DOJ's PReventing Gangs Part 2

1330-1400 ET	No Test Pattern- GETN sites will join on-going DOJ program in progress. Watch for crawl at the bottom of the screen.
1400-1530 ET	*“Preventing Gangs In Our Communities” Part One of Two*
1500 - ET	Return to CNN Home Channel

a. Sponsors: This program are sponsored for GETN military and federal audiences by the Department of Justice Television Network, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

b. Availability: This FREE, public domain, live and interactive program will be available as scheduled on the Military/Federal CDV GETN Convergent digital satellite networks and on C-Band analog satellite downlinks. GETN/Convergent digital satellite downlinks are found at over 1200 military installations and federal office locations. Other federal and private satellite networks may also carry this program. In addition, the program may be available to a limited number of non-satellite capable military and federal sites via VTC terrestrial relay. Local site use coordination of satellite downlinks will be required.

c. Target Audience Statement: The target audience for this program includes any military or federal official with an interest in this topic. Secondary audiences include:

d. Program Summary: Join OJJDP for a powerful panel discussion featuring gang specialists from federal and local law enforcement agencies and community and faith-based organizations. Learn what law enforcement and communities are doing to share gang-prevention responsibilities. This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

Moderator - Doris McMillon is a veteran journalist, newscaster, producer, media consultant, and trainer whose work spans posts at NBC News, WABC-TV, Fox Television, WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.), the U.S. Information Agency's WORLDNET, and the U.S. Department of State. In addition to moderating DOJ Connect webcasts, Ms. McMillon hosts "Volunteers: For the Sake of Others" for GOODLIFE TV, and "Education News Parents Can Use," a U.S. Department of Education production. Her experience also includes Black Entertainment Television's nationwide cable network where she anchored news and public affairs programs from Washington, D.C. The Washington Business Exchange Network honored Ms. McMillon as one of "Washington's Most Admired Women." She received the Washington Variety Club's Humanitarian Award and the International Business Exchange's Black Communicators Award, and was selected as "Outstanding Young Woman in America" by Who's Who in Black America. In addition, she was a Better Chance Scholar. Ms. McMillon has a bachelor of arts degree in mass communications, radio, TV, and film from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Scott H. Decker is Chair and Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology Arizona State University. His main research interests are gangs, juvenile, justice, criminal justice policy, and the offender's perspective. He is completing an evaluation of the Juvenile Accountability Incentives Block Grant and SafeFutures programs in St. Louis. Dr. Decker is the research partner for Project Safe Neighborhoods in the Eastern District of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois. His most recent books include Life in the Gang (Cambridge), Confronting Gangs (Roxbury), Policing Gangs and Youth Violence (Wadsworth), Responding to Gangs (National Institute of Justice), and European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups (Alta Mira Press). Dr. Decker received a bachelor's degree in social justice from DePauw University, and a master's degree and doctorate in criminology from Florida State University.

Errika Fearbry Jones is the Gang Free Schools (GFS) director for the Pittsburgh Board of Education, one of four such Department of Justice projects in the nation. The GFS initiative is a collaborative strategy that focuses school district staff, law enforcement personnel, government officials, and community members on solutions to address gang violence. Earlier, Ms. Jones worked with Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy as the city's youth policy director. There, she spearheaded Pittsburgh's Serious Juvenile Offender initiative, managed the curfew and truancy facility, presented legislation to the city council, and developed and implemented policies that affected young people in Pittsburgh. Recently, Ms. Jones was appointed by Governor Ed Rendell as the vice chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The Commission administers $120 million a year in prevention and intervention programs across the state. She is the first African American and the first woman named as vice chair. She also serves as chair of the Commission's Evaluation Advisory Committee.

Victor Gonzales has 20 years of experience working with high-risk youth, including 15 years working directly with youth involved in Houston (Texas) area gangs. His work included substance-abuse intervention and various prevention programs. For 6 years, he was a gang-intervention specialist and program manager for the Barrios Unidos Youth Program of the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, the only state-funded gang-intervention program serving the heavily gang-affected East End. For 5 years he was the team leader and program manager for the Gang Violence Reduction Team, a gang-intervention program of the mayor's Anti-Gang Office. He became director of program services in 2003.

Joe Mollner retired in January 2002 as a commander of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Police Department after working for 27 years in patrol, investigations, training, grants and special programs, and gang task forces. He then took the position of director, delinquency prevention, with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) where he managed BGCA's gang-prevention initiatives in the Midwest and targeted reentry projects in state and county juvenile correctional facilities across the nation. Currently, he is the senior director of delinquency prevention, overseeing BGCA's gang-prevention, gang-intervention, delinquency-prevention, and reentry initiatives. Mr. Mollner is a past member of the BGCA's National Advisory Committee on Gang Prevention and Intervention, past chair of the Midwest Gang Investigators Association, and past president of its Minnesota chapter. He is a founding member of the Minnesota/Wisconsin Asian Gang Investigators Association and board member of the National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations.

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