SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Youth Prison Reduc-
tion through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Sup-
port, and Education Act’’ or the ‘‘Youth PROMISE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Findings. 
TITLE I—FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL 
JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMATION AND EFFORTS 
Sec. 101. PROMISE Advisory Panel. 
Sec. 102. Geographic assessment of resource allocation. 
TITLE II—PROMISE GRANTS 
Sec. 200. Purposes. 
Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants 
Sec. 201. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. 
Sec. 202. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. 
Sec. 203. Needs and strengths assessment. 
Sec. 204. PROMISE Plan components. 
Sec. 205. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—PROMISE Implementation Grants 
Sec. 211. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized. 
Sec. 212. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements. 
Sec. 213. Grant award guidelines. 
Sec. 214. Reports. 
Sec. 215. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle C—General PROMISE Grant Provisions 
Sec. 221. Non-supplanting clause. 
Sec. 222. Grant application review panel. 
Sec. 223. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs. 
TITLE III—PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS 
Sec. 301. Establishment of National Center for Juvenile Justice Proven Prac-
tices Research. 
Sec. 302. Grants for Regional Research Proven Practices Partnerships. 
TITLE IV—YOUTH–ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
Sec. 401. Purpose. 
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Sec. 402. Grants to State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire 
and train youth-oriented policing officers. 
Sec. 403. Establishment of Center for Youth-Oriented Policing. 
Sec. 404. Definitions. 
Sec. 405. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO JUVENILE JUSTICE 
Sec. 501. Youth Victim and Witness Assistance Program. 
‘‘Sec. 31707. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 502. Reauthorization of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Office of Ju-
venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 
(2) 
COMMUNITY.—The 
term 
‘‘community’’ 
means a unit of local government or an Indian 
Tribe, or part of such a unit or Tribe, as determined 
by such a unit or Tribe for the purpose of applying 
for a grant under this Act. 
(3) DESIGNATED
GEOGRAPHIC
AREA.—The 
term ‘‘designated geographic area’’ means a 5-digit 
postal ZIP Code assigned to a geographic area by 
the United States Postal Service. 
(4) EVIDENCE-BASED.—The term ‘‘evidence- 
based’’, when used with respect to a practice relating 
to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention, means a practice 
(including a service, program, or strategy) that has 
statistically significant juvenile delinquency and 
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criminal street gang activity reduction outcomes 
when evaluated by— 
(A) an experimental trial, in which partici-
pants 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 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-
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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— 
(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; or 
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(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. 
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) The use of a wide range of evidence-based 
and promising programs, integrated into a youth-ori-
ented community system of care, has been dem-
onstrated to reduce youth violence, delinquency, and 
crime risks, as well as criminal justice, public assist-
ance, victim assistance, and other costs. 
(3) Coordinated efforts of stakeholders in the 
juvenile justice system in a local community, to-
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