CCDO's In-Sites Magazine - Winter 2004 issue

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Winter 2004 issue of In-Sites magazine, published by the Community Capacity Development Office (formerly Weed & Seed Office), Office Justice Programs (OJP)

This Issue Welcome to the first electronic issue of Weed & Seed In-Sites. CCDO has remade In-Sites into an electronic-only publication to give you quick and easy access to important information from the field and to update you on CCDO’s new focus areas: public housing, reentry, and American Indian/Alaska Native affairs. Several articles are highlighted below; find others by clicking on the topical links above.
Features
Gastonia: Model of Community Policing When Sgt. Dee Dee Rhinehart looked out her bus window at the hundreds of homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, she couldn’t believe her eyes. She was not used to the numbers, but she certainly understands the problem of homelessness and why police have to pay attention to it.	Project Team: Recipe for Reentry Success Because 70 percent of returning adult offenders in Ogden lack diplomas and many are functionally illiterate, Project Team will help parolees obtain high school diplomas and access a basic education. Three neighborhood career centers offer English-as-a-Second-Language courses and computer classes.
Fighting Poverty With a New Partner The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service, works with community organizations to provide high-quality tax preparation services, free of charge, to low-income tax filers.	Super Sites: A HUD/DOJ Public Housing Safety Initiative The U.S. Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development have joined together to assist in the investigation, prosecution, and prevention of violent crimes and drug offenses in public and federally assisted housing.