1997 Report to Congress: Title V Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs (Report). 1998. 71 pp. NCJ 170605. FREE. Describes activities, accomplishments, and successful approaches of grant projects funded under Title V and makes recommendations for future Title V endeavors. Reviews current trends in juvenile justice and the role OJJDP's Community Prevention Grants program plays in the prevention and control of problem juvenile behaviors. Discusses the contribution of Federal and State support to local delinquency prevention efforts and offers recommendations for future investment in prevention. Copies for 1995 and 1996 are also available.
	Allegheny County, PA: Mobilizing To Reduce Juvenile Crime (Bulletin). 1997. 12 pp. NCJ 165693. FREE. Explores the efforts of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) to replace the community's fragmented response to juvenile violence with a collaborative and coordinated approach. Describes the Allegheny County comprehensive antiviolence mobilization effort, which involves the law enforcement community, public and private agencies, grassroots organizations, and individual citizens.
	Bridging the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems (Bulletin). 1995. 4 pp. NCJ 152155. ONLINE ONLY. Describes four programs that focus on family preservation, delinquency, early intervention, and improving the judicial response to the needs of children. Identifies specific opportunities for increased collaboration among public officials and community leaders.
	Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan (Report). 1996. 200 pp. NCJ 157106. FREE. Provides a framework for the fight against juvenile violence by identifying eight objectives that can be supported by activity at the individual, community, State, and Federal levels. Developed by the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this Report describes how communities can generate solutions and how individuals and groups can reduce or prevent violence on their blocks, in public housing units, or in neighborhoods. Information about Federal training, technical assistance, grants, research, and other resources that support these efforts is also provided.
	Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan (Summary). 1996. 36 pp. NCJ 157105. FREE. Summarizes innovative and effective strategies designed to reduce juvenile violence and victimization that were developed by the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Identifies eight key objectives that individuals, communities, States, and the Federal Government can support to bring about positive change.
	Communities Working Together -- Satellite Teleconference(Video, VHS format). 1996. 120 minutes. NCJ 160946. $17.00 (U.S.), $21.00 (Canada and other countries). Presents videotaped proceedings of a teleconference held in 1996 that discusses Title V, Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs, which is a 1992 amendment to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Includes descriptions of community-based programs within Title V and their implementation in various cities, along with a community resource guide.
	Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide. 1996. 134 pp. Available from the U.S. Department of Education (800-624-0100). Contains action steps for schools, students, parents, community groups, and businesses, along with a series of information briefs on specific issues affecting school safety, including gun violence, truancy, uniforms, and drug testing of student athletes. Also includes appendixes on research and evaluation findings, resources, related readings, and contacts for additional information.
	Delinquency Prevention Works (Program Summary). 1995. 74 pp. NCJ 155006. ONLINE ONLY. Provides a synthesis of the most current information on programs and strategies that seek to prevent delinquency. Summarizes research and evaluation efforts to assist States and jurisdictions in their prevention activities.
	Education in the Law: Promoting Citizenship in the Schools (Update on Programs). 1990. 5 pp. NCJ 125548. FREE. Describes OJJDP's Law-Related Education program, a law education curriculum for elementary through high school students.
	Family Life, Delinquency, and Crime: A Policymaker's Guide (Research Summary). 1994. 65 pp. NCJ 140517. FREE. Describes how parental supervision and other aspects of family life may prevent delinquency and how the absence of parental involvement and negative parental influences may promote its development.
	Family Strengthening in Preventing Delinquency -- A Literature Review. 1994. 76 pp. NCJ 150222. $13.00 (U.S.), $17.50 (Canada and other countries). Examines literature on family structure and its relationship to the development of delinquency in youth. Also reviews family strengthening approaches and models and the status of family strengthening programs.
