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Chicago Police Foundation supports
law enforcement interaction program
at DuSable Museum
The Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the National Or- ganization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NO- BLE), in partnership with the Chicago Police Department, has expanded a law literacy and community building law enforcement interaction program for urban youth with special summer sessions through the financial support of the Chicago Police Foundation.
The nationally recognized interactive training program “The Law and Your Community” helps educate students and young adults on the criminal justice system, crimi- nal laws, law enforcement and policing, as well as the proper way to interact safely with Police Officers during an encounter. Chicago Police Officers trained to facilitate “The Law and Your Community” sessions used various teaching methods such as role reversal skits, interactive scenarios, videos, slide shows and vignettes designed to encourage discussion among the students and law en- forcement officers.
NOBLE completed “The Law and Your Communi- ty” sessions at 15 Chicago high schools and middle schools during the 2016-2017 school year and offered an eight-session summer mentoring program at the DuS-
able Museum of African American History from July 5 through August 23. The new pilot initiative, “The Law and Your Community Global Ambassador Summer Mentoring Program,” expands on themes of personal development such as decision-making, leadership, self-esteem and self-awareness, communication and goal-setting, which the students and facilitators wanted to explore during the in-school sessions of “The Law and Your Community.”
“Officers realized that the students in their groups wanted to be able to connect with them on a deeper lev- el and learn life lessons in addition to the information in ‘The Law and Your Community’ curriculum,” said Eugene Williams, retired Chief of the Chicago Police Department and current President of the Chicago Metropolitan Chap- ter of NOBLE. “Thanks to the generous financial support of the Chicago Police Foundation, the students and men- tor officers had an opportunity to explore topics not pre- viously discussed during our 12-week school-year pro- gram.”
In addition, during each session, representatives of the Chicago Consular Corps visited with the students to guide them through an exploration of their country and
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