The following
is a list of resources available for America's youth to learn more
about gang resistance, firearms education and related materials:
Gang
Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T) : Among other
things, the GREAT Program provides classroom instruction
for school-aged children and a wide range of community based activities
that result in the necessary life skills, a sense of competency, usefulness,
and personal empowerment needed to avoid involvement in youth violence
and criminal activity.
Youth
Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative : The annual Crime Gun Trace
Reports began in 1997 as part of ATF's Youth Crime Gun Interdiction
Initiative (YCGII), a youth-focused firearms enforcement program that
is a component of ATF's overall firearms enforcement program, the Integrated
Violence Reduction Strategy. For this reason, YCGII is referred to throughout
this report.
Project
Surefire: Project Surefire began as a
collaborative effort among ATF,
the Chicago Police Department, and the U.S. Attorney's office to deal
with one of this Nation's primary public safety issues, firearms violence.
The partnership was further cemented when two rookie Chicago police
officers were murdered.
Vicious
crime and recent shootings at schools across the country have catapulted
this issue to the forefront of public sentiment. The partners began
the project with the object of increasing prosecutions of illegal firearm
traffickers and others who use firearms violence as a way of life. Click
here for more information on Project Surefire.
Operation
Target: Operation TARGET (Taking Aim to Reduce Gun Violence
and End Trafficking) is Western District of Pennsylvania's Firearms
Violence Reduction Initiative that is a multifaceted team approach to
reducing firearms related violence in the communities of Western Pennsylvania.
The TARGET approach, use many past proven strategies, such as have been
employed in other cities, along with innovations unique to our area.
The TARGET strategy can be broken-down into five major components, each
with elements that are being implemented as Operation TARGET progresses.
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National
Institute of Justice: Safe Schools Technology Initiative: In
1999, Congress mandated and funded NIJ's Office of Science and Technology
to develop new, more effective school safety technologies to provide
communities with tools to enhance school safety. NIJ was challenged
to assist the nation's schools in achieving the perception and reality
of a safer learning environment for students, teachers, and staff through
the development and evaluation of safety and security technologies.
Click here to find out more about NIJ's
Safe Schools Technology Initiative.
National
Crime Prevention Council:
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Advertising Council, Inc., working
through the National Crime Prevention Council, are developing a campaign
to encourage Americans to store their firearms safely.
The
campaign, planned to extend over three years, includes television, radio,
print, and out-of-home public service messages distributed nationwide.
For more information see: http://www.ncpc.org/