dressing the multiple factors in peer, school, neigh-
borhood, and family environments known to be re-
lated to delinquency can reduce recidivism among ju-
venile offenders and save the public significant eco-
nomic costs. 
(17) There are many alternatives to incarcer-
ation of youth that have been proven to be more ef-
fective in reducing crime and violence at the Na-
tional, State, local, and tribal levels, and the failure 
to provide for such effective alternatives is a perva-
sive problem that leads to increased youth, and later 
adult, crime and violence. 
(18) Savings achieved through early interven-
tion and prevention are significant, especially when 
noncriminal 
justice 
social, 
educational, 
mental 
health, and economic outcomes are considered. 
(19) The prevention of child abuse and neglect 
can help stop a cycle of violence and save up to 
$5.00 for every $1.00 invested in preventing such 
abuse and neglect. 
(20) Targeting interventions at special youth 
risk groups and focusing upon relatively low-cost 
interventions increases the probability of fiscal ben-
efit. 
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(21) Evidence-based intervention treatment fa-
cilities have been shown to reduce youth delinquency 
and to be cost-effective. 
(22) States, including Wisconsin, Ohio, New 
York, Texas, and Pennsylvania, have seen a reduc-
tion in juvenile incarceration due to a reallocation of 
criminal justice funds towards prevention programs. 
CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL COORDINATION OF 
LOCAL AND TRIBAL JUVENILE JUS-
TICE INFORMATION AND EFFORTS 
SEC. 214. PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL. 
(a) ORGANIZATION
OF STATE ADVISORY GROUP 
MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES.—Section 223(f) of the Ju-
venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5633(f)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘an eligible 
organization composed of member representatives of 
the State advisory groups appointed under sub-
section (a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘a nonpartisan, non-
profit organization that is described in section 
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,’’; 
and 
(2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol-
lows: 
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‘‘(2) ASSISTANCE.—To be eligible to receive 
such assistance, such organization shall— 
‘‘(A) be governed by individuals who— 
‘‘(i) have been appointed by a chief 
executive of a State to serve as a State ad-
visory group member under subsection 
(a)(3); and 
‘‘(ii) are elected to serve as a gov-
erning officer of such organization by a 
majority of the Chairs (or Chair-designees) 
of all such State advisory groups; 
‘‘(B) include member representatives from 
a majority of such State advisory groups, who 
shall be representative of regionally and demo-
graphically diverse States and jurisdictions; 
‘‘(C) annually seek appointments by the 
chief executive of each State of one State advi-
sory group member and one alternate State ad-
visory group member from each such State to 
implement the advisory functions specified in 
clauses (iv) and (v) of subparagraph (D), in-
cluding serving on the PROMISE Advisory 
Panel, and make a record of any such appoint-
ments available to the public; and 
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‘‘(D) agree to carry out activities that in-
clude— 
‘‘(i) conducting an annual conference 
of such member representatives for pur-
poses relating to the activities of such 
State advisory groups; 
‘‘(ii) disseminating information, data, 
standards, advanced techniques, and pro-
gram models; 
‘‘(iii) reviewing Federal policies re-
garding juvenile justice and delinquency 
prevention; 
‘‘(iv) advising the Administrator with 
respect to particular functions or aspects 
of the work of the Office, and appointing 
a representative, diverse group of members 
of such organization under subparagraph 
(C) to serve as an advisory panel of State 
juvenile justice advisors (referred to as the 
‘PROMISE Advisory Panel’) to carry out 
the functions specified in subsection (g); 
and 
‘‘(v) advising the President and Con-
gress with regard to State perspectives on 
the operation of the Office and Federal 
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legislation pertaining to juvenile justice 
and delinquency prevention.’’. 
