YJCEC

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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

NEXT MEETING
Date: Monday, April 7, 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.

FUTURE 2008 MEETING DATES

*  May 12
*  June 16
*  July 14
*  August 11
*  September 8
*  October 20
*  November 10
*  December 8

Any changes in meeting dates will be posted on this page.

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 April, 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

Chronic Truancy Prevention

Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group

Evidence-Based Interventions

• Preventing Crime- What Works, 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.

• Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

• 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.

• Model Programs Guide
  

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

• Helping America's Youth
  

The Helping America's Youth (HAY) website provides a Community Guide to Helping America's Youth. It provides strategies and tools to help communities form effective partnerships, assess community needs, and identify evidence-based programs. You can search the database of evidence-based programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword. All of the programs featured in the HAY database have demonstrated results in accordance with widely accepted scientific criteria for program effectiveness. The following federal agencies worked together to identify programs for the HAY Program Tool: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office for National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• Strengthening Families Program
  

This is one of the evidence-based models that will be replicated in Yonkers by the YJCEC.

Disproportionate Minority Contact

• OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006
  
  

Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources

• 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds

NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.”

• Sign up for Join Together Updates

Join Together is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991, Join Together has supported community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. Join Together leads initiatives to help communities respond to the harms caused by excessive alcohol and drug use and provides free internet services supporting their efforts. The link above takes you to a site where you can sign up to receive any of the following free internet resources: Daily News Edition, Weekly News Roundup, the monthly Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin, or the Funding News Weekly.