‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—For the purposes of this 
section, an ‘eligible entity’ means a community-based gang 
intervention agency that is a nonprofit organization with 
a proven track record and reputation for expertise in pro-
viding community-based gang intervention activities 
through a community-based gang intervention model, as 
defined in section 603. 
‘‘(c) GRANT ACTIVITIES.—Each entity awarded a 
grant under this section shall carry out the following: 
‘‘(1) Conduct street mediation, by working with 
gang members and persons with influence over such 
member to defuse and de-escalate potential and ac-
tual violence internally between gang members and 
between rival gangs. 
‘‘(2) Develop local and regional truces, by cre-
ating cease-fires or non-aggression agreements be-
tween rival gangs and neighborhoods. 
‘‘(3) Serve as conduits who facilitate constant 
dialogue and maintenance between gangs and neigh-
borhoods. 
‘‘(4) Provide services that respond to the high 
levels of anxiety experienced by gang members to de-
compress critical situations due to traumatic events. 
‘‘(5) Provide 24-hour, 7-day-a-week crisis inter-
vention services by responding to requests for vio-
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lence prevention services made by gang members, 
gang member’s family, school officials, intervention 
workers, social service agencies, or law enforcement. 
‘‘(6) Provide targeted training and technical as-
sistance to violence plagued communities after a 
major gang-related incident occurs. 
‘‘(7) Facilitate the development of a community 
response plan, including training protocols, situa-
tional scene scenarios, and emergency response. 
‘‘(8) Make a reasonable effort to prevent gang- 
related rumors from intensifying tension between 
gangs or igniting violent responses by gangs. 
‘‘(9) Establish relationships with community 
stakeholders to inform and engage them in quality- 
of-life activities that enhance intervention activities. 
‘‘(10) Serve as intervention representatives in 
communities by attending local meetings involving 
non-profit organizations, schools, faith-based organi-
zations, and other entities. 
‘‘(11) Develop conflict resolution skills and 
techniques to address and resolve community con-
cerns related to gang activity in order to improve the 
quality of life within neighborhoods. 
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‘‘(12) Work with schools to respond to gang-re-
lated issues and crises both within and outside 
school. 
‘‘(13) Provide support services for youth and 
families affected by gang violence and other victims 
of gang violence (including any individual who is 
physically, emotionally, financially, or otherwise 
harmed by criminal activity, and those affected by 
harm done to or by a family member), which may 
include— 
‘‘(A) advocating for public sector and pri-
vate sector assistance and services; 
‘‘(B) grief counseling; and 
‘‘(C) referrals to treatment and rehabilita-
tion for cognitive, mental, emotional, physical, 
or financial injury, loss, or suffering. 
‘‘(14) Provide comprehensive mental health 
services to youth and families affected by gang vio-
lence or involvement, including— 
‘‘(A) integrated services comprised of indi-
vidual, family, and group therapy modalities, 
and psychological education provided through 
youth and parent training programs; and 
‘‘(B) gang-responsive services including 
skills training, assessing for, and servicing, 
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youth with developmental disabilities, behavioral 
modification, and services to address substance 
use and abuse, anger management, emotional 
regulation, traumatic stress, family violence, de-
pression, suicide, anxiety, and educational prob-
lems. 
‘‘(15) Provide public and private sector career 
job training, development, and placement, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(A) job-finding and job-maintaining skills, 
including skills related to resume writing, inter-
viewing, workplace decorum, interpersonal com-
munication, and problem-solving; 
‘‘(B) information about legal rights in the 
workplace; and 
‘‘(C) financial literacy, and assisting. 
‘‘(16) Assist with substance use and abuse 
treatment, and domestic violence victims, and vol-
untary tattoo removal of markings on the body re-
lated to gang involvement. 
‘‘(d) AVAILABILITY OF VICTIMS ASSISTANCE.—An 
entity awarded a grant under this section shall provide 
victim assistance under paragraph (13) of subsection (c) 
to any individual who meets the qualifications of such 
paragraph regardless of the background of the individual, 
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and shall not discriminate in the provision of such assist-
ance based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, 
socioeconomic level, or past record. 
‘‘SEC. 603. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this title: 
‘‘(1) 
COMMUNITY.—The 
term 
‘community’ 
means a unit of local government or an Indian 
Tribe. 
‘‘(2) 
COMMUNITY-BASED
GANG
INTERVEN-
TION.—Except when used as part of the term ‘com-
munity-based gang intervention agency’ or ‘commu-
nity-based gang intervention model’, the term ‘com-
munity-based gang intervention’ means a two-prong 
approach to reducing gang violence that provides— 
‘‘(A) specialized, gang-specific mediation 
and mitigation to stop or prevent violence by, 
within, and between gangs; and 
‘‘(B) the redirection of individual gang 
members and their families through proactive 
efforts that increase peace and safety for gang 
members, their families, and their communities. 
