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* [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|PreventingCrime- WhatWorks, What Doesn't, What's Promising]] | * [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|PreventingCrime- WhatWorks, What Doesn't, What's Promising]] | ||
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness. | This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness. | ||
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* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth] | * [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth] | ||
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs. | This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs. | ||
Revision as of 15:03, 22 February 2008
This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York.
Contents
UPCOMING EVENTS
NEXT MEETING
Date: Monday, March 3, 2008 NOTE NEW MEETING DATE!
Time: 12:00
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station)
Notes: Lunch provided.
Directions
Free parking is available.
OTHER NOTICES
Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded!
We anticipate that the funding will be available by March, 2008.
RESOURCES
DRAFT Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan
- Overview of DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 7 pages
- Main body of DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 60 pages
- Appendices for DRAFT Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, rev. 2/12/08, 137 pages
Evidence-Based Targeting
This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime.
- Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting
- DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08
Evidence-Based Interventions
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.
- Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
- Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.
