Delinquency Prevention Program

Program goal(s) name: Prevent and reduce youth gang involvement and youth gang violence. Program goal(s) description: provides funding to support state and local efforts to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate policies and projects, directly or through grants and contracts with public and private agencies, for the development of more effective education, training, research, prevention, diversion, treatment, and rehabilitation, compliance with the core requirements and overall juvenile justice system improvement efforts. Program objective(s) name: Implement prevention and suppression strategies to decrease violence and gang involvement Program objective(s) 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; convene a task force or working group (this may be an existing group) that meets regularly throughout the project period to identify and address service gaps and barriers and integrates funded projects with other existing state/local youth crime reduction efforts.