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The proposed legislation also calls for data-collection from designated geographic areas to assess the needs and extant resources for youth violence prevention and intervention; and authorizes the administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local governments and Native American tribes for the ...
Kansas City’s new 24-hour youth violence prevention hotline is live. Young Kansas Citians in need of help are encouraged to call or text 816-799-1720 to chat with trained anti-violence ...
The Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV), originally known as PAX, [1] was a non-profit organization co-founded in 1998 by Daniel Gross and Talmage Cooley, seeking to end gun violence in America. In 2011, PAX changed its name to The Center to Prevent Youth Violence. [citation needed] The organization merged with the Brady Campaign in 2012.
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP, or Working Group) is a group within the executive branch of the U.S. government, and is responsible for promoting healthy outcomes for all youth, including disconnected youth and youth who are at-risk. The Working Group also engages with national, state, local and tribal agencies and ...
Stop The Violence has prevention programs that proactively mentor youth and work with families. They also intervene and mentor youth after they have been arrested or gotten in trouble at school.
The News Tribune has partnered with Safe Streets to host a free community panel on youth violence prevention on May 4 to cap off a series of stories on the topic over the next four weeks. Safe ...
Advocates for Youth is a private national nonprofit organization committed to youth intervention programming focused on pregnancy prevention and other issues. The once-popular Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program and The Center to Prevent Youth Violence are two now-closed organizations that were also intervention-oriented, the ...
The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...