The CPTED Program — Part 1

This two-part program will introduce both basic 1st Generation CPTED and also advanced, 2nd Generation CPTED. We consider urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and traffic engineering, As well we examine specific strategies to help reduce and prevent crime and fear of crime opportunities in neighborhoods.

In conjunction with our strategic partner, Anna Brassard and Associates, AlterNation Inc offers courses in both basic and advanced CPTED. These are run in three parts; a 2 day Basic 1st Generation CPTED workshop; an on-line Primer course; and a 2 day Advanced 1st Generation and 2nd Generation CPTED workshop. Attendance at the advanced workshop is based on CPTED experience or attendance at the Basic workshop.

Part 1 — Basic 1st Generation CPTED: A two day workshop

CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) involves reducing crime opportunities by modifying the built environment. They include the traditional CPTED methods, such as access control, natural surveillance, image and maintenance, and territoriality. They also include advanced CPTED methods such as mitigating conflicting user groups, activity vs. crime generators, movement predictors, and controlling displacement effects.

These methods can be used to control crime opportunities, but they can unintentionally create esthetically desolate and alienating places. They can exclude, rather than include, diverse groups of people. They may not enhance positive social interactions simply because the environment is modified. Without working together for a common purpose, people may not take "ownership" of that territory. Criminals may feel comfortable to exploit these areas.

CPTED must not rely upon 1st Generation tactics alone. They will not create a long-term capacity to respond to crime. More is needed, such as strategies aimed at community-building. That is why 2nd Generation CPTED was developed.

1st Generation CPTED Course Contains:

• Controlling access into areas
• Improving natural surveillance
• Enhancing the control people have over places
• Improving the neighborhood "milieu" (maintenance and management)
• Strategies for ownership (designing safe places)
• Urban Circulation (e.g. movement predictors)

The CPTED Program — Part 2

Part 2 – On-line Primer course in CPTED

This On-line program comprises e-learning and a community field project where you work and live. The material on-line covers 1st Generation CPTED basic and advanced.

You are prompted to search for contemporary CPTED strategies, their weaknesses, and what you might do to resolve crime issues. You are tasked with a community project where you will employ CPTED to resolve issues and create a presentation of your results.

You will bring the results of your work as a prerequisite to attend the 2 day Second Generation CPTED workshop.

The CPTED Program — Part 3

Part 3 — 2nd Generation CPTED: Capacity building

Reducing physical opportunities does not address the motives for crime in the first place. 2nd generation CPTED was developed for this. 2nd generation CPTED was first identified by Cleveland and Saville (1996). It incorporates a wider range of social crime prevention strategies into the CPTED equation in a more holistic way.

2nd Generation CPTED includes street fairs and community meetings to encourage social interaction. It includes neighborhood festivals to enhance local culture and proper land uses to provide a diverse mix of residents and activities. It includes urban beautification and activity generators to get neighbors to take ownership of the public realm. It also includes linkages outside the neighborhood to resources that exist at other levels of government.

These activities are directed at building a local capacity for people to assert their own sense of control over their own neighborhood problems. It is a social territoriality to enhance the physical territoriality of 1st Generation CPTED.

Second Generation strategies include the 4 C's:

1. Cohesion
2. Connectivity
3. Capacity: Neighborhood Threshold and Tipping Points
4. Community Culture

Course Contains:

• Neighborhood wellness strategies
• Tipping point effects
• Conflict resolution and mediation
• Community accords and partnership "contracts"
• Safety networks
• Co-planning with community groups
• Computerized mapping for crime patterns and community responses
• The politics of implementation

Controlling Health Fraud:

CRIME RISK CONTROL FOR HEALTH SERVICE PAYMENT SYSTEMS - The Alternation Alternative

The Problem:

One major reason health care is in such a mess is attributable to abuse and misuse of the system, and in many cases criminal fraud. Fraud control initiatives in fee-for-service jurisdictions such as Florida, New York, Indiana and Texas have identified enterprise criminals who stay under the radar screen in phantom billings and the overcharging for goods and services. They take billions out of the payment systems at a level not detected by conventional audit procedures. Even capitalized systems, designed to respond to this massive fraud, present a whole new series of troubles. In public health care systems the problem is even more acute.

The Alternation Alternative:

At AlterNation we understand that best practices in fraud control teach us it is a grave mistake to focus on regulatory and enforcement soltions alone. Effective abuse and fraud control calls for alternative approaches that incorporate regulatory and enforcement, but hinge on innovative problem-solving and partnership strategies. We call our methods capacity-building.

Our Method: Communities of Interest

At AlterNation we help health insurance plan managers cope with these realities. Plan managers learn to assemble, correlate and manage information to assess their risks under clearly defined geographic and situational specific circumstances. Only then can scarce fraud control assets be applied in a problem-solving format onto isolated highest risk activities, where results may be measured.

Our program:

The program begins with a one day orientation with your staff. This is followed by a modified search conference format, one of the methods in which our experts excel. At AlterNation we help you assemble the right tools and strategies, such as crime analysis tools and fraud detection systems. We then work with carefully assembled teams and teach the essential skills of advanced problem-solving and crime prevention. This involves a series of 2 day training workshops. Finally, we assist in targeting specific problem areas which we use as exemplars for the problem-solving teams in later months.

Who Should Attend:

• Health service providers
• Health care managers and leaders
• Fraud and crime prevention specialists
• Police and security professionals
• Health Care decision makers

For more information, contact Alternation at: info@alternation.ca