"Hertfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has done something visionary. He has set up a fund for communities to put together “innovative local schemes which aim to make our communities safer”. This fund is linked to the Police and Crime Plan for Hertfordshire, which takes an “everybody’s business” approach to reducing crime and making communities safer....
"Less than an hour later I had tweets and emails asking me what evidence communities could use. Then people started asking me how they could develop and put evaluation frameworks around bids.....
"This set me thinking, what does Public Health have to bring to the table?...
"Crime impacts on Health in a range of ways, and there is a great deal of literature on this....Victims of violence often develop adverse coping mechanisms which develop health problems....
"But often we lack the insight of the behavioural sciences. And it can be quite simple to harness these. We talk about community development in the UK. In the US they talk about Community Advocacy. Community Advocacy has at its hear building capacity in communities to help themselves, to do, to believe in themselves....."
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