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Alice Mitchell is Central Area’s Los Angeles Police Department Community Policing Partner of the Week as a result of her dedication to the community. Alice has dedicated her professional life to helping those who have chosen the wrong path in life and who are willing to turn their lives around for the better.
During 2007 through 2008, Alice was a volunteer at 77th Division for the Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) program. As a volunteer for the DART program, her duties included responding to domestic/family violence calls and providing intervention through family counseling, referrals to shelters, assistance in obtaining emergency protection orders (EPO), as well as other forms of intervention depending on the particular situation. As a DART volunteer advocate, Alice was required to complete a 10-week/40 hour course resulting in her receiving a certificate in Domestic Violence Education. The DART Car was generally deployed on Fridays and Saturdays from 1500 to 0345 hours, due to the high rate of calls during these hours. Alice would ride with one uniformed officer and another citizen volunteer in a plain car along with a Chase Unit consisting of two uniformed officers in a black and white patrol vehicle. It is estimated that the Unit handled approximately one-third of these calls on a given night. More importantly, investigations conducted by personnel assigned to the DART Unit were thorough and complete and usually resulted in charges being filed. Furthermore, because victims were afforded the opportunity to participate in counseling, they were more cooperative at the time of prosecution.
Alice has also volunteered for the n-Action Family Network where she held the position of
vice-president. As the vice-president, Alice helped incarcerated women develop life skills to reintegrate into society. The goal was to empower these women and increase their self-esteem through education and mentoring to bring about a positive change in their lives. Alice conducted workshops in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, providing job placement information.
She is currently employed by Chrysalis Enterprises, a non-profit organization, where she has worked the past 12 ½ years as the Senior Staffing Coordinator. Alice provides her clients with access to a wide range of classes and services designed to improve job search skills,
self-confidence and employability. Her clients consist of “hard to place” people such as the homeless and people released from jail. Her office is located in the heart of Central City East in downtown Los Angeles which brings in the opportunity for many clients. She conducts job fairs at the Twin Towers Jail Facility for inmates attending the adult school program. She provides valuable information to the inmates advising them that there is assistance available to them when they are released. Alice gains a great sense of satisfaction each time she helps someone gain employment and receive that first paycheck.
If working for a non-profit organization is not enough, Alice created her own business called Stepping Stones Educational Consultant Services, in which she facilitates an annual woman’s conferences. Her conferences are designed to educate and empower women to be successful in their work and family life. Apart from the above-mentioned duties, Alice is an anger management facilitator in which she conducts classes every Tuesday. Alice holds Certificates in Anger Management, Adolescents, Motivational Interviewing, and Executive Coaching and plans on furthering her education in the same field.
Community Policing Partner of the Week Nominations.
Alice Mitchell has been instrumental to the LAPD, but more recently to Central Area. Due to her daily contacts with the homeless and individuals recently released from jail, she is able to spread the word to her clients that the police are their friends and not their enemies. Many of these people have fallen into a world of crime and drugs and have nothing but negative experiences with the police. Alice uses her position to not only help these people gain employment, but to have confidence in the police when asking for help. She has recently signed up to attend the Community Police Academy and is a future Community-Police Advisory Board Member.
Alice’s life endeavors and accomplishments have shown her to be a valuable City of Los Angeles community member who works towards bringing partnership to the community and the police. Thank you for your dedicated services over the years as well as your future commitment to the City.
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