A violence prevention curriculum for youth (both male and female), ages 10-17, to help youth in detention overcome problems they may face in their communities, such as gang, crime, and drugs. The program is designed to intervene in the lives of youth who have come in contact with the juvenile justice system to reduce recidivism and diminish the prospects that youths will become adults that commit crimes. Project BUILD is part of a larger program called BUILD. The BUILD program combines several popular gang prevention strategies in an attempt to curb gang violence in some of Chicago’s most depressed and crime-ridden neighborhoods. The program was founded on the principle that youths join gangs because they lack other, more constructive opportunities and outlets. BUILD tries to provide various alternatives for youths, such as deploying trained street workers, organizing after-school sports programs, providing career training, and implementing the BUILD Violence Intervention (formerly Project BUILD) Curriculum.