‘‘(3) COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTERVENTION 
AGENCY.—The term ‘community-based gang inter-
vention agency’ means a community-based organiza-
tion, association, or other entity that— 
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‘‘(A) promotes public safety, with the spe-
cific objective of reducing and stopping gang-re-
lated and gang-motivated violence and crime; 
and 
‘‘(B) has a history of, or experience or spe-
cific training in, effectively working with gang- 
involved youth and their families. 
‘‘(4) COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTERVENTION 
MODEL.—The term ‘community-based gang inter-
vention model’ means a holistic and comprehensive 
two-prong approach to reducing gang violence and 
an integrated approach of providing rehabilitative 
service delivery to gang involved youth that— 
‘‘(A) deploys community-based gang inter-
vention specialists who are trained in the two- 
prong approach and who intercede, interact, 
and participate with and in into the community 
to quell rumors, prevent and mediate conflicts, 
and respond to crises related to gang activity 
and violence; 
‘‘(B) delivers rehabilitative services to 
gang-involved individuals and families; and 
‘‘(C) addresses the barriers that gang-in-
volved youth and their families encounter and 
the societal factors that promote gang violence. 
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‘‘(5) EVIDENCE-BASED.—The term ‘evidence- 
based’, when used with respect to a practice relating 
to gang activity prevention and intervention (includ-
ing community-based gang intervention), means a 
practice (including a service, program, or strategy) 
that has statistically significant outcomes that in-
clude a reduction in gang-related violence and an in-
creased number of youth in job development, recre-
ation, arts-based activities, or faith-based activities. 
Such outcomes may be determined by— 
‘‘(A) an experimental trial, in which par-
ticipants are randomly assigned to participate 
in the practice that is the subject of the trial; 
or 
‘‘(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 par-
ticipants. 
‘‘(6) GANG.—The term ‘gang’ means a group of 
individuals— 
‘‘(A) organized by geography, culture, or 
activity; 
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‘‘(B) that have a group name, and may 
have other identifying characteristics of the 
group such as colors and nicknames; and 
‘‘(C) who engage in the use of violence to 
defend the members or territory of the group. 
‘‘(7) PROMISING.—The term ‘promising’, when 
used with respect to a practice relating to commu-
nity-based gang intervention, means a practice that 
is not evidence-based, but— 
‘‘(A) that has outcomes from an evaluation 
that demonstrate that such practice reduces 
gang-related violence and crime; or 
‘‘(B) about which a study is being con-
ducted to determine if such practice is evidence- 
based. 
‘‘(8) 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.’’. 
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TITLE II—AMENDMENTS TO THE 
OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUS-
TICE 
AND 
DELINQUENCY 
PREVENTION 
SEC. 201. DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTER-
VENTION. 
Section 103 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5603) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (28), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (29), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(30) COMMUNITY-BASED
GANG
INTERVEN-
TION.—Except when used as part of the term ‘com-
munity-based gang intervention agency’ or ‘commu-
nity-based gang intervention model’, the term ‘com-
munity-based gang intervention’ means a two-prong 
approach to reducing gang violence that provides— 
‘‘(A) specialized, gang-specific mediation 
and mitigation to stop or prevent violence by, 
within, and between gangs; and 
‘‘(B) the redirection of individual gang 
members and their families through proactive 
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efforts that increase peace and safety for gang 
members, their families, and their commu-
nities.’’. 
SEC. 202. COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTERVENTION REP-
RESENTATIVE TO STATE ADVISORY BOARDS. 
Section 223(a)(3)(ii) of the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency 
Prevention 
Act 
of 
1974 
(42 
U.S.C. 
5633(a)(3)(ii)) is amended— 
(1) in subclause (III), by inserting ‘‘, commu-
nity-based gang intervention,’’ after ‘‘delinquency 
prevention’’; and 
(2) in subclause (IV), by inserting ‘‘community- 
based gang intervention,’’ after ‘‘prevention and 
treatment,’’. 
SEC. 203. GRANTS FOR DELINQUENCY PREVENTION PRO-
GRAMS. 
Section 504 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5783) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and 
(8) as paragraphs (8) and (9), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (6) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) community-based gang intervention and 
prevention activities;’’; and 
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(2) in subsection (c)(2), by inserting ‘‘and com-
munity-based gang intervention’’ before ‘‘activities;’’. 
Æ 
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