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Title: Summer Programming for Young People in New York City
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: On behalf of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ), I am pleased to respond to Urban Institute’s (Urban) process evaluation, which identified strategies to better understand and measure program performance. The Police Athletic League’s (PAL) summer youth programs—Playstreets and VIBE—represent visible and popular parts of the City’s play-based programming strategy to reduce crime and victimization for vulnerable communities and their young people. We are heartened that the process evaluation conducted identifies the positive achievements of each of these programs while identifying opportunities to more deliberately integrate them into our year-round, comprehensive interventions. The Playstreets and VIBE programs are part of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), a citywide strategy initiated by the de Blasio administration to increase community safety and well-being and build strong neighborhoods. MAP is a multiyear, multi-agency strategy focused on 15 public housing developments and their surrounding neighborhoods that, at inception, accounted for almost 20 percent of violent crime in the City’s public housing. Unsurprisingly, the MAP developments are in neighborhoods that have historically led the city in other economic and social stressors—poverty, unemployment, incarceration, and chronic disease. MAP’s driving principle is that public safety requires addressing disparities in opportunity, trust, and physical design in the places that need it most.
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Authors: Treskon, Mark; Esthappan, Sino; Winkler, Mary; Oliver, Wilton; Reginal, Travis; Lynch, Mathew
Publisher: Urban Instititute
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other
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