The foundation has cited the Dorchester Youth Collaborative (Massachusetts) as a national model program. The collaborative is dedicated to the prevention of criminal behavior. It provides counseling, education, job development, and other services to demonstrate that realistic avenues of hope exist for youths who reject the choices of crime and drug use. Promising programs like this one, as well as other State and local initiatives, require far more resources than they are now receiving from the Federal Government, however. The challenges that lie ahead include the continued deinstitutionalization of status offenders, the reform of a correctional system in which minority youth are assigned to public institutions and whites are placed in private facilities, and effective control of handguns. (Author abstract modified)