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• <br /> 8. <br /> Review of Promising Programs <br /> This section provides an overview of 30 recreation-based programs selected <br /> from among 270 youth programs implemented to address the youth crime issue <br /> throughout the country and considered as "promising" by the National Crime and <br /> Justice Reference Service.( A complete listing of programs is included in Appendices <br /> 1. 1 and 1.2). These crime prevention initiatives are broken into subcategories: Table <br /> 1 lists 24 promising public initiatives and Table 2 lists 6 privately-sponsored programs. <br /> Types of Programs <br /> The promising public initiatives (Table 1) are primarily sponsored by the U.S. <br /> • <br /> government through programs sponsored by a variety of Departments, including of <br /> Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and <br /> Justice. Lower levels of governments tend to collaborate in these programs, rather <br /> than to initiate them. In fact, whether public or private, promising initiatives usually <br /> involve cooperation between a primary sponsor and a secondary sponsor, as shown <br /> by Tables 1 and 2. <br /> According to Roth (1995), controlling violence through prevention requires <br /> "sustained, integrated efforts by criminal justice, social service, [and] community-based <br /> organizations" (p.1) as well as evaluation researchers. Roth (1995) further noted that <br /> existing program evaluations are not yet conclusive enough to warrant a commitment <br /> • to any single violence control strategy. The author concluded that cooperation <br />