(b) PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL.—Section 223 of 
the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633) is further amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL.— 
‘‘(1) FUNCTIONS.—The PROMISE Advisory 
Panel required under subsection (f)(2)(D) shall— 
‘‘(A) assess successful evidence-based and 
promising practices related to juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity preven-
tion and intervention carried out by PROMISE 
Coordinating Councils under such Act; 
‘‘(B) provide the Administrator with a list 
of individuals and organizations with experience 
in administering or evaluating practices that 
serve youth involved in, or at risk of involve-
ment in, juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity, from which the Adminis-
trator shall select individuals who shall— 
‘‘(i) provide to the Administrator peer 
reviews of applications submitted by units 
of local government and Indian tribes pur-
suant to title II of such Act, to ensure that 
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such applications demonstrate a clear plan 
to— 
‘‘(I) serve youth as part of an en-
tire family unit; and 
‘‘(II) coordinate the delivery of 
service to youth among agencies; and 
‘‘(ii) advise the Administrator with re-
spect to the award and allocation of 
PROMISE Planning grants to local and 
tribal governments that develop PROMISE 
Coordinating Councils, and of PROMISE 
Implementation grants to such PROMISE 
Coordinating Councils, pursuant to title II 
of such Act; and 
‘‘(C) develop performance standards to be 
used to evaluate programs and activities carried 
out with grants under title II of the Youth 
PROMISE Act, including the evaluation of 
changes achieved as a result of such programs 
and activities related to decreases in juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity, 
including— 
‘‘(i) prevention of involvement by at- 
risk youth in juvenile delinquency or crimi-
nal street gang activity; 
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‘‘(ii) diversion of youth with a high 
risk of continuing involvement in juvenile 
delinquency or criminal street gang activ-
ity; and 
‘‘(iii) financial savings from deferred 
or eliminated costs, or other benefits, as a 
result of such programs and activities, and 
the reinvestment by the unit or tribe of 
any such savings. 
‘‘(2) ANNUAL
REPORT.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of the enactment of the Youth 
PROMISE Act, and annually thereafter, the PROM-
ISE Advisory Panel shall prepare a report con-
taining the findings and determinations under para-
graph (1)(A) and shall submit such report to Con-
gress, the President, the Attorney General, and the 
chief executive and chief law enforcement officer of 
each State, unit of local government, and Indian 
tribe.’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
299(a)(1) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5671(a)(1)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2016 through 2020’’. 
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SEC. 215. GEOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RESOURCE ALLO-
CATION. 
(a) GRANT FOR COLLECTION OF DATA TO DETER-
MINE NEED.—Subject to the availability of appropria-
tions, the Administrator shall award a grant, on a com-
petitive basis, to an organization to— 
(1) collect and analyze data related to the exist-
ing juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention needs and re-
sources in each designated geographic area; 
(2) use the data collected and analyzed under 
paragraph (1) to compile a list of designated geo-
graphic areas that have the most need of resources, 
based on such data, to carry out juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity prevention 
and intervention; 
(3) use the data collected and analyzed under 
paragraph (1) to rank the areas listed under para-
graph (2) in descending order by the amount of need 
for resources to carry out juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity prevention and inter-
vention, ranking the area with the greatest need for 
such resources highest; and 
(4) periodically update the list and rankings 
under paragraph (3) as the Administrator deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
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(b) DATA SOURCES.—In compiling such list and de-
termining such rankings, the organization shall collect and 
analyze data relating to juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity prevention and intervention— 
(1) using the geographic information system 
and Web-based mapping application known as the 
Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography 
(SMART) system; 
(2) from the Department of Health and Human 
Services, the Department of Labor, the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development, and the De-
partment of Education; and 
(3) from the annual KIDS Count Data Book 
and other data made available by the KIDS Count 
initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. 
(c) USE OF DATA BY THE ADMINISTRATOR.—The list 
and rankings required by this section shall be provided 
to the Administrator to be used to provide funds under 
this Act in the most strategic and effective manner to en-
sure that resources and services are provided to youth in 
the communities with the greatest need for such resources 
and services. 
(d) LIMITATION ON USE OF COLLECTED DATA.— 
The information collected and analyzed under this section 
may not be used for any purpose other than to carry out 
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the purposes of this Act. Such information may not be 
used for any purpose related to the investigation or pros-
ecution of any person, or for profiling of individuals based 
on race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or any other 
characteristic. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
AND LIMITATION
OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS.—Of the amount made available under section 
224 to carry out this Act— 
(1) for fiscal year 2016, not more than 5 per-
cent of such amount, or $1,000,000, whichever is 
less, shall be made available to carry out this sec-
tion; and 
(2) for fiscal years 2017 through 2020, not 
more than 2 percent of such amount, or $400,000, 
whichever is less, shall be made available to carry 
out this section. 
CHAPTER 2—PROMISE GRANTS 
SEC. 216. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of the grant programs established 
under this chapter are to— 
(1) enable local and tribal communities to as-
sess the unmet needs of youth who are involved in, 
or are at risk of involvement in, juvenile delinquency 
or criminal street gangs; 
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(2) develop plans appropriate for a community 
to address those unmet needs with juvenile delin-
quency and gang prevention and intervention prac-
tices; and 
(3) implement and evaluate such plans in a 
manner consistent with this Act. 
