Links

The following links are provided as a service to assist you with your neighborhood safety programs.

Crime prevention | Gang Prevention | Fire Prevention | Injury Prevention | Disaster Support

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Crime Prevention

Acworth PD | Austell PD | Cobb PD | Cobb Sheriff's Office | Kennesaw PD | Marietta PD | Powder Springs PD | Smyrna PD

www.Ncjrs.org - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
www.Mcgruff.org - Kids page
www.Ojp.usdoj.gov - Crime research and publications
www.Ncpc.org - General crime prevention information
www.Lib.msu.edu - Criminal Justice Resource, School Safety & Violence

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Gang Prevention

www.ncjrs.org/
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. They have a significant library of gang information available to sort by title and date. Everything from evaluation of gang intervention programs to national youth gang surveys.

www.iir.com/nygc/
Institute for Intergovernmental Research's (IIR) National Youth Gang Center conducts assessments of the scope and characteristics of youth gang activity in the United States, develops resources and makes them available to the field, and provides training and technical assistance in support of community-based prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts. They have a compilation of gang related legislation by state, a listing of promising gang program strategies, links to news articles, publications and you can sign-up to join a Listserv (GANGINFO) for discussion of suppression, intervention and prevention of youth gang crime.

ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), The Office strives to enable the juvenile justice system to better protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and provide services tailored to the needs of youth and their families. They have a great search engine for model programs, host for Communities Respond to Youth Gangs in America 8/11/2005 Videoconference 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET, Satellite/Web based, list of relevant OJJDP publications, programs, funding opportunities, events, and other resources.

prevention.samhsa.gov/
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, offers a strategic prevention platform, research-based model programs list, national survey data, links to all kinds of resources and interactive tools for problem assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation. Programs effectively addressing risk and resiliency factors produce positive outcomes useful for both drug and gang prevention.

www.ncadi.samhsa.gov/
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) provides information regarding various initiatives and a clearinghouse for publications on alcohol and other drugs and related subjects such as bullying, violence and gangs.

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Fire Prevention

Austell FD | Cobb FD | Marietta FD | Smyrna FD

www.nfpc.gov.sg
The National Fire Prevention Council's mission is to make residential, commercial and industrial sectors fire safe by promoting fire safety and prevention awareness to the public. Check out the kids page.

www.osha-slc.gov
Inside the osha.slc.gov website you will find the US Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Go to the site index on the Home Page and click on F for the Fire Safety Advisor.

www.usfa.fema.gov The US Fire Administration Website includes a variety of facts on fire, a fire safety directory, a spotlight fire prevention and also a kids page.

www.dos.state.ny.us Click on fire prevention and control for a detailed list of services, publications and information on fire safety and prevention.

www.homefiresprinkler.org This website offers information about home fire sprinklers and how to protect your family and home from fires. Be sure to visit the builders section.

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Injury Prevention

www.gohs.state.ga.us
Governor's Office of Highway Safety has tips for bicycle and pedestrian safety, traffic enforcement, auto occupant protection, community outreach programs, publications, news archives and federal, state and local statistics on traffic crashes.

www.dhr.state.ga.us
Georgia Department of Human Resources has information and resources on aging, family and children, mental health, developmental disabilities, addicitive diseases and public health.

www.health.state.ga.us
Georgia DHR's Division of Public Health has a health alert network plus publications on a wide-variety of topics, including such hot topics as bioterrorism, food services and pool inspections by county, and west nile virus.

www.cdc.gov/ncipc
CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control has fact sheets on a wide-variety of topics; adolecent injury, poisonings, teen drivers and much more. Data, prevention tips and resources on violence, unintentional injury and injury care. Spotlights page highlights calendar of national injury prevention campaigns.

www.nhtsa.dot.gov
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

www.foodsafety.gov
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information

www.mdpublichealth.org
Maryland Department of Community & Family Health

www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention
World Health Organization Dept. of Injuries and Violence Prevention

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Disaster Support

www.fema.gov  
Federal Emergency Management Agency
 
www.state.ga.us/gema 
Georgia Emergency Management Agency
 
http://www.nrc.gov 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission  
 
www.redcross.org 
American Red Cross

www.salvationarmyusa.org 
The Salvation Army

www.epa.gov  
Environmental Protection Agency  
 
www.nssl.uoknor.edu/nws/safety.html  
Severe Weather Safety Page
 
www.udel.edu/DRC/  
Disaster Research Center
 
 www.usace.army.mil/inet/functions/cw/cecwp/nfpc.htm 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Floodproofing Committee