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Lucas County Comprehensive Strategy Initiative
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In the Summer of 1998, the national Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced Ohio’s selection to participate in the Comprehensive Strategy for the Prevention of Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile offenders. Lucas County was one of six Ohio counties included in the process.
The OJJDP Comprehensive Strategy initiative provided communities with a framework for preventing delinquency, intervening in early delinquent behavior, and responding to serious, violent, and chronic offending. It started an unprecedented collaborative effort to prevent juvenile delinquency and promote positive development of children.
The Comprehensive Strategy was guided by five principles:
- Strengthen the family in its role to instill moral principles and provide guidance and support to children.
- Support core institutions in their role to develop capable, mature and responsible youth.
- Recognize that delinquency prevention is the most cost effective approach in combating youth crime.
- Intervene immediately and effectively when delinquent behavior first occurs. Ensure that appropriate sanctions for misconduct are delivered in a timely fashion.
- Identify and control the small group of serious, violent, and chronic offenders through a range of graduated sanctions, including placement in secure facilities.
The Comprehensive Strategy is based on a “risk-focused” prevention model that makes it possible to examine communities for know risk factors associated with youth violence. These risk factors exist at the individual, family, school, peer and community levels.
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