Educates youth on using music, drama, dance, and visual arts programs to draw attention to problems in their communities. Presents examples of dance-, music-, and drama-related programs that have successfully combined strategies for crime prevention and crime reduction, and supplies tips on evaluating such programs. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Explains how youth can start projects that bring together volunteers to clean, repair, and improve public spaces or other areas that have been neglected, vandalized, or misused. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Alerts youth to the ways in which their publications can contribute to crime prevention, and conveys the potential challenges and rewards of publishing their message. Outlines the publication process and gives tips on evaluating whether the publication is successful. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes cross-age teaching programs for youth (programs in which youth share their skills and knowledge with people either older or younger than they are). Explains how to start a cross-age teaching program and describes how cross-age teaching may prevent or reduce crime. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Helps youth begin to evaluate their programs and explains why it is important to evaluate them. Describes how youth can use their findings to assess the program's impact and identify which parts need to be either modified or dropped to better achieve goals. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Presents peer mentoring programs for youth (those that match older youth with young students in one-on-one relationships) as a way to prevent or reduce crime. Explains how youth involved in mentoring programs are less likely to experiment with drugs or drop out of school. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes how youth can create a presentation that will convey their message effectively to those who need to hear it. Provides step-by-step techniques, explores proven methods of planning and conducting presentations that help motivate an audience to action, and lists both the challenges and rewards of making a presentation. Supplies tips on evaluating a presentation's effectiveness and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes the characteristics of a good meeting and provides youth with straightforward advice on how to conduct productive meetings and keep them moving in a positive direction. Also describes the challenges of conducting meetings and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Explains how youth can plan special events or activities to focus community attention on important issues such as child safety or drug abuse prevention. Includes a three-page checklist detailing what needs to be done during the 20 weeks before an event. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Provides young people with helpful, hands-on tools with which they can start their own crime prevention projects. Serves as a workbook to help youth plan, select, and implement successful crime prevention projects by using the five steps of the Success Cycle: assessing the community's needs, planning a successful project, lining up resources, acting on the plan, and developing monitoring and evaluation techniques. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes how youth can use a public awareness or education project to bring an important issue to their community's attention. Provides practical advice on how to select a topic, develop a message, organize a project, and gather resources. Supplies tips on evaluating programs and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Encourages youth to set up school crime watch programs in their schools. Provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to set up a program, supplies tips on how to evaluate programs, and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Defines intergenerational programs and explains how youth can work with and assist senior citizens in their communities. Also describes the benefits of youth-senior programs (such as strengthening ties to the community and helping dispel stereotypes) and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes how youth can create a mediation program to help prevent violence in their community. Examines how mediation might help reduce violence in schools and neighborhoods, discusses peer mediation, provides step-by-step techniques for starting a program and the methods needed to maintain it, and supplies tips on evaluating the program's effectiveness. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Provides youth with practical and straightforward advice on how to eliminate vandalism and graffiti in their communities. Describes the challenges and rewards of instituting antivandalism or antigraffiti projects and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Describes how youth can publicize their message by working with the media. Informs youth about how to start up a partnership with the media to help educate their audience, build support in the community, help attract new volunteers, and build partnerships with other local community groups. Lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.

Encourages youth to set up drug prevention projects in their communities. Lists specific drug prevention activities, identifies the challenges and rewards of starting up such a project, and lists organizations to contact for additional information. Intended for a youth audience.