MGPTF Strategic Plan
The San José Youth Violence
Prevention Strategy
Neighborhood Services and Education Committee
December 8, 2022
Presented by:
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director
Community Services Division
Israel Canjura, Recreation Superintendent
Community Services Division
1 30 years – Our Values, Opportunities and Challenges
Continuum of Care – We reach kids where they are.
Vulnerabilities and Resilience…Risk and Protective Factors.
Government + Community…Relationships, the secret sauce.
Smart on crime.
Lessons Learned…
Working Upstream (policy) and Downstream (services)
Systems Impact People
Measure What Matters - Applied to people, it is hard.
2 3
Life Course Framework
COVID-19 Recovery
Task Force
Community
Plan to End
Homelessness
Children and Youth
Master Plan
Reimagining
Community
Safety
Change Initiatives – There is a LOT going on!
MGPTF
4 Society, Culture, History
Policy + Systems
Neighborhoods
Schools / Faith
Based Groups
Individuals +
Families
5 Firearm Safe Storage, Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance, BEST Allocation, Suspension Policies, Cross Agency Services Team, Youth Employment (SJ Works)
PRNS
: Project Hope, Graffiti Removal SJPD: Relational Policing Probation: Neighborhood Safety Unit District Attorney: Community Prosecutors, Public Defenders
Public Health: East San José PEACE Partnership
PRNS/Youth Intervention Services (YIS): Safe School Campus Initiative, Crime & Violence Prevention Summit
SJPD
: Crime Prevention Unit
PRNS: Clean Slate, Trauma 2 Triumph, Female Intervention Team, Crisis Response Protocol
BEST
: Alum Rock Counseling, Bay Area Tutoring, Bill Wilson Center, Catholic Charities, Center for Training and Careers, FLY , Girl Scouts, New Hope for Youth, San Jose Jazz, Art of Yoga, Teen Success, Tenacious Group, Ujima, Pacific Clinics (fka Uplift)
District Attorney:
Parent Project SJPD: Intelligence-led Enforcement
What We Do Collectively!
4,973 (2%) served through youth
intervention and BEST services
17,872 people ages 5-24 (7%)
live in Project Hope areas
1,029,409 people live in San José
255,240 people 5 to 24 years of age
Source: American Community Survey, 2020, 5-Year Estimates https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=age&g=1600000US0668000&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S0101 San José Youth Population
2020 Five-Year Estimates
1 in 4 San José residents are
between the ages of 5 and 24
6 Gang Motivated and Related Crimes
Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Technical Team Climate Reports – Gang Motivated and Gang Related Crimes, San José, 2018-2022 7 32 Listening Sessions Completed
8 • 9 Project Hope areas
• New Hope for Youth service areas
• C.A.S.T (Cross Agency Service Team)
• Racial Equity Action Leadership
(REAL)
• Catholic Charities areas
• Youth Commission
• Interagency Committee
• LEAD Filipino
• 10 Youth Intervention service
programs
• Fresh Lifelines for Youth - YAC
• Bill Wilson Center
• Black Leadership Kitchen Cabinet
• La Raza Roundtable
• Ujima
• East San Jose PEACE Partnership
• MGPTF Technical Team
Community Input
ADULTS
● Crime and violence
● Trash collection/littering/graffiti
● Basic needs and Cost of Living
● Homelessness
● Drugs and substance use
● Education
● Police
● Lack of programming and recreation
● Traffic safety
YOUTH
● Basic needs
● Crime/violence/harassment
● Substance use
● Homelessness
● Culture
● Mental health
● Police
● Lack of recreation
● Trash collection
9 MGPTF 2025: Strategy + Outcomes
Diversion +
Re-entry
We believe in relational policing
efforts coupled with second
chances and community-based
approaches. Law enforcement
and the justice system has a
role in protecting the community
from violent offenders. We
reduce recidivism with
opportunities which are required
for successful transition and
reintegration into the community
after a young person is
released from detention or
incarceration.
