Search For DMC Strategies

The DMC Best Practices database is designed to assist communities in identifying DMC reduction strategies that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The database is an easy-to-use tool that offers strategies addressing a range of program types, including direct services, training and technical assistance, and system change.

Step 1. Complete a community assessment that identifies the contributing mechanisms of DMC and the contact points of the juvenile justice system at which overrepresentation occurs.

Step 2. Search for DMC strategies by choosing search criteria that meets specific needs based on your community’s DMC assessment. Select from the various search parameters listed below. For example, if you are looking for direct service strategies for Hispanic youth at the detention contact point, under “Program Strategies” click on direct services, under “Ethnic Group” select “Hispanics,” and under “Juvenile Justice System Contact Points” select “Detention.” To select strategies that address a specific DMC Contributing Mechanism, such as differential offending, click on “DMC Contributing Mechanisms” and select “Differential Offending” from the dropdown list.

Search Tip: For a broader search, select fewer search criteria. For example, to search for all strategies that can be used to reduce DMC at the arrest contact point, click on arrest under “Juvenile Justice System Contact Points” and no other criteria.

Search results are presented in descending order, with those strategies most closely matching the specified criteria listed first.

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Your search returned 82 results. 

The following is a list of 15 counties or states that might match your search criteria. 
 
PENNSLYANIA
DMC Problem Pennsylvania’s efforts to reduce DMC began in 1986 when the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee (JJDPC) (formerly the Juvenile Advisory Committee) started to focus on t  
WASHINGTON
DMC Problem Since 1988, the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (GJJAC) has produced annual reports on the characteristics of youth who come in contact with Washington’s juvenile justice system. In 1992, GJJAC initiated the first of a series of studie  
MONTANA
DMC Problem The Montana Department of Corrections’ Youth Services Division (YSD) strongly believes in offering programs that meet the needs of the youth who are committed to our secure care correctional facilities and under parole supervision.  Sound correc  
Bernalillo, NM
DMC Problem Bernalillo County is home to Albuquerque and is located in central New Mexico. According to 2002 census figures, the county had 593,765 residents, 233,565 of Latino origin. In 1999, 72 percent (2,840) of the juveniles arrested in the county were mino  
Cook, IL
DMC Problem In December 1992, the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched a multiyear, multisite project called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). The purpose of JDAI was to demonstrate that interagency collaboration and data-driven policies and p  
Dauphin, PA
DMC Problem Pennsylvania’s efforts to reduce DMC began in 1986 when the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) and the Juvenile Advisory Committee (JAC)—the State Advisory Group—started to focus on the problem of minority overrepresentation in t  
Hillsborough, FL
DMC Problem In 1990, the Florida State Supreme Court created a special committee to investigate racial and ethnic bias in Florida’s judicial system. This committee, known as the Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Commission, sponsored several ambitious research studie  
King, WA
DMC Problem In 2000, King County embarked on an effort to reduce overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system, building on lessons learned from DMC initiatives in Multnomah County, Oregon, and Santa Cruz County, California. King County (Se  
Mesa, CO
DMC Problem Mesa County is rural, but it is the most populated county on the western slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, bordering Utah. It is the only county in the state’s 21st Judicial District, and its major city, Grand Junction, is the only metropolitan  
Multnomah, OR
DMC Problem To reduce and prevent DMC, Multnomah County undertook a series of reforms that focused on detention and emphasized the use of data-based strategies. The overall objectives were to ensure that decisionmaking was fair and equitable and that the juvenil  
Pueblo, CO
DMC Problem The overall goal of Project Respect: Minority Family Advocate Program is to reduce the overrepresentation of minority youth held in detention or committed to the Division of Youth Corrections in Pueblo, CO. The purpose of Project Respect: Minority Fa  
Rock, WI
DMC Problem This initiative focuses on African American juveniles, who account for 31% of detention center admissions in Rock County, yet constitute only 6% of the County’s juvenile population.  Analysis of baseline data on the problem revealed that this disprop  
Santa Cruz, CA
DMC Problem Santa Cruz County was one of the early sites for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) and is now one of four national model sites for that initiative. Located south of San Francisco, the county has a popul  
Sedgwick, KS
DMC Problem Sedgwick County, Kansas is an urban/suburban community with a total population of 525,000.  Wichita, Kansas (population 400,000) is located in the County.  The Hispanic population more than doubled in Sedgwick County during the 1990s.  The 2000 censu  
Union, NJ
DMC Problem Overcrowding has been a persistent problem in the Union County juvenile detention facility as far back as the late 1980’s. The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission detention monitoring reports show that the population has ranged between 150%-160% a  

The following is a list of 67 programs that might match your search criteria.
 
