Youth Crime Prevention Programs

Institute of Youth, Education and Families Program Areas - Among other programs, see Disconnected Youth and Gang Prevention - Information on advocacy, programs and services, research and analysis, and publications.
Kids, Cops, and Communities ( 1023 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, by Marcia R. Chaiken, National Institute of Justice Issues and Practices, NCJ 169599, June 1998. 67 p.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center - Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal partners, the Resource Center provides current information developed by federal agencies or with federal support pertaining to youth violence.
Reinvesting in Youth, Feasibility Study Report ( 1.26 MB), by Nancy R. Ashley, Heliotrope, and Ira M. Cutler, The Cornerstone Consulting Group, Inc., January 2001
Establishing and Maintaining Interagency Information Sharing ( 369 KB), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, JAIBG Bulletin, March 2000.
Youth and Communities - Washington State Lieutenant Governor

School Resource Officer Training Program ( 63 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Fact Sheet, FS 200105, March 2001
Kitsap County School Resource Officer
Marysville School Resource Officer
Seattle Police School Partnerships
Youth Afterschool Program and Law Enforcement ( 178.7 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice Research Preview, FS 000169, August 1997.

Best Practices in Community Policing in: Gang Intervention and Gang Violence ( 2.82 MB), U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2006
Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan, Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, March 1996 - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Gang Prevention - National League of Cities
Solutions from Into The Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs, by Mike Carlie, Ph.D, Copyright © 2002 Michael K. Carlie - Missouri State University Faculty Website
Targeted Outreach: Boys and Girls Clubs of America's Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention ( 334 KB), by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, Public/Private Ventures, 2002

AWC Gang Taskforce Recommendations - Legislative Priorities 2008
Legislative Work Group on Gang Related Crime SB 5987( 295 KB), Final Report Recommendations to the Legislature on possible strategies to address gangs and gang-related violence, December 11, 2007
Lynnwood - About Street Gangs
Pierce County Youth Violence Prevention Program
Prosser - Mayors Message April 2009 - The Prosser Community Gang Task Force
Prosser School District - Dealing with Gangs
Quincy - Gang Awareness
Sunnyside Gang Reduction Initiative
Seattle Police Gang Unit
Tacoma - Focus on Crime Reduction, Make Tacoma Safe and Clean - Scroll down to Gangs includes links to Resource Inventory, Connecting With Kids, and Gang Member Recidivsm
Yakima Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) - Yakima Police Department and Yakima School District

Gangs - National Criminal Justice Service
Gang Abatement - Center for Health Improvement (CHI), Health Improvement Guide - CHI is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit health policy center based in Sacramento, California.
Gang-Related Legislation in Washington State - Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR)
Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies, Justice Policy Institute, 2007
Implementing a Citywide Gang Violence Reduction Strategy ( 464 KB), published by the Youth Edeucation and Famlies Institute and National Council on Crime and Delinquency - Highlights efforts in San Jose, Santa Rosa, and San Bernardino, California, February 2008
Policing by Injunction: Problem-Oriented Dimensions of Civil Gang Abatement in the State of California ( 20 MB), by Edward L. Alla, 2002 - This federally-funded study explores aspects of the California gang injunction initiatives, which employ civil injunctions to abate persistent public nuisance activity by gangs in specific neighborhoods.
Youth Gang Prevention Initiative - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

U.S. Congress Proposed S132 Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2009
- Combating Criminal Street Gangs - Senator Diane Feinstein
Sunnyside Ordinance No. 2162 - Adds a new chapter 9.36 (attached as Exhibit A) pertaining to criminal street gangs and gang-related activity
- City of Sunnyside's Ordinance: A first Step - Criminal Street Gnags and Gang-Related Activity, by Mark Kunkler City Attorney of Sunnyside. Information Bulletin No. 529 (2007), Legal Notes, Proceedings of October 3-5, 2007
- Attorney General informal opinion by Gregory Trautman on the validity of municipal ordinance provisions enacted to address criminal street gangs and gang-related activity, October 26, 2007
- ACLU of Washington Raises Concerns over Sunnyside Gang Ordinance
Toppenish Municipal Code Ch. 9.100 - Criminal Street Gangs
Yakima Municipal Code Ch. 6.11 - Criminal Street Gangs

Find Youth Information - This website offers federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships in your efforts to support youth. Included are tools and resources to help you form effective partnerships, assess community assets, understand risk factors and protective factors, generate maps of local and Federal resources, and search for evidence-based youth programs.
Into The Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs, by Mike Carlie, Ph.D, Copyright © 2002 Michael K. Carlie Continually updated - Missouri State University Faculty Website - This website explores over 80 different gang-related topics and offers more than 2,400 links to useful gang-related websites on the Internet.
Juvenile Information Network
Teens, Crime and the Community - National Crime Prevention Council
Best Practices Database (Substance Abuse Prevention Database) - Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), University of Nevada, Reno
USDJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Gang Related Crime Workgroup