TOPIC: Gangs

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Introductory Packet
• Dropout Prevention
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Publications
• Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement

Policy & Practice Analysis
• After-School programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Youth Gangs and Schools
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice Notes
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affect the School
• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools

Fact & Information Resources
• About Youth Gangs
• Gang Affiliation: Personal Academic and Mental Health Impact

Facts/Statistics
• Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2011 National Youth Gang Survey

General
• Comprehensive Gang Model Program
• Gangs and At-Risk Kids
• Gangs in School, Exploring the Experiences of Gang-Involved Youth (2017)
• Gangs, Schools, and Social Change: An Institutional Analysis (2017)
• Latino High School Students' Perception of Gang and Crews
• Publications Recommended by the Youth Gang Consortium
• Violent Youth Gangs
• Why Youth Join Gangs Video

Guides
• Addressing Community Gang Problems Implementation Manual
• A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem
• Parent's Guide to Gangs
• Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
• School-based Gang Prevention

Studies
• Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Gang Members and At-Risk Youths
• Early Precursors of Gang membership: A Study of Seattle Youth
• Perceptions of Gangs and Crews by Justice-Involved Youth and Implications for Best Practice Work
• Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents
• The prevalence, predictors, and criminogenic effect of joining a gang among urban, suburban, and rural youth

Support
• Gang Resistance Education and Training
• National Youth Gang Center
• Strategic Planning Tool

• Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Gang Resistance, Education and Training Program
• The National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations
• Promote Prevent (Education Development Center)
• National Youth Gang Center

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