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<br />partner that has the resources and expertise to ensure the results are valid and <br />accurate, thus helping guide decisions going forward. <br />In essence, the assessment is akin to the medical model, in which a physician <br />seeks to truly understand each patient's specific symptoms and circumstances before <br />developing a treatment and prevention protocol that is tailored to the patient and <br />systemic in nature. The assessment will be discussed in more detail later in this report. <br />However, the OJJDP model advocates five primary strategies, also known as the <br />Sperger Model: <br />Community Mobilization: Developing and maintaining an interacting set of <br />public and private agencies, groups, and residents to organize a <br />comprehensive program responsive specifically to the gang problem. <br />Social Intervention: Developing outreach contacts with gang members and <br />those at higher risk of gang membership. Most typically, this refers to the use of <br />street workers who both counsel targeted youth and provide useful bridges <br />between them and the schools, social services, and criminal justice agencies. <br />Outreach can also be provided by probation, police, and treatment workers. <br />Opportunities Provision: Providing gang members access to employment, job <br />training, educational, and cultural opportunities as alternatives to gang activity. <br />Organizational Change and Development: Bringing about changes in the <br />policies and practices of public and private agencies to reduce their tendency <br />not to respond positively to gang-involved youth, to help them adopt strategies <br />that will enhance their responsiveness, and to increase interagency <br />collaboration. <br />Suppression: The use of police, probation, parole, and the courts to hold youth <br />and adults accountable for their criminal activities. This goes beyond the <br />"normal" criminal justice operations to include special anti-gang practices, such <br />as police gang units, the use of gang court injunctions, and specialized gang <br />intelligence operations. Other agencies and outreach workers can also become <br />involved in suppression activities. <br />EPIC Progress Report to City Council - 2008 Page 11 <br />19D-12 <br />