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Office of Justice Programs Awards More Than $143.7 Million in Child Protection Grants

Today, the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs announced awards of more than $143.7 million in child protection grants. The awards will enhance state, local and tribal jurisdictions' capabilities to protect children and respond to juvenile victimization. OJJDP and the Office for Victims of Crime awarded grants to more than 120 sites, jurisdictions, and task forces nationwide. The funds will help communities find missing children...

New Issue of AMBER Advocate Newsletter Now Available

The AMBER Advocate Issue 3 2019
The AMBER Advocate

OJJDP has released the latest issue of The AMBER Advocate newsletter. This issue features articles on:

  • The tragic ties between missing and abducted children and child sex trafficking, spotlighted at the 2019 National AMBER Alert Symposium,
  • The Navajo Nation symposium on child sex trafficking in tribal communities, and
  • European police officers' animated video created for International Missing Children's Day.

The AMBER Advocate newsletter is now...

Positive Indian Parenting

Event Dates
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Location
Marriott Denver Tech Center

Denver, CO

Event Type
Classroom

Protecting Tribal Youth from Abduction

Date Published
August 2017
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Instructional Material (Programmed)
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Safe Routes Program

Date Published
October 2017
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Instructional Material (Programmed)
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored