MGPTF Strategic Plan -
The San José Youth Violence
Prevention Strategy
City Council – January 31, 2023
Jon Cicirelli, Director
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director
Community Services Division
Mario Maciel, Division Manager
Community Services Division
1 Highlights
• New Name – San José Youth Empowerment Alliance
• New Term – Opportunity Neighborhoods
• New Strategic Work Plan through December 2025
• New BEST Cycle and Service Strategy
2 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.
3 Downward Trend
over 12 years from
2011 to 2022
Comparing Number
of All Homicides to
Gang Motivated
Homicides
Source: FBI Database, San Jose Police Department
Climate Reports
Note: In 2017, SJPD changed distinction between
gang-related and gang-motived homicides
4 39
45 38
32 30
47 32
28 32
40 31
35 6
18 19
8 9 8
4 2 2 1
3 2
-10
0 10
20 30
40 50
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Number of Homicides
By Year
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
June - July 2021
Developed Steering
Committee
Oct 2021
Feb - April 2022
Oct 2022
MGPTF Policy Team
2023
Dec 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
City Council
Strategic Work Plan Process
5 5
32 Listening Sessions Completed
6 • 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
7 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!
SJ YEA
8 9
Life Course Framework
Society, Culture, History
Policy + Systems
Neighborhoods
Schools / Faith
Based Groups
Individuals +
Families
10 Criminal/Juvenile Justice System, Education System (Suspension Policies), Firearm Safe Storage Ordinance, Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance, BEST AllocationCross 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!
BEST Service Changes
11 Current Cycle
2019-2023
Next Cycle
2023-2026
Key Enhancement to Services
ELIGIBLE SERVICE AREA SERVICE STRATEGY AREA Name Change to be Action Driven 1 Personal Transformation Through
Cognitive Behavioral Change and Life Skills
Youth Development
and Leadership Services
+ Youth led programs and activities to empower young
people to address local issues and be catalysts for change 2 Street Outreach Intervention Services Place-based Intervention and Diversion Services
+ Place-based diversion services to interrupt violence
through targeted neighborhood interventions
3 Vocational/Job Training Services Vocational/Job Training Services
No change
4 Parent Awareness/Training & Family
Support
Family and Neighborhood
Strengthening Support
+ Place-based neighborhood support through outreach and community education
5 Case Management Services Individual & Whole Family
Supportive Services
+ Whole family approach to build on family strengths and core capabilities so both adults and children flourish
Opportunity
Neighborhoods
Formerly known
as
Hot Spots
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
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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.
14 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 15 15
MGPTF Strategic Plan
The San José Youth Violence
Prevention Strategy
City Council – January 31, 2023
Presented by:
Angel Rios, Jr., Deputy City Manager
Jon Cicirelli, Director
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director
Community Services Division
Mario Maciel, Division Director
Community Services Division
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