Search For DMC Strategies

The DMC Best Practices database is designed to assist communities in identifying DMC reduction strategies that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The database is an easy-to-use tool that offers strategies addressing a range of program types, including direct services, training and technical assistance, and system change.

Step 1. Complete a community assessment that identifies the contributing mechanisms of DMC and the contact points of the juvenile justice system at which overrepresentation occurs.

Step 2. Search for DMC strategies by choosing search criteria that meets specific needs based on your community’s DMC assessment. Select from the various search parameters listed below. For example, if you are looking for direct service strategies for Hispanic youth at the detention contact point, under “Program Strategies” click on direct services, under “Ethnic Group” select “Hispanics,” and under “Juvenile Justice System Contact Points” select “Detention.” To select strategies that address a specific DMC Contributing Mechanism, such as differential offending, click on “DMC Contributing Mechanisms” and select “Differential Offending” from the dropdown list.

Search Tip: For a broader search, select fewer search criteria. For example, to search for all strategies that can be used to reduce DMC at the arrest contact point, click on arrest under “Juvenile Justice System Contact Points” and no other criteria.

Search results are presented in descending order, with those strategies most closely matching the specified criteria listed first.

For an alphabetical listing of all of the DMC strategies in the database, click on “Browse all Strategies.”

Browse All Strategies

1. Juvenile Justice System Contact point(s) addressed
	ArrestDelinquent Findings ReferralProbation DiversionConfinement in Secure Correctional Facilities DetentionTransferred to Adult Court Petitioned/ Charge filing
2. Strategies
	Direct Services Early InterventionAlternatives to secure corrections DiversionAdvocacy Alternatives to secure detention Training and Technical Assistance Cultural competency training and program developmentCultural competent staffing practices System Change Legislative reformsStructured decisionmaking tools Administrative, Policy and Procedural Changes
3. Contributing Mechanism(s)
	Differential OffendingJustice by geography MobilityLegislation, policies, legal factors with disproportionate impact Indirect EffectsAccumulated disadvantage Differential opportunities for prevention and treatmentStatistical aberrations Differential processing
4. Race/Ethnicity
	American Indian or Alaska Native (Non-Hispanic) Asian (Non-Hispanic) Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) Hispanic or Latino (of any race) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (Non-Hispanic) Other (Non-Hispanic) White (Non-Hispanic)
5. Gender
	Both Male Female
6. Age
	All Ages EarlyChildhood: 0 to 3 years Pre-Schoolers: 3 to 5 years School Age: 6 to 12 years Adolescence: 12 to 18 years
7. Settings
	Rural Suburban Urban Tribal
8. Program Origination
	All programs Originated as a DMC reduction program Did not originate as a DMC reduction program
9. Multi/Single Component
	All Multi-component strategy Single program
10. State or County Level
	All State Level Strategy County Level Strategy