Bringing the Pieces Together to Build a Safer More Sustainable Community

The following prevention videos were compiled by The San Juan Safe Communities Initiative for the purpose of showing students examples of prevention strategies at the 2010 NM Youth and Community Summit in Farmington, NM.

The San Juan Safe Communities Initiative does not believe there is one "correct" prevention strategy. We believe each prevention strategy is important and works in conjunction with other strategies and techniques. Each prevention strategy may resonate with a different person or population, and therefore to be most effective, multiple prevention strategies must be used to maximize the intended result.

 

Communities engage in building a Bridges Community because people are attracted to Bridges constructs and because they want to live in sustainable communities. Building a Bridges Community tends to be organic and messy, not unlike gardening. It’s not linear or mechanical like building a house. Every community has its own leaders, history, circumstances, and best practices and will go about building a Bridges Community in its own way. There are, however, some principles and steps that we’ve learned from other Bridges Communities that can help guide the work.
Source: Phil DeVol

Bridges Out of Poverty will be neighborhood, community, city, and region changing for San Juan County and we encourage those who are willing to contact us and participate. Thank you for everyone who attended and participated in the event, and a special thank you to Jodi Pfarr, who bought us the wonderful two day presentation.

Begin by watching Dr. Ruby K. Payne, founder of the Bridges Out of Poverty program. Learn the ideas and concepts San Juan Safe Communities Initiative would like to bring to San Juan County.

Learn more about Dr. Payne here.

Next, watch Jodi Pfarr, who will be speaking at a two day conference at San Juan College (room to be determined) about the Bridges Out of Poverty program. Registration forms will be available soon.

Learn more about Jodi Pfarr here.

Learn more about the Bridges Out of Poverty program

Watch more videos here.

Drill Down Strategy

aha! Process download page

Look at the Bridges Out of Poverty Timeline for San Juan County Here!

Bridges out of Poverty: Getting Ahead program information here.

 

 

 

Watch Dan Darnell explain San Juan Safe Communities Initiative's Drill Down Strategy and philosophy.

Drill Down Strategy - Dan Darnell