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Goal: All Burlington residents have access to quality,
affordable and appropriate personal and family health and prevention services; all residents are assured of safety and quality of life
in their neighborhoods and in their homes; and residents have access to restorative justice
methods for repairing harm caused by community conflict and criminal behavior.
Five-Year Focus:
- Maintain preventive health care education, including HIV/AIDS education
and drug and alcohol education, for low income City residents.
- Work to ensure that health care, including dental care, is available to
all regardless of their ability to pay and regardless of cultural/linguistic
barriers.
- Reduce sexual and domestic violence, and support crisis intervention,
support, education, and assistance to battered women and their children and
other victims of sexual assault.
- Improve regional prevention, intervention, treatment and enforcement
strategies for residents dealing with substance abuse.
- Support prevention, intervention and treatment strategies for youth at
risk of drug and alcohol abuse.
- Encourage neighborhood solutions to safety concerns.
- Strengthen neighborhood block/street associations citywide and support
neighborhood cleanup activities.
- Encourage community participation in the Burlington Neighborhood
Project, block-level neighborhood organizations in Burlington's low income
neighborhoods, to work with local law enforcement agencies to address crime,
drug-related problems, violence against women and children and
neighbor-to-neighbor disputes.
- Encourage citizen participation in conflict mediation programs such as
the Community Support Program.
- Support restorative and alternative justice programs such as the Community Justice
Center.
- Develop an integrated neighborhood-based prevention, intervention
and restorative services program under the umbrella of the Community Justice
Center.
- Support the First Response Teams, through which volunteers help
low-income residents repair vandalism.
- Support the re-entry of incarcerated offenders back into the community.
- Increase the scope and effectiveness of community-based policing.
- Encourage cooperation between victims, advocates and law enforcement
officers.
- Support the "Hiring in the Spirit of Service"
project, to recruit and hire a diverse pool of community-minded officers
reflective of the city's diversity.
Page last updated May 13, 2003
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