	Innovative Community Partnerships: Working Together for Change (Program Summary). 1994. 32 pp. NCJ 147483. FREE. Describes strategies employed by Dade County, FL; Lansing, MI; and Norfolk, VA, designed to improve the quality of life for families and communities through the integration of community policing and human service initiatives.
	Juvenile Delinquency Development Statements: A Report on Federal Programs. 1995. 352 pp. NCJ 150712. $22.50 (U.S.), $27.50 (Canada), $40.50 (other countries). Provides a comprehensive look at the missions and activities of 20 Federal agencies (for fiscal years 1990 through 1992) as they relate to juvenile delinquency prevention, treatment, diversion, rehabilitation, education, planning, training and technical assistance, and research. Federal involvement in addressing serious juvenile crime, drug and alcohol abuse, gang membership, and child victimization is also described.
	Keeping Young People in School: Community Programs That Work (Bulletin). 1997. 12 pp. NCJ 162783. FREE. Highlights dropout prevention initiatives, with a particular focus on the Communities in Schools (CIS) initiative and its evaluation conducted by the Urban Institute. Discusses how CIS brings together public and private agencies in communities, such as social workers, community groups, and employment counselors, and puts them where they are needed -- in the schools.
	Law-Related Education for Juvenile Justice Settings. 1993. 173 pp. NCJ 147063. $15.00 (U.S.), $19.50 (Canada and other countries). Assists juvenile justice practitioners in the implementation of law-related education (LRE) programs and includes information on the benefits of these programs, their use as prevention and intervention tools, and steps for designing and implementing an LRE curriculum and program.
	Matrix of Community-Based Initiatives (Program Summary). 1998. NCJ 154816. ONLINE ONLY. Presents, in narrative and graph format, a collection of major public and private comprehensive community-based violence prevention and economic development initiatives that can assist in delinquency prevention efforts.
	Mentoring -- A Proven Delinquency Prevention Strategy (Bulletin). 1997. 8 pp. NCJ 164386. FREE. Presents the results of an independent evaluation of the Nation's oldest and largest mentoring program, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The study found that mentored youth were less likely to start using drugs or alcohol, were less assaul-tive, skipped fewer days of school, and had better relationships with their parents and peers than similar youth without a mentor.
	Mentoring for Youth in Schools and Communities -- Satellite Teleconference (Video, VHS format). 1997. 120 minutes. NCJ 166376. $17.00 (U.S.), $21.00 (Canada and other countries). Presents effective mentoring programs that can increase at-risk youth's likelihood of improving their grades and relationships and reduce their likelihood of engaging in drug or alcohol use, resorting to violence, or skipping school. The teleconference highlights the key principles of effective mentoring programs and various forms of one-to-one mentoring efforts.
	Mobilizing Communities To Prevent Juvenile Crime (Bulletin). 1997. 8 pp. NCJ 165928. FREE. Describes promising juvenile crime prevention approaches, summarizes the risk factors challenging youth, features effective prevention programs supported by OJJDP, and describes planning, training, and technical assistance opportunities available through OJJDP's Community Prevention Grants. OJJDP funds Community Prevention Grants under Title V of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act to help communities in 49 States, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia prevent juvenile delinquency.
	Planning a Successful Crime Prevention Project (Youth in Action Bulletin). 1998. 28 pp. NCJ 170024. FREE. Provides young people with helpful, hands-on tools with which they can start their own crime prevention projects. This Bulletin is designed as a workbook to help youth plan, select, and implement successful crime prevention projects by using the five steps of the Success Cycle: assessing the community's needs, planning a successful project, lining up resources, acting on the plan, and developing monitoring and evaluation techniques.
	Reaching Out to Youth Out of the Education Mainstream (Youth Out of the Education Mainstream Bulletin). 1997. 12 pp. NCJ 163920. FREE. Describes a new effort to reduce the number of juveniles who leave school prematurely and who are at risk of delinquency because they are truants or dropouts, afraid to attend school, suspended or expelled, or in need of help to be reintegrated into their mainstream school from the juvenile justice system. This Bulletin introduces a series of OJJDP Bulletins focusing on effective programs and innovative strategies to reach these children.
	Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders (Bulletin). 1998. 8 pp. NCJ 170027. FREE. Summarizes a recent report by the Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. The report provides valuable insights into the pathways to serious and violent juvenile offending and offers empirical evidence that the key to its reduction lies in early prevention efforts aimed at high-risk youth and interventions with these offenders.
	Strengthening America's Families: Promising Parenting Strategies for Delinquency Prevention: User's Guide. 1993. 105 pp. NCJ 140781. $13.00 (U.S.), $17.50 (Canada and other countries). Guides program planners, policymakers, and service providers in determining effective family-focused and parenting intervention strategies for high-risk youth and families.
	Title V Delinquency Prevention Program Community Self-Evaluation Workbook. 1996. 162 pp. NCJ 160125. FREE. Assists communities in assessing their delinquency prevention programs by providing information and resource aids on program planning, evaluation design, performing data analysis, and measuring outcomes. Although designed primarily for Title V grantees, the workbook provides instructions and examples of forms that can be used to support any evaluation.
	Treating Serious Anti-Social Behavior in Youth: The MST Approach (Bulletin). 1997. 8 pp. NCJ 165151. FREE. Highlights evaluations of several programs that have implemented the multisystemic therapy (MST) approach to the treatment of serious antisocial behavior in youth. MST is a home-based service approach that was developed in response to the lack of scientifically proven, cost-effective treatment. MST focuses on improving psychosocial functioning for youth and their families so that the need for out-of-home child placements is reduced or eliminated.
	What Works: Promising Interventions in Juvenile Justice (Program Report). 1994. 248 pp. NCJ 150858. $19.00 (U.S.), $26.75 (Canada and other countries). Contains descriptions of more than 400 juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment programs throughout the United States. Also includes contact persons for programs characterized as successful by professionals in the field.
	YES in Action (Program Summary). 1996. 38 pp. NCJ 159762. FREE. Offers an indepth description of the history and structure of the Youth Environmental Service (YES) program. Designed for policymakers and practitioners who want to learn more about YES. The purpose of the YES initiative is to increase the capacity of States and communities to correct, treat, and rehabilitate adjudicated delinquents and to prevent at-risk youth from entering the juvenile justice system by implementing environmental work and education programs on federally owned land.
	YES Technical Assistance Package. 1996. 72 pp. NCJ 159763. FREE. Assists youth service agencies and Federal land managers in developing a Youth Environmental Service program. Describes the steps involved in becoming a site and explains how to obtain Federal technical assistance during startup and implementation.
	The Youngest Delinquents: Offenders Under Age 15 (Bulletin). 1997. 12 pp. NCJ 165256. FREE. Presents the findings of a study that examined recent data on juvenile arrests and the delinquency cases processed by U.S. juvenile courts. The data presented in this Bulletin will enable policymakers and the public to better understand the role that younger delinquents play in the overall problem of juvenile crime and violence.
	Youth-Oriented Community Policing -- Satellite Teleconference (Video, VHS format). 1996. 120 minutes. NCJ 160947. $17.00 (U.S.), $21.00 (Canada and other countries). Presents videotaped proceedings of a teleconference held in 1996 that provides information on the characteristics of youth-oriented community policing and the ways in which it differs from general community-oriented policing, and highlights three unique and effective programs.
	Youth Out of the Education Mainstream -- Satellite Teleconference (Video, VHS format). 1996. 120 minutes. NCJ 163386. $17.00 (U.S.), $21.00 (Canada and other countries). Presents videotaped proceedings of a teleconference held in 1996 that provides information on how to address the needs of youth who are truant, dropouts, expelled or suspended from school, afraid to go to school because of violence or fear of violence, or who need to be reintegrated into school from a juvenile justice setting.