The Juvenile Decency Corps: An Answer to Delinquency.

The article presents information on the Juvenile Decency Corps. The number of cases of juvenile delinquency in the U.S. has grown over the years. Concerned adults everywhere have recognized the seriousness and complexity of the delinquency phenomenon and have initiated many plans and programs to try to prevent and control juvenile delinquency. Most of these plans and activities have necessarily involved cooperative community action with the school, home, church and other major community agencies sharing in the solution of the problem. One community effort that seems to be contributing to an effective reduction of delinquency has been the creation, in the District of Columbia, of a Juvenile Decency Corps that emphasizes character formation and service to others as its major goals. The Juvenile Decency Corps was organized during the summer of 1963 as an outgrowth of "Operation Uplift," a community anti-delinquency project of the preceding summer sponsored by the Area K Board of the Commissioners' Youth Council. "Operation Uplift" brought educational, recreational and enrichment opportunities to approximately two hundred children and adults living in one congested block of a "pocket of poverty" near the central core of the nation's capital.