The principal members of Cardinal Point Strategies have a long history and special understanding of the unique public safety and community relations challenges confronting school districts, universities and their education administrators. In response to a surge of campus hate crimes during the 1990s that included several nationally reported acts of violence, CPS was called upon by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) and the U.S. Department of Justice to develop and institute a Campus Public Safety Hate Crimes and Community Relations Training Program. CPS founder, Mr. Paul Goldenberg, has also served as a member of the State Juvenile Justice Advisory Board, as well as being a past Chair of the Essex County Juvenile Justice Commission. Additionally, Mr. Goldenberg co-authored the official New Jersey Attorney General’s Model Memorandum of Understanding between university administrators and public safety agencies which has become the model MOU utilized by the United States Department of Education and Department of Justice.
CPS delivers accountability to school districts and universities by answering issues with solutions that will stand up to the tests of objectivity and credibility. The tasks at hand, conducted by a “trusted third party” with the knowledge and expertise to manage these critical issues in an unbiased manner, supports productive inquiries into matters that might otherwise be difficult to assess. The CPS methods and innovative results oriented techniques are ideally suited for addressing the following issues found to be pervasive at many institutions:
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Critical Information Sharing Faces Substantial Obstacles
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Improved Awareness and Communication are Key to Prevention
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Where Institutions Know What to Do, They Have to be Better at Doing It
The thematic approach for each assignment will be:
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Prevention-focused in addition to response-focused
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Comprehensive, addressing multiple types of violence, all campus constituents, and on- and off-campus settings
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Planned and Evaluated, using a systematic process to design, implement, and evaluate the initiative
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Strategic and Targeted, addressing priority problems (and their risk and protective factors) identified through an assessment of local problems and assets
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Research-based, informed by current research literature and theory
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Multi-component, using multiple strategies
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Coordinated and Synergistic, ensuring that efforts complement and reinforce one another
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Multi-sectored and Collaborative, involving key campus stakeholders and disciplines
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Supported by infrastructure, institutional commitment, and systems
Outcomes
The focus of this process is to prioritize the needs through an objective third party and act upon the various types and degrees of challenges and risks confronting the school district or university. At the completion of the process the school district or university will be in a position of accountability to implement solutions that will allow the school district or university to both minimize such risk and better prepare and protect its students, faculty, officers, visitors, employees, physical plant, records and other assets.
To learn more about Cardinal Point Strategies, or to arrange a private consultation with a Cardinal Point Strategies representative, please call 1-877-837-1812 or email info@cpsinc.us.