American Indians/Alaska Natives

Register for upcoming juvenile-justice related webinars on funding, programs, and initiatives.

OJJDP has announced the following fiscal year 2020 funding opportunities: 

• Training and Technical Assistance To Expand Children's Advocacy Centers Serving American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: All applications are due by April 7, 2020.
• Tribal Children's Advocacy Center Expansion Initiative for Child Abuse Victims: All applications are due by April 7, 2020.
• Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative: All applications are due by April 13, 2020...

On February 13, 2020, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET, the OJJDP Tribal Youth Resource Center will present "Tribal Youth Truancy Prevention Learning Series: Developing Truancy Codes." This webinar will provide best practices relative to laws and policies for reducing truancy as a risk factor among tribal youth. Register for this webinar.

Resources:

• Visit OJJDP's Tribal Youth Programs and Services website.
• Follow OJJDP...

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

• The 2019 AMBER Alert in Indian Country Symposium and remarks by Pamela Foster, the mother of Ashlynne Mike, a Navajo girl who was abducted and murdered.
• The Good Samaritan and Minnesota AMBER Alert that lead to the safe return of two abducted girls.
• Tanea Parmenter, Idaho's AMBER Alert co-coordinator...

OJJDP has announced the following fiscal year 2020 funding opportunities: 

• Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS): All applications are due by February 25, 2020. 
  (Open to federally recognized Tribes and Tribal consortia.)
  • CTAS Category 8: Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts    
  • CTAS Category 9: Tribal Youth Program 

• Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children: All applications are due...

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...

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...