U.S. Congress - H.R.2721 Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Edu...
H.R.2721 - Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act
To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives. view all titles (3)
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- Official: To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives. as introduced.
- Short: Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act as introduced.
- Short: Youth Promise Act as introduced.
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Official Summary
8/1/2011--Introduced.Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act or the Youth Promise Act - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile JusticOfficial Summary
8/1/2011--Introduced.Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act or the Youth Promise Act - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in:(1) assessing and developing standards and evidence-based practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity, and
(2) collecting data in designated geographic areas to assess the needs and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention. Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local governments and Indian tribes to:
(1) plan and assess evidence-based and promising practices for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for at-risk youth; and
(2) implement PROMISE plans, developed by local PROMISE Coordinating Councils (PCCs), for coordinating and supporting the delivery of juvenile delinquency and gang prevention and intervention programs in local communities. Establishes a National Research Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Practices to provide PCCs and the public with research and other information about evidence-based practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang prevention and intervention. Directs the Administrator to award grants to institutions of higher education to serve as regional research partners with PCCs that are located in the same geographic region as the educational institution.
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Organizations Supporting H.R.2721
- Coalition on Human Needs
- American Federation of Teachers
- Mental Health America
- Afterschool Alliance
- Alliance for Children and Families
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- ...and 99 more. See all.
Organizations Opposing H.R.2721
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