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New Webinar for Youth Justice Professionals on Helping States Implement Hate Crime Prevention Strategies

Join OJJDP on May 26, 2022, at 2 p.m. ET for "Helping States Implement Hate Crime Prevention Strategies in Their 3-Year Plan," part of OJJDP's Preventing Youth Hate Crimes & Identity-Based Bullying Initiative webinar series.

Presenters will discuss best practices to mitigate juvenile hate crime and help states implement these prevention strategies over three years. Participants will learn about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation...

An Introduction to Youth Hate Crimes and Hate Groups for Juvenile Justice Professionals Webinar

March 2022
Held on March 10, 2022, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP hosted An Introduction to Youth Hate Crimes and Hate Groups for Juvenile Justice Professionals. During the webinar, presenters helped participants understand hate crimes and hate groups, and explained how to identify the difference between bullying, harassment, and hate crimes.

LGBTQI-GNC and Two-Spirit Blog for StopBullying.gov

By: Robert L. Listenbee, Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with contributions from Keith Towery, Grants Management Specialist, OJJDP

All children deserve a chance—a chance to be safe, to be educated and to be themselves. Too often, this chance is denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, gender nonconforming (LGBTQI-GNC) and Two-Spirit1 youth. Many of these youth are...