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THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT PROPOSAL REVISED FOR FISCAL
YEAR 2018.
PREPARED FOR Mayor Suarez
Prepared By: Ruban Roberts
RER CONSULTING LLC 11335 NW 172TER MIAMI, FL 33169
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Executive Summary
RER Consulting is pleased to work in conjunction with the City of Miami (City), City of Miami
Police Department (CMPD), and City of Miami residents to offer a Community Engagement
Training. RER understands that the City would like to continue to improve relationships
between Police officers and City residents. Historically police shootings of urban citizens by
the CMPD has contributed to the chasm between both groups. However, efforts such as this
proposed one are needed to continue to build trusting relationships between Police officers
and inner city community members.
Research suggest that communities where there are strong alliances between police and
community members generally have lower instances of criminal activity. RER's workshops
are designed to stimulate communication between Police officers and community
members via focus group discussions. Historically these group discussions have proven to
help community members and Police officer become more aware and appreciative of each
other's perspectives. Ultimately the goal of this community engagement training and
dialogue is to establish trusting relationships and improving the alliance between
community members and City's Police Officers.
Purpose
This proposal is being submitted to Mayor Francis Suarez of The City of Miami for the
express purpose of providing community engagement focus group sessions between
residents of the City and City of Miami Police Officers.
Goals
Develop and facilitate engagement training and focus group sessions for community
residents with the close involvement of the CMPD.
• Develop and facility pre focus group training
• Develop facilitate focus groups discussions between the City's youth and City Police
Officers.
Proposal
RER's staff proposes to provide a series of 5 community engagement workshops with the
community and have City Police Officers present. The 5 focus groups sessions will include
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teenagers and Police within the City's Boundaries. The focus group sessions will be held in
the community at local parks, churches, or youth programs identified by RER staff. RER
staff will work in conjunction with local churches, parks, community -based organizations,
and the CMPD. While, command staff will identify officers that work in the identified
community to participate in the community engagement training. These engagement
workshops are designed to strengthen community member's positive engagement with
Police officers.
The items listed below are itemized costs associated with training package for this
proposal:
Services
Community Engagement Workshops with CMPD
(5 Workshops)
Focus Group Sessions (5 Group Sessions)
Total
The following is a complete list of all project deliverables:
Deliverable
Develop and Facilitate
police and youth
engagement focus
groups.
Costs
$7,500.00
$7,500.00
$15,000.00
Description
5 Police Community Engagement Workshops and 5 Focus
group sessions with Police and youth will be facilitated by
RER staff. The Police Community Engagement Workshops
are designed allow community members who have difficulty
trusting Police officers based on historic interactions to build
a rapport with CMPD. The focus group discussion is designed
to stimulate candid dialogue between Police officers and
local community youth from the areas that the identified
police patrol. The ultimate goal is to bridge the relational
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gap between Police officers and -youth's perspective of each
other.
Supplied Material
The following materials are to be supplied by the City to meet project milestones, this
material must be supplied on schedule. The due dates included in the following table
represent our best guess based on currently proposed project dates:
Materials to be supplied by City
Facility for focus group sessions
LCD Projector or LCD TV for projecting Power Point Presentations and
Video's
Email notices and flyer distribution to participating police officers and
youth.
Video tapping focus group discussions
Refreshments for focus group participants
Due Date
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Conclusion
I look forward to working with the City in effort to bolster community relationships.
Having the community dialogue is one initiative that will benefit both the CMPD and the
community it serves.
Attached is my Curriculum Vita for your review and your records.
If you have questions regarding this proposal, feel free to contact me at your convenience
by either email r.roberts@rer-consulting.com or by phone at (305) 343-7971. I will be in
touch with you next week to arrange a follow-up conversation regarding this proposal.
Thank you for your consideration,
Ruban Roberts MSW, MBA
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