JFMC BACK TO SCHOOL CAR & BIKE SHOW
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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JFMC Victim of Crime Week 2009
BILLBOARD JUSTICE
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Murdered Children Billboards
MISSION
Our Mission is to reduce the
number homicides, reduce the number of unsolved homicides and to assist families
that have lost loved-ones to homicide.
OBJECTIVES
& PURPOSES
Legal/Advocacy
- We provide additional eyes and ears for
law enforcement in the fight against homicide.
- We educate ourselves and the public
on ways to help policymakers, community leaders and the criminal justice
system become more-effective and responsive to the needs of homicide
victims and their families.
- We assist and support the families
of murder victims and the witnesses through the criminal justice system.
Family Services
- We offer monthly support group meetings
for the families of murder victims.
- We offer daily counseling with licensed
therapists to families of murder victims.
- We assist families through the victim-rights
process.
- We assist with burial expenses.
- We refer survivors to the appropriate
social agencies as needed.
Prevention/Intervention
- Educate ourselves & the public
about homicide.
- Educate youth, communities and all
citizens about criminal activities within their community.
- Educate the community about how
to inform law enforcement of criminal activities in their neighborhood.
- Educate youth on how not to become victims of violence.
- Offer resolutions concerning social
issues that have an impact on homicide, i.e. drugs, poverty &
gang activity.
HISTORY
JFMC was
founded in 1996 by LaWanda Hawkins when her only child, Reggie was murdered.
LaWanda, along with other parents who had lost children to homicide discovered
that their cases were going unsolved and that they had been left out of the
criminal justice process. Together they felt the need to form Justice
For Murdered Children.
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