INITIATIVE
TO REDUCE
CRIME BY STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
Dick Wulf, MSW, LCSW (719) 659-6102
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The FINANCIAL COSTS of The Initiative The minimum license fee is $10,000 for communities up to 100,000 population. Areas of greater than 100,000 population have a license fee based on this equation: Census population X 10% (the estimated number of families targeted) X $1. For example, a geographic area of 500,000 would pay a license fee of $50,000 (500,000 X 10% = 50,000 X $1 = $50,000). This works out to be ten cents per person in your community — 10¢ for every person who will benefit from less crime. The maximum license fee for areas over one million in population is $100,000. Some or all of the license fee can be recovered through the sales of Family-Building Dialogue Kits.
How can you recover some of the cost of licensure? You pay us a license fee and then print up and sell the Family-Building Kits yourself. Then, if you need to get back some of the licensing fee, you can charge motivated Initiative Families some amount above production cost of your own choosing. Here is an example of license cost.
You could decide that the $10,000 license fee is not all that much when you consider that the Initiative might reduce the need for more police personnel and other crime-related costs (as well as costs to government and industry because of dysfunctional families, family breakups, etc.). So, you might decide to give away all of the Kits. We don't suggest that, because then the Kits will not have the perceived value they might need to have to do the job. But the choice is yours. Of course, sponsorship and paid advertising can help with the license and priniting costs. The license includes: (1) the right to print up to a specific maximum number of the Family-Building Kits for sale and giveaway to area families Production costs can be lowered, if necessary. Printing cost vary by quantity, but perhaps your city has its own print shop. Or a discount in exchange for publicity in the media can be worked out with a print shop. Volunteers can assemble the Family-Building Dialogue Kits. (Perhaps a large church can take on the assembly.) Cost of production will likely range between $5 and $8, depending on your choice of packaging. The Kit with its 4 Family Treasure Cards Sets can sell for $15 to $30. Or you can give them all away free and make up the cost of the Initiative by lowering crime and its many costs. The big monetary gain comes when crime is lowered. Keep in mind that the goal is to reduce crime by having healthier, stronger families where kids feel loved and have family things to do. Fewer children will grow up to take the time of police, clog the court system and fill up the jail. So, the big savings is in a few less needed police and probation officers and cutting back costs for jails and court costs — for years! The important social gain is less of these horrible things:
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