Note:
This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 1999, $299,973)
The National Juvenile Defender Training and Technical Assistance Center's (NJDC) goals are to promote excellence in juvenile defense practices, to ensure availability of legal services to indigent and underprivileged children, and to train defense attorneys representing all children in juvenile or adult courts. The purpose of the Center is to "build the capacity and effectiveness of the defense bar to protect the rights and interests of children enmeshed in the justice system."
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