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Op-Ed: OJJDP Is Simplifying Title II Work to Focus on DMC Reduction, Not Process

Op-Ed By: Caren Harp, OJJDP Administrator

Originally posted by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on June 29, 2018

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is taking a new approach to Title II (the portion of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act authorizing states to innovate efforts to improve juvenile justice systems and ensure the fair treatment of youth) that will facilitate...

Juvenile Court Statistics, 2015

Date Published
April 2018
Publication Type
Statistics, Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic)
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Juvenile Facility Data Added to Statistical Briefing Book

 

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book to include national and state data from the 2016 Juvenile Residential Facility Census.

Resources include:

Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the research...

Applications Being Accepted for School-Justice Partnerships Certificate Program

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform has released a request for applications for the 2018 School-Justice Partnerships and Diversion Pathways Certificate Program to be held September 24-28, 2018, in Washington, DC. This program, held in partnership with theAmerican Institutes for Research and the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, will provide an intensive, weeklong training to help school and district staff...

Drug Treatment Courts

Date Published
May 2024
Publication Type
Technical Assistance, Factsheet
Agencies
BJA, NIJ, OJJDP

The AMBER Advocate, Spring 2018

Date Published
April 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored