| | Community Prevention Grants Program | | (NCJ 227345) October 2009 | | OJJDP In Focus, Fact Sheet, 4 page(s) | | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | | | | Provides an overview of OJJDP’s Community Prevention Grants program, which funds collaborative, community-based delinquency prevention efforts. The program integrates six fundamental principles: comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches, research- and evidence-based strategies, community control and decisionmaking, leveraging of existing resources and systems, evaluation to monitor the program’s progress and effectiveness, and a long-term perspective. The document includes information about authorizing legislation, eligibility, the award process, performance measures, and training and technical assistance. | |
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