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Achieving the Goals: Goal 1--All Children in America Will Start School Ready to Learn

U.S. Department of Justice

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is the Department's primary resource for providing financial and other assistance to state and local governments for efforts to control crime and delinquency, improve the criminal and juvenile justice system, increase the Nation's knowledge about crime and related issues, and enhance society's response to crime victims. While OJP's primary responsibility is directing its financial and other assistance for the control of crime and delinquency, it supports either directly or indirectly the National Education Goals, including Goal One, in many of its programs.

Operation Weed and Seed

Operation Weed and Seed is a neighborhood-based, multi-agency approach to law enforcement and community revitalization in high-crime areas. The program's goal is to improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods by controlling and preventing crime, drug abuse, and gang activity. The Weed and Seed strategy integrates federal, state, and local law enforcement and criminal justice resources with corresponding human services and private and community resources to maximize program impact. Resident participation is an essential element of Weed and Seed programs. A listing of Weed and Seed sites is included in the resources section of this book.

Robert Samuels
Assistant Director
Executive Office of Weed and Seed
Department of Justice
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 307-1357

The Public/Private Partnership Against Violence in America Program

This program provides opportunities for private and corporate foundations to join with the Department of Justice and other participating Federal and state agencies to address violence in America, particularly violence affecting children and youth. Funds will be provided to selected local communities to support promising, locally driven violence prevention and intervention efforts based on local needs assessments and with broad participation from a significant cross-section of community stakeholders.

Mike Dalich, Program Manager
Office of Assistant Attorney General
Office of Justice Programs
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

(202) 616-3203

Title V Delinquency Prevention Program

Title V authorizes Office of Juvenile Justice and Development Program (OJJDP) to make grants to states to be subgranted through State Advisory Groups to qualified units of local government. These grant funds will be used for programs to reduce the risk factors for delinquency, such as child abuse and family disintegration, while strengthening protective factors, such as clear standards for law-abiding behavior and the sense of positive adult role models.

Donna Bownes, Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

(202) 616-9618

National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign

The Campaign develops and produces a full range of crime and drug use prevention public service announcements and materials that include brochures, videos, posters, books, and community action kits. The National Crime Prevention Council, which administers the campaign, also provides technical assistance and training workshops. These services continue to educate and motivate citizens to undertake positive actions to protect themselves and their families against crime and violence. As part of the "McGruff" the Crime Dog, campaign, National McGruff House Network provides children with a safe haven network across the country.

Bob Brown, Program Manager
Bureau of Justice Assistance
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 616-3297

Race Against Drugs (RAD)

RAD is a unique drug awareness, education and prevention campaign helping young people understand the dangers of drugs and live a drug-free lifestyle. With the help and assistance from 21 motor sport organizations and the cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Child Safety Council, it has become a fun and exciting new addition to drug abuse prevention programs. RAD now includes national drug awareness and prevention activities at schools, malls, and motor sports events, posters, 21 TV public service announcements, signage on T-Shirts, hats, decals, etc., and specialized programs.

Travis Kain
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 616-3655

National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

OJJDP supports the Network through the development and implication of coordinated training, technical assistance, and information sharing programs. The Network links local Children's Advocacy Center programs, which provide multi-disciplinary coordination in the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases, limited seed money, training, and technical assistance.

Robin Delaney-Shabazz
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 307-9963

Strengthening America's Families: Promising Parenting Strategies for Delinquency Prevention
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention publication is a user's guide to help program planners, policy makers, and service providers determine the most effective family-focused and parenting intervention strategies for high risk youth and families. It reviews what is known about the impact of family characteristics on the risk for delinquency as well as promising family interventions.
Providers using the guide will be better able to choose or modify existing programs to create new interventions for high risk youth and their families. The guide consists of three major sections: Part I: Family Influence on Delinquency, Part II: Review of Family Strengthening Programs, and Part III: Promising Family Strengthening Programs.
The guide may be obtained from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse by writing to:
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
or calling:
(800) 638-8736

The Yale/New Haven Child-Centered Community Policing Training and Replication Program

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funded a multi-year program on a child-focused community-based policing program. Yale University Medical School's Child Study Center and the New Haven, Connecticut, Department of Police Service, conducted a child-focused community-based policing program designed to help children and families cope with the stress caused by exposure to violence, and to prevent violent crime. OJJDP will be replicating this program in four selected sites in fiscal year 1996 that will include training of trainers, implementing a five-phase replication protocol in the four sites, initiating a data collection program for evaluation in the replication sites, and developing a casebook detailing various aspects of the New Haven program.

