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40% of American households with children have guns. -Peter Hart Research Associates Poll, July 1999. In 30% of handgun-owning households, the gun was stored unlocked and loaded at the time of the survey. -National Institute of Justice, "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms," May 1997. 28% of gun-owning households with children do not always keep guns locked in a secure place. -Peter Hart Research Associates Poll, July 1999. Of gun-owning households ...
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Juvenile Justice Prevention and Victim Services Juvenile Justice Prevention and Victim Services » Programs for Youth » Grant Application 07-08 The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice provides delinquency prevention services through the Office of Prevention and Victim Services. Delinquency prevention programs are designed to address specific problems and provide interventions for at-risk youth and their families in order to reduce juvenile crime and protect public safety. Prevention programs target high-risk juveniles and those who exhibit problem behaviors such as ungovernability, truancy, running away from home and other ...
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PRIVILEGE SPEECH: Rejoinder to scrapping the Juvenile Justice Law DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 August) -- I stand on a matter of collective privilege to speak on a raging issue confronting one of the city’s most vulnerable sectors—juvenile delinquents and how the recent law supposedly protecting them is stirring the populace. I say raging because the common notion is that the Juvenile Justice law or Republic Act 9344 was, is a bad idea; to let young criminals freely roam our streets instead of punishing them is not what many believe a proper thing to do to maintain peace and order in our society. Last Friday, this representation along with active non-government organizations ...
Organization renamed 'Youth Reach' Organization renamed 'Youth Reach' Agency helps families with at-risk children BY SUSAN LATHAM CARR STAR-BANNER OCALA - Church Without Walls, which offers programs to help troubled youth, is not actually a church, so the agency has changed its name to "Youth Reach," which more closely describes the work it does. "It's actually been a source of great confusion for folks," said Bruce Seaman, Youth Reach's executive director. "When you call yourself a church, there are certain expectations that go along ...
OCALA - Church Without Walls, which offers programs to help troubled youth, is not actually a church, so the agency has changed its name to "Youth Reach," which more closely describes the work it does. "It's actually been a source of great confusion for folks," said Bruce Seaman, Youth Reach's executive director. "When you call yourself a church, there are certain expectations that go along with that." The original name came about because the initial program involved volunteers from various churches ...
SNAP to keep at-risk boys from crime It makes more sense to spend time, energy and money before an at-risk youth commits crimes than to give him counseling after the fact. It's that idea that drove the Youth Crime Prevention Council, Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners and the Allegheny County Probation Department to look for a program to help keep boys away from crime. The program they picked is called Stop Now and Plan, or SNAP, for short. And the Mc-Keesport agency Auberle will run the two-year pilot program. "The interest is in trying ...
To undo gang influence, educate, don't incarcerate The racial disparity of the prison population is sometimes referred to as an unintended consequence of mass incarceration -- policies that give the United States the highest number of people in prisons and jails compared to every other country on the planet. But it's impossible to consider the consequences as "unintended" when deliberate deceptions have such a positive economic impact. Consider what would be lost without inmates feeding the multibillion dollar prison economy: salaries, prison construction, financing profits, social services and court staffing, among other items.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., co-authored legislation this year to tackle the gang issue. Street-level policing is balanced with job training, economic empowerment and mentoring. The multimillion-dollar legislative package, Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth, adds new programs to already existing ones designed to steer gang wannabes away from thug life. Outreach programs for mentoring, drug awareness and anti-violence would be offered to middle-schoolers. Ex-offenders trying to avoid gangs get housing, employment and counseling.
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention YouthPower The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and Youth Service America (YSA) are pleased to announce YouthPower grants of up to $1,000 to support youth-led service projects. These grants support youth in foster care (ages 5-18) and youth who have recently transitioned out of foster care (ages 19-25) in planning and implementing service projects in their community. Grants and awards support and motivate youth, teachers, service-learning coordinators, and youth-serving organizations to plan and implement projects for National Youth Service Day and on-going ...