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Meridian Police Explorers

Meridian, Mississippi is a mid-size city with not many clubs or organizations for youth. With over 13 schools inside this county there is a great number of young people. This program needs help getting on its feet to become a great asset to the community.

STEROIDS Buy Now, Pay Later

As our end of the year class project we dicided to take a deeper look at the availibility of steroids sold through the internet. We found out you can be any one, any age it is all annonymous. Our plan to STOP this problem is to create a program for the police to use and track/shadow online sales. If this goes through we will eventually find a way to use this program to track all drug sellers. We need this grant in order to make the program.

Egleston Square Youth Center

William Morales won a BRICK Award in 1999 for his work as Director of the Egleston Square Youth Center in Roxbury, MA. A former gang member whose brother was killed by police, William launched youth & police in partnership to improve relations between local youth and police officers. His efforts led to safer neighborhoods and expanded opportunities for young people – including participants who have become police officers themselves.

Bay Area Police Watch

Van Jones founded and directed the San Francisco-based Bay Area Police Watch, an organization that assists survivors of police misconduct and brutality. Van won a BRICK Award in 1996.