Acknowledgements

The Institute for Law and Justice, Inc. (ILJ) is a technical assistance partner of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to assist Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) in the area of community engagement. ILJ staff members Edward Connors, Barbara Webster, and Marti Kovener are grateful for the support provided by Dara Schulman, Kim Norris, Robyn Thiemann, and other U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) staff who contributed ideas and information and reviewed the guide in draft form. We also appreciate the efforts of Darryl Jones, National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), and ILJ consultant Hugh Nugent, who reviewed an early draft; Jim Bender and Nassarie Carew of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), who contributed a page on linking media outreach and community engagement; and Cathy Bowman, American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), who provided a discussion on engaging probation/parole officers in PSN.

In addition, the guide would not have been possible without help from the PSN coordinators and task force members who put community engagement into practice and participated in a working group on PSN community engagement in December 2004: Melanie Conour, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District, Indiana; John Huber, United States Attorney's Office, District of Utah; Melissa MacDonald, Colorado Project Exile, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado; Barry Mayer, Project Ceasefire, U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District, Missouri; Christina Sterling, United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts; Pamela Thompson, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District, Michigan; Norman R. Wolfinger, State Attorney, Eighteenth Judicial District of Florida; and Rob Balge, media outreach partner of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District, Wisconsin. Also contributing to the working group's efforts were DOJ staff members Betsi Griffith, Robyn Thiemann, Lois Mock, T.C. Spencer Pryor, Kathryn Couch, and Nancy Oliver; Jim Bender and Nassarie Carew (AED); Darryl Jones (NCPC); and Bill Matthews (Community Policing Consortium).