My Monthly Charity July 2008

My Monthly Charity July 2008 will be the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids organization. This is a national non-profit organization focused on crime prevention by educating kids. Fight Crime: Invest in Kids is run by top law enforcement officials including police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, other law enforcement leaders and violence survivors.

“America must cut the pipeline that funnels young people into lives of crime and violence. We take a hard-nosed look at research on what keeps kids from becoming criminals and put that information in the hands of policy-makers and the public.”

The organization focuses on 4 areas in achieving it’s goals including:

• Early education programs - educating prekindergarten kids to put them on the right path helps prevent them from becoming a criminal.
• Child abuse and neglect prevention - promoting better parenting through early education for new parents along home visiting programs to prevent abuse and neglect.
• After-school programs - research has shown that the after school time from 2pm - 6pm is known as the “prime time for juvenile crimes” where an estimated 14 million kids are unsupervised during that time frame. Offering supervised programs during that critical time helps prevent kids from committing crimes.
• Intervention with troubled kids - through close supervision and interventions this helps keep kids from committing criminal acts.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids has a great mission with lots of research and facts to back up their strategy to fighting crime. If there are changes that need to be made to prevent crime, investing in kids is the perfect approach to the problem. Kids are the future and it’s the best investment out there for a better future.