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One of these strategies is being actively involved with

the youth in our community; early, positive interaction

with law enforcement has shown to mitigate later criminal

activity and recidivism, and creates favorable relationships
that carry over into adulthood. Our youth are our future

leaders; investing the time now increases the likelihood of
strong, mutually supportive relations later.

Toward this goal, CHPD’s Youth and Family Services

Division offers an eight-week youth leadership program
designed to empower young people (ages 13 – 17) from

diverse backgrounds. This Multicultural Youth Leadership

Initiative For Empowerment (“MY LIFE”) introduces teens
dealing with socio-economic and life-choice challenges

to the long-term value of good choices, information and
resources, and the tools necessary to create meaningful,
productive lives.

CHPD personnel and community stakeholders

serve as instructors, coaching the teens on topics such as

discipline and lifetime fitness; actions, consequences, and

accountability; conflict resolution and anger management;
goal setting; stress and time management; leadership and
achievement; education, job readiness, and interview

skills; resume building; financial literacy; and civic duty
– among others. Confidence building, self-coaching,

and ethical leadership exercises are employed to better
prepare for practical application of these principles in
their day-to-day lives.

Reaffirming to our youth that better choices equal

better lives, empowering them to make constructive

choices, shoring up their confidence/courage to stand by

those choices, and impressing upon them the importance of
civic duty/giving back; fundamental tenets such as these

THANK YOU FOR
ALWAYS BEING
THERE TO SERVE
AND PROTECT.

serve to enhance their capacity to succeed, the goal being
effective, contributing members of society.

The “My Life” program is offered through the Citrus

Heights Police Activities League (CHPAL), a non-profit
501(c) (3) committed to fostering positive relationships,

based on trust and respect, between law enforcement and

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For additional information on the “My Life” program,

contact Detective Dave Jones at [phone]. ■

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