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Home / Society / Issues / Crime and Justice / Gangs / Prevention
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- A Parent's Guide to Preventing Gangs - Strategies and tips to help parents.
www.lunaweb.com/pargang.htm
- Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach - Links to Club locations around the U.S., overview of services offered through Targeted Outreach program.
www.bgca.org/programs/specialized.asp
- Connect For Kids - The Teen Years - Articles on violence and gang prevention.
www.connectforkids.org/content1555/content_list.htm?attrib_id=335
- Drug Use is Life Abuse - An organization dedicated to eliminating drug users and gangs.
www.duila.org
- Gangs to Grace - An organization designed to help troubled youth aged eleven to eighteen.
www.gangstograce.org
- GREAT: Gang Resistance Education and Training - ATF-sponsored youth gang prevention curriculum for middle-school-aged students.
www.atf.treas.gov/great/index.htm
- Illinois Gang Crime Prevention Center - Information on gang awareness, building neighborhoods, program development, research, law enforcement role, and youth as assets.
www.gcpc.state.il.us
- Mothers Against Gangs - This program has been developed to address the issue of youth gang crime. Issues behind youth crime include identified untreated (and/or self-medicated) depression, low self-esteem, lack of proper and complete diet, poor education, scare-tactic gang member recruitment, drug addiction (marijuana or paint sniffing), juvenile alcoholism, general distrust of adults from an early age, and extreme poverty.
www.winternet.com/~jannmart/nkcmag.html
- National Crime Prevention Council - Ten tools to involve parents in gang-prevention efforts.
www.ncpc.org/10ad1.htm
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Gang prevention and intervention publications and funding opportunities for programs and communities.
ojjdp.ncjrs.org
- Project "No Gangs" - This program's strategic plan calls for approaching drug and gang awareness and prevention issues from four angles: Community Awareness, Youth and Education, Workplace and General Public. Information on gangs, gang strategies, gang sets.
www.duila.org/project.htm
- Salinas Barrios Unidos - A non-profit organization with the mission of preventing gang violence and drug abuse.
www.barriosunidos.org
- Street Gangs: The View from the Street - Online publication from Do It Now Foundation discusses the emergence and expansion of street gangs in America over the past 20 years. Calls for an expanded commitment to alternative approaches to prevention and intervention.
www.doitnow.org/pages/178.html
- Stop The Violence / Face The Music Society - Music artists unite in a public awareness campaign focused on preventing gang and gun violence.
www.stv.net
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