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MentorYouth.com National Training Seminar

On September 24–27, 2006, in New Orleans, LA, the National Network of Youth Ministries, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Corporation for National and Community Service, will host Mobilizing New Mentors…Through Faith- and Community-Based Collaborations. Speakers will include J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; David Eisner, Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service; Harry Wilson, Associate Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families; and Doug Tegner, Executive Director, National Network of Youth Ministries. The registration deadline is September 14, 2006.

To access further information about this national training seminar and register online, visit http://www.mentoryouth.com/trainingpromo/.

11th Annual DMC Conference

OJJDP's 11th annual conference on disproportionate minority contact (DMC) will take place September 7-10, 2006, in New Orleans, LA. The conference theme is "Law Enforcement Solutions for Reducing Racial Disparities and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice."

Presented through a grant to the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, the September conference is designed to expand partnerships among state juvenile justice advisory groups, state juvenile justice agencies, local juvenile justice practitioners, and law enforcement officers seeking ways to reduce racial disparities and disproportionately high rates of juvenile justice system contact for minority youth. The conference will focus on law enforcement officers' first points of contact with at-risk and offending youth and on the challenges states face in addressing the federal core protection on DMC.

For more information about the conference, visit www.juvjustice.org/conferences/index_conference.html

Measurement of Racial Disparity in the Juvenile Justice System

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report reviews research evidence on racial disparity in juvenile case processing and concludes:

When racial/ethnic disparities do occur, they can be found at any stage of processing within the juvenile justice system. Research suggests that disparity is most pronounced at arrest . . . and that when racial/ethnic differences exist, their effects accumulate as youth are processed through the juvenile justice system.

National Report, Chapter 6, p. 188

OJJDP's online Statistical Briefing Book offers an expanded version of the National Report





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