Message from WSCPA President- Mark Solomon
December 2022
Dear Members and Friends –
As 2022 ends, I wanted to share reflections on what your Washington State Crime Prevention Association was able to accomplish this past year, and to let you know what is on the horizon for 2023.
Looking forward to 2023, here’s what we have on tap:
Please take the time to renew your individual or agency membership. Agency/corporate membership is $199 for 2023 and individual membership is $35 per person. Remember that when an agency or organization joins, all members of that entity are eligible for discounts on trainings and conferences. You can renew - or initiate - your membership here. Membership dues, and training and conference fees are what funds the Association. Without your financial support, we are not able to provide our services, so please, become a financial member today.
Finally, we are actively seeking those willing to steer the WSCPA into the future. We are seeking Directors from these following regional counties:
Regions:
Thank you for your membership and participation and thank you for all you do for your Communities. We look forward to the year to come and the work we can and will do together. Have a joyous and safe holiday season!
Mark Solomon
President, WSCPA
Dear Members and Friends –
As 2022 ends, I wanted to share reflections on what your Washington State Crime Prevention Association was able to accomplish this past year, and to let you know what is on the horizon for 2023.
- We Conducted a 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Training in March, which was hosted by Redmond Police Department. Nineteen of you participated in that, and one of our newer Board members came from that class.
- We continued Crime Prevention Thursday, a monthly webinar for Crime Prevention and Community Engagement specialists on numerous topics, which have included Fraud and Scams, Conflict De-escalation, Social Media Engagement, Holiday Safety Best Practices and CPTED. These sessions are free to our members and many are recorded so they can be accessed by our members for review at their convenience.
- We continued our quarterly, state-wide Crime Prevention/Community Engagement Specialists networking sessions. These sessions connected practitioners from around the state to check in, provide updates on programs in our various regions, and facilitate a platform for Specialists to network and learn from each other.
- We provided CPTED overview training for the Washington Association of Code enforcement in May and for the City of Issaquah in October.
- The WSCPA partnered with the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board to provide safety training for all the cannabis licensees (retailers, growers, processors) in the state. A total of 12 sessions were held from May through July via Zoom
- We held our annual Crime Prevention Conference, in-person for the first time in three years, in September in Spokane Valley. We are grateful to all of you who were able to participate. The Board did an in-depth conference debrief and your evaluations are helping shape the 2023 conference.
- We’ve also seen a near 20% increase in membership and mailing list participants
Looking forward to 2023, here’s what we have on tap:
- Crime Prevention Thursdays will start up again on Thursday, January 19th (always the 3rd Thursday). This upcoming session will be our quarterly Crime Prevention/Community Engagement Specialist Networking and check in. For those of you new to the mailing list, or new to your position, this is a great opportunity for you to meet your colleagues. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udu2srzMsH9B9VYHkpzOnwgxgry8uGZls. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
- Your Ideas for Crime Prevention Thursday. At our last Board meeting, we came up with 20+ topics we could offer on Crime Prevention Thursday. However, we thought rather than us telling you what will be offered, we’d like you to tell us what training you’d like to get or what topics you’d like to have covered. Therefore, we have created a poll to gather that information from you. Please go here to take our Crime Prevention Thursday poll. We will build out our schedule based on your input.
- CPTED Certification Course: WSCPA will be conducting a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification course, March 21-23, 2023 in Issaquah. Upon completion of this intensive training, successful participants will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. You can register for that training here.
- 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Course: We will be holding a 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention course June 19-23, 2023, in Richland. As we did our 2022 40-hour basic in Redmond, we made a commitment to hold our next basic training on the east side of the state. Richland Police Department has graciously offered to host. You can register for that training here.
- 2023 Crime Prevention Conference. We are deep in the planning for our 2023 conference which will be September 19-21, 2023 at the Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake in Olympia. Early Bird registration is available here. Stay tuned for workshop offerings and presenter bios. Also, consider this a Call for Presentations. If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send us a proposal, workshop description and workshop take-aways (“By attending this workshop, you will learn/get _______.”) for us to consider. Email your submittal to info@wscpa.net.
Please take the time to renew your individual or agency membership. Agency/corporate membership is $199 for 2023 and individual membership is $35 per person. Remember that when an agency or organization joins, all members of that entity are eligible for discounts on trainings and conferences. You can renew - or initiate - your membership here. Membership dues, and training and conference fees are what funds the Association. Without your financial support, we are not able to provide our services, so please, become a financial member today.
Finally, we are actively seeking those willing to steer the WSCPA into the future. We are seeking Directors from these following regional counties:
Regions:
- #4 Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Skamania, and Wahkiakum
- #5 Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, and Okanogan
- #8 Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Walla Walla, and Whitman
Thank you for your membership and participation and thank you for all you do for your Communities. We look forward to the year to come and the work we can and will do together. Have a joyous and safe holiday season!
Mark Solomon
President, WSCPA
