Established in the 1992 reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974, the Title V Community Prevention Grants Program is a Federal grants program that funds collaborative, community-based delinquency prevention efforts. The program integrates six fundamental principles (comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches, research foundation for planning, community control and decisionmaking, leveraging of resources and systems, evaluation to monitor program progress and effectiveness, and a long-term perspective) to form a strategic approach to reducing juvenile delinquency. It provides funding and a framework to enable communities to develop and implement comprehensive 3-year prevention plans that are designed to reduce risk factors associated with delinquency and decrease juvenile problem behavior.

Title V Community Prevention Grants Program: 2003 Report to Congress reviews the background of the program, highlighting Federal, state, and local activities.

National Evaluation of the Title V Community Prevention Grants Program presents findings from an evaluation that examined sites in six states.

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