The Power of Community

Want to improve your community? Located in Tacoma, Washington, Safe Streets Campaign is a non-profit organization that brings people together—sometimes neighbors who get to know each other for the first time—to take back their streets.  Through forming neighborhood block organizations, we help you plant the seed of grassroots, community leadership. That leadership helps hold communities together, and links them with can-do people in agencies and organizations to make neighborhoods safe.  Working together is the key to reversing crime trends in our neighborhoods. Safe Streets is here to help create better, safer communities throughout Pierce County.

2008 Youth Media Contest
The Drug-Free Communities' "Transforming Lives...Transforming Communities" Coalition is sponsoring its annual Youth Media Contest. In a peer-to-peer education effort to decrease substance abuse in Pierce County, high school students are invited to create messages about the dangers of underage drinking, methamphetamine or marijuana. Top placeholders in the categories of creative writing, public service announcements and print art are eligible to win one of 3 $500 college scholarships, a media marketing internship and other prizes, as well as see their work become part of a countywide marketing campaign. Entry deadline is May 23.
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