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UPCOMING EVENTS

NEXT MEETING
Date: WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2008 NOTE NEW MEETING DATE!
Time: 12:00
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station)
Notes: Lunch provided.
Directions
Free parking is available.

OTHER NOTICES

Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded!
We anticipate that the funding will be available by March, 2008.

RESOURCES

DRAFT Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan

• Overview of DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 7 pages
• Main body of DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 60 pages
• Appendices for DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 137 pages

Evidence-Based Targeting

This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime.

• Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting
• DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08

Chronic Truancy Prevention

Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group

Evidence-Based Interventions

• Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

• Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

• Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth

This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

• Model Programs Guide
  

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

Disproportionate Minority Contact

• OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006
  
  

Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources

• 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds

NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.”