Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.1. Section 13825.1.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program.
CHAPTER 3.1. The California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program [13825.1. - 13825.6.]
Cal. Penal Code - PEN 3.1.
in effectCal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.2. Section 13825.2.
(a)
The California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program shall be administered by the Department of Justice for the purposes of reducing gang, criminal activity, and youth violence to the extent authorized pursuant to this chapter in communities with a high incidence of gang violence, including, but not limited to, the communities of Fresno, Glendale, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Riverside, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Monica, and Venice. The department shall also consider communities that meet any one of the following criteria:
(1)
An at-promise youth
population, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 13825.4, that is significantly disproportionate to the general youth population of that community.
(2)
A juvenile arrest rate that is significantly disproportionate to the general youth population of that community.
(3)
Significant juvenile gang problems or a high number of juvenile gang-affiliated acts of violence.
(b)
All state and local juvenile detention facilities, including, but not limited to, facilities, juvenile halls, youth ranches, and youth camps of the Division of Juvenile Justice, shall also be considered eligible to receive services through community-based organizations or nonprofit agencies that are operating programs funded under this
chapter.
Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.3. Section 13825.3.
All funds made available to the Department of Justice for purposes of this chapter shall be disbursed in accordance with this chapter to community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies that comply with the program requirements of Section 13825.4 and the funding criteria of Section 13825.5 of this chapter.
(a)
Funds disbursed under this chapter may enhance, but shall not supplant local, state, or federal funds that would, in the absence of the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program, be made available for the prevention or intervention of youth involvement in gangs, crime, or violence.
(b)
The applicant community-based organization or nonprofit agency may enter into interagency agreements between it and a fiscal agent that will allow the fiscal agent to manage the funds awarded to the community-based organization or nonprofit agency.
(c)
Before April 15, 1998, the department shall prepare and file administrative guidelines and procedures for the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program consistent with this chapter.
(d)
Before July 1, 1998, the department shall issue a “request for funding proposal” that informs applicants of the purposes and availability of funds to be awarded under this chapter and solicits proposals from community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies to provide services consistent with this chapter.
(e)
The department shall conduct an evaluation of the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program after two years of program operation and each year thereafter, for purposes of identifying the effectiveness and results of the program. The evaluation shall be conducted by staff or an independent body that has experience in evaluating programs operated by community-based organizations or nonprofit agencies.
(f)
After two years of program operation, and each year thereafter, the department shall prepare and submit an annual report to the Legislature describing in detail the operation of the program and the results obtained from the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program receiving funds under this chapter. The report shall also list the full costs applicable to the department for processing and reviewing applications, and for administering the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program. The department shall be required to submit an annual report to the Legislature only in years in which the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program receives funds under this chapter.
Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.4. Section 13825.4.
(a)
Community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies that receive funds under this chapter shall utilize the funds to provide services and activities designed to prevent or deter at-promise youth from participating in gangs, criminal activity, or violent behavior.
(b)
These prevention and intervention efforts shall include, but not be limited to, any of the following:
(1)
Services and activities designed to do any of the following:
(A)
Teach alternative methods for resolving conflicts and responding to violence, drugs, and
crime.
(B)
Develop positive and life-affirming attitudes and behaviors.
(C)
Build self-esteem.
(2)
Recreational, educational, or cultural activities.
(3)
Counseling or mentoring services.
(4)
Economic development activities.
(c)
(1)
Funds allocated under this chapter may not be used for services or activities related to suppression, law enforcement, incarceration, or other purposes not related to the prevention and deterrence of gangs, crime, and violence.
(2)
Nothing in this section shall prevent funds allocated under this chapter from being used for violence prevention and gang crime deterrence services provided by community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies to youths incarcerated in juvenile detention facilities.
(d)
Services and activities provided with funds under this chapter shall be used for at-promise youth who are defined as persons from age 5 to 20 years of age and who fall into one or more of the following categories:
(1)
Live in a high-crime or high-violence neighborhood as identified by local or federal law enforcement agencies.
