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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...
By: Robert L. Listenbee, Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with contributions from Keith Towery, Grants Management Specialist, OJJDP
All children deserve a chance—a chance to be safe, to be educated and to be themselves. Too often, this chance is denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, gender nonconforming (LGBTQI-GNC) and Two-Spirit1 youth. Many of these youth are...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News At A Glance, September/October. This issue’s top story and video Q&A between Administrator Listenbee and OJJDP Associate Administrator Kellie Blue highlight President Obama’s proclamation of October 2016 as National Youth Justice Awareness Month and OJJDP’s efforts to reform the juvenile justice system to ensure better outcomes for system-involved youth...