For further information, contact:

Steven Marens, Ph.D.
Yale University
School of Medicine, Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
Post Office Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

(203) 785-2513

State Crime Victims Compensation and Crime Victim Assistance Programs

OVC makes annual grants through the State Crime Victim Compensation and Crime Victim Assistance Programs to ensures that crime victims are treated fairly by the criminal justice system. These programs offer psychological counseling to help a child heal from the trauma of physical abuse, support shelters for batted women and their children, provide money to pay doctor bills or basic living expenses when work is missed due to a crime, pays funeral costs for murder victims, and provides other services to aid victims.

Jackie Cleland
Division Director
Office of Victims of Crime
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 616-2145

Multi-Jurisdictional Model Program on the Handling of Child Sexual Exploitation Cases

OVC and OJJDP provided funding to develop and implement a protocol that will add a victim service component to multi-jurisdictional task forces working with child exploration and child pornography cases. OVC also supported the attendance of 50 federal criminal justice personnel at the Dallas Crimes Against Children Conference. Child abuse investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service were trained in improved techniques for handling child abuse investigations.

Ron Laney
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20531

(202) 616-7323

Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together) is a comprehensive initiative involving the cooperative efforts of several federal agencies to empower local communities to fight crime by developing broad-based, coordinated anti-violence strategies. The U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy are working with four pilot sites--Metro Atlanta, Metro Denver, the District of Columbia, and the State of Nebraska--to develop and implement anti-violence strategies incorporating the resources of federal, state, and local government agencies, law enforcement, schools, businesses, and community organizations. A listing of Project PACT sites is included in the resources section of this book.

Mike Dalich
Program Manager
Office of the Assistant Attorney General
Office of Justice Programs
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

(202) 616-3203

BJA provided small planning grants to 16 jurisdictions with high rates of crime and violence--including the four PACT sites--to develop comprehensive strategies for preventing and reducing violent crime. This Comprehensive Communities Program (CCP) requires selected jurisdictions to engage in a comprehensive planning and strategy development process for crime-, drug-, and violence-control and prevention that requires law enforcement and other governmental agencies to work in partnership with the community to address these problems, as well as the factors that increase the risk that individuals will become involved in problem behavior. In FY 1994, 16 jurisdictions faced with high rates of crime and violence participated in the CCP planning process. Implementation grants are being awarded to qualified jurisdictions in FY 1994 and 1995. A listing of Comprehensive Communities Program sites is included in the resources section of this book.

Although many communities have begun this process on their own, others throughout the country are engaged in this assessment process as part of OJJDP's Title V Prevention Program. During 1994, OJJDP implemented the Title V Delinquency Prevention Program authorized by the 1992 Amendments to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Title V authorizes OJJDP to make grants to states to be subgranted through State Advisory Groups to qualified units of local government. These grant funds will be used for programs to reduce the risk factors for delinquency, such as child abuse and family disintegration, while strengthening protective factors, such as clear standards for law-abiding behavior and the sense of positive adult role models.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a copyrighted drug and violence prevention model that involves both law enforcement officials and educators. DARE's original purpose was to teach school children how to resist peer pressure to experiment with and use drugs. Although this remains its central focus, DARE has developed and offers an expanded curriculum that includes instruction on dispute resolution and kidnapping awareness. In addition, DARE-related activity now encompasses a Parent Program to assist all family members in keeping children drug free. In FY 1995, we will continue to support the DARE Training Centers that certifies law enforcement officials as DARE trainers. Over 16,500 police officers have been trained by, or with assistance from, the five BJA-supported Regional Training Centers located in Arizona, California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Bob Brown
Program Manager
Bureau of Justice Assistance
633 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

(202) 616-3297
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