Welcome to the Criminal Justice Student Association Website

Current Membership: 85 Students and Growing

 

Next Meeting: November 17, 2009; Upper Level Student Center at 5:00 PM

Oakland County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit Presentation

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Meeting Minutes: September 22, 2009

For everyone who couldn’t make it out to our last meeting here is a brief synopsis of what was discussed:

CPR Class +++ October 17, 2009

The CPR class will be October 17th from 9am – 1pm if you didn’t get a chance to sign up at the meeting please send me an e-mail and I will add you to the sign-up sheet. There is a $25 fee for the class. We don’t have a location for the training yet but I will be e-mailing everyone who is registered, this information. It should be a lot of fun, we have close to 15 members signed up, so come meet new CJ students or take it with a friend!

Oakland County Sheriff's Department Explorer Post

For anyone is interested in the OCS explorers program we had information and applications available to members to pick up at the meeting. I will be sure to have these same forms available at our next meeting if you would like to learn more about the program. If you have any questions about the program please let me know!

CJSA T-Shirts Are Now Available

T-shirts sales were a big success and we will continue to sell them at our meetings. If you are unable to make the meetings and would like to purchase a t-shirt please send me an e-mail and we can work out a time to meet on campus. Each t-shirt is $10 and they come in S-XXL.

Thanks Again to Detective Lenz

A big thank you to Detective Frank Lenz for speaking to the group, he once again stressed his willingness to continue working with our Association and its members. If anyone has any ideas for different trainings we as an Association could put on and learn from, please let me know and I will pass the request on to Detective Lenz.

CREST Halloween Event Scheduled for 2010

The CREST project which was planned for this year will be moved to next year. Because of legal issues we will not be hosting the Halloween portion of the event but we will be putting on the trick-or-treating event for the children. We will be putting together committees for this project as we get further on into the year.

Madonna University 3+1 Presentation

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday October 20th from 5pm – 6pm Linda McIntyre our Madonna representative will be joining us. So for all those students who have been considering transferring to Madonna please join us and have all your questions answered in one night. She is very knowledgeable and willing to help.

Thank You.
Karen Wentz

wentz.karen@student.oaklandcc.edu

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June 2, 2009 CJSA
Meeting Minutes

 

Updates
T-shirts

The T-shirts have been ordered and we are just waiting for them to be processed and prepared. Once we get the t-shirts from the print shop, the Officers will be setting up pick up times. If those times don’t work for you, you of course can get the shirt at any of our meetings or we can set up a special time to get them to you.

 
School Supply Drive

If you have any items for the school supply drive, please feel free to drop them off to Jessica Newman in student life (her officer is night next to the OCC bookstore)
 

Fundraiser/Service Projects – Update/New information

CREST Mock Crime Scene – We have gotten the approval from OCC to host this event. The event will be on October 24th. Please see the attached document for a detailed outline of the event.

HAVEN picnic – Stephanie has researched a great deal of information on local parks, however she has spoken with Haven and we are unable to take the children from the facility, so we are looking into the possibility of putting on a field day/picnic at Haven for the children and their families.

Car Wash – Shawn is trying to put together a CJSA car wash. There will be more information to come later. If you’d like to help him or if you have any ideas please e-mail him: hardy.shawn@student.oaklandcc.edu

CPR Class – Opportunities for members to become certified

Geoff Lassers will be putting on this class. It’s $20 for each member and it’s a 4hour long class. This certification will provide another tool for our resumes as well as provide us with the essential skills and knowledge to perform CPR in case of an emergency. 
This event will be on a Saturday. The exact date has not been picked. The class minimum is 10 students/class and the maximum is 20 students/class. 
If you are interested in taking this class please send an e-mail to Karen Wentz.

 
Service Hours Opportunities
 
Desert Angels “Changing our world…one box at a time”

Miracle Boxes are care packages for our Troops serving overseas. Each month Desert Angels will collect items for our Troops and once a month they will host a packing party. On Saturday July 11th we have an opportunity to help package these care packages for our troops. There will be a box in the CJ office where we will be collecting these gifts for our Troops. Please see the attached document for more information and a list of items.

