January | February 2020

New Publications

All OJJDP publications may be viewed and downloaded on the publications section of the OJJDP website. Print publications may be ordered online at the National Criminal Justice Reference Service website.

Coming Soon—

Youth Mentoring (In Focus Fact Sheet)

From 2017 to through the first half of 2019, OJJDP-funded programs recruited 95,000 new mentors and served more than 600,000 youth nationwide. This fact sheet offers an overview of OJJDP’s Mentoring Opportunities for Youth initiative and National Mentoring Resource Center. It also provides a summary of OJJDP funding to support youth mentoring for fiscal years 2017 through 2019.

Drug Courts (In Focus Fact Sheet)

OJJDP-funded drug courts help youth and families overcome the effects of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. This fact sheet describes OJJDP’s Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program, Family Drug Court Program, and Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts Program. In addition, the fact sheet provides a summary of OJJDP funding to support drug courts for fiscal years 2017 through 2019.