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 1 (After-School)
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.
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Prime Time for Juvenile Crime
Violent Juvenile Crime Soars When the School
Bell Rings
Source Sickmund M., Snyder H.N., Poe-Yamagata
E., Juvenile Offenders and Victims 1997 Update
on Violence, National Center for Juvenile
Justice, (Washington, DC Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention) which was
based on data compiled by the F.B.I.s National
Incident-Based Reporting System.
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Quantum Opportunities Study
Quality After-School Programs Prevent Crime
Quantum Opportunities Intensive
After-School Program
Convictions/100 Boys
Boys in the Program
Boys not in the Program
Lattimore, C.B., et al., The Quantum
Opportunities Program, in ed. Elliott, D.S.,
Blueprints for Violence Prevention, Center for
the Study and Prevention of Violence Prevention,
Denver, 1998.
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After-School A Wise Investment
After-school Programs A Wise Investment
1 spent
3 in benefits

Source Lattimore, C.B., et al. The Quantum
Opportunities Program, in Elliot, D.S.,
Blueprints for Violence Prevention, Book 4 of a
series, Center for the Study and Prevention of
Violence, Boulder CO, 1998.
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Lack of Supervision After-School
More than 10 MILLION CHILDREN AND TEENS
still lack adult supervision after school
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21st Century Commy Learning Ctrs
21st Century Community Learning Centers

• The federal governments principal
• after-school program investment

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Plan Point 2 (School Readiness)
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.
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Not the Electric Chair
We need to start fighting crime in the high
chair, not the electric
chair.
Police Chief George Sweat, Winston-Salem North
Carolina.
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High/Scope Perry Preschool Study
School Readiness Program Cuts Crime
Percent Arrested 5 or More Times By Age 27
Did not Attend Perry Preschool
Attended Perry Preschool
High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Source Lawrence
J. Schweinhart, Helen B. Barnes, and David P.
Weikert, Significant Benefits The High / Scope
Perry Preschool Study Through Age 27 (Ypsilanti,
MI High Scope Press, 1993)
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Chicago Child-Parent Center Study
Unserved Children 70 More Likely to be Arrested
for Violent Crime
Children Arrested for Violent Crime by Age 18
Child-Parent Center Children
Similar children who did not attend a
Child-Parent Center
Reynolds, A.J., et al., Long-term Effects of an
Early Childhood Intervention on Educational
Achievement and Juvenile Arrest A 15-Year
Follow-up of Low-Income Children in Public
Schools, JAMA, v. 285, num. 18, May 9, 2001
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Preschool Program Save Money
Preschool Program Saves Money
Over 148,000 in crime costs prevented per
participant
High/Scope Perry Preschool Source Lawrence J.
Schweinhart, Helen V. Barnes, and David P.
Weikert, Significant benefits The High / Scope
Perry Preschool Study Through Age 27
(Ypsilanti, MI High
Scope Press, 1993)
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Preschool Program A Wise Investment
Preschool Program A Wise Investment
7 dollars saved for every dollar invested
1 invested over 7 saved
Chicago Child-Parent Centers
Reynolds, A.J., et al., Age 21 Cost-Benefit
Analysis of the Title I Chicago Child-Parent
Center Program, Executive Summary, Handed out for
a briefing on Capitol Hill, June 2001. Further
publication of this data is pending.
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Working Families Need Help
Working Families Need Help
Over 60 of mothers with children under six
75 of mothers with children ages 6-17 are
in the workforce
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Child Care More than University
In every State the cost for an infant to
attend a good child care center is higher than
the cost of tuition at a public university
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The Child Care Devt Block Grant
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)

• Subsidies to working families
• for child care after-school services
• Can only serve 1 out of every 7 eligible children

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Head Start
Head Start

• Nations premiere pre-kindergarten program
• for children in poverty
• Provides
• More than 40 of those eligible cannot
  participate

Educational services
Social emotional development services
Health services
Parenting coaching
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Early Head Start
Early Head Start

• Services to poor families
• with babies and toddlers up to age three
• Can only serve 5 of those eligible

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Plan Point 3 (Ch. Abuse Neglect)
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
victims.
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Abuse Neglect Increases Crime
Abuse Neglect Increase Crime
Arrests for a Violent Crime by Age 18
Non-Abused Children
Abused Children
Source Widom, C.S., Avoidance of Criminality in
Abused and Neglected Children, Psychiatry, v. 54,
1991
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Parent Coaching Servs. Prevent Abuse
Parenting Coaching Services Prevent Child Abuse
Nurse Family Partnership Source Olds, D.,
Henderson, C., Tatelbaum, R., and Chamberlin, R.,
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect a randomized
trial of nurse visitation, Pediatrics, (1986)
vol. 78, pp. 65-78.
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Home Visits Prevent Crim. Behavior
Home Visits Prevent Criminal Behavior
Arrests per 100 Kids by age 15
45
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Nurse Family Partner-ship home-visit recipients
Those left out of home- visit program
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Source Olds (1996) and Olds (JAMA, 1997) in
Karoly, L.A. et al. Investing In Our Children,
(Santa Monica CA Rand 1998).
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Repeat Ab. Neg. Can be Cut in Half
Repeated abuse and neglect can be
cut in half
Percentage of Maltreated Children Who Were
Re-abused or Neglected
Children in Counties Not Using Structured
Decision Making
Children in Counties Using Structured Decision
Making
Source Wiebush, R., Freitag, R., Baird, C.,
Preventing Delinquency Through Improved Child
Protection Services, Juvenile Justice Bulletin,
Department of Justice, July, 2001.
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2.4 Mil. Children Abused Neglected
Experts estimate that each year
2.4 million children are abused or
neglected 2,000 children die from abuse and
neglect
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The Social Services Block Grant
The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG)

• Abuse and neglect services for children
• Drastically cut in recent years

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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
86
November 19, 1999
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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
69
17
Try juveniles as adults
13
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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