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• Afterschool.gov
Afterschool.gov offers one-stop access to government resources that support afterschool programs test.


• American Correctional Association
Founded in 1870 as the National Prison Association, the American Correctional Association (ACA) is the oldest association developed specifically for practitioners in the correctional profession. ACA strives to provide a professional association of persons, agencies, and organizations, both public and private, who hold in common the goal of bettering the profession of corrections and enhancing their contribution to that profession.


• American Prosecutors Research Institute
The American Prosecutors Research Institute is committed to providing interdisciplinary responses to the complex problems of criminal justice. It is also committed to supporting the highest professional standards among officials entrusted with the crucial responsibility for public safety.


• Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America
Big Brother and Big Sister volunteers provide boys and girls with one-on-one time and attention in their communities, typically two to four times a month. During these unstructured outings they cultivate relationships that provide children with skills to manage everyday challenges.


• Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Boys and Girls Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging, and influence.


• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice. Its unique responsibilities include protecting the public and reducing violent crime. ATF enforces the Federal laws and regulations relating to alcohol and tobacco diversion, firearms, explosives, and arson.


• Bureau of Justice Assistance
The mission of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, is to provide leadership and assistance in support of local criminal justice strategies to achieve safe communities. BJA's overall goals are to (1) reduce and prevent crime, violence, and drug abuse and (2) improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.


• Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.


• Center for Violence Research and Prevention
The Center for Violence Research and Prevention has conducted and disseminated research on the causes and control of interpersonal violence.


• Center for the Prevention of School Violence
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and “think tank” for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development.


• Children's Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind ® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.


• The Children's Initiative


• Chula Vista Police Department


• City of San Diego Gang Commission


• Common Sense About Kids and Guns
Common Sense about Kids and Guns is a nonprofit group of owners and nonowners of guns committed to working together to protect America 's children from gun deaths and injuries. Their group of endorsing organizations includes gun control advocates, gun manufacturers and others in the firearms industry, child safety advocates, child welfare advocates, crime prevention advocates, and mayors.


• Drug Enforcement Administration


• El Cajon Police Department


• Federal Bureau of Investigation


• Jackie Robinson Family YMCA


• La Mesa Police Department


• MENTOR - National Mentoring Program
MENTOR provides cutting-edge products and services to help mentoring programs grow. Through our National Mentoring Institute, solutions are offered that are both cost-effective and easy to access: from online training and recruitment to e-mentoring standards and tool kits to counsel from experts.


• Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety
The Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety program promotes research, evaluation, development, and dissemination of GIS technology for criminal justice research and practice.


• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children.


• National City Police Department


• National Crime Prevention Council
The National Crime Prevention Council's mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.


• National Institute of Justice
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice.


• National School Safety Center
The National School Safety Center (NSSC) serves as an advocate for safe, secure, and peaceful schools worldwide and as a catalyst for the prevention of school crime and violence. NSSC provides school communities and their school safety partners with quality information, resources, consultation, and training services. The Center identifies and promotes strategies, promising practices, and programs that support safe schools for all students as part of the total academic mission.


• National Youth Gang Center
The National Youth Gang Center's purpose is to expand and maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective responses to them. The Center assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising program strategies, and coordinates activities of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Gang Consortium—a group of federal agencies, gang program representatives, and other service providers.


• National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign
The National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign's goal is to raise awareness and to educate students, teachers, school administrators, counselors, school resource officers, school staff, parents, and the public on effective ways to prevent or reduce youth violence.


• Prevent Child Abuse America
Prevent Child Abuse America has led the way in building awareness, providing education, and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children. Working with chapters in 39 states and the District of Columbia , they provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels.


• San Diego Association of Governments


• San Diego County District Attorney's Office


• San Diego County Probation Department


• San Diego County Sheriff's Department


• San Diego Police Department


• United States Attorney's Office


• United States Attorney's Office: Southern District of California


• United States Customs and Border Protection


• United States Marine Corps


• United States Marshals Service