vided for by the Communities in Action Center of 
the community that are available to gang members 
and other at-risk youth and their families, including 
substance abuse prevention and treatment services, 
mental health and psychological counseling services, 
job training services, and educational and rec-
reational opportunities. 
(b) AT-RISK YOUTH DEFINED.—For purposes of this 
Act, the term ‘‘at-risk youth’’ means teens and other 
youth who are exposed to high levels of crime, sex, drug 
abuse, gangs, or other risky behavior in daily reactions 
with their family, their school, or communities in high 
crime areas. 
SEC. 7. CAN DO STREET MENTORING PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each community that receives a 
grant under section 3(a) shall establish and maintain a 
CAN DO Street Mentoring Program (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘Street Mentoring Program’’) under which 
members of the community shall serve as street mentors 
who act as liaisons between the law enforcement agencies 
of the community and other appropriate entities and the 
members of the community who are gang members or 
other at-risk youth (as defined in section 6(b)), in accord-
ance with this section. 
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(b) LOCATION AND AVAILABILITY OF STREET MEN-
TORING PROGRAM SERVICES.—Services provided through 
the Street Mentoring Program of a community shall be 
carried out at a Street Mentoring Program center that 
is centrally located in the community. Such services may 
also be made available through schools, churches, commu-
nity agencies, local colleges and universities. Services pro-
vided at such center shall be provided in such a manner 
that staff members will be available 24 hours a day to 
conduct gang and youth outreach. 
(c) STREET MENTORS.— 
(1) ELIGIBILITY.—Street mentors shall be 
members of the community involved who are at least 
18 years of age. 
(2) DUTIES.—Street mentors, with respect to a 
community, shall perform the following duties: 
(A) Work closely with gang members in 
the community to mediate disputes and gang 
truces in schools and throughout the commu-
nity. 
(B) Assist gang members and their fami-
lies to gain access to social services available in 
the community, especially such services made 
available by the Communities in Action Center 
of the community. 
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(C) Be assigned to active street mentoring 
cases. 
(D) Work closely with the local law en-
forcement agencies, probation agencies, clergy, 
courts, schools, and health and mental health 
agencies and providers. 
(E) Provide a critical non-traditional com-
munity outreach approach to help reduce crime. 
(F) Invite gang members in the community 
to meetings described in section 5(a)(3) with 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agen-
cies. 
(G) Inform gang members in the commu-
nity of the consequences of continued violence. 
(H) Refer at-risk youth and their families 
to the CAN DO Center established under sec-
tion 4(a), or directly to the appropriate service 
administered by such center, as appropriate, to 
receive information about and access to drug 
prevention and treatment services, mental 
health and psychological services, job training 
and employment services, and educational and 
recreational opportunities provided by the CAN 
DO Services Providers Network under section 
8. 
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(I) Provide training for the Strategy 
Group under section 5 on ways to develop effec-
tive relationships with at-risk youth and gangs. 
SEC. 8. CAN DO SERVICES PROVIDERS NETWORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each community that receives a 
grant under section 3(a) shall establish and maintain a 
CAN DO Services Providers Network (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Providers Network’’ that provides the 
community with the mental health services network under 
subsection (b), the summer of opportunity job training 
and placement program under subsection (c), and the edu-
cational and recreational alternatives to violence program 
under subsection (d). The central location for information 
about access to services and programs provided for by the 
Providers Network shall be the CAN DO Center for the 
community established under section 4(a). 
(b) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES NETWORK.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The mental health services 
network under this subsection is a comprehensive 
network of mental health prevention and interven-
tion services and family support services to improve 
and expand the access of gang members and other 
at-risk youth (as defined in section 6(b)) and the 
families of such members and youth who reside in 
the community to such services, which shall include 
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the services and programs described in paragraph 
(2). The CAN DO Program Board of the commu-
nity, established under section 4(c), shall enter into 
agreements with local educational agencies, insti-
tutes of higher education, community-based centers, 
State agencies, faith-based organizations, and pri-
vate nonprofit mental health, mentoring, and psy-
chological counseling agencies, as appropriate, to co-
ordinate and provide such services and programs. 
(2) SERVICES
AND
PROGRAMS.—The services 
and programs described in this paragraph, with re-
spect to a community, include the following: 
(A) Community outreach and education to 
inform the community about the availability of 
services and activities under this subsection. 
(B) Training and professional development 
services for law enforcement personnel, edu-
cational personnel, and other appropriate per-
sonnel who work with at-risk youth. 
(C) Family and community programs to 
prevent and reduce the participation of juve-
niles in gangs. 
(D) Treatment programs for gang mem-
bers and other at-risk youth who are victims of 
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child abuse or neglect and for the families of 
such youth. 
(E) Mentoring programs for gang mem-
bers and other at-risk youth. 
(F) Mental health services that are avail-
able 24-hours a day and 7 days a week to gang 
members and at-risk youth in the community. 
