The coalitions also encourage citizen participation in substance abuse reduction efforts and disseminate information about effective programs. Information is also available through either office's clearinghouse. To be funded, local strategies must include plans for creating a safe school environment, youth alcohol and drug prevention, violence prevention, early intervention, school and community mental health preventive and treatment programs, early childhood psychosocial and emotional development, and safe school policies. The program emphasizes a comprehensive, collaborative approach of community mobilization, planning, and collaboration. JUMP uses mentoring as a tool to keep young people in schools and off the streets.
Mentors provide youth with discipline, guidance, and personal attention.
Mentoring activities include tutoring, job training, and community service. Information on these and other programs is published annually in the OJP Program Plan. OJP regularly invests in research and demonstration projects to support promising approaches to improving public safety. One key example is OJP's work to promote the concept of community justice, a new approach to criminal justice that applies the problem-solving ethic of community policing to the areas of prosecution, courts, and corrections. Funding for innovative projects may be available through BJA's Open Solicitation, or through other sources, which are published annually in the OJP Program Plan .