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Download full textDepartment of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Justice Programs. – 1998
This publication provides brief descriptions of all the funding opportunities of the bureaus and offices of the Office of Justice Programs. Each description lists the amount of funding available, tells who can apply, and gives the status of program regulations, guidelines, reports, and application kits. The citations also contain the name of the…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Dean, Laurel, Comp.; Wallace, Judy, Comp. – 1995
This manual, designed for individuals, agencies, and organizations interested in preventing and intervening in youth violence, is a guide to guides, a map of resources on prevention and intervention. Development of the manual was guided by a number of prevention principles, chiefly, the belief that collaboration is essential for effective youth…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Cooperation
Austin, Bobby William, Ed. – 1996
This report of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys is the beginning of an approach to repair society's breaches and restore the streets to safety. The Task Force, headed by Andrew J. Young and established in 1994, conceived its mission as one of reclamation. The Task Force made 61 specific recommendations, and three general…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Programs, Crime Prevention, Disadvantaged Youth
Strother and Associates, Rochester, NY. – 1990
In 1982 the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, with funding from the Ford Foundation and assistance from more than 60 local and national funders, began a neighborhood self-help crime-prevention program in 10 inner city communities. The program was based on reducing urban violence and drug abuse through youth empowerment, community revitalization,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Crime Prevention, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Hechinger, Fred M. – Carnegie Quarterly, 1994
A 3-day conference brought together health and education experts to explore responses to adolescent health problems and to suggest ways to implement the recommendations put forward in "Fateful Choices: Healthy Youth for the 21st Century," by Fred M. Hechinger. Conference participants identified a number of adolescent health problems and the areas…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Peterson, George E.; And Others – 1992
What has been learned about making cities better since civil disturbances first arose in American cities is summarized, and guidelines are offered for constructing an urban agenda for improvement. In some respects the country has made real progress since the Watts riots, but in other areas, conditions are unambiguously worse, with increasing…
Descriptors: Crime, Cultural Differences, Demography, Economic Factors
