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The National Center for School Engagement is offering “Creating a Trauma Informed School” on June 9, 2017, in Colorado Springs, CO. This training will provide educators and counselors with an understanding of the educational impacts of trauma on students. Participants will learn strategies to help students who have experienced trauma to become successful in the classroom, school, and community.
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The Missing and Exploited Children's Training and Technical Assistance (MEC TTA) Program provides assistance to prosecutors, state and local law enforcement and child protection personnel, medical providers, and other child-serving professionals to strengthen multidisciplinary responses to and improve prosecution of child victimization cases. OJJDP funds the MEC TTA Program to build the capacity of state and local agencies and to encourage the development and implementation...
The AMBER Alert program is a partnership of law enforcement, broadcasters and media, transportation agencies, emergency management agencies, telecommunications/call centers, other public safety agencies, and child protection organizations and professionals dedicated to recovering endangered missing and abducted children. The National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program serves to increase the nation's capacity to respond to incidents of endangered missing and abducted children. This program...
Courtesy of Robert L. Listenbee, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
In proclaiming National Youth Justice Awareness Month last month, President Obama emphasized the importance of reforming our juvenile justice system to address the needs of youth who come into contact with it. Youth arrests have dropped significantly over the past decade, yet there were about one million youth arrests in 2014 alone...
The ICAC program supports a national network of 61 multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces engaged in investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions related to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. Additionally, the task forces provide forensic and investigative technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutorial officials and community education information to parents, educators, prosecutors, law enforcement, and others concerned with child exploitation. This program supports OJJDP, the ICAC task...
OJJDP invites fifth graders to participate in the 2017 National Missing Children’s Day poster contest. The annual contest creates an opportunity for schools, law enforcement, and other child advocates to discuss the issue of missing and/or exploited children with youth, parents, and guardians and to promote child safety.
OJJDP will invite the national winner, parents, teacher, and state clearinghouse manager to Washington, DC, to...
The OJJDP co-funded Forum on Promoting Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host the interactive public workshop “Training the Future Child Health Care Workforce to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes for Children, Youth, and Families” on November 29-30, 2016, in Washington, DC. The workshop will focus on training health care professionals who work in...
On October 19, 2016, the Department of Justice announced the launch of “Changing Minds,” the first national campaign to raise awareness, teach skills, and inspire public action to address children’s exposure to violence and trauma. Established through the Department’s Defending Childhood Initiative, the national education campaign features digital and print content intended to reach adults who interact with children and youth in grades...
On September 29, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved improvements to Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a system that delivers critical warnings and information to wireless phone users. The FCC updates are intended to enhance the information state and local authorities are able to send into communities. The changes include requiring wireless providers to support inclusion of embedded phone numbers and URLs in all WEA...
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy has established the Janet Reno Endowment to honor and promote her legacy as America’s first woman Attorney General and lifelong advocate for children and youth. The endowment will sustain programs and activities focused on the issues to which Janet Reno devoted her career. The endowment will fund efforts that enhance...
