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Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Oregon works with federal and state policy makers to prevent crime by ensuring kids get started on the right track in life. Our members have participated in many press conferences, editorial boards and media events across the state. We also write opinion editorials and letters to the editor published in newspapers around the state to raise public awareness of how investments in kids prevent them from committing crimes when they grow up.

For Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Oregon media information, please contact Martha Brooks, State Director, at mbrooks@fightcrime.org.

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Cornelius Police Chief Paul Rubenstein (Left) along with Hillsboro Chief Ron Louie visit the Community Action Head Start Center in Hillsboro. The chiefs said that Head Start is one of the most effective ways of cutting later crime. View Release
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(503) 649-2068, 1-866-512-3245 (toll free), mbrooks@fightcrime.org

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The Observer

Child Programs Threatened

By Dick Mason

LA GRANDE, OR, April 27, 2006...The meth problem will get work in rural Oregon if proposed federal budget cuts for preschool, child care and after-school programs becomes a reality, according to Martha Brooks, state director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids...

Federal funding for Head Start in Oregon would be frozen in 2007 and reductions would start in 2008. By 2011 Head Start would be receiving at $8.5 million less in federal money per year that it is now. The number of children in Oregon served by Head Start per year would cut 1,200 by 2011, a reduction of 14 percent...

Union Count District Attorney Martin Birnbaum added that now is the wrong time to cut investments in youth programs that prevent drug abuse and crime.


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