Aban Aya Youth Project (Aban Aya) is a program developed specifically for African American youth that comprises two interrelated components: a social development curriculum (SDC) that is administered in classrooms by teachers and a school–community i
Across Ages is a mentoring initiative designed to increase the resiliency and protective factors of at-risk middle school youths through a comprehensive intergenerational approach. The overall goal is substance use prevention. At-risk youth generally
Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) concentrates on development of individual competencies to address various emotional and social aspects that contribute to aggressive behavior in youths. Program techniques are designed to teach youths how to co
The Alternatives for Youth’s (AFY) Advocacy Program in Cleveland, Ohio, is a civil legal advocacy project for juvenile justice system–involved youths. The AFY model is based on the TeamChild model in which legal representation is provided for youths
Headquartered in Philadelphia, with a network of nearly 400 agencies across the country, Big Brothers Big Sisters serves nearly 250,000 children in mentoring programs. The Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Community-Based Mentoring (CBM) program is a o
Boys Town (BT) Treatment Family Home program is a family-style residential group home program for delinquent youths ages 10–17. Founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan to help about a half dozen troubled boys, the residential program still operates
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is a family-based intervention designed to prevent and treat child and adolescent behavior problems. The goal of BSFT is to improve a youth’s behavior by improving family interactions that are presumed to be dire
Chicago, Illinois’s BUILD (for Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development) program combines several popular gang prevention strategies in an ambitious attempt to curb gang violence in some of the city’s most depressed and crime-ridden neigh
Career Academies are schools within schools that link students with peers, teachers, and community partners in a disciplined environment, fostering academic success, mental and emotional health, and labor market success. Originally created to help in
CeaseFire—Chicago (the program name was changed to CureViolence in September 2012) is a Chicago, Illinois–based violence-prevention program administered by the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention since the program began in 1999. CeaseFire uses an
Connections is a juvenile court-based program designed to address the needs of juvenile offenders on probation who have emotional and behavioral disorders and the needs of their families. The program’s goal is to connect youths and families with loca
The Coping Power Program (CPP) is a cognitive-based intervention delivered to aggressive children and their parents during the children’s transition to middle school. The program aims to increase competence, study skills, social skills, and self-cont
Wayne County has acknowledged that disproportionate minority contact is a problem within the juvenile justice population, and a federally funded task force has been appointed to address the issue. One part of the transformation of the Wayne County ju
Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) is a comprehensive family strengthening and substance abuse and violence prevention curriculum designed to help youths and families in high-risk environments become strong, healthy, and supportive. CLFC serv
First launched in San Francisco, California, in 1993, the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP) provides detention case advocacy, intensive case management, and a comprehensive range of individualized, community-based services to youths who are
An early intervention strategy was undertaken in Baltimore, Maryland, that was designed to interrupt the development of deviant behaviors, including substance abuse, in at-risk youths from largely African American, inner-city neighborhoods. The early
Familias Unidas was designed for Hispanic immigrant families living in the United States and focuses on adolescent youth, ages 12 to 17, and their parents to improve family functioning, promote protective factors, and reduce risk factors for problem
Families And Schools Together (FAST) is a multifamily group intervention program designed to build protective factors for children (ages 4 to 12), to empower parents to be the primary prevention agents for their own children, and to build supportive
First Step to Success is an early intervention program designed to identify children with antisocial behavior and introduce adaptive behavioral strategies to prevent antisocial behavior in school. The program has both school and home components. The
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a family-based prevention and intervention program for high-risk youth that addresses complex and multidimensional problems through clinical practice that is flexibly structured and culturally sensitive. The FFT cli
The Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) program is a school-based gang- and violence-prevention program with three primary goals: 1) teach youths to avoid gang membership, 2) prevent violence and criminal activity, and 3) assist youths in
The Hawaii Girls Court was one of the first courts in the nation to provide gender-specific programming designed to meet the needs and develop the strengths of female juvenile offenders and their families. Gender-responsive programming is increasingl
The Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is a 97-block area in the Harlem neighborhood of New York that combines “no excuses” charter schools with communitywide initiatives to address some of the main problems that underprivileged children face every day, su
HOMEBUILDERS is an in-home, intensive family preservation service (IFPS) and reunification program for families with children (newborn to 17 years old) returning from or at risk of placement into foster care, group or residential treatment, psychiatr
I Mua Mau Ohana (Moving Families Forward) is a long-term residential treatment program that uses culturally appropriate treatment for Hawaiian and Asian and Pacific Islander adolescents who suffer from substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. The
The Independence Youth Court (IYC) was established in 1985 as a partnership between the local bar association, the Juvenile Division of the Jackson County (Missouri) Family Court, the city of Independence (Missouri), and the Independence Police Depar
The Indianapolis (Indiana) Family Group Conferencing Experiment, also known as the Indianapolis Restorative Justice Conference Project, was a restorative justice diversion program for young, first-time juvenile offenders. The goal was to break the cy
The Intensive Supervision Juvenile Probation Program (also known as the Peoria, Illinois Antigang and Drug Abuse Unit) is a four-phase intensive supervision juvenile probation program that targets juvenile offenders placed on probation for known gang