On July 11th they will also be hosting their fourth annual Support Our Troops golf outing.   We will follow up on both events at our next meeting on June 30th  

 
MSP – Crowd Control Training  

We have two more dates available for students to participate in the crowd control training. Tuesday June 9th and Friday June 12th. Please e-mail Stephanie if you are interested in attending. srturcotte11@yahoo.com  

Guest Speaker Detective Frank Lenz from the Oakland County Sheriff Special Response Team (SRT)

A big thanks to Detective Lenz for coming out and speaking to the Association about his work on the Oakland County Sheriffs SRT team. Please check out our OCC CJSA Facebook page to see photos

    
Our next meeting will be Tuesday June 30th at 5pm
 
Karen Wentz CJSA – President

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CJSA
May 5, 2009 General  Membership Meeting Minutes
 
Career day recap

Geoffrey Lassers would like to thank everyone for their support and volunteer work, which made this years career day a huge success. The CJSA officers will be meeting with Mr. Lassers to discuss the possibility of the CJSA playing an active role in putting on next years Career day.

T-shirts

The Student Board approved our t-shirt budget request. We now have the start up funds and will be placing the order within a few days. If you haven’t requested your t-shirt size, please do so by e-mailing me, so that we can have your size available for you. We will be selling the T-shirts for $10 and money will be collected when you receive your shirt.
 

Service Hours Opportunities

College Open House Wednesday, May 20th 6:00pm – 8:00pm. The CJSA will be hosting a table for our organization so that prospective students, parents and other visitors may talk with and ask questions about our student organization. In addition to club representatives OCC is looking for an additional representative from each student organization to act as a tour guide for the attendees who would like to tour the campus and visit departments/areas of interest. T-shirts for guides will be provided. Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in working the booth or acting as a tour guide.

Michigan State Police - May 19th 22nd 29th  9:00am – 3:00pm .This is crowd control training (train the Trainer level) put on by MSP and the student officers will be from Departments all over Oakland County, so it will be a good group for our members to get to know. Members should bring a lunch and wear jeans and a long sleeve shirt. If you have any questions. The event will be at the state fairgrounds Woodward and 8 mile. Members can enter through the Woodward gate and the security guard will direct you to the Community Arts Building. If you are interested in participating please contact our Vice President Stephanie Turcotte srturcotte11@yahoo.com

 
Service Projects – Below are a few Service Projects ideas that were discussed. A couple students have volunteered to get more information and we will decide which projects we would like to facilitate. 

We would like to put on a picnic for agencies such as HAVEN. Stephanie Turcotte will be researching different parks where we could host this event. We would like to provide a day of fun and food for the children and their families. Some of the activities we were thinking about were: Swimming, Frisbee, volleyball and other group activities.

 
Another event that we would like to put on for these agencies is a movie night for the children. Edward Allen will be talking with area movie theaters to see if we could receive a discount for our service project.

Oakland County Sheriff Benefit for the Handicap fishing derby event which is every year on the second Wednesday in August at Dodge Park #4. It runs from about 7:30 am - 2:30 pm Andrew brought the idea of this event to our group and there are many other opportunities to work with the Sheriff Benefit through similar types of events. More information can be found at www.ocsdbenefit.org.

 
Fundraising – we also discussed a couple fundraising ideas.

Ally Stapleton has come up with the neat idea of creating a mock crime scene at CREST around Halloween. We were talking about putting on a trick-or-treat event during the day for the kids and then turning the CREST facility into a Haunted House/crime scene at night. Ally has a lot of experience, as she has run her own business of throwing parties at nightclubs. She already has a lot of the props: A casket, life size zombies, fog machines, pro lighting equipment and many other things. If you are interested in this fundraising event and would like to be apart of the planning committee please contact Ally at allystapleton@gmail.com

Adam came up with the idea of the game Assassin which is a live-action role-playing game. Players try to eliminate each other from the game using mock weapons in an effort to become the last surviving player. If you are interested in learning more or helping to put on this fundraising event please contact Adam at talarek.timothy@student.oakland.edu
 
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday June 3rd at 5pm. Our Advisors have been a huge part of developing our association and have been a huge support for everyone involved, that is why we will be moving the meetings to Wednesdays, so that we will have at least one advisor at every meetings.

 
If you have any questions please contact me
 
Thank you
Karen Wentz
CJSA President

 

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Public Services Career Fair a Huge Success

The forty plus agency representatives from the Public Services Departments and attendees all agreed that the OCC Emergency/Public Services Career Fair was a tremendous success.  Representatives from the FBI, Secret Service, ATF, Michigan State Police, DNR, Irving, Texas Police Department and many others contributed to make this the biggest and most successful public services’ career fair ever presented at Auburn Hills.

 

 

OCC’s Criminal Justice Student Association Members assisted in making this fair a success.  Our members, under the direction of Geoff Lassers, an EMS Coordinator, assisted with setup and served as greeters and guides for the presenters and guests.  They also manned their own table and signed-up several new members.