Resources
Preventing Crime
 Crime Prevention Publicity Campaigns shows how police agencies can help remove opportunities for individuals to engage in criminal behaviors by teaching the public to adopt better self-protection measures. It also explains how to warn offenders of increased police vigilance or improved police practices.
Engaging Young Volunteers
Engaging Youth Through Volunteerism, a new 10-minute DVD by the Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) Program, highlights the role youth and adult volunteers in law enforcement agencies can play in providing programming for and engaging youth in the community.
Reporting the Latest in Crime Prevention
Prevention Works, the first national blog on crime prevention, features the latest news and ideas in crime prevention and offers an opportunity for discussion on a variety of topics. The National Crime Prevention Council runs the site.
Mentoring With a Faith-Based Approach
 Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth, published by Public/Private Ventures, describes the impact of mentoring on high-risk youth and examines the benefits of matching such youth with faith-based mentors. The study draws on findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative.
Examining Substance Abuse in the U.S.
Substate Estimates from the 2002-2004 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, describes the rates at which underage individuals are binge drinking and provides data about alcohol and substance abuse for more than 340 substate areas representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Implementing Delinquency Prevention Plans
National Evaluation of the Title V Community Prevention Grants Program reviews the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Title V Program, which provides communities with a framework for developing and implementing comprehensive juvenile delinquency prevention plans. More than 1,500 communities have received Title V grants.
Preventing Meth Abuse
"Long-term Effects of Universal Preventive Interventions on Methamphetamine Use Among Adolescents" explains how prevention programs conducted in middle school can reduce methamphetamine abuse among rural adolescents years later. Adolescents who participated in these programs showed a reduction in lifetime and annual methamphetamine use. View the abstract online or contact the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine to access the full publication.
New Government Meth Site
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a new methamphetamine information site which includes two comprehensive educational presentations on methamphetamine, one specifically tailored to women. The site seeks to educate the general public about meth and how it is made, the effects of meth on users, and the dangers posed by meth to the community and the environment.
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