The outreach efforts for In Search of Law and Order: Reclaiming America's Kids have been designed to encourage local meetings that bring together justice professionals, community leaders, educators, concerned citizens committed to youth issues and kids themselves. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss and consider implementing new ways of dealing with youth crime and establishing public safety.

This "leader's guide" provides a road map for organizing those meetings and making them successful. The Leader’s Survey and Participant’s Survey offer a way to garner valuable feedback about those meetings and the In Search of Law and Order: Reclaiming America’s Kids outreach efforts. Please download these materials, print them out, and use them to help organize an event in your own community.It will help you use the series to accomplish one or more of the following goals:

• Inform the juvenile justice debate.
• Strengthen existing local community-based coalitions.
• Encourage adults to make a meaningful difference in a child's life.
• Build awareness about effective alternatives to prison.
• Persuade fellow citizens and government officials that public safety is a collaborative effort requiring involvement at every level of the community.