Sec. 203. PROMISE Coordinating Councils
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To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, a unit of local government or an Indian tribe shall establish a PROMISE Coordinating Council for each community of such unit or tribe, respectively, for which such unit or tribe is applying for a grant under this subtitle. Each such community shall include one or more designated geographic areas identified on the list required under section 102(a)(2). The members of such a PROMISE Coordinating Council shall be representatives of public and private sector entities and individuals that— should include at least one representative from each of the following: the local chief executive’s office; a local educational agency; a local health agency or provider; a local mental health agency or provider, unless the representative under subparagraph
(C)also meets the requirements of this subparagraph; a local public housing agency; a local law enforcement agency; a local child welfare agency; a local juvenile court; a local juvenile prosecutor’s office; a private juvenile residential care entity; a local juvenile public defender’s office; a State juvenile correctional entity; a local business community representative; and a local faith-based community representative; shall include two representatives from each of the following: parents who have minor children, and who have an interest in the local juvenile or criminal justice systems; youth between the ages of 15 and 24 who reside in the jurisdiction of the unit or tribe; and members from nonprofit community-based organizations that provide effective delinquency prevention and intervention to youth in the jurisdiction of the unit or tribe; and may include other members, as the unit or tribe determines to be appropriate.