1. Provide prevention services to impact risk factors for delinquency, including risk factor identification, antigang education, youth gun violence reduction programs, truancy prevention programs, school dropout prevention programs, afterschool programs, and/or parenting education
   
   
2. Provide interventions for court-involved tribal youth, including graduated sanctions, restitution, diversion, home detention, foster and shelter care, and/or mentoring.
   
   
3. Improve the tribal juvenile justice system, including developing and implementing indigenous justice strategies, tribal juvenile codes, tribal youth courts, intake assessments, advocacy programs, and gender-specific programming and enhancing juvenile probation services and/or reentry programs.
   
   
4. Provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs, including drug and/or alcohol education, drug testing, and screening.
   
   
5. Provide mental health program services, including development of comprehensive screening tools, crisis intervention, intake assessments, therapeutic services, counseling services for co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, drug testing, referral services and placement services.

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