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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2197 

To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile 

delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention 

to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency 

to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and lawabiding lives. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 1, 2015 

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, Mr. JONES, Mr. CA ́RDENAS, and Mr. 

GOWDY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related 

to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 

prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure 

that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and 

law-abiding lives. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Youth Prison Reduc3 tion through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Sup4 port, and Education Act’’ or the ‘‘Youth PROMISE Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

6 The table of contents for this Act are as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title. 

Sec. 2. Table of contents. 

Sec. 3. Definitions. 

Sec. 4. Findings. 

TITLE I—FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL 

JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMATION AND EFFORTS 

Sec. 101. PROMISE Advisory Panel. 

Sec. 102. Geographic assessment of resource allocation. 

TITLE II—PROMISE GRANTS 

Sec. 201. Purposes. 

Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants 

Sec. 202. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. 

Sec. 203. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. 

Sec. 204. Needs and strengths assessment. 

Sec. 205. PROMISE Plan components. 

Sec. 206. Authorization of appropriations. 

Subtitle B—PROMISE Implementation Grants 

Sec. 211. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized. 

Sec. 212. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements. 

Sec. 213. Grant award guidelines. 

Sec. 214. Reports. 

Sec. 215. Authorization of appropriations. 

Subtitle C—General PROMISE Grant Provisions 

Sec. 221. Nonsupplanting clause. 

Sec. 222. Grant application review panel. 

Sec. 223. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs. 

Sec. 224. Reservation of funds. 

TITLE III—PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS 

Sec. 301. Establishment of the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 

Justice Practices. 

Sec. 302. Grants for regional research proven practices partnerships. 


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1 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act: 

3 (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis4 trator’’ means the Administrator of the Office of Ju5 venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 

6 (2) COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘community’’ 

7 means a unit of local government or an Indian tribe, 

8 or part of such a unit or tribe, as determined by 

9 such a unit or tribe for the purpose of applying for 

10 a grant under this Act. 

11 (3) DESIGNATED GEOGRAPHIC AREA.—The 

12 term ‘‘designated geographic area’’ means a 5-digit 

13 postal ZIP Code assigned to a geographic area by 

14 the United States Postal Service. 

15 (4) EVIDENCE-BASED.— 

16 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘evidence17 based’’, when used with respect to a practice re18 lating to juvenile delinquency and criminal 

19 street gang activity prevention and intervention, 

20 means a practice (including a service, program, 

21 activity, intervention, technology, or strategy) 

22 for which the Administrator has determined— 

23 (i) causal evidence documents a rela24 tionship between the practice and its in25 tended outcome, based on measures of the 

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1 tent to which a change may be attributed 

2 to the practice; and 

3 (ii) the use of scientific methods rules 

4 out, to the extent possible, alternative ex5 planations for the documented change. 

6 (B) SCIENTIFIC METHODS.—For the pur7 poses of subparagraph (A), the term ‘‘scientific 

8 methods’’ means— 

9 (i) evaluation by an experimental trial, 

10 in which participants are randomly as11 signed to participate in the practice that is 

12 subject to such trial; or 

13 (ii) evaluation by a quasi-experimental 

14 trial, in which the outcomes for partici15 pants are compared with outcomes for a 

16 control group that is made up of individ17 uals who are similar to such participants. 

18 (5) INTERVENTION.—The term ‘‘intervention’’ 

19 means the provision of programs and services that 

20 are supported by research, are evidence-based or 

21 promising practices, and are provided to youth who 

22 are involved in, or who are identified by evidence23 based risk assessment methods as being at high risk 

24 of continued involvement in, juvenile delinquency or 

25 criminal street gangs, as a result of indications that 


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1 demonstrate involvement with problems such as tru2 ancy, substance abuse, mental health treatment 

3 needs, or siblings who have had involvement with ju4 venile or criminal justice systems. 

5 (6) JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND CRIMINAL

6 STREET GANG ACTIVITY PREVENTION.—The term 

7 ‘‘juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activ8 ity prevention’’ means the provision of programs and 

9 resources to children and families who have not yet 

10 had substantial contact with criminal justice or juve11 nile justice systems, that— 

12 (A) are designed to reduce potential juve13 nile delinquency and criminal street gang activ14 ity risks; and 

15 (B) are evidence-based or promising edu16 cational, health, mental health, school-based, 

17 community-based, faith-based, parenting, job 

18 training, social opportunities and experiences, 

19 or other programs, for youth and their families, 

20 that have been demonstrated to be effective in 

21 reducing juvenile delinquency and criminal 

22 street gang activity risks. 

23 (7) PROMISING.—The term ‘‘promising’’, when 

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1 tion and intervention, means a practice (including a 

2 service, program, activity, intervention, technology, 

3 or strategy) that, based on statistical analyses or a 

4 theory of change, the Administrator has deter5 mined— 

6 (A) has outcomes from an evaluation that 

7 demonstrate such practice reduces juvenile de8 linquency and criminal street gang activity; and 

9 (B) is part of a study being conducted to 

10 determine if such a practice is evidence-based. 

11 (8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 

12 the several States, the District of Columbia, the 

13 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 

14 American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Is15 lands, and any other territories or possessions of the 

16 United States. 

17 (9) THEORY OF CHANGE.—The term ‘‘theory of 

18 change’’ means a program planning strategy ap19 proved by the Administrator that outlines the types 

20 of interventions and outcomes essential to achieving 

21 a set of program goals. 

