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S.N.A.P.'s
Mission:
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Safe Neighborhoods
AmeriCorps Partnership’s mission is to join with residents, institutions and
community organizations in implementing public safety initiatives to eliminate
the threat of crime, violence and fear to innocent people, especially the
elderly, youth, and physically challenged persons who due to economic,
race/ethnic, cultural, faith and/or gender circumstances are found vulnerable.
The program’s goal is to reduce crime, violence and fear in Bridgeport
through a multi strategy approach that improves the physical environment of
economically depressed neighborhoods while simultaneously strengthens children
and youth’s resiliency skills to deter them from risky behaviors such as gangs
and drug dealing, and help them realize their future potential as contributing
members of their neighborhoods and the broader community.
We aim to serve the Bridgeport community by:
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Joining together with residents,
institutions, police
and fire
officials as well as other people of good will
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Eliminate the
threat of violence,
fear, and crime to innocent people and vulnerable communities
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Strengthen the capacity of
Bridgeport’s neighborhoods to address public safety needs
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Make the neighborhoods safer and
more beautiful to live in
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The AmeriCorps Ethic
As part of the Safe
Neighborhoods AmeriCorps Partnership national service initiative, S.N.A.P.
works
toward the four AmeriCorps goals:
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Getting Things Done
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Strengthening Communities
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Encouraging Responsibility
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Expanding Opportunity
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Getting
Things Done 
S.N.A.P.
aims, more than
anything else to help communities meet their public safety needs.
In the S.N.A.P. Program, we get
things done by:
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Engaging residents, police,
community groups, and institutions in increasing public awareness of safety,
violence prevention, and crime prevention.
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Enhancing the security of resident
households by implementing a Safe Home program, in collaboration with the
Bridgeport Police Department, the Neighborhood Action Councils, Faith-based
institutions, Community Organizations and the Fire Department.
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Developing, in cooperation with
community policing initiatives and neighborhoods groups, neighborhood
revitalization and improvement projects that focus on reclaiming homes plagued
by open drug sales and other activities that threaten neighborhood safety.
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Conducting multi-faceted crime and
violence prevention activities for youth, adults and the elderly.
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Providing children and youth with
positive educational, recreational, and service opportunities.
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Strengthening Communities
S.N.A.P.
aims to unite all kinds of individuals and institutions in the common effort to
improve communities. S.N.A.P. believes that a strong
and well connected community is better able to resist crime, violence, and fear.
We believe that the best public safety approaches are those that are
designed, owned, and celebrated by neighborhood people.
Based on these principles, S.N.A.P.
strengthens communities by:
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Developing meaningful partnerships
with resident, police, neighborhoods groups, businesses, faith-based
institutions, community based organization, youth, street organizations,
and other groups, with the aim of improving communities between groups
and working to improve neighborhood conditions.
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Promoting active citizenship and
increasing the pool of volunteers who are visibly working to uplift Bridgeport
and increase public safety
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Sponsoring events related to
community development, public safety, cultural/ethnic relations, and
neighborhood pride and celebration
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Encouraging
Responsibilities
S.N.A.P.
encourages
members to explore and exercise their responsibilities to their communities,
their families, and themselves—in their service experience and throughout
their lives.
S.N.A.P.
encourages all of its
members to be positive role models and responsible citizens.
S.N.A.P.
encourages
responsibility by helping each member to act as a Model Ambassador, who is:
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Hard working and willing to listen
and learn
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Able to work independently
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Reliable
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Able to work with diverse
populations
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Someone with a vision for
improving the community
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Courteous, kind, and generous
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Committed to the program
principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility,
cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith
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Expanding Opportunity
S.N.A.P.
creates more opportunity for those who take more responsibility. S.N.A.P. members receive awards to further their education
or pay back their student loans—as well as invaluable job experience,
specialized training, and life skills.
In addition to providing
members with education awards at the end of their terms of service, S.N.A.P. expands
opportunity by:
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Providing constructive
opportunities for members to avail themselves of relevant training, in service
orientation, skill-building, capacity-building, and access to career information
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Exposing members to the
appropriate technology and tools to equip them to perform high-quality community
service. This includes training in
trade and vocational areas, public speaking, presentations, curriculum
development, research, etc.
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Supporting the
personal and professional growth of members through intergenerational
relations, service learning technology, logs/journals, mentoring and guidance,
self –discipline, and civic work and responsibility.
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Allowing members to channel their
talents into constructive service
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