The Kansas City (Missouri) Gun Experiment was a police patrol project that was aimed at reducing gun violence, driveby shootings, and homicides. For 29 weeks during 1992–93, the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) focused extra police patrols in
The keepin’ it REAL program is a video-enhanced intervention that uses a culturally grounded resiliency model to incorporate traditional ethnic values and practices that protect against drug use. The goal is to teach students how to resist substance
The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (GVRP) was a comprehensive, community-wide program designed to reduce serious violence in Chicago’s gang-ridden Little Village neighborhood. The main goal of the GVRP was to reduce the extremely high
Maine, one of the few States to successfully implement a statewide system of juvenile drug courts, currently operates six such courts, which serve seven counties. The program provides comprehensive community-based services to juvenile offenders and t
The Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center (MJTC) is a residential facility that provides mental health treatment to serious and violent juvenile offenders in secured correctional institutions. The program was established by the Wisconsin State Legislatur
In the late 1990s the Florida Legislature enacted statutes that established the concept of Juvenile Assessment Centers (JACs). JACs were essentially processing centers that coordinated the different agencies that interfaced with arrested youth, givin
The Michigan State Diversion Project is a behavioral treatment program for arrested juveniles that uses college students as the principal caseworkers. The program is based on three recurring themes in research and program experience with juvenile off
The Center for Victim–Offender Mediation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was initiated by the Minnesota Citizens Council on Crime and Justice in 1985. The center operates within a jurisdiction of 2 million people in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan a
Movimiento Ascendencia (Upward Movement) was established in Pueblo, Colorado, to provide girls with positive alternatives to substance use and gang involvement. Outreach workers recruited 8- to 19-year-old females to the program, though some g
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) is a behavioral treatment alternative to residential placement for adolescents who have problems with chronic antisocial behavior, emotional disturbance, and delinquency. There are three versions of MTFC,
Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Home Run Program is a wraparound or case management program that is designed to holistically diagnose a juvenile’s problems and then provide intensive treatment to the juvenile and his or her family. The philosophical und
The overriding goal of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is to keep adolescents who have exhibited serious clinical problems (such as drug use, violence, severe criminal behavior) at home, in school, and out of trouble. Through intense involvement and cont
The Multisystemic Therapy–Family Integrated Transitions (MST–FIT) program provides integrated individual and family services to juvenile offenders who have co-occurring mental health and chemical dependency disorders. Services are provided during a j
The Oakland Beat Health Program is a civil remedy program that uses procedures and sanctions specified by civil statutes and regulation to prevent and reduce criminal problems and incivilities. Civil remedies generally aim to persuade nonoffending th
The Victim–Offender Reconciliation Program in Oakland, California, serves the Bay Area east of San Francisco and was initiated in 1987 by the Office for Prisoner and Community Justice of Catholic Charities/Oakland Diocese. The program is designed to
Originally developed by the Boston (Massachusetts) Police Department’s Youth Violence Strike Force, Operation Ceasefire is a problem-solving police strategy that seeks to reduce gang violence, illegal gun possession, and gun violence in communities.
Operation New Hope (formerly Lifeskills ’95) is a curriculum-based aftercare treatment program designed to assist chronic, high-risk juvenile offenders in their reintegration to the community after they are released from secure confinement. The progr

