The Crime Awareness Coordinating Effort was developed after the death of a 10 year old girl in Kansas City   Kansas. This tragic event create an   uproar amongst many community leaders throughout the Kansas City Kansas area.

 

On Tuesday, October 27, 1998, a community forum was called by Friends of Yates, Inc. and the Baptist Minister’s Union to bring together community leaders throughout the area. A consensus came from the group that Wyandotte County needed a     community-based organization with a focus primarily on crime.

 

Shortly afterward, the first meeting of Crime Awareness Coordinating Effort (C.A.C.E) was held.

 

PURPOSE

 

To research, develop, connect and implement crime intervention strategies, which focus on high risk, depressed neighborhoods in Wyandotte county.

 

  

OBJECTIVES

 

• Develop partnerships with other organizations which have a common purpose

•  Provide awareness of existing services and programs related to crime.

•  Explore the Gaps in services.

•  Develop services and programs as needed.

•  Serve as a vehicle for keeping the community informed.

•  Provide a structure to allow accountability for crime reduction  efforts.

SPONSORED EVENTS

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• CRIME  VICTIM’S MEMORIAL  SERVICE

• MONDAY NIGHT FORUMS - Quarterly

• YOUTH SAFENIGHTS ACTIVITIES

• NATIONAL DOMESTIC - VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH (October)

 

PARTNER AGENCIES

 

FRIENDS OF YATES, INC. - SPONSOR

 

 

CHELSEA PLAZA

 

DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

(Victim’s Assistance Program))

 

GATEWAY PLAZA HOMES

 

KCK POLICE DEPARTMENT

 

PARTNERS WORKING AGAINST CRIME

  

UNITED NATION OF ISLAM

  

METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH

 

COMMUNITY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH