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APPENDIX A. Planning Group Participants

Aileen Adams, Director, Office for Victims of Crime (Observer)

Clementine Barfield-Dye, President, Save Our Sons and Daughters (SOSAD), Detroit, MI

Jim Burch, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, OJP

Frances Davis, Founder, Mothers of All Children, Brooklyn, NY

Sharon English, California Youth Authority, Sacramento, CA

Gilbert Garcia, Supervising Parole Agent, Gang Violence Reduction Project, California
Youth Authority, Los Angeles, CA

Kerry Healey, Criminal Justice Consultant, Author of NIJ Victim Witness Intimidation document, Abt Associates

Edith Hernandez, State Attorney's Office, Victim Witness Program-Gang Unit, Chicago, IL

Brian Horsley, Tariq Khamisa Foundation, San Diego, CA

Azim Khamisa, Tariq Khamisa Foundation, San Diego, CA

Coleman Lawton, Metropolitan Family Services, Chicago, IL

Christine Lopez, Victim Witness Advocate, District Attorney's Office, Gang Unit, Orange, CA

Hon. Tam Nomoto Schumann, Municipal Court Judge, Santa Ana, CA

Kim Ogg, Director, Anti-Gang Division, Office of the Mayor, Houston, TX

Dan Pearson, Tariq Khamisa Foundation, San Diego, CA

Donna Ray, Office for Victims of Crime

Erik Reid, Youth Violence Task Force, DOJ

Michael A. Roberts, Program Assistant, Victim Services Agency, School Division for Violence Prevention and Alternatives to Violence, New York, NY

Patrick Rogers, Executive Director of the Interdepartmental Council on Native Affairs, Health and Human Services, Administration on Native Americans, Washington, DC

Frances Sandoval, Mothers Against Gangs, Chicago, IL

Julie Sayler, Victim Witness Coordinator, Victim Witness Assistance Center, Office of the District Attorney, Wichita, KS

Anne Seymour, Victim Services Consultant (Facilitator)

Sherman Spears, Teens on Target, Oakland, CA

Jenny Wieland, Program Director, Mothers Against Violence in America, Seattle, WA

APPENDIX B. Planning Group Methodology

Planning Group Methodology

Consultant Anne Seymour, the Planning Group Facilitator, provided all participants with a comprehensive resource package containing information about gangs and gang-related victimization prior to their first meeting on May 17, 1996. In addition, several participants provided the group with resource packages pertaining specifically to their programs and services.

A discussion guide was developed by Ms. Seymour. Participants' responses and input were recorded on tear sheets, which were utilized to prepare a draft of the Planning Group discussion. An expanded Planning Group was convened on August 14, 1996 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to review and refine the initial findings, and to develop an action plan for the future. The report is the result of the two Planning Group meetings.

Planning Group Facilitation

The OVC Planning Groups were facilitated by Anne Seymour, a Washington, D.C.-based criminal justice and victimology consultant with over 13 years experience in research, evaluation, training, and technical assistance. Ms. Seymour has facilitated a number of justice-related planning groups for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, OVC, national non-profit victim assistance and criminal justice organizations, and private industry.

APPENDIX C. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program

As part of OJJDP's fiscal year 1994 Comprehensive Response to America's Gang Problem, a Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program was developed. Under this program, the implementation of a comprehensive gang model in five jurisdictions is being supported for a three-year period. The demonstration sites, currently implementing the model that was developed by the University of Chicago with OJJDP funding support, are: Mesa and Tucson, Arizona; Riverside, California; Bloomington, Illinois; and San Antonio, Texas. Implementation of the model requires the mobilization of the community to address gang-related violence by making available social intervention, providing social/academic/economic and other types of opportunities, supporting gang suppression through law enforcement, prosecution and other community control mechanisms, and by supporting organizational change and development in community agencies to more adequately address gang violence. Although a variety of strategies and program elements are possible, specific policies and procedures must be designed to achieve the intermediate goals of suppression and intervention and the ultimate goal of reducing the youth gang problem. The model is based in part on the premise that policies of deterrence, prevention, or rehabilitation in themselves are insufficient to confront the youth gang problem. Operational strategies and methods of carrying them out must be systematically integrated, inasmuch as the youth gang problem has different, but interrelated elements.

In the first year of the project, the demonstration sites began an ongoing problem assessment process to identify the full nature and extent of the gang problem in the community as well as its potential causes. The assessment process will also help communities to understand what may cause gang violence in their community and to identify benchmarks by which program success may be measured. These demonstration sites participated in various training and technical assistance activities including two cluster conferences sponsored by OJJDP. In addition, the demonstration sites began planning for strategy development and service provision and made progress towards full community mobilization. In some cases, communities built upon existing planning structures or bodies for mobilization and planning purposes as opposed to creating new structures.

Over the next two years, demonstration sites may receive supplemental funding to continue implementation of the model program and will build upon the sustained mobilization, planning, and assessment processes. Additionally, the demonstration sites will continue to target gang violence prone youth and those youth involved in gang violence but ready to leave the gang through the combined efforts of this program. The sites will continue to cooperate with the independent evaluation of this demonstration effort which is funded under a separate grant.

In addition to the five demonstration sites mentioned above, this same model is being implemented under OJJDP's SafeFutures: Partnerships to Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency Program. Under this initiative, a total of six additional demonstration sites will be implementing the comprehensive program model and will receive technical assistance regarding the model and its implementation.

APPENDIX D. Promising Practices: Points of Contact

Comprehensive Victim Assistance Program for Victims of Gang Violence

Gang Victim Services Program

Contact:
Christine Lopez
Community Service Programs (CSP)
Crisis Response Unit, Gang Homicide
P.O. Box 14169
Orange, California 92613-1569
Telephone: 714/935-7492

Hospital-Based Intervention and Prevention Program

Teens on Target

Contact:
Sherman Spears
Teens on Target
c/o Youth ALIVE
Summit Medical Center
3012 Summit Street, Suite 3670
Oakland, California 94609
510/444-6191

School-Based Violence Prevention and Victim Services Programs

Victim Services, Inc.

Contact:
Michael A. Roberts
Victim Services, Inc.
189 Montague Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Telephone: 718/624-2111
Community-Based Programs Sponsored by Victims of Gang Violence

Save Our Sons and Daughters (SOSAD)

Contact:
Clementine Barfield-Dye, Founder and President
Save Our Sons and Daughters
2441 West Grand Boulevard
Detroit, Michigan 48208
Telephone: 313/361-5200

Mothers of All Children

Contact:
Frances Davis, Founder
Mothers of All Children
632 Sterling Place
Brooklyn, New York 11238
Telephone: 718/636-1634

Tariq Khamisa Foundation

Contact:
Azim Khamisa, Founder and President
Tariq Khamisa Foundation
550 West C Street, Suite 1700
San Diego, California 92101-3568
Telephone: 619/277-5700

Public-Private Partnerships to Reduce Gang Violence

Wichita Neighborhood Initiative

Contact:
Margalee Wright, Director
3995 East Harry, D-12
Wichita, Kansas 67218
Telephone: 316/685-6422

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