(B) a quasi-experimental trial, in which the 
outcomes for participants are compared with 
outcomes for a control group that is made up 
of individuals who are similar to such partici-
pants. 
(5) INTERVENTION.—The term ‘‘intervention’’ 
means the provision of programs and services that 
are supported by research, are evidence-based or 
promising practices, and are provided to youth who 
are involved in, or who are identified by evidence- 
based risk assessment methods as being at high risk 
of continued involvement in, juvenile delinquency or 
criminal street gangs, as a result of indications that 
demonstrate involvement with problems such as tru-
ancy, substance abuse, mental health treatment 
needs, or siblings who have had involvement with ju-
venile or criminal justice systems. 
(6) JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY
AND
CRIMINAL 
STREET
GANG
ACTIVITY
PREVENTION.—The term 
‘‘juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activ-
ity prevention’’ means the provision of programs and 
resources to children and families who have not yet 
had substantial contact with criminal justice or juve-
nile justice systems, that— 
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(A) are designed to reduce potential juve-
nile delinquency and criminal street gang activ-
ity risks; and 
(B) are evidence-based or promising edu-
cational, health, mental health, school-based, 
community-based, faith-based, parenting, job 
training, social opportunities and experiences, 
or other programs, for youth and their families, 
that have been demonstrated to be effective in 
reducing juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity risks. 
(7) PROMISING.—The term ‘‘promising’’, when 
used with respect to a practice relating to juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity preven-
tion and intervention, means a practice that is not 
evidence-based, but— 
(A) that has outcomes from an evaluation 
that demonstrate that such practice reduces ju-
venile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity; and 
(B) about which a study is being con-
ducted to determine if such practice is evidence- 
based. 
(8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, the 
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, and any other territories or possessions of the 
United States. 
(9) YOUTH.—The term ‘‘youth’’ means— 
(A) an individual who is 18 years of age or 
younger; or 
(B) in any State in which the maximum 
age at which the juvenile justice system of such 
State has jurisdiction over individuals exceeds 
18 years of age, an individual who is such max-
imum age or younger. 
SEC. 4. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Youth gang crime has taken a toll on a 
number of urban communities, and senseless acts of 
gang-related violence have imposed economic, social, 
and human costs. 
(2) Drug- and alcohol-dependent youth, and 
youth dually diagnosed with addiction and mental 
health disorders, are more likely to become involved 
with the juvenile justice system than youth without 
such risk factors, absent appropriate prevention and 
intervention services. 
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(3) Children of color are over-represented rel-
ative to the general population at every stage of the 
juvenile justice system. Black youth are 17 percent 
of the United States population, but represent 38 
percent of youth in secure placement juvenile facili-
ties, and 58 percent of youth incarcerated in adult 
prisons. 
(4) Research funded by the Department of Jus-
tice indicates that gang-membership is short-lived 
among adolescents. With very few youth remaining 
gang-involved throughout their adolescent years, on-
going opportunities for intervention exist. 
(5) Criminal justice costs have become burden-
some in many States and cities, requiring reductions 
in vital educational, social, welfare, mental health, 
and related services. 
(6) Direct expenditures for each of the major 
criminal justice functions, police, corrections, and ju-
dicial services, have increased steadily over the last 
25 years. In fiscal year 2007, Federal, State, and 
local 
governments 
spent 
an 
estimated 
$228,000,000,000 for police protection, corrections, 
and judicial and legal services, a 65-percent increase 
since 1982. 
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(7) In 2009, State governments spent $5.7 bil-
lion dollars to incarcerate youth. The average annual 
cost to incarcerate one youth is $88,000. 
(8) Coordinated efforts of stakeholders in the 
juvenile justice system in a local community, to-
gether with other organizations and community 
members concerned with the safety and welfare of 
children, have a strong record of demonstrated suc-
cess in reducing the impact of youth and gang-re-
lated crime and violence, as demonstrated in Boston, 
Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, Richmond, Vir-
ginia, Los Angeles, California, and other commu-
nities. 
(9) Investment in prevention and intervention 
programs for children and youth, including quality 
early childhood programs, comprehensive evidence- 
based school, after school, and summer school pro-
grams, mentoring programs, mental health and 
treatment programs, evidence-based job training 
programs, and alternative intervention programs, 
has been shown to lead to decreased youth arrests, 
decreased delinquency, lower recidivism, and greater 
financial savings from an educational, economic, so-
cial, and criminal justice perspective. 
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(10) Quality early childhood education pro-
grams have been demonstrated to help children start 
school ready to learn and to reduce delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity risks. 