22 (10) YOUTH.—The term ‘‘youth’’ means— 

23 (A) an individual who is 18 years of age or 

24 younger; or 


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1 (B) in any State in which the maximum 

2 age at which the juvenile justice system of such 

3 State has jurisdiction over individuals exceeds 

4 18 years of age, an individual who is such max5 imum age or younger. 

6 SEC. 4. FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds as follows: 

8 (1) Youth gang crime has taken a toll on a 

9 number of communities, and senseless acts of gang10 related violence have imposed economic, social, and 

11 human costs. 

12 (2) Drug- and alcohol-dependent youth, and 

13 youth dually diagnosed with addiction and mental 

14 health disorders, are more likely to become involved 

15 with the juvenile justice system than youth without 

16 such risk factors, absent appropriate prevention and 

17 intervention services. 

18 (3) Children of color are over-represented rel19 ative to the general population at every stage of the 

20 juvenile justice system. Black youth are 17 percent 

21 of the United States population, but represent 38 

22 percent of youth in secure placement juvenile facili23 ties, and 58 percent of youth incarcerated in adult 

24 prisons. 


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1 (4) Research funded by the Department of Jus2 tice indicates that gang-membership is short-lived 

3 among adolescents. With very few youth remaining 

4 gang-involved throughout their adolescent years, on5 going opportunities for intervention exist. 

6 (5) Criminal justice costs have become burden7 some in many States and cities, requiring reductions 

8 in vital educational, social, welfare, mental health, 

9 and related services. 

10 (6) Direct expenditures for each of the major 

11 criminal justice functions, police, corrections, and ju12 dicial services, have increased steadily over the last 

13 30 years. In fiscal year 2012, Federal, State, and 

14 local governments spent an estimated 

15 $265,000,000,000 for police protection, corrections, 

16 and judicial and legal services, nearly a 213-percent 

17 increase since 1982. 

18 (7) Estimates suggest that each year the 

19 United States incurs over $8,000,000,000 in long20 term costs for the confinement of young people. The 

21 average annual cost to incarcerate one youth is 

22 $146,302. 

23 (8) Coordinated efforts of stakeholders in the 

24 juvenile justice system in a local community, to25 gether with other organizations and community 


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1 members concerned with the safety and welfare of 

2 children, have a strong record of demonstrated suc3 cess in reducing the impact of youth and gang-re4 lated crime and violence, as demonstrated in Boston, 

5 Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Richmond, Vir6 ginia; Los Angeles, California; and other commu7 nities. 

8 (9) Investment in prevention and intervention 

9 programs for children and youth, including quality 

10 early childhood programs, comprehensive evidence11 based school, after school, and summer school pro12 grams, mentoring programs, mental health and 

13 treatment programs, evidence-based job training 

14 programs, and alternative intervention programs, 

15 has been shown to lead to decreased youth arrests, 

16 decreased delinquency, lower recidivism, and greater 

17 financial savings from an educational, economic, so18 cial, and criminal justice perspective. 

19 (10) Quality early childhood education pro20 grams have been demonstrated to help children start 

21 school ready to learn and to reduce delinquency and 

22 criminal street gang activity risks. 

23 (11) Evidence-based mentoring programs have 

24 been shown to prevent youth drug abuse and vio25 lence. 


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1 (12) Evidence-based school-based comprehen2 sive instructional programs that pair youth with re3 sponsible adult mentors have been shown to have a 

4 strong impact upon delinquency prevention. 

5 (13) After-school programs that connect chil6 dren to caring adults and that provide constructive 

7 activities during the peak hours of juvenile delin8 quency and criminal street gang activity, between 

9 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., have been shown to reduce de10 linquency and the attendant costs imposed on the ju11 venile and criminal justice systems. 

12 (14) States with higher levels of educational at13 tainment have been shown to have crime rates lower 

14 than the national average. Researchers have found 

15 that a 5-percent increase in male high school grad16 uation rates would produce an annual estimated sav17 ings of $18,500,000,000 in crime-related expenses. 

18 (15) Therapeutic programs that engage and 

19 motivate high-risk youth and their families to 

20 change behaviors that often result in criminal activ21 ity have been shown to significantly reduce recidi22 vism among juvenile offenders, and significantly re23 duce the attendant costs of crime and delinquency 

24 imposed upon the juvenile and criminal justice sys25 tems. 


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1 (16) Comprehensive programs that target kids 

2 who are already serious juvenile offenders by ad3 dressing the multiple factors in peer, school, neigh4 borhood, and family environments known to be re5 lated to delinquency can reduce recidivism among ju6 venile offenders and save the public significant eco7 nomic costs. 

8 (17) There are many alternatives to incarcer9 ation of youth that have been proven to be more ef10 fective in reducing crime and violence at the Na11 tional, State, local, and tribal levels, and the failure 

12 to provide for such effective alternatives is a perva13 sive problem that leads to increased youth, and later 

14 adult, crime and violence. 

15 (18) Savings achieved through early interven16 tion and prevention are significant, especially when 

17 noncriminal justice social, educational, mental 

18 health, and economic outcomes are considered. 

19 (19) The prevention of child abuse and neglect 

20 can help stop a cycle of violence and save up to 

21 $5.00 for every $1.00 invested in preventing such 

22 abuse and neglect. 

23 (20) Targeting interventions at special youth 

24 risk groups and focusing upon relatively low-cost 


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1 interventions increases the probability of fiscal ben2 efit. 

3 (21) Evidence-based intervention treatment fa4 cilities have been shown to reduce youth delinquency 

5 and to be cost-effective. 

