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 
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. 
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(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, Texas, and Pennsylvania, have seen a reduc-
tion in juvenile incarceration due to a reallocation of 
criminal justice funds towards prevention programs. 
(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. 
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-
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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: 
‘‘(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 
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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 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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; 
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