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 are 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. 201. Purposes. 
Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants 
Sec. 202. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. 
Sec. 203. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. 
Sec. 204. Needs and strengths assessment. 
Sec. 205. PROMISE Plan components. 
Sec. 206. 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. Nonsupplanting clause. 
Sec. 222. Grant application review panel. 
Sec. 223. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs. 
Sec. 224. Reservation of funds. 
TITLE III—PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS 
Sec. 301. Establishment of the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 
Justice Practices. 
Sec. 302. Grants for regional research proven practices partnerships. 
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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.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘evidence- 
based’’, when used with respect to a practice re-
lating to juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity prevention and intervention, 
means a practice (including a service, program, 
activity, intervention, technology, or strategy) 
for which the Administrator has determined— 
(i) causal evidence documents a rela-
tionship between the practice and its in-
tended outcome, based on measures of the 
direction and size of a change, and the ex-
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tent to which a change may be attributed 
to the practice; and 
(ii) the use of scientific methods rules 
out, to the extent possible, alternative ex-
planations for the documented change. 
(B) SCIENTIFIC METHODS.—For the pur-
poses of subparagraph (A), the term ‘‘scientific 
methods’’ means— 
(i) evaluation by an experimental trial, 
in which participants are randomly as-
signed to participate in the practice that is 
subject to such trial; or 
(ii) evaluation by a quasi-experimental 
trial, in which the outcomes for partici-
pants are compared with outcomes for a 
control group that is made up of individ-
uals who are similar to such participants. 
(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 
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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-
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-
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tion and intervention, means a practice (including a 
service, program, activity, intervention, technology, 
or strategy) that, based on statistical analyses or a 
theory of change, the Administrator has deter-
mined— 
(A) has outcomes from an evaluation that 
demonstrate such practice reduces juvenile de-
linquency and criminal street gang activity; and 
(B) is part of a study being conducted to 
determine if such a practice is evidence-based. 
(8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, and any other territories or possessions of the 
United States. 
(9) THEORY OF CHANGE.—The term ‘‘theory of 
change’’ means a program planning strategy ap-
proved by the Administrator that outlines the types 
of interventions and outcomes essential to achieving 
a set of program goals. 
(10) YOUTH.—The term ‘‘youth’’ means— 
(A) an individual who is 18 years of age or 
younger; or 
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