6 (22) States, including Wisconsin, Ohio, New 

7 York, Texas, and Pennsylvania, have seen a reduc8 tion in juvenile incarceration due to a reallocation of 

9 criminal justice funds towards prevention programs. 

10 TITLE I—FEDERAL COORDINA11 TION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL 

12 JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMA13 TION AND EFFORTS 

14 SEC. 101. PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL. 

15 (a) ORGANIZATION OF STATE ADVISORY GROUP

16 MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES.—Section 223(f) of the Ju17 venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 

18 (42 U.S.C. 5633(f)) is amended— 

19 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘an eligible 

20 organization composed of member representatives of 

21 the State advisory groups appointed under sub22 section (a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘a nonpartisan, non23 profit organization that is described in section 

24 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,’’; 

25 and 


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1 (2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol2 lows: 

3 ‘‘(2) ASSISTANCE.—To be eligible to receive 

4 such assistance, such organization shall— 

5 ‘‘(A) be governed by individuals who— 

6 ‘‘(i) have been appointed by a chief 

7 executive of a State to serve as a State ad8 visory group member under subsection 

9 (a)(3); and 

10 ‘‘(ii) are elected to serve as a gov11 erning officer of such organization by a 

12 majority of the Chairs (or Chair-designees) 

13 of all such State advisory groups; 

14 ‘‘(B) include member representatives from 

15 a majority of such State advisory groups, who 

16 shall be representative of regionally and demo17 graphically diverse States and jurisdictions; 

18 ‘‘(C) annually seek appointments by the 

19 chief executive of each State of one State advi20 sory group member and one alternate State ad21 visory group member from each such State to 

22 implement the advisory functions specified in 

23 clauses (iv) and (v) of subparagraph (D), in24 cluding serving on the PROMISE Advisory 


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1 Panel, and make a record of any such appoint2 ments available to the public; and 

3 ‘‘(D) agree to carry out activities that in4 clude— 

5 ‘‘(i) conducting an annual conference 

6 of such member representatives for pur7 poses relating to the activities of such 

8 State advisory groups; 

9 ‘‘(ii) disseminating information, data, 

10 standards, advanced techniques, and pro11 gram models; 

12 ‘‘(iii) reviewing Federal policies re13 garding juvenile justice and delinquency 

14 prevention; 

15 ‘‘(iv) advising the Administrator with 

16 respect to particular functions or aspects 

17 of the work of the Office, and appointing 

18 a representative, diverse group of members 

19 of such organization under subparagraph 

20 (C) to serve as an advisory panel of State 

21 juvenile justice advisors (referred to as the 

22 ‘PROMISE Advisory Panel’) to carry out 

23 the functions specified in subsection (g); 

24 and 


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1 ‘‘(v) advising the President and Con2 gress with regard to State perspectives on 

3 the operation of the Office and Federal 

4 legislation pertaining to juvenile justice 

5 and delinquency prevention.’’. 

6 (b) PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL.—Section 223 of 

7 the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 

8 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633) is further amended by adding at 

9 the end the following new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(g) PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL.— 

11 ‘‘(1) FUNCTIONS.—The PROMISE Advisory 

12 Panel required under subsection (f)(2)(D) shall— 

13 ‘‘(A) assess successful evidence-based and 

14 promising practices related to juvenile delin15 quency and criminal street gang activity preven16 tion and intervention carried out by PROMISE 

17 Coordinating Councils under such Act; 

18 ‘‘(B) provide the Administrator with a list 

19 of individuals and organizations with experience 

20 in administering or evaluating practices that 

21 serve youth involved in, or at risk of involve22 ment in, juvenile delinquency and criminal 

23 street gang activity, from which the Adminis24 trator shall select individuals who shall— 


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1 ‘‘(i) provide to the Administrator peer 

2 reviews of applications submitted by units 

3 of local government and Indian tribes pur4 suant to title II of such Act, to ensure that 

5 such applications demonstrate a clear plan 

6 to— 

7 ‘‘(I) serve youth as part of an en8 tire family unit; and 

9 ‘‘(II) coordinate the delivery of 

10 service to youth among agencies; and 

11 ‘‘(ii) advise the Administrator with re12 spect to the award and allocation of 

13 PROMISE Planning grants to local and 

14 tribal governments that develop PROMISE 

15 Coordinating Councils, and of PROMISE 

16 Implementation grants to such PROMISE 

17 Coordinating Councils, pursuant to title II 

18 of such Act; and 

19 ‘‘(C) develop performance standards to be 

20 used to evaluate programs and activities carried 

21 out with grants under title II of the Youth 

22 PROMISE Act, including the evaluation of 

23 changes achieved as a result of such programs 

24 and activities related to decreases in juvenile 


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1 delinquency and criminal street gang activity, 

2 including— 

3 ‘‘(i) prevention of involvement by at4 risk youth in juvenile delinquency or crimi5 nal street gang activity; 

6 ‘‘(ii) diversion of youth with a high 

7 risk of continuing involvement in juvenile 

8 delinquency or criminal street gang activ9 ity; and 

10 ‘‘(iii) financial savings from deferred 

11 or eliminated costs, or other benefits, as a 

12 result of such programs and activities, and 

13 the reinvestment by the unit or tribe of 

14 any such savings. 

15 ‘‘(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 

16 months after the date of the enactment of the Youth 

17 PROMISE Act, and annually thereafter, the PROM18 ISE Advisory Panel shall prepare a report con19 taining the findings and determinations under para20 graph (1)(A) and shall submit such report to Con21 gress, the President, the Attorney General, and the 

22 chief executive and chief law enforcement officer of 

23 each State, unit of local government, and Indian 

24 tribe.’’. 


