Intervention Programs

Intervention Teams:

Under Construction

  Truancy/Safe Neighborhoods:

Truancy/Safe Neighborhoods is a Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD)/Gang of One and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) collaborative that reduces juvenile criminal activity and truancy and increases student attendance in school utilizing CMPD officers in a school-based intervention team model.

 

When an officer working with Truancy/Safe Neighborhoods observes a youth who is possibly truant, the officer conducts a voluntary field interview. The officer questions the youth about his or her absence from school. The officer contacts the youth's school to confirm if the youth is excluded, suspended or truant. If the youth is truant, the officer will take the youth to the school where the youth is enrolled. The youth is referred to the school’s Truancy Intervention Team.

 

Members of the school’s Truancy Intervention Team may include the school social worker; CMPD Truancy Officer; CMPD School Resource Officer (SRO); a school administrator; the school attendance secretary/monitor. The Truancy Intervention Team assesses referred students to determine probable causes of the truancy and identifies available resources to meet the needs of the student and/or family. The team follows referred students regarding ongoing attendance, behavior, criminal behavior and/or gang behavior.

 

Weed and Seed Truancy Court:

The primary goal of the Truancy Court Program is to utilize a multi-disciplinary team of school and community personnel to develop creative and innovative approaches to address and reduce excessive unexcused absences and tardiness.  Truancy Court is a prevention strategy that is employed prior to referring students and parents/guardians for court involvement.  This team is usually facilitated by the School Social Worker and provides support for students who have demonstrated chronic absenteeism and tardiness.

Objectives

Decrease unexcused absences

Decrease excessive absences, including excused absences

Decrease excessive tardiness

Decrease in-school and out-of-school suspensions

Assist in providing school-based and community-based services to help improve attendance and to meet family needs.

        

Reentry Programs

STG Reentry Program

The goal of the Security Threat Group (STG) Reentry Program is to restore offenders to their families and the communities, helping them find work and reducing recidivism.  The STG Reentry Coordinator will coordinate pre-release and post-release reentry planning with persons who have previous gang affiliations leaving prison, using a strengths-based approached.