Crime Stoppers Of Houston Inc

Safe School Institute: The Crime Stoppers of Houston (CSOH) Safe School Institute (SSI) met and exceeded many goals in 2024. The Safe School team reached 178,933 students and 9,451 educators/school law enforcement in just Harris County. Statewide, our partnership with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has proven to be extremely helpful in expanding and building partnerships with school safety personnel across Texas. Outside of Harris County, our team reached 115,096 students and 13,962 educators/school law enforcement in our second year of expansion. Program leads continue to attend monthly meetings on Human Trafficking and Educator Resources and CAPC meetings with Child Advocates of Fort Bend. Continued on Schedule O.Over the past year, we have made significant strides in expanding our educational initiatives. We created the Trusted Adult resource to help tweens identify supportive mentors, developed a comprehensive resource catalog, and produced a Tip Line awareness video to increase student engagement. Additionally, we hosted our first Back to School Poster Contest, with 33 schools participating, and revamped our Resource Center to be more user-friendly, ensuring all safety materials are accessible in one place. At the state level, we continued to grow our newsletter with over 600 school safety contacts from all over Texas, reaching 106 new schools. CSOH and SSI hosted virtual quarterly trainings for school safety personnel and the weekly SAVE webinar series via the CSOH website, covering trending safety topics. Through our partnership with TEA, we've built strong relationships with all 20 regional ESCs and look forward to expanding these in 2025.

The Safe Community Institute met and exceeded many goals in 2024. Throughout the year, the program, which includes the Safe Community Program, Victim Services Program, The Glenda Gordy Research Center, and The Balanced Voice Podcast, reached 2,658,953 community members through prevention education and reached a projected 2,397,832 community members through community outreach events. We reached 243,686 community members and parents through our Safe Community Program, served 1750 victims through our Victim Services Program, reached 2.06 million people though our podcast The Balanced Voice, and provided 355,267 people with crime statistical data through The Glenda Gordy Research Center. Continued on Schedule O.We also launched the NEEDS program which sought to provide valuable crime prevention education to those who serve the special needs community in the hope of preventing crimes against this vulnerable population. Through our Victim Services Program we continued our Victim Impact Statement Video Project in which we provide victims of violent crime with the opportunity to record their story of victimization to be submitted to their victim portal and viewed by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles regardless of their ability or willingness to attend parole board hearings for years to come. We added 15 victim impact statement videos bringing the total count to 47 total videos. We used 3 videos in active parole hearings where parole was denied in all 3 occasions. Our Victim Services Team attended, and spoke at, multiple statewide and national conferences about this project and the program has received state and national accolades for this innovative approach to post-conviction advocacy.