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1 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 

2 299(a)(1) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven3 tion Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5671(a)(1)) is amended by 

4 striking ‘‘2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007’’and insert5 ing ‘‘2016 through 2020’’. 

6 SEC. 102. GEOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RESOURCE ALLO7 CATION. 

8 (a) GRANT FOR COLLECTION OF DATA TO DETER9 MINE NEED.—Subject to the availability of appropria10 tions, the Administrator shall award a grant, on a com11 petitive basis, to an organization to— 

12 (1) collect and analyze data related to the exist13 ing juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac14 tivity prevention and intervention needs and re15 sources in each designated geographic area; 

16 (2) use the data collected and analyzed under 

17 paragraph (1) to compile a list of designated geo18 graphic areas that have the most need of resources, 

19 based on such data, to carry out juvenile delin20 quency and criminal street gang activity prevention 

21 and intervention; 

22 (3) use the data collected and analyzed under 

23 paragraph (1) to rank the areas listed under para24 graph (2) in descending order by the amount of need 

25 for resources to carry out juvenile delinquency and 


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1 criminal street gang activity prevention and inter2 vention, ranking the area with the greatest need for 

3 such resources highest; and 

4 (4) periodically update the list and rankings 

5 under paragraph (3) as the Administrator deter6 mines to be appropriate. 

7 (b) DATA SOURCES.—In compiling such list and de8 termining such rankings, the organization shall collect and 

9 analyze data relating to juvenile delinquency and criminal 

10 street gang activity prevention and intervention— 

11 (1) using the geographic information system 

12 and Web-based mapping application known as the 

13 Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography 

14 (SMART) system; 

15 (2) from the Department of Health and Human 

16 Services, the Department of Labor, the Department 

17 of Housing and Urban Development, and the De18 partment of Education; and 

19 (3) from the annual KIDS Count Data Book 

20 and other data made available by the KIDS Count 

21 initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. 

22 (c) USE OF DATA BY THE ADMINISTRATOR.—The list 

23 and rankings required by this section shall be provided 

24 to the Administrator to be used to provide funds under 

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1 sure that resources and services are provided to youth in 

2 the communities with the greatest need for such resources 

3 and services. 

4 (d) LIMITATION ON USE OF COLLECTED DATA.— 

5 The information collected and analyzed under this section 

6 may not be used for any purpose other than to carry out 

7 the purposes of this Act. Such information may not be 

8 used for any purpose related to the investigation or pros9 ecution of any person, or for profiling of individuals based 

10 on race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or any other 

11 characteristic. 

12 (e) AUTHORIZATION AND LIMITATION OF APPRO13 PRIATIONS.—Of the amount made available under section 

14 224 to carry out this Act— 

15 (1) for fiscal year 2016, not more than 5 per16 cent of such amount, or $1,000,000, whichever is 

17 less, shall be made available to carry out this sec18 tion; and 

19 (2) for fiscal years 2017 through 2020, not 

20 more than 2 percent of such amount, or $400,000, 

21 whichever is less, shall be made available to carry 

22 out this section. 


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1 TITLE II—PROMISE GRANTS 

2 SEC. 201. PURPOSES. 

3 The purposes of the grant programs established 

4 under this title are to— 

5 (1) enable local and tribal communities to as6 sess the unmet needs of youth who are involved in, 

7 or are at risk of involvement in, juvenile delinquency 

8 or criminal street gangs; 

9 (2) develop plans appropriate for a community 

10 to address those unmet needs with juvenile delin11 quency and gang prevention and intervention prac12 tices; and 

13 (3) implement and evaluate such plans in a 

14 manner consistent with this Act. 

15 Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment 

16 and Planning Grants 

17 SEC. 202. PROMISE ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING GRANTS 

18 AUTHORIZED. 

19 (a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Administrator is 

20 authorized to award grants to units of local government 

21 and Indian tribes to assist PROMISE Coordinating Coun22 cils with planning and assessing evidence-based and prom23 ising practices relating to juvenile delinquency and crimi24 nal street gang activity prevention and intervention, espe25 cially for youth who are involved in, or who are at risk 


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1 of involvement in, juvenile delinquency and criminal street 

2 gang activity. Such PROMISE Coordinating Councils 

3 shall— 

4 (1) conduct an objective needs and strengths 

5 assessment in accordance with section 203; and 

6 (2) develop a PROMISE Plan in accordance 

7 with section 204, based on the assessment conducted 

8 in accordance with section 203. 

9 (b) GRANT DURATION, AMOUNT, AND ALLOCA10 TION.— 

11 (1) DURATION.—A grant awarded under this 

12 section shall be for a period not to exceed one year. 

13 (2) MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNT.—A grant 

14 awarded under this section shall not exceed 

15 $300,000. 

16 (c) ALLOCATION.— 

17 (1) MINIMUM ALLOCATION.—Subject to the 

18 availability of appropriations, the Administrator 

19 shall ensure that the total funds allocated under this 

20 section to units of local governments and Indian 

21 tribes in a State shall not be less than $1,000,000. 

22 (2) RATABLE REDUCTION.—If the amount 

23 made available for grants under this section for any 

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1 graph (1) to units of local government and Indian 

2 tribes in each State, then the amount of such min3 imum allocation shall be ratably reduced. 

