Law Enforcement Report: Ca's After-School Programs Leave Out High School Students During Prime Crime Hours
U.S. Newswire › January 29, 2004
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Due to insufficient funding, California is unable to meet the enormous demand for after- school programs for high school students, denying the state's most at-risk teens the supervision and guidance proven to keep them away from crime, according to a groundbreaking study released today by Fight Crime: Invest In Kids California, an anti-crime organization of over 260 sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and victims of violence.
Citing new data from every California county, "California's Next After-School Challenge: Keeping High School Teens Off the Street and On the Right Track" finds that this problem has disastrous consequences for California's youth, public safety and taxpayers.See the full content of this document
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Law Enforcement Report: Ca's After-School Programs Leave Out High School Students During Prime Crime Hours
The report pulls together evidence that after-school programs cut teen crime, drug use and other risky teen behaviors and improve academic achievement. A previously unreported study of a San Francisco after-school program finds youths who did not attend the program were two to three times more likely to be arrested than participating teens.
Currently there is a severe shortage of available programs because California's sole dedicated high school ...See the full content of this document
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