Florida

• Florida Department of Corrections

  This site provides information about gangs and their identifications in Florida and information on re-entry programs and initiatives in Florida.

• The Florida Office of Drug Control

  This site provides information on Florida’s Drug Control Strategy.

• Florida Gang Investigators Association

  Find information for gang identification training.

• Tampa Bay Gangs and Let’s Talk About Gangs In Tallahassee

  Interactive websites that provide prevention and early intervention tools for youth and adults in a community

• The Boys & Girls Club of Tabula Rasa

  An intervention program in north Florida providing BGC programs and intensive wrap around services for youthful offenders reentering the community.

• The Florida Ex-Offender Reentry Coalition, Inc.

  A statewide grass-roots ex-offender reentry initiative.

• Florida Reentry Resource Initiatives

  Provides personalized information and knowledge for ex-offenders reintegrating into society

• The PANZOU Project of North Miami Beach

  A federal and locally funded program providing gang prevention and intervention services in Miami-Dade County.

National

• National Gang Center

  This site features the latest research about gangs, links to tools, and other resources to assist in developing and implementing effective community-based gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies.

• National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC)

  The NGIC is a multi-agency effort that integrates the gang intelligence assets of federal, state, and local law enforcement entities to serve as a centralized intelligence resource for gang information and analytical support.

• U.S. Office of Justice Programs: Youth Violence Prevention

  This resource identifies useful Web sites and federal publications on a variety of youth violence topics.

• U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Anti-Gang Initiative

  Information about OJJDP’s comprehensive anti-gang initiatives

• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

  A federal resource for communities working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.

• Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Gangs: Guides and Reports

  Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

  A federal resource including information about federal and state gang laws.

• FindYouthInfo

  A U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs, find funding information, and provides tools for strategic planning.

• G.R.E.A.T (Gang Resistance and Education Training)

  The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The program's primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.

• National Crime Prevention Council: Sustaining Your Gang Prevention Efforts

  A Fact Sheet providing information on what works, and other tools to sustain anti-gang strategies

• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

  A mentoring organization that provides one-to-one mentoring relationships for children ages 6 through 18.

• Boys and Girls Clubs of America

  Provide club programs and services for all youth with additional gang prevention and intervention programs for targeted youth populations.

• National Youth Employment Coalition

  A national membership network that improves the effectiveness of organizations that seek to help youth become productive citizens.

Useful Publications

• National Gang Threat Assessment 2009

  This intelligence assessment is a collaborative effort between the U.S. National Gang Intelligence center (NGIC) and the U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) to examine the threat posed to the United States by criminal gangs.

• Gangs May 2006 V54 No.3
  Gang Issues July 2008 V56 No. 4
  

  Articles published in the United States Attorneys Bulletin.

• Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Law Enforcement

  Provides information about developing and enhancing local law enforcement responses to gangs in their jurisdictions

• OJJDP Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems

  Provides guidance for communities that are considering how best to address a youth gang problem that already exists or threatens to become a reality.

• Mobilizing Communities To Address Gang Problems

  A review of the literature on community-mobilization initiatives to identify potentially effective steps for community mobilization

• Status of Ex-Offender Reentry Efforts in Cities

  A 79 city 2009 survey and best practices results from the United States Conference of Mayors