The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders (Wilson and Howell, 1993) serves as a juvenile justice planning process that uses local planning teams to assess the factors and influences that put youth at risk of delinquency, determine available resources, and establish prevention programs to reduce risk factors and provide protective factors that buffer juveniles from the impact of risk factors. OJJDP published the Guide for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders in 1995 and has distributed almost 30,000 copies of the Guide. It is available from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (see "How To Access Information From JJC").
OJJDP launched a national training and technical assistance initiative in selected communities in 1996 and in selected States in 1997. During FY 1998, OJJDP continued to provide intensive training and technical assistance to three pilot sites (San Diego County, CA; and Fort Myers and Jacksonville, FL) in the development of strategic plans for implementing the Comprehensive Strategy. OJJDP also is providing intensive onsite technical assistance in Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin. OJJDP is field testing a community planning manual, designed to assist local juvenile justice planners and professionals in developing a comprehensive strategic plan, and anticipates publishing the manual in 2000.
OJJDP continues to provide Comprehensive Strategy technical assistance, resource information, and guidance workshops on the Comprehensive Strategy to interested sites. OJJDP also plans to publish in 2000 a Comprehensive Strategy training curriculum based on the experiences of the communities and States that are developing Comprehensive Strategy plans.
The local sites and sites in Iowa, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Texas have published local Comprehensive Strategic plans. Several of these are available on OJJDP's Web site.
Developmental Research and Programs, Inc., of Seattle, WA, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency of San Francisco, CA, provide training and technical assistance for this project through an OJJDP grant.
In 1999, OJJDP also began a process evaluation of the Comprehensive Strategy. In addition to addressing key process evaluation issues, the evaluation is examining the complexity and variation in the program and identifying general principles and unique accomplishments. It also will provide the basis for the development of an impact evaluation design. The evaluation is being conducted by Caliber Associates of Fairfax, VA.
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