Subchapter A—PROMISE Assessment and 
Planning Grants 
SEC. 217. PROMISE ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING GRANTS 
AUTHORIZED. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Administrator is 
authorized to award grants to units of local government 
and Indian tribes to assist PROMISE Coordinating Coun-
cils with planning and assessing evidence-based and prom-
ising practices relating to juvenile delinquency and crimi-
nal street gang activity prevention and intervention, espe-
cially for youth who are involved in, or who are at risk 
of involvement in, juvenile delinquency and criminal street 
gang activity. Such PROMISE Coordinating Councils 
shall— 
(1) conduct an objective needs and strengths 
assessment in accordance with section 203; and 
(2) develop a PROMISE Plan in accordance 
with section 204, based on the assessment conducted 
in accordance with section 203. 
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(b) GRANT
DURATION, AMOUNT, AND
ALLOCA-
TION.— 
(1) DURATION.—A grant awarded under this 
section shall be for a period not to exceed one year. 
(2) 
MAXIMUM
GRANT
AMOUNT.—A 
grant 
awarded under this section shall not exceed 
$300,000. 
(c) ALLOCATION.— 
(1) MINIMUM
ALLOCATION.—Subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Administrator 
shall ensure that the total funds allocated under this 
section to units of local governments and Indian 
tribes in a State shall not be less than $1,000,000. 
(2) RATABLE
REDUCTION.—If the amount 
made available for grants under this section for any 
fiscal year is less than the amount required to pro-
vide the minimum allocation of funds under para-
graph (1) to units of local government and Indian 
tribes in each State, then the amount of such min-
imum allocation shall be ratably reduced. 
SEC. 218. PROMISE COORDINATING COUNCILS. 
To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, 
a unit of local government or an Indian tribe shall estab-
lish a PROMISE Coordinating Council for each commu-
nity of such unit or tribe, respectively, for which such unit 
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or tribe is applying for a grant under this subtitle. Each 
such community shall include one or more designated geo-
graphic areas identified on the list required under section 
102(a)(2). The members of such a PROMISE Coordi-
nating Council shall be representatives of public and pri-
vate sector entities and individuals that— 
(1) shall include, to the extent possible, at least 
one representative from each of the following: 
(A) the local chief executive’s office; 
(B) a local educational agency; 
(C) a local health agency or provider; 
(D) a local mental health agency or pro-
vider, unless the representative under subpara-
graph (C) also meets the requirements of this 
subparagraph; 
(E) a local public housing agency; 
(F) a local law enforcement agency; 
(G) a local child welfare agency; 
(H) a local juvenile court; 
(I) a local juvenile prosecutor’s office; 
(J) a private juvenile residential care enti-
ty; 
(K) a local juvenile public defender’s office; 
(L) a State juvenile correctional entity; 
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(M) a local business community represent-
ative; and 
(N) a local faith-based community rep-
resentative; 
(2) shall include two representatives from each 
of the following: 
(A) parents who have minor children, and 
who have an interest in the local juvenile or 
criminal justice systems; 
(B) youth between the ages of 15 and 24 
who reside in the jurisdiction of the unit or 
tribe; and 
(C) members from nonprofit community- 
based organizations that provide effective delin-
quency prevention and intervention to youth in 
the jurisdiction of the unit or tribe; and 
(3) may include other members, as the unit or 
tribe determines to be appropriate. 
SEC. 219. NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.—Each PROMISE Coordinating 
Council receiving funds from a unit of local government 
or Indian tribe under this subtitle shall conduct an objec-
tive strengths and needs assessment of the resources of 
the community for which such PROMISE Coordinating 
Council was established, to identify the unmet needs of 
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youth in the community with respect to evidence-based 
and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity prevention and interven-
tion. The PROMISE Coordinating Council shall consult 
with a research partner receiving a grant under section 
302 for assistance with such assessment. Such assessment 
shall include, with respect to the community for which 
such PROMISE Coordinating Council was established— 
(1) the number of youth who are at-risk of in-
volvement in juvenile delinquency or street gang ac-
tivity; 
(2) the number of youth who are involved in ju-
venile delinquency or criminal street gang activity, 
including the number of such youth who are at high 
risk of continued involvement; 
(3) youth unemployment rates during the sum-
mer; 
(4) the number of individuals on public finan-
cial assistance (including a breakdown of the num-
bers of men, women, and children on such assist-
ance); 
(5) the estimated number of youth who are 
chronically truant; 
(6) the number of youth who have dropped out 
of school in the previous year; 
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(7) for the year before such assessment, the es-
timated total amount expended (by the community 
and other entities) for the incarceration of offenders 
who were convicted or adjudicated delinquent for an 
offense that was committed in such community, in-
cluding amounts expended for the incarceration of 
offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities that 
are located in the United States but are not located 
in such community; 
(8) a comparison of the amount under para-
graph (7) with an estimation of the amount that 
would be expended for the incarceration of offenders 
described in such paragraph if the number of offend-
ers described in such paragraph was equal to the na-
tional average incarceration rate per 100,000 popu-
lation; and 
(9) a description of evidence-based and prom-
ising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity prevention available for 
youth in the community, including school-based pro-
grams, after school programs (particularly programs 
that have activities available for youth between 3 
p.m. and 6 p.m. in the afternoon), weekend activities 
and programs, youth mentoring programs, faith and 
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community-based programs, summer activities, and 
summer jobs, if any; and 
(10) a description of evidence-based and prom-
ising intervention practices available for youth in the 
community. 