(11) Evidence-based mentoring programs have 
been shown to prevent youth drug abuse and vio-
lence. 
(12) Evidence-based school-based comprehen-
sive instructional programs that pair youth with re-
sponsible adult mentors have been shown to have a 
strong impact upon delinquency prevention. 
(13) After-school programs that connect chil-
dren to caring adults and that provide constructive 
activities during the peak hours of juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity, between 
3 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the afternoon, have been 
shown to reduce delinquency and the attendant costs 
imposed on the juvenile and criminal justice systems. 
(14) States with higher levels of educational at-
tainment have been shown to have crime rates lower 
than the national average. Researchers have found 
that a 5-percent increase in male high school grad-
uation rates would produce an annual savings of al-
most $5,000,000,000 in crime-related expenses. 
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(15) Therapeutic programs that engage and 
motivate high-risk youth and their families to 
change behaviors that often result in criminal activ-
ity have been shown to significantly reduce recidi-
vism among juvenile offenders, and significantly re-
duce the attendant costs of crime and delinquency 
imposed upon the juvenile and criminal justice sys-
tems. 
(16) Comprehensive programs that target kids 
who are already serious juvenile offenders by ad-
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 
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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. 
(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, and Pennsylvania, have seen a reduction in ju-
venile incarceration due to a reallocation of criminal 
justice funds towards prevention programs. (Justice 
Policy Institute, The Cost of Confinement, 2009). 
(23) The rise in homicides in several cities in 
recent years followed declines in Federal funding 
provided for law enforcement, educational, health 
and mental health, social services, and other support 
to localities for youth, their families, and other com-
munity-oriented programs and approaches. 
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TITLE I—FEDERAL COORDINA-
TION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL 
JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMA-
TION AND EFFORTS 
SEC. 101. 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) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(1) 
ORGANIZATION
OF
STATE
ADVISORY 
GROUP MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES.—The Adminis-
trator shall provide technical and financial assist-
ance to a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is 
described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986, to assist such organization in 
carrying out the functions specified in paragraph 
(2). To receive such assistance, an 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 
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‘‘(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; and 
‘‘(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 
subparagraphs (D) and (E) of paragraph (2), 
including serving on the PROMISE Advisory 
Panel, and make a record of any such appoint-
ments available to the public.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by amending subpara-
graph (D) to read as follows: 
‘‘(D) advising the Administrator with re-
spect to particular functions or aspects of the 
work of the Office, and appointing a represent-
ative, diverse group of members of such organi-
zation under paragraph (1) to serve as an advi-
sory panel of State juvenile justice advisors (re-
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ferred to as the ‘PROMISE Advisory Panel’) to 
carry out the functions specified in subsection 
(g); and’’. 
(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 who have experience in admin-
istering or evaluating practices that serve youth 
involved in, or at risk of involvement in, juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity, 
from which the Administrator shall select indi-
viduals who shall— 
‘‘(i) provide to the Administrator peer 
reviews of applications submitted by units 
of local government and Indian tribes pur-
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suant to title II of such Act, to ensure that 
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; 
‘‘(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— 
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‘‘(i) prevention of involvement by at- 
risk youth in juvenile delinquency or crimi-
nal street gang activity; 
‘‘(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; and 
‘‘(D) provide the Center for Youth-Ori-
ented Policing with a list of individuals the 
Panel recommends for membership on the 
Youth-Oriented 
Policing 
Services 
Advisory 
Board, pursuant to section 403(c) of the Youth 
PROMISE Act. 
‘‘(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 
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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 to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(1) There are authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this 
title for fiscal years 2013, 2014, and 2015.’’. 
SEC. 102. 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 are in need of resources to carry 
out juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention; 
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(3) use the data collected and analyzed under 
paragraph (1) to rank such areas in descending 
order by the amount of need for resources to carry 
out juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention, ranking the area 
with the greatest need for such resources highest; 
and 
(4) periodically update the list under paragraph 
(2) and the rankings under paragraph (3) as the 
Administrator determines to be appropriate. 
(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. 
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(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 
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 appropriated for fiscal year 
2013 to carry out this section and subtitle A of title II 
of this Act (as authorized under section 205), not more 
than one percent of such amount, or $1,000,000, which-
ever is less, shall be available to carry out this section. 
TITLE II—PROMISE GRANTS 
SEC. 201. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of the grant programs established 
under this title are to— 
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(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; 
(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. 
Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment 
and Planning Grants 
SEC. 202. 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 
Councils with planning and assessing evidence-based and 
promising practices relating to juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, 
especially for youth who are involved in, or who are at 
risk of involvement in, juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity. Such PROMISE Coordinating Coun-
cils shall— 
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(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. 
