Presentation Introduction

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Presentation Introduction
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Plan All 4 Points
Fight Crime
Invest in Kids
Law Enforcement Leaders and
Victims of Violence Support the
School and Youth Violence Prevention Plan

• The Plan would assure children and families
  access to
• After-school programs to shut down the prime time
  for juvenile crime.
• School readiness programs for young children
  whose parents are at work.
• Child abuse and neglect prevention programs and
  safe, loving homes for victims.
• Interventions for troubled kids who have started
  down the wrong track.

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Plan Point 4 (Troubled Kids)
Fight Crime
Invest in Kids
Law Enforcement Leaders and
Victims of Violence Support the
School and Youth Violence Prevention Plan
The Plan would assure children and families
access to 1. After-school programs to shut down
the prime time for juvenile crime. 2. School
readiness programs for young children whose
parents are at work. 3. Child abuse and neglect
prevention programs and safe, loving homes for
its victims. 4. Interventions for troubled kids
who have started down the wrong track.
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Services for Disruptive 1st/2nd Graders
Training and Services for Disruptive First- and
Second-Graders and their Parents
Students Held Back a Grade, Placed in a Special
Class or Rated Disruptive 3 years later
Montreal Longitudinal Study of Disruptive
Boys Source Trembley R.E., LeBlanc, M., Boileau,
H., Charlebois, P., Gagnon, C., and Larivee, S.,
Can Disruptive Boys be Helped to Become
Competent?, Psychiatry, vol. 54, May 1991.
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Program for At-Risk 7th Graders
School-Based Program for At-Risk 7th Graders
Cut delinquency by two-thirds
Serious Delinquency by Age 19
Did Not Receive Program
Received Program
Bry, B.H., Reducing the Incidence of Adolescent
Problems Through Preventive intervention One-
and Five-Year Follow-up, American Journal of
Community Psychology,, vol. 10, num. 3, 1982.
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Far Too Few Kids Get Help Need
Far too few troubled children get the help they
need to become productive students and citizens.
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Multi-Systemic Therapy
Intensive Programs Prevent Further Crime
Comparing Re-arrest Rates
Simpsonville, SC Project analysis
Henggeler, S.W. et al (1993) Family Preservation
using multisystemic treatment Long-term
follow-up to a clinical trial with serious
juvenile offenders Journall of Child and Family
Studies, 2, 283-293.
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Federal Programs for Troubled Kids
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
Juvenile Accountability Block Grant

• Primary federal programs addressing troubled kids
• Funding lags far behind need

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Polls of Law Enforcement
Fight Crime
Invest in Kids

The View from the Front Lines
Polls of Law Enforcement
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Chiefs Poll Expanding Pgms
Police Chiefs were asked Which of these
statements comes closer to your view? Expanding
after-school programs and educational child
care...
2) would have little impact on youth crime and
violence 14
1) would greatly reduce youth crime and violence
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Chiefs Poll Most effective strategies
Strategies chosen by chiefs as most effective for
reducing youth violence
After-school and child care programs
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Try juveniles as adults
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Hire more police
Metal detectors cameras in the schools
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Chiefs Poll If dont pay now, will later
9 out of 10 Police Chiefs agreed If America
does not make greater investments in
after-school and educational child care programs
to help children and youth now, we will pay
far more later in crime, welfare and other
costs.
The other choice was If America makes greater
investments in after-school and educational child
care programs to help children and youth now, the
cost of these programs will not be worth the
payoff later.
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