The initiative funds and partners with local agencies to provide support services and collaborations that reduce risk factors, increase protective factors, and offer alternative avenues to an improved quality of life for youth, families, and neighborhoods. New Generations is a juvenile delinquency prevention collaboration among residents of public housing in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury. The purpose of the program is to prevent juvenile delinquency, including crime, truancy, substance abuse, child abuse, and other socially destructive behaviors. Grants are awarded to neighborhood organizations, churches, and community agencies. Each neighborhood will have its own team of residents and program administrators that develops and implements prevention activities for individuals and families residing in the targeted area.
Corporate sponsors assist the neighborhood teams with administrative and financial support.
Held focus groups with nearly 200 youth, parents, and youth workers to get their opinions on issues including goals, school achievement, truancy, access to services, after-school, and home living situations. In the past three years, those programs have provided Adults Skills Training for 250 residents, Adult Education for 125 residents, and Alternative education for 100 youth who had dropped or were at-risk of dropping out of high school. Copyright 2000 City of Boston. All rights reserved.