High Point Community Against Violence Inc

“Expenses banking fees 230 printing and copying 187 supplies 150 supplies/office 1,009 telephone, telecommunications 3,500 office equipment/computers 230 meals & entertainment 849 business/board meetings 323 insurance expense 3,438 domestic violence expense 173 community dev contract ex 79,392 van expense 519 offender assistance 70,428 offender expenses 151 offender exp bus tickets 155 non-investment depreciation 1,671 total 162,405”

“Machinery & equipment 1,950 1,950 less accumulated depreciation 1,391 1,543 vehicles 3,425 3,425 less accumulated depreciation 3,425 3,425 total 559 407”

“-in partnership with the high point, nc police department, hpcav continued to be successful in our community oriented violent crime reduction strategy involving focused deterrence policing. Hpcav provides individual assistance to ex-offenders referred by the high point violent crimes task force with the goal of re-establishing them as productive citizens. Services provided include counseling, a 24 hour crisis line, assistance with living expenses, job training and help in securing employment. -special emphasis such as certain types of violence are catagorized through hpcav as follows: repeat violent crime offenders, drug market offenders, gang offenders, and domestic violence offenders. Most of the offenders in this program (97%)fall into the repeat violent crime offender catagory. -one of the programs offered to ex-offenders is the life construction program, which is divided into a 3 week and a 8 week course that encourages constructive rather than destructive use of mind and hands. Participants are required to commit to timely course attendance and receive instruction on using construction equipment, measuring and cutting materials in order to complete a building project that will be used somewhere in the community. Upon successful course completion, partipants are awarded a certificate of acheivement from the nc home builders association. 84% of ex offenders that complete this course do not have violent reoffence. -another program offered in the community is called at risk for gang activity. Vulnerable youth and their parents are encouraged to attend and receive education on the reality of gang activity in our community, how gangs operate and who is at risk of being inducted into a gang. They also discuss interventions that can help to secure employment avoid school dropouts making gang life less enticing. -there was a small decrese in violent crime overall in 2017, and this is one of the lowest years of violent crime since the peak in 1994. In 2017, the property crime index rate was up slightly from 2016, but it is still one of the lowest since the peak in 1996. (1973 was the year the uniform crime reporting system began.)”

“-efforts to curtail domestic violence have now culminated in a 21% reduction in intimate partner related crime. Dv is a silent crime, but the program has exposed the violent offenders without increasing harm to the victims. Hpcav's community message delivered directly to these offenders has opened their eyes to realize that they are accountable to their victims, society and law enforcement. -a 24hr hotline is now available for victims to call when a safe place is needed. Hpcav will help to secure an unknown location for protection of the victim until a relocation to a safe place is procured. -domestic violence ex offenders have access to the same programs and assistance as the violent crime offenders described in exempt purpose accomplishment 1.”