(2)
Live in a low-economic neighborhood as identified by the U.S. Census or come from an impoverished family.
(3)
Are excessively absent from school or are doing poorly in school as identified by personnel from the youth’s school.
(4)
Come from a socially dysfunctional family as identified by local or state social service agencies.
(5)
Have had one or more contacts with the police.
(6)
Have entered the juvenile justice system.
(7)
Are identified by the juvenile justice system as being at risk.
(8)
Are current or former gang members.
(9)
Have one or more family members living at home who are current
or former members of a gang.
(10)
Are identified as wards of the court, as defined in Section 601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(e)
Except as provided in subdivision (f), in carrying out a program of prevention and intervention services and activities with funds received under this chapter, community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies shall do all of the following:
(1)
Collaborate with other local community-based organizations, nonprofit agencies or local agencies providing similar services, local schools, local law enforcement agencies, residents and families of the local community, private businesses in the local community, and charitable or religious organizations, for purposes of developing plans to
provide a program of prevention and intervention services and activities with funds provided under this chapter.
(2)
Identify other community-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, local agencies, and charitable or religious organizations in the local community that can serve as a resource in providing services and activities under this chapter.
(3)
Follow the public health model approach in developing and carrying out a program to prevent, deter, or reduce youth gangs, crime, or violence by (A) identifying risk factors of the particular population to be targeted, (B) implementing protective factors to prevent or reduce gangs, crime, or violence in the particular community to be serviced, and (C) designing community guidelines for prevention and intervention.
(4)
Provide referral services to at-promise youth who are being served under this chapter to appropriate organizations and agencies where the community-based organization or nonprofit agency can readily identify a need for counseling, tutorial, family support, or other types of services.
(5)
Provide the parents and family of the at-promise youth with support, information, and services to cope with the problems the at-promise youth, the parents, and the family are confronting.
(6)
Involve members of the at-risk target population in the development, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of their program of services and activities.
(7)
Objectively evaluate
the effectiveness of their services and activities to determine changes in attitudes or behaviors of the at-promise youth being served under this chapter towards gangs, crime, and violence.
(f)
Providers of programs that operate in juvenile detention facilities shall not be required to meet the criteria specified in
paragraph (5) of subdivision (e) for those programs offered only in those facilities.
Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.5. Section 13825.5.
To be eligible for funding under this chapter, community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies shall submit a request for funding proposal in compliance with this chapter to conduct a program that meets the requirements of Section 13825.4. The Department of Justice shall establish the minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants that shall take into consideration, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(a)
A demonstrated showing of at least two years of experience in administering a program providing prevention or prevention and intervention services that have positively affected the attitudes or behaviors of at-promise youth,
as defined in this chapter, toward gangs, crime, or violence.
(b)
New programs, services, or staff that would augment the existing programs, services, and activities already being provided the community-based organization or nonprofit agency.
(c)
The size of the eligible at-promise youth population that would be served by the community-based organization or nonprofit agency.
(d)
The likelihood that the program will continue to operate after state grant funding ends.
(e)
The ability of the community-based organization or nonprofit agency to objectively evaluate itself and a demonstrated showing of its plan to evaluate itself if funds are awarded. For purposes of this
chapter, community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies do not include libraries, community service organizations, and city, county, and state-operated departments of parks and recreation.
Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 13825.6. Section 13825.6.
Funding for the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program shall be subject to the following:
(a)
2 percent of the amounts appropriated in the Budget Act shall be transferred each year upon the approval of the Director of Finance, for expenditure as necessary for the Department of Justice to administer this program.
(b)
3 percent of the amounts appropriated in the Budget Act shall be transferred each year upon the approval of the Director of Finance, for expenditure as necessary for the department to provide technical assistance to community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies providing services under this chapter. Nothing in this chapter precludes the department from providing technical assistance services through an independent agency or organization.
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