(b) LIMITATION ON USE OF ASSESSMENT INFORMA-
TION.—Information gathered pursuant to this section may 
be used for the sole purpose of developing a PROMISE 
Plan in accordance with this subtitle. 
SEC. 220. PROMISE PLAN COMPONENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each PROMISE Coordinating 
Council receiving funds from a unit of local government 
or Indian tribe under this subtitle shall develop a PROM-
ISE Plan to provide for the coordination of, and, as appro-
priate, to support the delivery of, evidence-based and 
promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention 
to youth and families who reside in the community for 
which such PROMISE Coordinating Council was estab-
lished. Such a PROMISE Plan shall— 
(1) include the strategy by which the PROM-
ISE Coordinating Council plans to prioritize and al-
locate resources and services toward the unmet 
needs of youth in the community, consistent with the 
needs and available resources of communities with 
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the greatest need for assistance, as determined pur-
suant to section 102; 
(2) include a combination of evidence-based and 
promising prevention and intervention practices that 
are responsive to the needs of the community; and 
(3) ensure that cultural and linguistic needs of 
the community are met. 
(b) MANDATORY COMPONENTS.—Each PROMISE 
Plan shall— 
(1) include a plan to connect youth identified in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 204(a) to evi-
dence-based and promising practices related to juve-
nile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 
prevention and intervention; 
(2) identify the amount or percentage of local 
funds that are available to the PROMISE Coordi-
nating Council to carry out the PROMISE Plan; 
(3) provide strategies to improve indigent de-
fense delivery systems, with particular attention 
given to groups of children who are disproportion-
ately represented in the State delinquency system 
and Federal criminal justice system, as compared to 
the representation of such groups in the general 
population of the State; 
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(4) provide for training (which complies with 
the American Bar Association Juvenile Justice 
Standards for the representation and care of youth 
in the juvenile justice system) of prosecutors, de-
fenders, probation officers, judges and other court 
personnel related to issues concerning the develop-
mental needs, challenges, and potential of youth in 
the juvenile justice system (including training re-
lated to adolescent development and mental health 
issues, and the expected impact of evidence-based 
practices and cost reduction strategies); 
(5) ensure that the number of youth involved in 
the juvenile delinquency and criminal justice systems 
does not increase as a result of the activities under-
taken with the funds provided under this subtitle; 
(6) describe the coordinated strategy that will 
be used by the PROMISE Coordinating Council to 
provide at-risk youth with evidence-based and prom-
ising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity prevention and inter-
vention; 
(7) propose the performance evaluation process 
to be used to carry out section 211(d), which shall 
include performance measures to assess efforts to 
address the unmet needs of youth in the community 
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with evidence-based and promising practices related 
to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention; and 
(8) identify the research partner the PROMISE 
Coordinating Council will use to obtain information 
on evidence-based and promising practices related to 
juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activ-
ity prevention and intervention, and for the evalua-
tion under section 211(d) of the results of the activi-
ties carried out with funds under this subtitle. 
(c) VOLUNTARY COMPONENTS.—In addition to the 
components under subsection (b), a PROMISE Plan may 
include evidence-based or promising practices related to 
juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity pre-
vention and intervention in the following categories: 
(1) Early childhood development services (such 
as prenatal and neonatal health services), early 
childhood prevention, voluntary home visiting pro-
grams, nurse-family partnership programs, par-
enting and healthy relationship skills training, child 
abuse prevention programs, Early Head Start, and 
Head Start. 