4 SEC. 203. PROMISE COORDINATING COUNCILS. 

5 To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, 

6 a unit of local government or an Indian tribe shall estab7 lish a PROMISE Coordinating Council for each commu8 nity of such unit or tribe, respectively, for which such unit 

9 or tribe is applying for a grant under this subtitle. Each 

10 such community shall include one or more designated geo11 graphic areas identified on the list required under section 

12 102(a)(2). The members of such a PROMISE Coordi13 nating Council shall be representatives of public and pri14 vate sector entities and individuals that— 

15 (1) shall include, to the extent possible, at least 

16 one representative from each of the following: 

17 (A) the local chief executive’s office; 

18 (B) a local educational agency; 

19 (C) a local health agency or provider; 

20 (D) a local mental health agency or pro21 vider, unless the representative under subpara22 graph (C) also meets the requirements of this 

23 subparagraph; 

24 (E) a local public housing agency; 

25 (F) a local law enforcement agency; 


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1 (G) a local child welfare agency; 

2 (H) a local juvenile court; 

3 (I) a local juvenile prosecutor’s office; 

4 (J) a private juvenile residential care enti5 ty; 

6 (K) a local juvenile public defender’s office; 

7 (L) a State juvenile correctional entity; 

8 (M) a local business community represent9 ative; and 

10 (N) a local faith-based community rep11 resentative; 

12 (2) shall include two representatives from each 

13 of the following: 

14 (A) parents who have minor children, and 

15 who have an interest in the local juvenile or 

16 criminal justice systems; 

17 (B) youth between the ages of 15 and 24 

18 who reside in the jurisdiction of the unit or 

19 tribe; and 

20 (C) members from nonprofit community21 based organizations that provide effective delin22 quency prevention and intervention to youth in 

23 the jurisdiction of the unit or tribe; and 

24 (3) may include other members, as the unit or 

25 tribe determines to be appropriate. 


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1 SEC. 204. NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT. 

2 (a) ASSESSMENT.—Each PROMISE Coordinating 

3 Council receiving funds from a unit of local government 

4 or Indian tribe under this subtitle shall conduct an objec5 tive strengths and needs assessment of the resources of 

6 the community for which such PROMISE Coordinating 

7 Council was established, to identify the unmet needs of 

8 youth in the community with respect to evidence-based 

9 and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 

10 and criminal street gang activity prevention and interven11 tion. The PROMISE Coordinating Council shall consult 

12 with a research partner receiving a grant under section 

13 302 for assistance with such assessment. Such assessment 

14 shall include, with respect to the community for which 

15 such PROMISE Coordinating Council was established— 

16 (1) the number of youth who are at-risk of in17 volvement in juvenile delinquency or street gang ac18 tivity; 

19 (2) the number of youth who are involved in ju20 venile delinquency or criminal street gang activity, 

21 including the number of such youth who are at high 

22 risk of continued involvement; 

23 (3) youth unemployment rates during the sum24 mer; 

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1 bers of men, women, and children on such assist2 ance); 

3 (5) the estimated number of youth who are 

4 chronically truant; 

5 (6) the number of youth who have dropped out 

6 of school in the previous year; 

7 (7) for the year before such assessment, the es8 timated total amount expended (by the community 

9 and other entities) for the incarceration of offenders 

10 who were convicted or adjudicated delinquent for an 

11 offense that was committed in such community, in12 cluding amounts expended for the incarceration of 

13 offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities that 

14 are located in the United States but are not located 

15 in such community; 

16 (8) a comparison of the amount under para17 graph (7) with an estimation of the amount that 

18 would be expended for the incarceration of offenders 

19 described in such paragraph if the number of offend20 ers described in such paragraph was equal to the na21 tional average incarceration rate per 100,000 popu22 lation; and 

23 (9) a description of evidence-based and prom24 ising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 

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1 youth in the community, including school-based pro2 grams, after school programs (particularly programs 

3 that have activities available for youth between 3 

4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the afternoon), weekend activi5 ties and programs, youth mentoring programs, faith 

6 and community-based programs, summer activities, 

7 and summer jobs, if any; and 

8 (10) a description of evidence-based and prom9 ising intervention practices available for youth in the 

10 community. 

11 (b) LIMITATION ON USE OF ASSESSMENT INFORMA12 TION.—Information gathered pursuant to this section may 

13 be used for the sole purpose of developing a PROMISE 

14 Plan in accordance with this subtitle. 

15 SEC. 205. PROMISE PLAN COMPONENTS. 

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—Each PROMISE Coordinating 

17 Council receiving funds from a unit of local government 

18 or Indian tribe under this subtitle shall develop a PROM19 ISE Plan to provide for the coordination of, and, as appro20 priate, to support the delivery of, evidence-based and 

21 promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 

22 criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention 

23 to youth and families who reside in the community for 

24 which such PROMISE Coordinating Council was estab25 lished. Such a PROMISE Plan shall— 


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1 (1) include the strategy by which the PROM2 ISE Coordinating Council plans to prioritize and al3 locate resources and services toward the unmet 

4 needs of youth in the community, consistent with the 

5 needs and available resources of communities with 

6 the greatest need for assistance, as determined pur7 suant to section 102; 

8 (2) include a combination of evidence-based and 

9 promising prevention and intervention practices that 

10 are responsive to the needs of the community; and 

11 (3) ensure that cultural and linguistic needs of 

12 the community are met. 

