Neighborhood Associations

This country was founded on town hall meetings where groups of citizens met to exchange ideas and make plans for their communities. Citizens are again involving themselves in their government with concerns about their surroundings and living conditions. The neighborhood, is a section of a city with a common identity. The Neighborhood Association meeting, like the earlier town hall meeting, is a place to meet friends, exchange information, decide on projects and priorities, propose solutions and make plans affecting your area.

Why organize your neighborhood? To give yourself a voice. Have you heard the phrase, there's power in numbers? It's true. An organized group can accomplish more than one person...and it's a lot more fun. When neighbors come together: a sense of community is created, common goals are established and achieved and it shows the neighborhood is united and ready to take control of its own challenges.

What does a Neighborhood organization do? A Neighborhood Association will take the shape its members desire and deal with their concerns. Some of the possibilities include: graffiti removal, reducing crime, beautification, improved street lighting, control of litter, bikeways, parks and open spaces. Zoning, land use planning, traffic control, recreational needs, neighborhood clean up and encroachment of commercial into residential areas are also valid concerns. Or just being able to know those with whom you share your neighborhood.

Neighborhoods and Community Policing

A Neighborhood Association can motivate neighbors to do something about their crime problems. The Neighborhood Association can identify many problems, explain some crime prevention techniques through crime prevention specialist presentations, and develop activities for teens and pre-teens who are vulnerable to both victimization and illegal activities.

• A Neighborhood Association can serve as the liaison between neighbors and the police.
• A Neighborhood Association focuses on strengthening the bonds among people in a neighborhood, which in turn can reduce crime.
• A Neighborhood Association can make a police officer's job easier by doing the work of organizing neighbors and coalitions of other neighborhood associations.

• Albuquerque City Council
• Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce
• Albuquerque Public Schools
• Albuquerque Public Schools - Research and Development
• Bernalillo County Anti-Graffiti Program
• Bernalillo County Neighborhood Coordination
• Community Resources.Net
• Health and Social Service Centers
• Neighborhood Associations