The University at Albany Police and the University at Albany Athletics Department have teamed together to implement a ground breaking program aimed at identifying, addressing and managing negative behavior among student athletes. ATLAS stands for: Athletics, Team Building, Leadership Development, And Mentoring for Student Athletes. The program was…

Teachers and police officers work closely in the Police-School-Liaison-Program, a K-12 project of the Wichita, Kansas, schools which has improved police-school and community relations and contributed to law-related education goals. Inservice teacher education is provided; curriculum materials have been developed; and police officers participate in…

How community-based groups are confronting and preventing alcohol and other drug problems and related crime in their communities is the focus of this publication. A wide range of approaches and strategies, used by 10 nonprofit, community-based organizations representative of urban and rural areas, are presented. Case studies describe two community…