13 (b) MANDATORY COMPONENTS.—Each PROMISE 

14 Plan shall— 

15 (1) include a plan to connect youth identified in 

16 paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 204(a) to evi17 dence-based and promising practices related to juve18 nile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 

19 prevention and intervention; 

20 (2) identify the amount or percentage of local 

21 funds that are available to the PROMISE Coordi22 nating Council to carry out the PROMISE Plan; 

23 (3) provide strategies to improve indigent de24 fense delivery systems, with particular attention 

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1 ately represented in the State delinquency system 

2 and Federal criminal justice system, as compared to 

3 the representation of such groups in the general 

4 population of the State; 

5 (4) provide for training (which complies with 

6 the American Bar Association Juvenile Justice 

7 Standards for the representation and care of youth 

8 in the juvenile justice system) of prosecutors, de9 fenders, probation officers, judges and other court 

10 personnel related to issues concerning the develop11 mental needs, challenges, and potential of youth in 

12 the juvenile justice system, (including training re13 lated to adolescent development and mental health 

14 issues, and the expected impact of evidence-based 

15 practices and cost reduction strategies); 

16 (5) ensure that the number of youth involved in 

17 the juvenile delinquency and criminal justice systems 

18 does not increase as a result of the activities under19 taken with the funds provided under this subtitle; 

20 (6) describe the coordinated strategy that will 

21 be used by the PROMISE Coordinating Council to 

22 provide at-risk youth with evidence-based and prom23 ising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 

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1 (7) propose the performance evaluation process 

2 to be used to carry out section 211(d), which shall 

3 include performance measures to assess efforts to 

4 address the unmet needs of youth in the community 

5 with evidence-based and promising practices related 

6 to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac7 tivity prevention and intervention; and 

8 (8) identify the research partner the PROMISE 

9 Coordinating Council will use to obtain information 

10 on evidence-based and promising practices related to 

11 juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activ12 ity prevention and intervention, and for the evalua13 tion under section 211(d) of the results of the activi14 ties carried out with funds under this subtitle. 

15 (c) VOLUNTARY COMPONENTS.—In addition to the 

16 components under subsection (b), a PROMISE Plan may 

17 include evidence-based or promising practices related to 

18 juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity pre19 vention and intervention in the following categories: 

20 (1) Early childhood development services (such 

21 as pre-natal and neo-natal health services), early 

22 childhood prevention, voluntary home visiting pro23 grams, nurse-family partnership programs, par24 enting and healthy relationship skills training, child 


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1 abuse prevention programs, Early Head Start, and 

2 Head Start. 

3 (2) Child protection and safety services (such as 

4 foster care and adoption assistance programs), fam5 ily stabilization programs, child welfare services, and 

6 family violence intervention programs. 

7 (3) Youth and adolescent development services, 

8 including job training and apprenticeship programs, 

9 job placement and retention training, education and 

10 after school programs (such as school programs with 

11 shared governance by students, teachers, and par12 ents, and activities for youth between the hours of 

13 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the afternoon), mentoring pro14 grams, conflict resolution skills training, sports, 

15 arts, life skills, employment and recreation pro16 grams, summer jobs, and summer recreation pro17 grams, and alternative school resources for youth 

18 who have dropped out of school or demonstrate 

19 chronic truancy. 

20 (4) Health and mental health services, includ21 ing cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and 

22 peer mentoring and counseling. 

23 (5) Substance abuse counseling and treatment 

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1 (6) Emergency, transitional, and permanent 

2 housing assistance (such as safe shelter and housing 

3 for runaway and homeless youth). 

4 (7) Targeted gang prevention, intervention, and 

5 exit services such as tattoo removal, successful mod6 els of anti-gang crime outreach programs (such as 

7 ‘‘street worker’’ programs), and other criminal street 

8 gang truce or peacemaking activities. 

9 (8) Training and education programs for preg10 nant teens and teen parents. 

11 (9) Restorative justice programs. 

12 (10) Alternatives to detention and confinement 

13 programs (such as mandated participation in com14 munity service, restitution, counseling, and intensive 

15 individual and family therapeutic approaches). 

16 (11) Pre-release, post-release, and reentry serv17 ices to assist detained and incarcerated youth with 

18 transitioning back into and reentering the commu19 nity. 

20 SEC. 206. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

21 For fiscal years 2016 through 2020, of the amount 

22 made available under section 224 to carry out this Act 

23 for any fiscal year, not more than 15 percent shall be 

24 made available to carry out this subtitle. 


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1 Subtitle B—PROMISE 

2 Implementation Grants 

3 SEC. 211. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR4 IZED. 

5 (a) PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR6 IZED.—The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Jus7 tice and Delinquency Prevention is authorized to award 

8 grants to units of local government and Indian tribes to 

9 assist PROMISE Coordinating Councils with imple10 menting PROMISE Plans developed pursuant to subtitle 

11 A. 

12 (b) GRANT DURATION AND AMOUNT.— 

13 (1) DURATION.—A grant awarded under this 

14 subtitle shall be for a three-year period. 

15 (2) MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNT.—A grant 

16 awarded under this subtitle shall not be for more 

17 than $10,000,000 per year for each year of the 

18 grant period. 

19 (c) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS REQUIRED.—For each fis20 cal year during the three-year grant period for a grant 

21 under this subtitle, each unit of local government or In22 dian tribe receiving such a grant for a PROMISE Coordi23 nating Council shall provide, from non-Federal funds, in 

24 cash or in kind, 25 percent of the costs of the activities 

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1 (d) EVALUATION.—Of any funds provided to a unit 

2 of local government or an Indian tribe for a grant under 

3 this subtitle, not more than $100,000 shall be used to pro4 vide a contract to a competitively selected organization to 

5 assess the progress of the unit or tribe in addressing the 

6 unmet needs of youth in the community, in accordance 

7 with the performance measures under section 204(b)(7). 

