This is a patrol program focused on hot spots with the highest incidence of gun crime.
Police sweeps (in an 8x10-block area) were conducted in Kansas City for 29 weeks, and increased patrols were conducted at locations identified by computer analysis as having a high number of gun crimes in the target area.
The deployed officers focused exclusively on gun detection through proactive, targeted patrols and were not required to respond to calls for service.

This is a program to monitor adolescents with antisocial behaviors served by the juvenile justice system.
The program contains five components:
1) Service planning, which provides a family and community approach to meeting the needs of youth and their families;
2) Skills curriculum, which provides teachers with a teaching tool and promotes clear, individualized expectations for youth and their families;
3) Learning theory, which promotes individualized understanding of youth and their behavior;

This program develops the integrated work of the police, local government agencies, and the community in five Chicago neighborhoods. It involves problem-focused prevention interventions based on five axes:
1) Identifying and prioritizing problems;
2) Analyzing problems;
3) Designing strategies to address problems;
4) Implementing a plan; and
5) Evaluating its effectiveness.

This is an experiment to evaluate the impact of non-manualized family-based treatment approaches on adolescents with behavioral and substance use problems and their families. The objective is to assess whether non-manualized family approaches are effective to reduce aggressive and antisocial behaviors, and to increase treatment adherence through family involvement, compared to intervention approaches that do not include the family.

This is a community-based care and treatment program for sexually assaulted adolescents and their families (including child victims of sexual violence within the family). The objective of the program is the assessment, treatment and care of adolescents, based on cognitive-behavioral and relapse prevention interventions.

This is a program aimed at preventing psychoactive substance use and other risky behaviors in adolescents, and is applied in activities carried out both with the adolescents themselves and with their parents. The objective is to promote better coexistence and communication in the parent-child relationship, and to reduce the intensity and frequency of problems.
The intervention addresses different issues, including:
1) Setting roles in relation to the adolescent;
2) Identifying and reducing risks;

This is a therapeutic accompaniment program for pregnant women over 18 years of age who have been victims of intimate partner violence. The objective is to increase self-esteem, improve health, and reduce violence.
The therapeutic approach is empathic, but also emphasizes the need for women to identify and accept their feelings so as to overcome the negative impact that the abuse has had on their self-esteem. In addition, safety, decision-making, and problem-solving techniques are worked on. At the end of the therapy, a booklet is handed out to reinforce the information received.

This is a group therapy program for the treatment of women with a history of physical and sexual violence victimization. Cognitive restructuring techniques, psychoeducation, skills training, and social support are used to facilitate recovery from trauma, depression, and substance use.
The intervention includes 18 to 29 sessions structured in five phases:
1) The first part addresses women’s empowerment needs and promotes skills development, such as defining physical and emotional boundaries, self-confidence, and self-esteem;

This is a program for medium- to high-risk sex offenders accused of raping their partners. The objective is to prevent recidivism and to identify and intervene in risk factors.
The program offers individual psychological care specialized in domestic violence until the date of the hearing, in which the offenders’ risk factors are mapped, and complementary services, such as mental health treatment, including substance use, and housing and food assistance.

There are two community-based substance use treatment programs for individuals recently released to the open system. The objective is to treat substance dependence and reduce the risks of recidivism.
The programs allow participants to serve their sentences within their communities and with psychological and medical follow-up to treat dependency. Program participants are those who have completed at least half of their sentences and have six months to one year remaining, who do not have a record of a serious psychiatric disorder, and who volunteer to participate in the programs.