CAP is working in two communities (South East Chicago and Englewood) to design/restructure a multi-agency collaborative model that offers a continuum of support services, activities and responses to young people both within and those at risk of going into the juvenile justice system.

The model is based on the principles of Balance and Restorative Justice, which advocates for shared responsibility of the community, law enforcement and the court system.  The model subscribes to coordinated action, believing it to be essential to addressing juvenile delinquency, ensuring effective and appropriate responses when it does happen, and promoting positive development of youth, hence, the primary goal of the model is to glean lessons learned from its implementation in order to argue for juvenile justice policies that see detention and institutionalization as a strategy of last resort. 

By creating a comprehensive community response to juvenile justice issues, this model will articulate, identify and propose remedies to gaps in service, community education methods, and legislative and administrative advocacy areas with an outcome of creating community based alternative to secure confinement for youth.