8 SEC. 212. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT APPLICA9 TION REQUIREMENTS. 

10 (a) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—To be eligible to re11 ceive a PROMISE Implementation grant under this sub12 title, a unit of local government or Indian tribe that re13 ceived a PROMISE Assessment and Planning grant under 

14 subtitle A shall submit an application to the Administrator 

15 of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven16 tion not later than one year after the date such unit of 

17 local government or Indian tribe was awarded such grant 

18 under subtitle A, in such manner, and accompanied by 

19 such information, as the Administrator, after consultation 

20 with the organization under section 223(f)(1) of the Juve21 nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 

22 U.S.C. 5633(f)(1)), may require. 

23 (b) CONTENTS OF APPLICATION.—Each application 

24 submitted under subsection (a) shall— 


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1 (1) identify potential savings from criminal jus2 tice costs, public assistance costs, and other costs 

3 avoided by utilizing evidence-based and promising 

4 practices related to juvenile delinquency and crimi5 nal street gang activity prevention and intervention; 

6 (2) document— 

7 (A) investment in evidence-based and 

8 promising practices related to juvenile delin9 quency and criminal street gang activity preven10 tion and intervention to be provided by the unit 

11 of local government or Indian tribe; 

12 (B) the activities to be undertaken with 

13 the grants funds; 

14 (C) any expected efficiencies in the juvenile 

15 justice or other local systems to be attained as 

16 a result of implementation of the programs 

17 funded by the grant; and 

18 (D) outcomes from such activities, in 

19 terms of the expected numbers related to re20 duced criminal activity; 

21 (3) describe how savings sustained from invest22 ment in prevention and intervention practices will be 

23 reinvested in the continuing implementation of the 

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1 (4) provide an assurance that the local fiscal 

2 contribution with respect to evidence-based and 

3 promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 

4 and criminal street gang activity prevention and 

5 intervention in the community for which the PROM6 ISE Coordinating Council was established for each 

7 year of the grant period will not be less than the 

8 local fiscal contribution with respect to such prac9 tices in the community for the year preceding the 

10 first year of the grant period. 

11 SEC. 213. GRANT AWARD GUIDELINES. 

12 (a) SELECTION AND DISTRIBUTION.—Grants award13 ed under this subtitle shall be awarded on a competitive 

14 basis. The Administrator shall— 

15 (1) take such steps as may be necessary to en16 sure that grants are awarded to units of local gov17 ernments and Indian tribes in areas with the highest 

18 concentrations of youth who are— 

19 (A) at risk of involvement in juvenile delin20 quency or criminal street gang activity; and 

21 (B) involved in juvenile delinquency or 

22 street gang activity and who are at high-risk of 

23 continued involvement; and 

24 (2) give consideration to the need for grants to 

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1 tribes in each region of the United States, and 

2 among urban, suburban, and rural areas. 

3 (b) EXTENSION OF GRANT AWARD.—The Adminis4 trator may extend the grant period under section 

5 211(b)(1) for a PROMISE Implementation grant to a unit 

6 of local government or an Indian tribe, in accordance with 

7 regulations issued by the Administrator. 

8 (c) RENEWAL OF GRANT AWARD.—Subject to the 

9 availability of appropriations, the Administrator may 

10 renew a PROMISE Implementation grant to a unit of 

11 local government or an Indian tribe to provide such unit 

12 or tribe with additional funds to continue implementation 

13 of a PROMISE Plan. Such a renewal— 

14 (1) shall be initiated by an application for re15 newal from a unit of local government or an Indian 

16 tribe; 

17 (2) shall be carried out in accordance with reg18 ulations issued by the Administrator; and 

19 (3) shall not be granted unless the Adminis20 trator determines such a renewal to be appropriate 

21 based on the results of the evaluation conducted 

22 under section 223(a) with respect to the community 

23 of such unit or tribe for which a PROMISE Coordi24 nating Council was established, and for which such 

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1 SEC. 214. REPORTS. 

2 Not later than one year after the end of the grant 

3 period for which a unit of local government or an Indian 

4 tribe receives a PROMISE Implementation grant, and an5 nually thereafter for as long as such unit or tribe con6 tinues to receive Federal funding for a PROMISE Coordi7 nating Council, such unit or tribe shall report to the Ad8 ministrator regarding the use of Federal funds to imple9 ment the PROMISE Plan developed under subtitle A. 

10 SEC. 215. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

11 For fiscal years 2016 through 2020, of the amount 

12 made available under section 224 to carry out this Act 

13 for any fiscal year, not more than 75 percent shall be 

14 made available to carry out this subtitle. 

15 Subtitle C—General PROMISE 

16 Grant Provisions 

17 SEC. 221. NONSUPPLANTING CLAUSE. 

18 A unit of local government or Indian tribe receiving 

19 a grant under this title shall use such grant only to supple20 ment, and not supplant, the amount of funds that, in the 

21 absence of such grant, would be available to address the 

22 needs of youth in the community with respect to evidence23 based and promising practices related to juvenile delin24 quency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 

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1 SEC. 222. GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW PANEL. 

2 The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice 

3 and Delinquency Prevention, in conjunction with the 

4 PROMISE Advisory Panel, shall establish and utilize a 

5 transparent, reliable, and valid system for evaluating ap6 plications for PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants 

7 and for PROMISE Implementation grants, and shall de8 termine which applicants meet the criteria for funding, 

9 based primarily on a determination of greatest need (in 

10 accordance with section 102), with due consideration to 

11 other enumerated factors and the indicated ability of the 

12 applicant to successfully implement the program described 

13 in the application. 

