Describes activities, accomplishments, and successful approaches of grant projects funded under Title V and makes recommendations for future Title V endeavors. Reviews current trends in juvenile justice and the role OJJDP's Community Prevention Grants (Title V) program plays in the prevention and control of problem juvenile behaviors. Discusses the contribution of Federal and State support to local delinquency prevention efforts and offers recommendations for future investment in prevention. Copies for 1995 and 1996 are also available.

Provides an overview of the principles guiding OJJDP's approach to juvenile crime prevention and the community environment's impact on that approach. Describes individual JUMP grants and intervention models implemented in communities, and provides descriptions of the youth being served, their volunteer mentors, and the nature of their mentoring relationships. Examines initial evaluation findings and some promising indicators of success, and presents anticipated directions for future mentoring and mentoring-related activities.

Reviews current trends in juvenile justice and the role the Title V Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs (known as the Community Prevention Grants Program) play in the prevention and control of juvenile problem behaviors. Also reviews the allocation of Title V resources provided to date, examines the experiences of participating States and local communities during implementation, and discusses how State and Federal efforts coordinate to support local delinquency prevention.

Explores the efforts of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) to replace the community's fragmented response to juvenile violence with a collaborative and coordinated approach. Describes the Allegheny County comprehensive antiviolence mobilization effort, which involves the law enforcement community, public and private agencies, grassroots organizations, and individual citizens.

Describes four programs that focus on family preservation, delinquency, early intervention, and improving the judicial response to the needs of children. Identifies specific opportunities for increased collaboration among public officials and community leaders.

Describes brief strategic family therapy, an intensive, short-term, problem-focused intervention that addresses the unique strengths and weaknesses of minority youth and families in Miami, FL. Outlines program objectives, target population, theoretical underpinnings, components of intervention, and implementation strategy. Compares the effectiveness of alternative forms of family therapy that have been used in the Miami area.

Provides a framework for the fight against juvenile violence by identifying eight objectives that can be supported by activity at the individual, community, State, and Federal levels. Developed by the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this Report describes how communities can generate solutions and how individuals and groups can reduce or prevent violence on their blocks, in public housing units, or in neighborhoods. Provides information about Federal training, technical assistance, grants, research, and other resources that support these efforts.

Summarizes innovative and effective strategies designed to reduce juvenile violence and victimization that were developed by the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Identifies eight key objectives that individuals, communities, States, and the Federal Government can support to bring about positive change.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1996 teleconference. Discusses Title V, Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs, which is a 1992 amendment to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Includes descriptions of community-based programs within Title V and their implementation in various cities, along with a community resource guide.

Informs juvenile justice practitioners and other youth service providers about OJJDP's work in developing and demonstrating a community assessment center model. Presents challenges associated with implementing the model and describes the experiences of four communities (Denver and Jefferson County, CO, and Lee County and Orlando, FL).

Contains action steps for schools, students, parents, community groups, and businesses, along with a series of information briefs on specific issues affecting school safety, including gun violence, truancy, uniforms, and drug testing of student athletes. Also includes appendixes on research and evaluation findings, resources, related readings, and contacts for additional information.

Analyzes the results of a meta-analysis (a systematic synthesis of quantitative research results) that posed two questions: (1) Can intervention programs reduce recidivism rates among serious delinquents? and (2) If so, what types of programs are most effective? Describes the procedures used to select studies for the meta-analysis and presents the methods of analysis used to answer the above questions.

Describes the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program, which addresses youth violence and juvenile delinquency by building relationships among youth, their families, peers, teachers, school staff, and other members of the community. Also presents findings of evaluation studies, offers budget information, and provides sources of further information.

Examines the impact that multiple changes in family structure have on an adolescent's risk of serious problem behavior. Presents findings of research teams in 3 cities that interviewed 4,000 youth and their caretakers to analyze the prevalence of delinquent behaviors and drug use and the number of family transitions the youth had experienced. Reports that the researchers found that these young people had faced a substantial number of family transitions, which can result in decreased financial security and increased stress and conflict.

Features the Strengthening Families Program, a family-change program that serves culturally and geographically diverse families and their children across the Nation. Describes several implementations of the program, offers suggestions for implementing it in communities, and lists additional resources.

Examines literature on family structure and its relationship to the development of delinquency in youth. Also reviews family strengthening approaches and models and the status of family strengthening programs.

Describes the Incredible Years Parents, Teachers, and Children Training Series, which has been identified as an exemplary "best practices" program by OJJDP's Family Strengthening Project. Presents an overview of the Incredible Years Series' program designs, goals, and target populations; an extended discussion of each program's rationale, content, process, and methods; the findings of several research evaluations of the programs; and a summary of the series' effectiveness.

Provides a comprehensive look at the missions and activities of 20 Federal agencies (for fiscal years 1990 through 1992) as they relate to juvenile delinquency prevention, treatment, diversion, rehabilitation, education, planning, training and technical assistance, and research. Also describes Federal involvement in addressing serious juvenile crime, drug and alcohol abuse, gang membership, and child victimization.