(2) Child protection and safety services (such as 
foster care and adoption assistance programs), fam-
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ily stabilization programs, child welfare services, and 
family violence intervention programs. 
(3) Youth and adolescent development services, 
including job training and apprenticeship programs, 
job placement and retention training, education and 
after school programs (such as school programs with 
shared governance by students, teachers, and par-
ents, and activities for youth between the hours of 
3 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the afternoon), mentoring pro-
grams, conflict resolution skills training, sports, 
arts, life skills, employment and recreation pro-
grams, summer jobs, and summer recreation pro-
grams, and alternative school resources for youth 
who have dropped out of school or demonstrate 
chronic truancy. 
(4) Health and mental health services, includ-
ing cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and 
peer mentoring and counseling. 
(5) Substance abuse counseling and treatment 
services, including harm-reduction strategies. 
(6) Emergency, transitional, and permanent 
housing assistance (such as safe shelter and housing 
for runaway and homeless youth). 
(7) Targeted gang prevention, intervention, and 
exit services such as tattoo removal, successful mod-
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els of anti-gang crime outreach programs (such as 
‘‘street worker’’ programs), and other criminal street 
gang truce or peacemaking activities. 
(8) Training and education programs for preg-
nant teens and teen parents. 
(9) Restorative justice programs. 
(10) Alternatives to detention and confinement 
programs (such as mandated participation in com-
munity service, restitution, counseling, and intensive 
individual and family therapeutic approaches). 
(11) Prerelease, postrelease, and reentry serv-
ices to assist detained and incarcerated youth with 
transitioning back into and reentering the commu-
nity. 
SEC. 221. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For fiscal years 2016 through 2020, of the amount 
made available under section 224 to carry out this Act 
for any fiscal year, not more than 15 percent shall be 
made available to carry out this subtitle. 
Subchapter B—PROMISE Implementation 
Grants 
SEC. 222. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR-
IZED. 
(a) PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR-
IZED.—The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Jus-
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tice and Delinquency Prevention is authorized to award 
grants to units of local government and Indian tribes to 
assist PROMISE Coordinating Councils with imple-
menting PROMISE Plans developed pursuant to subtitle 
A. 
(b) GRANT DURATION AND AMOUNT.— 
(1) DURATION.—A grant awarded under this 
subtitle shall be for a 3-year period. 
(2) 
MAXIMUM
GRANT
AMOUNT.—A 
grant 
awarded under this subtitle shall not be for more 
than $10,000,000 per year for each year of the 
grant period. 
(c) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS REQUIRED.—For each fis-
cal year during the 3-year grant period for a grant under 
this subtitle, each unit of local government or Indian tribe 
receiving such a grant for a PROMISE Coordinating 
Council shall provide, from non-Federal funds, in cash or 
in kind, 25 percent of the costs of the activities carried 
out with such grant. 
(d) EVALUATION.—Of any funds provided to a unit 
of local government or an Indian tribe for a grant under 
this subtitle, not more than $100,000 shall be used to pro-
vide a contract to a competitively selected organization to 
assess the progress of the unit or tribe in addressing the 
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unmet needs of youth in the community, in accordance 
with the performance measures under section 204(b)(7). 
SEC. 223. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT APPLICA-
TION REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a PROMISE Implementation grant under this sub-
title, a unit of local government or Indian tribe that re-
ceived a PROMISE Assessment and Planning grant under 
subtitle A shall submit an application to the Administrator 
of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion not later than 1 year after the date such unit of local 
government or Indian tribe was awarded such grant under 
subtitle A, in such manner, and accompanied by such in-
formation, as the Administrator, after consultation with 
the organization under section 223(f)(1) of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5633(f)(1)), may require. 
(b) CONTENTS OF APPLICATION.—Each application 
submitted under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) identify potential savings from criminal jus-
tice costs, public assistance costs, and other costs 
avoided by utilizing evidence-based and promising 
practices related to juvenile delinquency and crimi-
nal street gang activity prevention and intervention; 
(2) document— 
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local fiscal contribution with respect to such prac-
tices in the community for the year preceding the 
first year of the grant period. 
SEC. 224. GRANT AWARD GUIDELINES. 
(a) SELECTION AND DISTRIBUTION.—Grants award-
ed under this subtitle shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis. The Administrator shall— 
(1) take such steps as may be necessary to en-
sure that grants are awarded to units of local gov-
ernments and Indian tribes in areas with the highest 
concentrations of youth who are— 
(A) at risk of involvement in juvenile delin-
quency or criminal street gang activity; and 
(B) involved in juvenile delinquency or 
street gang activity and who are at high-risk of 
continued involvement; and 
(2) give consideration to the need for grants to 
be awarded to units of local governments and Indian 
tribes in each region of the United States, and 
among urban, suburban, and rural areas. 
