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Download full textBownes, Donna; Ingersoll, Sarah – 1997
Through Title V Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs (Community Prevention Grants), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) allocated $20 million in fiscal year 1997 to states to complement law enforcement and justice system efforts by helping local communities foster strong families and nurture…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedEllis, Arthur L. – Urban League Review, 1992
Proposes that any strategy designed to combat the problem of urban youth groups must (1) have high visibility; (2) be youth intense; and (3) use economic development approaches such as community-based small business enterprises. The proposed youth enterprise zones model is a youth and community revitalization strategy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency Prevention, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Thomas, Stanley B., Jr. – 1974
This speech describes the role of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Office of Human Development in providing services to children and emphasizes the need for nongovernmental groups to aid in child advocacy. The federal role, as embodied in OHD, is one of developmental assistance to vulnerable groups in society. Specific…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Delinquency Prevention
Sea Ventures, Highlands, NJ. – 1975
A detailed profile of the largest fresh-air education program in the country for disadvantaged youth -- Sea Ventures -- is provided in this document. Created entirely through the effort of volunteers, Sea Ventures provides learning opportunities that go beyond occupying youngsters. This multi-racial/lingual juvenile delinquency prevention program…
Descriptors: Delinquency Prevention, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, Field Experience Programs
Forslund, Morris A.; Meyers, Ralph E. – 1972
The study was conducted in an effort to ascertain the magnitude and dimensions of the delinquency problem among the American Indian youths from the Wind River Reservation (Wyoming). During the summer of 1971 data were obtained from the records of the Court of Indian Offenses, the Tribal police, the juvenile officer on the reservation, the Riverton…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Antisocial Behavior, Correctional Rehabilitation
Grosser, Charles F. – 1968
The report describes six projects supported by the Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development and employing community action to combat juvenile delinquency: the Mobilization for Youth on New York City's lower East Side; the Syracuse Crusade for Opportunity in Syracuse, New York; the United Planning Organization, Washington, D.C.; Houston…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Organizations