14 SEC. 223. EVALUATION OF PROMISE GRANT PROGRAMS. 

15 (a) EVALUATION REQUIRED.—Subject to the avail16 ability of appropriations under this title, the Adminis17 trator shall, in consultation with the organization provided 

18 assistance under section 223(f)(1) of the Juvenile Justice 

19 and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 

20 5633(f)(1)), provide for an evaluation of the programs and 

21 activities carried out with grants under this title. In car22 rying out this section, the Administrator shall— 

23 (1) award grants to institutions of higher edu24 cation (including institutions that are eligible to re25 ceive funds under part F of title III of the Higher 

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1 to facilitate the evaluation process and measurement 

2 of achieved outcomes; 

3 (2) identify evidence-based and promising prac4 tices used by PROMISE Coordinating Councils 

5 under PROMISE Implementation grants that have 

6 proven to be effective in preventing involvement in, 

7 or diverting further involvement in, juvenile delin8 quency or criminal street gang activity; and 

9 (3) ensure— 

10 (A) that such evaluation is based on the 

11 performance standards that are developed by 

12 the PROMISE Advisory Panel in accordance 

13 with section 223(g) of the Juvenile Justice and 

14 Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (as added 

15 by section 101(b) of this Act); 

16 (B) the development of longitudinal and 

17 clinical trial evaluation and performance meas18 urements with regard to the evidence-based and 

19 promising practices funded under this title; and 

20 (C) the dissemination of the practices iden21 tified in paragraph (2) to the National Re22 search Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Prac23 tices (established under section 301), units of 

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1 tribes to prevent involvement in, or to divert 

2 further involvement in, juvenile delinquency or 

3 criminal street gang activity. 

4 (b) RESULTS TO THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER

5 FOR PROVEN JUVENILE JUSTICE PRACTICES.—The Ad6 ministrator shall provide the results of the evaluation 

7 under subsection (a) to the National Research Center for 

8 Proven Juvenile Justice Practices established under sec9 tion 301. 

10 SEC. 224. RESERVATION OF FUNDS. 

11 For fiscal years 2016 through 2020, not more than 

12 20 percent of the total amount appropriated to the Office 

13 of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to carry 

14 out Youth Mentoring Programs for each fiscal year shall 

15 be made available to carry out this Act. 

16 TITLE III—PROMISE RESEARCH 

17 CENTERS 

18 SEC. 301. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH 

19 CENTER FOR PROVEN JUVENILE JUSTICE 

20 PRACTICES. 

21 (a) CENTER ESTABLISHED.—Subject to the avail22 ability of appropriations, the Administrator shall award a 

23 grant to a nonprofit organization with a national reputa24 tion for expertise in operating or evaluating effective, evi25 dence-based practices related to juvenile delinquency and 


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1 criminal street gang activity prevention or intervention to 

2 develop a National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 

3 Justice Practices. Such Center shall— 

4 (1) collaborate with institutions of higher edu5 cation as regional partners to create a best practices 

6 juvenile justice information-sharing network to sup7 port the programs and activities carried out with 

8 grants under title II of this Act; 

9 (2) collect, and disseminate to PROMISE Co10 ordinating Councils, research and other information 

11 about evidence-based and promising practices related 

12 to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac13 tivity prevention and intervention to inform the ef14 forts of PROMISE Coordinating Councils and re15 gional research partners and to support the pro16 grams and activities carried out with grants under 

17 title II of this Act; 

18 (3) increase the public’s knowledge and under19 standing of effective juvenile justice practices to pre20 vent crime and delinquency and reduce recidivism; 

21 and 

22 (4) develop, manage, and regularly update a 

23 site to disseminate proven practices for successful 

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1 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Of the 

2 amount made available under section 224 to carry out this 

3 Act— 

4 (1) for fiscal year 2016, not more than 2.5 per5 cent of such amount shall be made available to carry 

6 out this section; and 

7 (2) for fiscal years 2017 through 2020, not 

8 more than four percent of such amount shall be 

9 made available to carry out this section. 

10 SEC. 302. GRANTS FOR REGIONAL RESEARCH PROVEN 

11 PRACTICES PARTNERSHIPS. 

12 (a) GRANT PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Adminis13 trator shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, 

14 establish a grant program to award grants to institutions 

15 of higher education to serve as regional research partners 

16 with PROMISE Coordinating Councils that are located in 

17 the same geographic region as an institution, in collabora18 tion with the National Research Center for Proven Juve19 nile Justice Practices authorized under section 301. Re20 gional research partners shall provide research support to 

21 such PROMISE Coordinating Councils, including— 

22 (1) assistance with preparing PROMISE grant 

23 applications under title II, including collection of 

24 baseline data for such applications; 


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1 (2) assistance with the needs and strengths as2 sessments conducted under section 203; and 

3 (3) provision of support services to PROMISE 

4 grant recipients for data collection and analysis to 

5 assess progress under the PROMISE grant. 

6 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Of the 

7 amount made available under section 224 to carry out this 

8 Act— 

9 (1) for fiscal year 2016, not more than 2.5 per10 cent of such amount shall be made available to carry 

11 out this section; and 

12 (2) for fiscal years 2017 through 2020, not 

13 more than four percent of such amount shall be 

14 made available to carry out this section. 

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