Vice-President Jim Copple.
The Allstate Foundation is an independent, charitable organization made
possible by the Allstate Corporation. The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) is
the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer. Widely known
through the "You're In Good Hands With Allstate(R)" slogan, Allstate provides
insurance and financial investment products to more than 16 million households
and has approximately 12,500 exclusive agents and financial specialists in the
U.S. and Canada. Allstate and The Allstate Foundation sponsor community
initiatives to promote "safe and vital communities"; "tolerance, inclusion,
and diversity"; and "economic empowerment." The Allstate Foundation believes
in the financial potential of every individual and in helping America's
families achieve their American dream.
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