The Parent and Youth Empowerment Program (PYEP) aims to divert youth from detention when the unwillingness or inability of parents or guardians to retrieve them from central booking and take them home are the sole reasons for detention. The progra

Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL) integrates group and family therapy into one system of care for adolescent populations with the primary diagnosis of oppositional defiant or conduct disorder. Parents and teens learn specific skills in gr
The overall goal of the PeaceBuilders program is to reduce violence among youth. The program, targeted at students in grades K–12 in school and afterschool settings, uses several strategies to address social competence and aggressive behavior among s
The Philadelphia Youth Violence Reduction Partnership (YVRP) is a multi-agency effort involving various youth-serving organizations and criminal justice agencies partnering to reduce Philadelphia’s homicide rate and put violent youthful offenders on
The Positive Action (PA) program is designed to improve youth academics, behavior, and character. PA uses an audience-centered, curriculum-based approach to increase positive behaviors and decrease negative ones. PA is grounded in a broad theory
The Pre-Adjudication Coordination and Transition (PACT) Center is an evening reporting center in Baltimore, Maryland that combines intensive supervision with community-based service coordination for male juveniles who would have otherwise been place
Prevention Through Empowerment in a Native American Community is a prevention demonstration that combines several complementary strategies (a school-based cultural curriculum, training of teachers, development of a leadership core group, and a commun
Project Venture is an outdoor/experiential program that targets at-risk American Indian youth. The program concentrates on American Indian cultural values—such as learning from the natural world, spiritual awareness, family, and respect—to promote he
California’s Repeat Offender Prevention Program (ROPP) is a multimodal early intervention program targeting young offenders at high risk of becoming chronic delinquents. Originally developed by the Orange County (Calif.) Probation Department in the e
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) is designed to provide conflict-resolution strategies and skills to sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students in middle and junior high schools. The goals of RIPP are to reduce aggressive behavior and
The Runaway Intervention Program (RIP) is a strengths-based home visiting, case management, and group support program for sexually assaulted or exploited young runaway girls. RIP was designed for runaway girls ages 12 to 15 and aims to reestablish po
The Save Our Streets (SOS) program was developed in October 1995 by the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR) and Street Law Inc. to combat the rising rate of young people carrying guns in the District of Columbia. The SOS program combines
Say It Straight (SIS) is a communication/behavior skills program developed to prevent destructive behaviors and promote wellness in young people, parents, and other adults. The program targets destructive behaviors such as violence, risky sexual beha
The School House Adjustment Program Enterprise (SHAPE) initiative is an alternative to juvenile court for students attending Memphis City Schools. The SHAPE Project is designed to reduce the number of minority students that are referred to the Juveni
The Social Decision Making and Problem Solving Program (SDM) is a social and emotional learning program that assists students in acquiring social and decision-making skills and in developing their ability to effectively use those skills in real-life,
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10–14 (SFP 10–14) is an adaptation of the Strengthening Families Program for parents and their adolescent children. The adapted program aims to reduce substance use and behavior problems during ad
Strong African American Families (SAAF) is a parental training and family therapy program grounded in social bonding and control theories. The program works to strengthen the attachment between parent and child to reduce the likelihood of youth invol
Supporting Adolescents with Guidance and Employment (SAGE) is a violence-prevention program developed specifically for African-American adolescents. The program consists of three main components, namely a Rites of Passages (ROP) program, a summer job
The Syracuse Family Development Research Program (FDRP) was a comprehensive early childhood program that aimed to develop child and family functioning through home visitation, parent training, and individualized day care. FDRP targeted economically d
The Washington, DC, Restitution Program is a postadjudication restitution program for juvenile offenders. Its premise is that restitution is effective only if a juvenile accepts responsibility for his or her offenses and is committed to the principle
The Wayne County Intensive Probation Program (IPP) in Detroit, Michigan, is administered by the juvenile court and operated by the court probation department and two private, nonprofit agencies under contract with the court. The IPP target population
Wraparound Milwaukee is a system of care for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs, and for their families. Its approach emphasizes developing services and delivering them to families who are strength based, highly indi
 
  

 

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