Highlights dropout prevention initiatives, with a particular focus on the Communities In Schools (CIS) initiative and its evaluation conducted by The Urban Institute. Discusses how CIS brings together public and private agencies in communities, such as social workers, community groups, and employment counselors, and puts them where they are needed—in the schools.

Assists juvenile justice practitioners in the implementation of law-related education (LRE) programs and includes information on the benefits of these programs, their use as prevention and intervention tools, and steps for designing and implementing an LRE curriculum and program.

Presents, in narrative and graph format, a collection of major public and private comprehensive community-based violence prevention and economic development initiatives that can assist in delinquency prevention efforts.

Presents the results of an independent evaluation of the Nation's oldest and largest mentoring program, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Reports that the mentored youth were less likely to start using drugs or alcohol, were less assaultive, skipped fewer days of school, and had better relationships with their parents and peers than similar youth without a mentor.

Presents effective mentoring programs that can increase at-risk youth's likelihood of improving their grades and relationships and reduce their likelihood of engaging in drug or alcohol use, resorting to violence, or skipping school. Highlights the key principles of effective mentoring programs and various forms of one-to-one mentoring efforts.

Describes promising juvenile crime prevention approaches, summarizes the risk factors challenging youth, features effective prevention programs supported by OJJDP, and describes planning, training, and technical assistance opportunities available through OJJDP's Community Prevention Grants. Notes that OJJDP funds Community Prevention Grants under Title V of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act to help communities in 49 States, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia prevent juvenile delinquency.

Describes both developmental precursors to serious and violent juvenile offending and effective approaches to prevention of such offending. Assesses family-, parent-, and child-focused prevention programs and offers examples of well-designed intervention programs.

Describes a new effort to reduce the number of juveniles who leave school prematurely and who are at risk of delinquency because they are truants or dropouts, afraid to attend school, suspended or expelled, or in need of help to be reintegrated into their mainstream school from the juvenile justice system. Introduces a series of OJJDP Bulletins focusing on effective programs and innovative strategies to reach these children.

Summarizes a recent report by the Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. Provides valuable insights into the pathways to serious and violent juvenile offending and offers empirical evidence that the key to its reduction lies in early prevention efforts aimed at high-risk youth and interventions with these offenders.

Guides program planners, policymakers, and service providers in determining effective family-focused and parenting intervention strategies for high-risk youth and families.

Presents findings from the Rochester Youth Development Study and the Pittsburgh Youth Study on risk factors for teenage paternity, specifically the role of delinquency in early fatherhood. Indicates that both studies concluded that early delinquency is a highly significant risk factor for becoming a teen father. Cites the Rochester study report finding that the possibility of teen paternity rises dramatically as risk factors accumulate and the Pittsburgh study finding that teen fatherhood may be followed by greater involvement in delinquency. Includes a list of resources for teen fathers.

Assists communities in assessing their delinquency prevention programs by providing information and resource aids on program planning, evaluation design, data analysis, and measurement of outcomes. Although designed primarily for Title V grantees, the workbook provides instructions and examples of forms that can be used to support any evaluation.

Highlights evaluations of several programs that have implemented the multisystemic therapy (MST) approach to the treatment of serious antisocial behavior in youth. Indicates that MST is a home-based service approach that was developed in response to the lack of scientifically proven, cost-effective treatment. Focuses on improving psychosocial functioning for youth and their families so that the need for out-of-home child placements is reduced or eliminated.

Examines Treatment Foster Care (TFC), an alternative to residential and group care placements for serious and chronic juvenile offenders. Describes TFC as providing adolescents in need of out-of-home care with close supervision, fair and consistent limits, and a supportive relationship with at least one mentoring adult, while reducing their exposure to delinquent peers. Identifies TFC as 1 of OJJDP's 10 model "blueprint" programs.

Offers an indepth description of the history and structure of the Youth Environmental Service (YES) program. Designed for policymakers and practitioners who want to learn more about YES. Describes the purpose of the YES initiative: to increase the capacity of States and communities to correct, treat, and rehabilitate adjudicated delinquents and to prevent at-risk youth from entering the juvenile justice system by implementing environmental work and education programs on federally owned land.

Assists youth service agencies and Federal land managers in developing a Youth Environmental Service program. Describes the steps involved in becoming a site and explains how to obtain Federal technical assistance during startup and implementation.

Presents the findings of a study that examined recent data on juvenile arrests and the delinquency cases processed by U.S. juvenile courts. Presents data that will enable policymakers and the public to better understand the role that younger delinquents play in the overall problem of juvenile crime and violence.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1996 teleconference. Provides information on the characteristics of youth-oriented community policing and the ways in which it differs from general community-oriented policing, and highlights three unique and effective programs.

Describes an initiative by the Center for the Prevention of School Violence in Raleigh, NC, that focuses on both promising and effective programs and innovative strategies to reach youth out of the education mainstream (YOEM). Defines the YOEM initiative as focusing on at-risk youth who are truant, dropouts, fearful of attending school, suspended or expelled, or in need of help reintegrating into mainstream schools from juvenile detention and correctional settings.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1996 teleconference. Provides information on how to address the needs of youth who are truant, dropouts, expelled or suspended from school, afraid to go to school because of violence or fear of violence, or who need to be reintegrated into school from a juvenile justice setting.