(G) Community outreach and education 
about the programs available under the CAN 
DO Services Providers Network for gang mem-
bers and other at-risk youth and their families. 
(H) Family-based, school-based, and com-
munity-based anti-violence and anti-drug pro-
grams to educate youth and their families about 
the dangers of violence and drugs. 
(I) Drug treatment programs and dem-
onstration programs to reduce the use of alco-
hol and other drugs. 
(J) Partnerships between the CAN DO 
Program Board and local educational agencies 
to improve school-based mental health pro-
motion, prevention, and intervention services 
and to hire student service providers as needed, 
including school counselors, school psycholo-
gists, or other qualified psychologists, child or 
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adolescent psychiatrists, and school social work-
ers insofar as such additional personnel are to 
support the goal of increasing the availability of 
mental health services in the school involved. 
(K) A peer support counseling program. 
(L) Partnerships between a State, county, 
or local mental health authority and one or 
more local public or private entities to provide 
violence-prevention education, mentoring, coun-
seling, and mental health services to gang mem-
bers and other at-risk youth in the community. 
(M) Community-based efforts to coordinate 
educational, developmental, family, health, and 
other comprehensive services through commu-
nity-based organizations and public and private 
partnerships. 
(N) Partnerships between the CAN DO 
Program Board and psychology departments 
that can provide promotion, prevention, and 
intervention services related to the reduction of 
community gun violence, including through doc-
toral training programs. 
(c) SUMMER OF OPPORTUNITY JOB TRAINING AND 
PLACEMENT PROGRAM.—The summer of opportunity job 
training and placement program under this subsection is 
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a program, with respect to a community that receives a 
grant under section 3(a), under which the CAN DO Pro-
gram Board of the community, established under section 
4(c) shall— 
(1) implement a program that will be available 
to youth in the community any time after school, on 
the weekend, or during the summer, which will pay 
such youth stipends in exchange for working in com-
munity-based jobs to improve the community as an 
alternative to participating in gang activities, drug 
activities, and violence; 
(2) create a community office of public works 
and jobs in partnership, as appropriate, with faith- 
based organizations, schools, local businesses and 
corporations, neighborhood programs, local colleges 
and universities, and other community-based organi-
zations in order to assist individuals in the commu-
nity to find community-based employment or entry 
level jobs, including jobs in tutoring, mentoring, jobs 
in renewal energy, neighborhood beautification, com-
munity gardening, tree planting, cleaning vacant 
properties and lots, community service, construction, 
entry level local government jobs, typing, filing, an-
swering telephones, and data entry; 
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(3) enter into agreements with local businesses 
and corporations to offer job training, internships, 
apprenticeships, and employment opportunities to in-
dividuals in the community; and 
(4) enter into agreements with State and local 
agencies, 
faith-based 
organizations, 
community- 
based agencies, schools, and local colleges to offer 
offender reintegration projects and employment pro-
grams for gang members and other at-risk youth to 
reduce recidivism and promote long-term employ-
ability. 
(d) EDUCATIONAL
AND
RECREATIONAL
ALTER-
NATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROGRAM.—The educational and 
recreational alternatives to violence program under this 
subsection, with respect to a community that receives a 
grant under section 3(a), is a program that provides year- 
round after-school and weekend educational and rec-
reational activities, either at or through the CAN DO Cen-
ter for the community established under section 4(a), for 
youth in the community through partnerships with local 
government agencies, churches and faith-based organiza-
tions, schools, local colleges and universities, museums, 
galleries, and community-based organizations, as applica-
ble. Such educational and recreational services shall in-
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clude as many of the following, as practicable, for mem-
bers of the community: 
(1) Parenting education classes. 
(2) Mentoring and tutoring programs. 
(3) General Education Development (GED) 
testing tutoring programs. 
(4) Computer rooms to provide access to com-
puters for members of the community. 
(5) College counseling and tours. 
(6) Organized youth sports leagues. 
(7) Martial arts and self defense classes. 
(8) Nutrition programs. 
(9) Music and dance classes. 
(10) Art and theater programs. 
(11) Field trips to local businesses and corpora-
tions, museums, galleries, and other recreational lo-
cations. 
SEC. 9. EVALUATION AND REPORT. 
Not later than 60 days after the last day of the 5- 
year grant program established under section 3(a), the At-
torney General shall submit to Congress a report on the 
grant program that includes an evaluation of the effective-
ness of each of the pilot programs conducted under such 
grant program in reducing gun violence in the community 
and recommendations for improving the program and 
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whether or not to continue or expand the program. Such 
report shall include, for each community that received a 
grant under the grant program, a comparison of the aver-
age rate of occurrence of gun homicides for such commu-
nity during the 5-year period immediately before the re-
ceipt of such grant and the average rate of such occur-
rence for such community during the 5-year period of the 
grant program. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010 
through 2014. 
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