NCJ Number
127712
Date Published
1990
Length
78 pages
Annotation
This manual presents the procedures to be used by the volunteer and paid staff of Project COURAGE (Community Organizations United To Reduce the Area Gang Environment), a program designed to reduce youth gang membership and criminal activity, suppress gang activity, and work to achieve a safe community in Riverside County (Calif.).
Abstract
The project was funded by a 1989 grant from the California Office of Criminal Justice Planning to the Riverside County Office of Education. The project involves this agency and five others: the county district attorney, sheriff's department, police department, probation department, and urban league. The project focuses on seven school districts and provides prevention, intervention, and training for students, staff, and parents. Activities include tutoring, sports, counseling, workshops, job training and placement, and special projects conducted after school and on weekends at schools and in the community. Diagrams, forms and lists of procedures