Certainly from a crime prevention perspective when we look at the impacts of youth, at the kinds of crime prevention programs we're putting in place, it's not a singular issue. Risk factors and protective factors can include, as an example, kids who have hyperactivity issues or delinquency issues, family-related issues like a family member involved in crime, community factors. You would look at the relations to gangs, school factors such as whether they are truant and not going to school.
When we look at a crime prevention program, we look at all those things and then the parental piece becomes one part of it. It may not be like SNAP where we work with parents. It may be a program that talks about where they intervene with kids who are having difficulties at home and then give them tools to deal with those issues.
They're always interconnected in terms of the kinds of issues they're looking at and how they assist the kids in managing some of those issues because my risk factor could be more my peers than my parents. My parents are great, everything's good at home, but I have this group of friends who want me to join the gang. Conversely, I could have significant risk factors at home. For example, I could have one parent who has some substance abuse issues, and no parenting skills. It depends on the group they're dealing with, what the issues are, and then what factors they look at to try to positively influence the outcome of that program.