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OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model

Description

The OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model is a set of five core strategies—community mobilization, opportunities provision, social intervention, suppression, and organizational change and development—that offer a comprehensive, collaborative approach designed to prevent and reduce gang violence. Read more about the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model.

Comprehensive Gang Model

Comprehensive Gang Model Videos

These videos provide in-depth overviews and real-life examples of the Comprehensive Gang Model.                                                         

Comprehensive Gang Model Webinars

Comprehensive Gang Model Webinars

These webinars highlight real-life experiences and examples from communities that have implemented the Comprehensive Gang Model

This informational sheet provides an overview of the Comprehensive Gang Model’s five core strategies.

A guide to provide law enforcement leaders with an overview of the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model—a framework for addressing youth gang problems.

The assessment guide A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem provides a blueprint for conducting a comprehensive community gang problem assessment.

The implementation manual Planning for Implementation provides a guide to development of a plan to implement the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model (Model).