Prevention
We prevent youth
violence by raising
awareness, educating,
and engaging youth with
positive recreational,
social and mental health
services to increase
protective factors at the
individual, family, peer, &
community levels.
Policy and systems
changes can yield
substantial benefits.
Healing
We believe race, place and
history matters. Adverse
childhood and community
experiences contribute to
poor outcomes and to the
cycle of violence in families,
neighborhoods, and
institutions. Trauma-informed
practices to disrupt
interpersonal and institutional
violence promotes healing.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
REDUCED INCIDENTS IN 82
SCHOOLS
IMPROVED SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE
INCREASED JOB
PLACEMENT
REDUCED SUBSTANCE
USE
REDUCED JUSTICE
INVOLVEMENT
IMPROVED HOPEFULNESS,
SENSE OF PURPOSE
COMMUNITY-WIDE
INDICATORS
DECREASED YOUTH (10-
24) VIOLENCE INCIDENTS,
INJURY, & HOMICIDE
DECREASED YOUTH (10-
24) ARRESTS &
RECIDIVISM
IMPROVED PERCEPTIONS
OF NEIGHBORHOOD
SAFETY
DECREASED CHRONIC
ABSENTEEISM
INCREASED ON TIME HIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATION
BY AGE, RACE, LOCATION,
GENDER IDENTITY,
DISABILITY (WHEN POSSIBLE)
Intervention
We stop violence and
provide youth with positive
alternatives, opportunities
and environments. For
over 30 years the City,
schools, partners and
providers have
intentionally served youth
who are exhibiting higher
risk factors and involved in
violent behaviors.
Individual services plus
neighborhood initiatives
are key strategies.
10 OBJECTIVESKEY RESULTS
3 years
MGPTF – Youth Violence Prevention Strategy
1 year = By December 2023
2023 Y1 (Jan-Dec) OKRs
Reduce youth risk factors
in priority neighborhoods
and schools
Advance Trauma-Informed,
Healing-Centered Approaches
Increase knowledge and
protective factors in
young people
House at least 6 young people
released from Department of
Juvenile Justice or County Probation
Complete design of a community-
level response for youth who have
committed gun-related offenses
Convene employment sector experts
to place at least 15 high risk youth
Deliver expanded BEST Eligible
Services including youth-driven,
whole family, place-based strategies.
Identify blocks with high rates of
Youth Violence to pilot enhancements
and focus on built environment
resources
Conduct at least 3 additional youth-
led, school safety initiatives such as
Sandy Hook Promise (Total=6)
Develop a Youth Violence
Prevention training plan for
bullying prevention, substance
use, mental health, and healthy
relationships
Disseminate information in all
City and County facilities on
existing gun violence prevention
and safety practices, ordinances
Implement a multilingual
campaign to raise awareness of
publicly funded youth violence
reduction programs
Divert from incarceration
and reduce recidivism
among young people ages
12-24
Report annually to Policy Team &
community on program and
community outcomes with a racial
equity lens
Increase the number of community
voices, sectors and those with lived
experience on the Policy Team
Implement a joint pilot with
County/Cross Agency Services Team
& City/Youth Intervention Services in
a Project Hope neighborhood
Integrate and align future recommendations from Council related to Reimagining Community Safety and Children and Youth MasterPlan 11 11
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June - July 2021
Developed Steering
Committee
Oct 2021
Feb - April 2022
Oct 2022
MGPTF Policy Team
2023
Nov 2022
Neighborhood
Services & Education
Commission (NSE)
April – Sept
2022
Plan
Development
Feb - March 2021
Aug 26, 2021
Policy Team
Approval & Launch
Selected
Consultant
Community & Youth
Listening Forums
Stakeholder
Listening Sessions
Full Council
Strategic Work Plan Process
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MGPTF Strategic Plan
The San José Youth Violence
Prevention Strategy
Neighborhood Services and Education Committee
December 8, 2022
Presented by:
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director
Community Services Division
Israel Canjura, Recreation Superintendent
Community Services Division
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