For
the third year in a row, St. Louis Community College is teaming with
Better Family Life Inc. to offer St. Louisans with misdemeanor warrants
an opportunity to move past
these issues through the 2013 St. Louis Metropolitan Area Amnesty
Project.
The
Amnesty Project was established in 2002 as a one-day event to help
citizens clear their records of outstanding traffic-related warrants.
The program has expanded to include
all misdemeanor warrants, and this year, for the first time,
outstanding child support cases. However, the child support warrant
relief hours will take place only at the Better Family Life Cultural
Business and Education Center.
The
program at STLCC will be conducted over three days, and allow
individuals to resolve outstanding warrants with more than 33 city and
county municipalities at three campuses
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.:
·
Saturday, Aug. 3, in the Student Center at the Meramec campus, 11333 Big Bend Road.
·
Wednesday, Aug. 7, in the gymnasium at the Florissant Valley campus, 3400 Pershall Road.
·
Saturday, Aug. 10, in the Mildred E. Bastian Center for the Performing Arts at the Forest Park campus, 5600 Oakland Ave.
The
Amnesty Project provides participants the chance to resolve situations
that may be preventing them from getting or keeping a job or moving
ahead in their lives and thus,
build more productive futures for themselves and their families.
Participants
will be assessed a $10 processing fee to cover all warrant vouchers.
STLCC representatives also will be on hand to discuss educational
opportunities available
to participants.
“We’re
very excited about this program. Everyone deserves a second chance,”
said Aaron Jimenez, police chief of St. Ann, who also represented the
North County Police Chiefs
Association.
The
Amnesty Project is part of Better Family Life’s annual Family Week.
Their goal is “Back to the Basics – Faith, Family and Neighborhood.”
“We
believe that the family is the single-most important unit that makes up
society, and we are dedicated to finding internal solutions to the
ills, to the obstacles and conditions
that plague our neighborhoods,” said James Clark, Better Family Life’s
vice president of community outreach. “We are dedicated to changing
families through empowering individuals.”
The
Child Support Warrant Relief program will be held on Saturday, Aug. 17;
Wednesday, Aug. 21, and Saturday, Aug. 31, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at
Better Family Life Cultural
Business and Education Center, 5415 Page Blvd.
For more information, visit www.betterfamilylife.org or call 314-381-8200.
Established
in 1962, St. Louis Community College is the largest community college
district in Missouri and one of the largest in the United States. STLCC
has four campuses
– Florissant Valley, Forest Park, Meramec and Wildwood – that annually
serve more than 81,000 students through credit courses, continuing
education and workforce development programs. For more information
about STLCC, visit
www.stlcc.edu.
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