The National Partnership's
Regional Centers
and National Institute for Public Safety and Homeland Security
(Washington DC)
The National Institute for Public Safety and Homeland
Security exists as an organizational arm of the National Partnership
for Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security. The Institute serves
as a coordinating body and resource center in Washington DC and consists
of the regional centers throughout the country. Each center is housed
in a college and covers one or more states. The centers were created
to provide national, state and regional leadership in one or more
career pathway areas. Centers accomplish this leadership role by offering
specialized workshops and courses (credit or non-credit) to high school
and college students and instructors. These are unique in a variety
of ways and meet the needs of the region. Each center will develop
a database of career programs, instructors and students that are focused
on law, public safety, security, corrections and fire and emergency
services. These programs and the people in them are the primary populations
served by the centers. The centers will also provide opportunities
for the colleges' instructors and administrators to be innovative
in developing new programs and participating at a national level.
Part of this participation includes opportunities to seek grants as
part of a larger national consortium. Most of the centers are still
under development with additional centers still being recruited to
complete the coverage of the United States. As a result, not all the
centers have completed descriptions of their centers.