TOPANGA POLICE YOUTH BOARD
Guiding Youth Through Community Support
Jeopardy

 

Jeopardy Program

Gang Prevention and Intervention


The Jeopardy Program is a gang prevention/ intervention program for boys and girls ages 8 through 17 and their parents. Jeopardy combines the strength of the community, neighborhood schools and the police department to effect positive, lifelong attitudinal changes
in the young people so as to have a positive impact on the community.

Jeopardy targets "at risk" children, offering a variety of educational and physical projects, from tutoring to martial arts. The goals of the Jeopardy Program are to reduce truancy, increase graduation rates and improve life-affirming skills with a end goal of
decreasing gang and crime involvement.

 

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
—Frederick Douglass