The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has identified six key principles for preventing and reducing at-risk behavior and serious violent delinquency: (1) Strengthen families' efforts to provide guidance, discipline and sound values to their children; (2) Empower core social institutions to provide clear community values; (3) Promote prevention strategies that address risk factors and enhance protective factors; (4) Intervene immediately when delinquent behavior first occurs; (5) Establish a broad spectrum of graduated sanctions that provide accountability and a continuum of services that respond to juveniles' needs; (6) Identify and control the small segment of serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders in order to ensure the public safety. There is a brief section on benefits and implementation of the comprehensive strategy. Endnotes