Child Development Community Policing Partners (CD-CPP)
CD-CPP is a partnership between Mecklenburg County Area Mental Health Authority, Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department to provide crisis intervention services to children who witness or are a victim of violence.  The primary aim of the program is to identify and treat these children to prevent developmental problems, post-traumatic stress, or fear resulting from exposure to violence at an early age. Officers and social workers, working together, identify and visit affected families and children to ensure treatment success. They address parental or caregiver problems to help stabilize a household when necessary. The Yale University developed  program  has been adapted in the district since 1999. 

For more information on this program please contact:

Sarah Greene
Program Director
704.336.2944
sarah.greene@mecklenburgcountync.gov

Marguerita Goldman
Clinical Supervisor
704.336.5903
marguerita.goldman@mecklenburgcountync.gov   

Prostitution-Exclusion Zone

The Prostitution-Exclusion Zone was enacted to combat an ongoing problem in the Camp Greene neighborhood. For years this small section of West Charlotte, just north of Wilkinson Blvd. and West Morehead St., was negatively impacted by prostitutes and their customers walking and driving through the streets all day and night. Police tried a number of approaches to eliminate or displace the problem from prostitution sting operations targeting both the prostitutes and their customers to offering services to help people involved in high-risk lifestyles get back on the right track. While some success was realized, the problem never went away.

The Prostitution-Free Zone came about through the combined efforts of the police officers assigned to that area and City Council. Under the ordinance, certain areas in the Camp Greene community are designated as a Prostitution-Free Zone. Anyone arrested for specific prostitution-related offenses is banned from the zone for 90 days; if convicted, the ban is for one year. 
This effort by the police and the community has been successful in reducing the number of prostitution-related calls for service and in increasing the quality of life for the residents in this community.

To view the ordinance, click on  this link;  http://www.municode.com/Resources/code_list.asp?stateID=33 ,  then on Charlotte, Charlotte Code of Ordinances, Chapter 15, and scroll to section 15-253.