Ideas at work

Local plans and initiatives

Minnesota HEALS (hope, education, law, and safety)
Focuses on gun violence prevention.
Minnesota Gang Strike Force
Works to alleviate gangs and gang activity in Minnesota.

Research-based strategies

Listed below are proven, effective strategies linked to reports that provide data and information about how the strategies were implemented.

Behavior/intervention programs (2)
- Serious (violent or chronic) juvenile offenders: A systematic review of treatment effectiveness in secure corrections
  Campbell Collaboration, March 2007, 31 pp.
  Review of the research on the effectiveness of treatment programs implemented in secure corrections designed to decrease the reoffending rate and type of offense for serious (chronic or violent) delinquents (12-21 years old).
- Effective intervention for serious juvenile offenders
  Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, April 2000, 8 pp.
  A meta-analysis of programs that work to reduce recidivism of serious juvenile offenders.
Drug treatment (2)
- The effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment on criminal behavior
  Campbell Collaboration, September 2006, 58 pp.
  Summarizes the evidence regarding the effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment in reducing drug relapse and recidivism.
- Multisystemic Therapy for juvenile offfenders (a treatment targeting multiple factors linked to anti-social juvenile behavior)
  Coalition for Evidence-based Policy, November 1999
  Provides a description of Multisystemic Therapy and evidence for its effectiveness in decreasing criminal behavior by juvenile offenders.
Hot spot policing (1)
- Effects of hot spots policing on crime
  Campbell Collaboration, April 2007, 36 pp.
  A review of evidence on the effects of focused police crime prevention interventions at high-activity crime places and an assessment of the preventive value of focused police crime prevention efforts at crime hot spots.
Integrated services (1)
- Multisystemic Therapy for juvenile offfenders (a treatment targeting multiple factors linked to anti-social juvenile behavior)
  Coalition for Evidence-based Policy, November 1999
  Provides a description of Multisystemic Therapy and evidence for its effectiveness in decreasing criminal behavior by juvenile offenders.
Truancy prevention (1)
- Increasing school attendance for K-8 students: A review of research examining the effectiveness of truancy prevention programs
  Wilder Research, March 2007, 25 pp.
  A literature review of truancy prevention and intervention research.
Victim advocacy (1)
- Promising practices and strategies for victim services in corrections
  Office for Victims of Crime, July 1999, 142 pp.
  An overview of correctional practices and planning strategies for responding to victims of crime.