{"id":27095,"date":"2021-07-03T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27095"},"modified":"2021-07-03T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:54:11","slug":"youth-programs-central-to-bidens-crime-prevention-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/07\/03\/youth-programs-central-to-bidens-crime-prevention-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth programs central to Biden\u2019s crime prevention plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Desk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Expanding summer programs and employment opportunities for youth is a key plank of\u00a0President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to curb rising gun violence in American cities.<\/p>\n

The plan, unveiled last Wednesday, gave explicit permission for hundreds of billions in American Rescue Act Funds to go toward these programs, and was welcomed by youth-serving organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come at [crime] strictly from a law and order perspective, things won\u2019t change,\u201d said Nancy Flake Johnson, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The Urban League operates a number of programs for teens and young adults, including young people in the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

Flake said access to additional funding creates new possibilities for the organization, which plans to propose a new community violence intervention program to the city of Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Criminologists who prepared a report for the\u00a0National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice\u00a0say homicides in major cities rose 30% in 2020. They attributed the crime surge to \u201ca perfect storm\u201d of factors including the pandemic and the unrest over police violence following the murder of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

The White House\u2019s plan to combat gun violence consists of five main strategies: Stem the flow of firearms; support local law enforcement; help formerly incarcerated people successfully reenter community life; invest in evidence-based community violence interventions; and expand summer programming and employment opportunities for teenagers and young adults.<\/p>\n

Aaron Phillip Dworkin, chief executive officer of the National Summer Learning Association, said the president\u2019s decision to invest in youth programs \u201cis very consistent with the administration\u2019s priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said engaging youth over the summer, especially in paid jobs and internships, allows them to develop job skills, catch up or move forward academically, and stay safe and productive when not in school.<\/p>\n

Evidence suggests these programs can be effective in keeping youth out of trouble.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County\u2019s Fit2Lead program provides after-school recreation and job training in neighborhoods with high crime rates. A 2019 study of the program published in the American Journal of Public Health\u00a0found a significant reduction in juvenile arrests\u00a0over the two-year evaluation period.<\/p>\n

County commissioners recently approved a multimillion dollar expansion of the program, including internships and enrichment for youth in the juvenile justice system,\u00a0the Miami Herald reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be creating new outlets for the highest-risk youth,\u201d Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was quoted saying by\u00a0the Herald. \u201cThere is no time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Expanding summer programs and employment opportunities for youth is a key plank of President Joe Biden’s plan to curb rising gun violence in American cities. The plan, unveiled last Wednesday, gave explicit permission for hundreds of billions in American Rescue Act Funds to go toward these programs, and was welcomed by youth-serving organizations. “If you come at [crime] strictly from a law and order perspective, things won’t change,” said Nancy Flake Johnson, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta. The Urban League operates a number of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27097,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095\/revisions\/27097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}