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[CITE: 42USC5667]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 72--JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--PROGRAMS AND OFFICES
 
    Part D--Gang-Free Schools and Communities; Community-Based Gang 
                              Intervention
 
              subpart i--gang-free schools and communities
 
Sec. 5667. Authority to make grants and contracts

    (a) The Administrator shall make grants to or enter into contracts 
with public agencies (including local educational agencies) and private 
nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions to establish and 
support programs and activities that involve families and communities 
and that are designed to carry out any of the following purposes:
        (1) To prevent and to reduce the participation of juveniles in 
    the activities of gangs that commit crimes. Such programs and 
    activities may include--
            (A) individual, peer, family, and group counseling, 
        including the provision of life skills training and preparation 
        for living independently, which shall include cooperation with 
        social services, welfare, and health care programs;
            (B) education and social services designed to address the 
        social and developmental needs of juveniles which such juveniles 
        would otherwise seek to have met through membership in gangs;
            (C) crisis intervention and counseling to juveniles, who are 
        particularly at risk of gang involvement, and their families, 
        including assistance from social service, welfare, health care, 
        mental health, and substance abuse prevention and treatment 
        agencies where necessary;
            (D) the organization of neighborhood and community groups to 
        work closely with parents, schools, law enforcement, and other 
        public and private agencies in the community; and
            (E) training and assistance to adults who have significant 
        relationships with juveniles who are or may become members of 
        gangs, to assist such adults in providing constructive 
        alternatives to participating in the activities of gangs.

        (2) To develop within the juvenile adjudicatory and correctional 
    systems new and innovative means to address the problems of 
    juveniles convicted of serious drug-related and gang-related 
    offenses.
        (3) To target elementary school students, with the purpose of 
    steering students away from gang involvement.
        (4) To provide treatment to juveniles who are members of such 
    gangs, including members who are accused of committing a serious 
    crime and members who have been adjudicated as being delinquent.
        (5) To promote the involvement of juveniles in lawful activities 
    in geographical areas in which gangs commit crimes.
        (6) To promote and support, with the cooperation of community-
    based organizations experienced in providing services to juveniles 
    engaged in gang-related activities and the cooperation of local law 
    enforcement agencies, the development of policies and activities in 
    public elementary and secondary schools which will assist such 
    schools in maintaining a safe environment conducive to learning.
        (7) To assist juveniles who are or may become members of gangs 
    to obtain appropriate educational instruction, in or outside a 
    regular school program, including the provision of counseling and 
    other services to promote and support the continued participation of 
    such juveniles in such instructional programs.
        (8) To expand the availability of prevention and treatment 
    services relating to the illegal use of controlled substances and 
    controlled substances \1\ analogues (as defined in paragraphs (6) 
    and (32) of section 802 of title 21 \2\ by juveniles, provided 
    through State and local health and social services agencies.
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        (9) To provide services to prevent juveniles from coming into 
    contact with the juvenile justice system again as a result of gang-
    related activity.
        (10) To provide services authorized in this section at a special 
    location in a school or housing project.
        (11) To support activities to inform juveniles of the 
    availability of treatment and services for which financial 
    assistance is available under this subpart.

    (b) From not more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated to 
carry out this part in each fiscal year, the Administrator may make 
grants to and enter into contracts with public agencies and private 
nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions--
        (1) to conduct research on issues related to juvenile gangs;
        (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and activities 
    funded under subsection (a) of this section; and
        (3) to increase the knowledge of the public (including public 
    and private agencies that operate or desire to operate gang 
    prevention and intervention programs) by disseminating information 
    on research and on effective programs and activities funded under 
    this subpart.

(Pub. L. 93-415, title II, Sec. 281, as added Pub. L. 102-586, 
Sec. 2(i), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5001.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 5667, Pub. L. 93-415, title II, Sec. 281, as added 
Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7267, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4451, 
authorized Administrator to make grants and contracts for prevention and 
treatment programs relating to juvenile gangs, drug abuse, and drug 
trafficking, prior to the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 102-
586.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5667-1 of this title.
