OJJDP's major vehicle for distributing information is the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (JJC). JJC offers toll-free telephone and online access to information, prepares specialized responses to information requests, produces and distributes OJJDP publications, exhibits at national conferences, and maintains a comprehensive juvenile justice library and database. The Clearinghouse is a component of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service and is located in Rockville, MD.
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How To Access Information From JJC
Phone: 800-638-8736 To order publications via e-mail: [email protected] Internet: ojjdp.ncjrs.org |
The Clearinghouse also oversees OJJDP's popular electronic mailing list, JUVJUST, which currently has close to 4,500 subscribers (up from 2,000 in 1997). JUVJUST alerts subscribers to new documents, funding opportunities, and other OJJDP news. Subscribers received more than 120 postings in 1998.
JJC also produces many of OJJDP's publications, including the Juvenile Justice journal and OJJDP Bulletins, Fact Sheets, and Research Reports. During FY 1998, JJC produced 71 documents and distributed almost 3 million publications (a 45-percent increase over FY 1997). JJC also represented OJJDP at 148 conferences.
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The information I receive through the JUVJUST mail list and the documents that are available through the NCJRS home page are outstanding. I doubt if there is a way to measure the effectiveness of these, but in terms of disseminating best practice information to community resources, you get an A+++. Kudos all the way around.
Deputy Director, Covenant House |
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