(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. 
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SEC. 203. 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 
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; 
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(J) a private juvenile residential care enti-
ty; 
(K) a local juvenile public defender’s office; 
(L) a State juvenile correctional entity; 
(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. 204. NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.—Each PROMISE Coordinating 
Council receiving funds from a unit of local government 
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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 
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), the estimated number of youth who are 
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tivities and programs, youth mentoring programs, 
faith and community-based programs, summer ac-
tivities, and summer jobs, if any; and 
(8) 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. 205. 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 
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needs and available resources of communities with 
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; 
(3) take into account the cultural and linguistic 
needs of the community; and 
(4) use approaches that have been shown to be 
effective at reducing the rates of juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity in commu-
nities. 
(b) MANDATORY COMPONENTS.—Each PROMISE 
Plan shall— 
(1) include a plan to connect youth identified in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 203(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-
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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; 
(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; 
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(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 
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 pre-natal and neo-natal health services), early 
childhood prevention, voluntary home visiting pro-
grams, nurse-family partnership programs, par-
enting and healthy relationship skills training, child 
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abuse prevention programs, Early Head Start, and 
Head Start. 
(2) Child protection and safety services (such as 
foster care and adoption assistance programs), fam-
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) Heath and mental health services, including 
cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and peer 
mentoring and counseling. 
(5) Substance abuse counseling and treatment 
services, including harm-reduction strategies. 
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(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-
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) Alternatives to detention and confinement 
programs (such as mandated participation in com-
munity service, restitution, counseling, and intensive 
individual and family therapeutic approaches). 
(10) Pre-release, post-release, and reentry serv-
ices to assist detained and incarcerated youth with 
transitioning back into and reentering the commu-
nity. 
SEC. 206. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Subject to the limitation under section 102(e), there 
are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013, 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subtitle 
and section 102. 
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Subtitle B—PROMISE 
Implementation Grants 
SEC. 211. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR-
IZED. 
(a) PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHOR-
IZED.—The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Jus-
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 
section shall be for a three-year period. 
(2) 
MAXIMUM
GRANT
AMOUNT.—A 
grant 
awarded under this section 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 three-year grant period for a grant 
under this subtitle, each unit of local government or In-
dian Tribe receiving such a grant for a PROMISE Coordi-
nating 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. 
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(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 
unmet needs of youth in the community, in accordance 
with the performance measures under section 204(b)(7). 
SEC. 212. 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 one 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 information, as the Administrator, after consultation 
with the organization under section 223(f)(1) of the Juve-
nile 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— 
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(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— 
(A) investment in evidence-based and 
promising practices related to juvenile delin-
quency and criminal street gang activity preven-
tion and intervention to be provided by the unit 
of local government or Indian Tribe; 
(B) the activities to be undertaken with 
the grants funds; 
(C) any expected efficiencies in the juvenile 
justice or other local systems to be attained as 
a result of implementation of the programs 
funded by the grant; and 
(D) outcomes from such activities, in 
terms of the expected numbers related to re-
duced criminal activity; 
(3) describe how savings sustained from invest-
ment in prevention and intervention practices will be 
reinvested in the continuing implementation of the 
PROMISE Plan; and 
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(4) provide an assurance that the local fiscal 
contribution with respect to evidence-based and 
promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention in the community for which the PROM-
ISE Coordinating Council was established for each 
year of the grant period will not be less than the 
local fiscal contribution with respect to such prac-
tices in the community for the year preceding the 
first year of the grant period. 
SEC. 213. 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 high-
est 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 
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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. 
(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 of Tribe for which a PROMISE Coordi-
nating Council was established, and for which such 
unit or Tribe is applying for renewal. 
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SEC. 214. REPORTS. 
Not later than one year after the end of the grant 
period for which a unit of local government or an Indian 
Tribe receives a PROMISE Implementation grant, and 
annually 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-
ministrator regarding the use of Federal funds to imple-
ment the PROMISE Plan developed under subtitle A. 
SEC. 215. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle such sums as may be necessary for each of 
the fiscal years 2013 through 2015. 
Subtitle C—General PROMISE 
Grant Provisions 
SEC. 221. 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. 
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SEC. 222. 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-
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. 223. 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 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 carrying out this sec-
tion, the Administrator shall— 
(1) award grants to institutions of higher edu-
cation (including institutions that are eligible to re-
ceive funds under part J of title IV of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (as amended by Public Law 
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110–84)) 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, or di-
verting further involvement in, juvenile delinquency 
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 
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