SafeSchoolsPhilly website updated

Posted by on March 26, 2007

ISCV Launches Updated “SafeSchoolsPhilly” Web Site

The Institute for the Study of Civic Values is launching today an updated “SafeSchoolsPhilly ” web site aimed at providing fast access to information and programs needed to improve safety in our schools and in the neighborhoods around them.

You can access the web site at http://safeschoolsphilly.org or reach it from the phillyneighborhoods.org web site.

The Institute developed the “SafeSchoolsPhilly.org web site ” in 2004 as part of a city-wide effort supported by the School District and the City to develop social contracts between schools and neighborhood groups defining how they could work together to reduce violence in and around schools. A city-wide social contract was developed, along with social contracts in the North Philadelphia based Central Region, Frankford, Bartram, and Vare. ISCV still manages a YahooGroup for the Central Region Safety Coalition in North Philadelphia. All the social contracts we negotiated can be found on the SafeSchoolsPhilly.org web site.

The SafeSchoolsphilly.org web site also provides links to groups and agencies working on all aspects of this problem–prevention, enforcement, and remediation of juvenile offenders. It you want to know what the School District, the City, and community organizations are doing to promote safe schools and safe neighborhoods, this is where you can find it. If you want to get involved, this will show you how.

This Saturday more than 1,000 block captains will gather at the Convention Center to launch the 2007 block cleanup season.

ISCV will be there–showing block captains how to use our email lists to connect with one another and our web sites to find groups working on neighborhood problems.

We don’t need a web site to tell us that crime and the safety of our young people are two of the most serious problems facing Philadelphia today. We all know that.

ISCV offers the Safeschoolsphilly.org web site as part of the solution.

If it helps you, let us know. And if there’s a link that we’ve missed, let us know that too.

We’re all in this together.

Ed Schwartz, President, ISCV