(b) EXTENSION OF GRANT AWARD.—The Adminis-
trator may extend the grant period under section 
211(b)(1) for a PROMISE Implementation grant to a unit 
of local government or an Indian tribe, in accordance with 
regulations issued by the Administrator. 
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(c) RENEWAL OF GRANT AWARD.—Subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Administrator may 
renew a PROMISE Implementation grant to a unit of 
local government or an Indian tribe to provide such unit 
or tribe with additional funds to continue implementation 
of a PROMISE Plan. Such a renewal— 
(1) shall be initiated by an application for re-
newal from a unit of local government or an Indian 
tribe; 
(2) shall be carried out in accordance with reg-
ulations issued by the Administrator; and 
(3) shall not be granted unless the Adminis-
trator determines such a renewal to be appropriate 
based on the results of the evaluation conducted 
under section 223(a) with respect to the community 
of such unit or tribe for which a PROMISE Coordi-
nating Council was established, and for which such 
unit or tribe is applying for renewal. 
SEC. 225. REPORTS. 
Not later than 1 year after the end of the grant pe-
riod for which a unit of local government or an Indian 
tribe receives a PROMISE Implementation grant, and an-
nually thereafter for as long as such unit or tribe con-
tinues to receive Federal funding for a PROMISE Coordi-
nating Council, such unit or tribe shall report to the Ad-
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ministrator regarding the use of Federal funds to imple-
ment the PROMISE Plan developed under subtitle A. 
SEC. 226. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For fiscal years 2016 through 2020, of the amount 
made available under section 224 to carry out this Act 
for any fiscal year, not more than 75 percent shall be 
made available to carry out this subtitle. 
Subchapter C—General PROMISE Grant 
Provisions 
SEC. 227. NONSUPPLANTING CLAUSE. 
A unit of local government or Indian tribe receiving 
a grant under this title shall use such grant only to supple-
ment, and not supplant, the amount of funds that, in the 
absence of such grant, would be available to address the 
needs of youth in the community with respect to evidence- 
based and promising practices related to juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention. 
SEC. 228. GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW PANEL. 
The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention, in conjunction with the 
PROMISE Advisory Panel, shall establish and utilize a 
transparent, reliable, and valid system for evaluating ap-
plications for PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants 
and for PROMISE Implementation grants, and shall de-
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termine which applicants meet the criteria for funding, 
based primarily on a determination of greatest need (in 
accordance with section 102), with due consideration to 
other enumerated factors and the indicated ability of the 
applicant to successfully implement the program described 
in the application. 
SEC. 229. EVALUATION OF PROMISE GRANT PROGRAMS. 
(a) EVALUATION REQUIRED.—Subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations under this title, the Adminis-
trator shall, in consultation with the organization provided 
assistance under section 223(f)(1) of the Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5633(f)(1)), provide for an evaluation of the programs and 
activities carried out with grants under this title. In car-
rying out this section, the Administrator shall— 
(1) award grants to institutions of higher edu-
cation (including institutions that are eligible to re-
ceive funds under part F of title III of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067q et seq.)), 
to facilitate the evaluation process and measurement 
of achieved outcomes; 
(2) identify evidence-based and promising prac-
tices used by PROMISE Coordinating Councils 
under PROMISE Implementation grants that have 
proven to be effective in preventing involvement in, 
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or diverting further involvement in, juvenile delin-
quency or criminal street gang activity; and 
(3) ensure— 
(A) that such evaluation is based on the 
performance standards that are developed by 
the PROMISE Advisory Panel in accordance 
with section 223(g) of the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (as added 
by section 101(b) of this Act); 
(B) the development of longitudinal and 
clinical trial evaluation and performance meas-
urements with regard to the evidence-based and 
promising practices funded under this title; and 
(C) the dissemination of the practices iden-
tified in paragraph (2) to the National Re-
search Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Prac-
tices (established under section 301), units of 
local government, and Indian tribes to promote 
the use of such practices by such units and 
tribes to prevent involvement in, or to divert 
further involvement in, juvenile delinquency or 
criminal street gang activity. 
(b) RESULTS TO THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER 
FOR PROVEN JUVENILE JUSTICE PRACTICES.—The Ad-
ministrator shall provide the results of the evaluation 
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