Program:  Safe Streets

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Email: JoAnn.Hickey@dcyf.ri.gov 

Description:  A joint program with DCYF’s Juvenile Probation and Parole staff , the Adult Probation and Parole staff and the City of Providence Police Department is known as “Safe Streets Providence.” This project is aimed at reducing and preventing violent crime committed by youthful offenders by providing intensive monitoring during evening and weekend hours for high risk youthful offenders between the ages of 16 and 25. Participants in this program have a history of violent crime, gang involvement, and/or substance abuse. They may be active probationers with pending violations of probation, candidates for temporary community placement, or early release. If the specialized conditions of probation are completed, or through re-assessment, a probationer can be classified as low-risk and transferred to supervised probation. Probationers move through the program in stages toward less intensive supervision and participate in developing their own discharge plans toward being able to maintain themselves as productive members of the larger community. In the six month period from January to June 2003, 110 youth between the ages of 15 and 21 were referred to the program from Family Court and the Rhode Island Training School. Eleven cases were successfully closed during this period.