Publisher, Kimberly Davis Guerra & Rania Mankarious
For the longest time, the “solving and preventing” focused on finding wanted felony criminals and bringing them to justice - the idea was that in doing so, you solved a crime and by placing a felony criminal behind bars, you prevented further criminal activity. While on some level, that’s true, I saw “prevention” very differently. To me, there was a whole world behind crime prevention that meant engaging parents on topics that were of interest to them (the safety of their children, their kids schools, their homes, their kids online, etc.) or homeowners, business owners, animal lovers, etc. Crime prevention was a world of research and study, education and discussions that brought people into the conversation. The truth is, everyone cares about their health and everyone cares about their public safety. In creating content that applied to everyone, we broadened our reach and base and eventually, through many years of hard work, became houston family magazine
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Houston’s Neighborhood Public Safety nonprofit and the hub for all things public safety related.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION IS ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION? One of the biggest misconceptions about our organization is that we are a part of the police department or that the only tool we offer the community is our anonymous tip line. The truth is, we are an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization. We have proudly partnered with law enforcement since our inception and created a wonderful, first-of-its-kind, community driven public safety organization. We have three main programs - our Tip Line Program (which operates our anonymous tip line and partners with law enforcement); our Safe Schools Institute (which sends trained staff into schools to talk to and train students, teachers, school