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Read Advocacy Material: Advocates Call on Congress to Support Youth PROMISE Act

By The Sentencing Project

A coalition of civil rights, religious and juvenile justice groups held a juvenile justice forum today calling on Congress to pass the Youth PROMISE Act, a bill that would use evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies to curb youth violence and gang activities. Kicking off the coalition's Youth Advocacy Day, a host of panelists told an audience of advocates, youth and legislative staffers how to demand support of Congress for the bill that currently has 90 co-sponsors in the House, and 6 in the Senate. Posted Date: 5/7/2009 8:31:09 PM

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).