January 2024
Dear Members and Friends,
Welcome to 2024!
2023 was a momentous year for the Washington State Crime Prevention Association. We conducted two CPTED certification courses (Issaquah in March and Everett in October), held a 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Course in Richland in June, and our annual Crime Prevention Conference in Olympia in September. We have also hosted our Crime Prevention Thursday sessions to bring you subject matter experts in a variety of fields to provide education and resources for you to use in your communities.
As we come into 2024, I want to share a few items with you.
First, our next Crime Prevention Thursday of 2024 will be on February 15th at 11:00am-12:00pm. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jesse Miller will be our featured speaker and will be discussing Project iGuardian. Project iGuardian is presented by HSI Special Agents in partnership with local law enforcement. Project iGuardian is designed to inform students, parents, educators, and law enforcement about the risks that children face in the online environment. Special Agent Miller will also discuss the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Netsmartz program.
As we look at future crime prevention Thursday topics, we have some of the following: cyber fraud, CPTED for multi-family housing units; Business crime Prevention/Business watch best practices; construction suite security.
Secondly, our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference is September 17-18, 2024. The two-day conference will run Tuesday and Wednesday and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee, WA. You can register for the conference and book your room here.
We are accepting workshop proposals for the Conference. Share your expertise and present at the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference! You can submit your workshop proposal directly to us at info@wscpa.net. The submission deadline is March 31, 2024.
Please Renew Your Membership!
Thank you to all who have joined the WSCPA as new members for 2024. For those who have yet to renew their individual or agency membership, we ask that you do so this month. Our organization relies on your membership dues to help us keep the doors open. The major benefits of membership are: access to members-only WSCPA Crime Prevention materials; access to the WSCPA YouTube Channel where you can view previous Crime Prevention Thursday Offerings; discounts on all WSCPA Trainings and conferences; and access to the wide network of the 114+ agencies and several hundred individuals throughout Washington State (and beyond!) that connect through the WSCPA. Individual memberships are $35/year and agency/organizational memberships are $199/year. To renew, or to become a new member of the WSCPA, please go here.
Thank you for all you do for your communities.
We hope to see you soon. In the meantime, Take Care and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association