Community-Based Violence Prevention Program

Program goal(s) name: Prevent and reduce youth violence Program goal(s) description: Prevent youth from joining gangs, discontinue involvement in gangs, and prevent and reduce youth gang violence. Program objective(s) name: Support youth violence reduction programs Program objective description: Implement intervention strategies that prevent youth from joining gangs and help them to discontinue their involvement with gangs and violence; implement suppression strategies to address youth gang violence; reduce and sustain reductions in community youth violence, particularly gun and gang violence, and victimization; and convene a task force or working group that meets regularly to identify and address service gaps and barriers and coordinates with other existing state/local youth crime reduction efforts.