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. 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; 
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(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; 
(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 
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(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 
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; 
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(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; 
(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-
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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 ac-
tivities and programs, youth mentoring programs, 
faith and community-based programs, summer ac-
tivities, 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. 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 
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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 
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; 
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(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; 
(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; 
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(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 
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: 
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(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 
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. 
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(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-
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. 
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SEC. 206. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Subject to the limitation under section 102(e), there 
are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2014, 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subtitle 
and section 102. 
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 
subtitle shall be for a three-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 three-year grant period for a grant 
under this subtitle, each unit of local government or In-
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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. 
(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-
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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— 
(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; 
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(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 
(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 highest 
concentrations of youth who are— 
(A) at-risk of involvement in juvenile delin-
quency or criminal street gang activity; and 
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(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. 
(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 
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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. 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 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-
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 2014 through 2016. 
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 
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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. 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 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 
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