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Elementary school age (5-10)

Implementation Sites Project

Date Published
October 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Indian Child Welfare Act Judicial Benchbook

Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Legislation/Policy Description, Legislation/Policy Analysis, Instructional Material
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

OJJDP FY 2020 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program

Closing Date
Through this program, OJJDP seeks to improve and expand the development and implementation of training and technical assistance on effective responses to missing and exploited children's issues for multidisciplinary teams of prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, child protection personnel, medical providers, and other child-serving professionals. Additionally, this program will provide support for the implementation of all National Missing Children's Day activities.

New Issue of AMBER Advocate Newsletter Now Available

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 4 2019

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 FY 2020 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children

Closing Date

This program will provide funding to support states and units of local government to develop programs within detention or correctional facilities to respond to the needs of incarcerated parents who have children younger than age 18. This program supports activities that foster positive family engagement between incarcerated parents and their children within detention and correctional facilities, and implement programs and services that support the children...