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Juvenile delinquency prevention

OJJDP FY 2021 Delinquency Prevention Grants Program

Closing Date
This program provides funding to eligible states or federally recognized Tribes to implement evidence-based strategies to address the unmet needs of at-risk or delinquent youth through a continuum of delinquency prevention programs for juveniles who have had or who are likely to have contact with juvenile justice systems.

OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2021

JUVJUST AMBER Alert

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2021. This issue's Message From the Administrator introduces OJJDP’s new Acting Administrator, Chyrl Jones. The top story chronicles the 25-year history of the development of the AMBER Alert system. The Youth Voices column recounts how an OJJDP-sponsored youth mentoring program led one high school student to...

Optimizing Juvenile Assessment Performance

Date Published
December 2020
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

OJJDP FY 2019 TTA Annual Report

Date Published
November 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored