Corporation for National Service

• Agency Mission and Goals
• Activities and Priorities Relating to Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Collaborative Efforts
• Future Directions
• FY 1995 Funds

Agency Mission and Goals

The mission of the Corporation for National Service (CNS) is to engage Americans of all ages and backgrounds in projects that help communities meet public safety, education, environment, and human needs -- including crime prevention, support for community policing, assistance for crime victims, and prevention of juvenile delinquency.

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Activities and Priorities Relating to Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Many CNS public safety programs address the problems of juvenile crime by teaching young people conflict resolution skills; setting up safe havens where at-risk children can engage in structured, afterschool activities; discouraging youth from joining gangs; establishing safe corridors that guarantee children safe passage to and from school; and assisting in community policing efforts. Other CNS programs recruit at-risk youth to serve their communities. During a 1- or 2-year service term, the youth, who may become invested in their communities, may realize that there are positive alternatives to a life of crime.

FY 1995 CNS program priorities included community policing, victim assistance, early childhood development, school success, and neighborhood environment. Grant applications focusing on any of these five program areas received priority consideration during the grant review process. Programs funded in each of these priority areas will have an effect on juvenile delinquency in their communities.

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Collaborative Efforts

CNS is working with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the AmeriCorps/JustServe program, which incorporates an AmeriCorps component into DOJ's highly successful Operation Weed and Seed. Through this initiative, AmeriCorps members are teaching conflict resolution skills to at-risk students, establishing safe corridors and safe havens, and assisting in community policing efforts in five cities.

CNS and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are partners in the Public Housing Urban Revitalization Demonstration project (HOPE VI), which is seeking to revitalize more than 50 of the Nation's most severely distressed public housing communities. CNS is also working with HUD and other Federal agencies that serve on the Community Enterprise Board in the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) initiative.

CNS also is a member of the President's Crime Prevention Council and the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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Future Directions

Future linkages or collaborative efforts to address the problems of juvenile delinquency and delinquency prevention may include:

• Partnership with DOJ for programs such as SafeFutures, the EZ/EC Initiative, the AmeriCorps Olympics project, the Comprehensive Communities Program, Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together), and a youth-oriented community policing initiative (in conjunction with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services).
  
  
• Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program.
  
  
• Collaboration with HUD for the Community Development Block Grant program and the Public Housing Youth Sports Program.
  
  
• Linkages with DOJ and the U.S. Department of the Interior on the Youth Environmental Service program.
  
  
• Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the Community Schools program.

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FY 1995 Funds

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