(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 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. 
(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. 
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(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 
30 years. In fiscal year 2012, Federal, State, and 
local 
governments 
spent 
an 
estimated 
$265,000,000,000 for police protection, corrections, 
and judicial and legal services, nearly a 213-percent 
increase since 1982. 
(7) Estimates suggest that each year the 
United States incurs over $8,000,000,000 in long- 
term costs for the confinement of young people. The 
average annual cost to incarcerate one youth is 
$146,302. 
(8) Coordinated efforts of stakeholders in the 
juvenile justice system in a local community, to-
gether with other organizations and community 
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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. 
(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. 
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(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., have been shown to reduce de-
linquency and the attendant costs imposed on the ju-
venile 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 estimated sav-
ings of $18,500,000,000 in crime-related expenses. 
(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. 
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(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 
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 
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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, Texas, and Pennsylvania, have seen a reduc-
tion in juvenile incarceration due to a reallocation of 
criminal justice funds towards prevention programs. 
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) 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 
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(2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(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 
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Panel, and make a record of any such appoint-
ments available to the public; and 
‘‘(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 
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‘‘(v) advising the President and Con-
gress with regard to State perspectives on 
the operation of the Office and Federal 
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— 
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