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Metropolitan Community Service Program
•The Metropolitan Community Service Program provides continual, cost-free labor to community cleanup efforts at 45 worksites through court-appointed community service workers.
•The program coordinates community service as an alternative to incarceration. This benefits the judicial system and the client, who has a chance to experience the positive effects of giving back to the community.
•It helps reduce crime by addressing blighted areas and connects clients to social services.
•Clients do the hard physical work, which neighborhood residents often cannot do. 
•MCSP adopted Prospect Avenue, and workers clean segments of the avenue five days a week. It also encourages neighborhood associations and businesses along the corridor to get involved.
•In 2007, 2,089 clients provided $129,680 worth of free labor and collected 148,430 pounds of trash and 2,172 tires. In 2006, MCSP provided more than 131,000 hours of community service and collected 520,000 pounds of trash from the metro area including Wyandotte County.
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