Juvenile (under 18)
SMART Team Trauma-Informed Mentoring Program
Badges For Baseball - A Youth Mentoring Program
4-H National Mentoring Program
Overcoming ACES: a mentoring program in Bexar County, Texas
Families Supporting Reentry: A 2-GEN Approach (FSR)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: Reducing Risk Increasing Pro-Social Skills through BBBS Youth Mentoring
Hawaii ICAC Task Force Program
PROJECT SEEDS - HEALS (Social Emotional Enhance and Development for Success - Helping Empower and Lift Society)
Coordinated Assistance to States by AIR
OJJDP Facts in Focus: Reentry Starts Here
In this video, Dr. Sanzanna Dean, OJJDP Deputy Associate Administrator, discusses the OJJDP's toolkit Reentry Starts Here: A Guide for Youth in Long-Term Juvenile Corrections and Treatment Programs. Every year, tens of thousands of youth return to their communities from residential placement, too often with no reentry plan. The resources provided in this guide speak to common barriers that youth may experience upon reentry. The guide includes specific actions youth can take to address those barriers with the help of a caring adult.
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Protecting Children in a Digital Age
Appleton, WI
The Role of the Juvenile Prosecutor
Columbia, SC
Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has released the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines.
Juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTC) are designed for youth with substance use disorders who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. The new guidelines provide juvenile courts with an evidence-based, treatment-oriented approach that emphasizes family engagement, and addresses the substance use and often co-occurring mental health...
JJDP Act Native American Pass-Through Calculation
Methodology for Fiscal Years 2010 - 2017
Section 223(a)(5)(C) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended requires states to provide funds for programs of Native American Indian Tribes that perform law enforcement functions. The Act specifies a formula that is based on the proportion of the number of Tribal youth under 18 years of age to the total number of...
OJJDP Updates Statistical Briefing Book
OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB):
- Easy Access to Juvenile Populations and related FAQs in the Juvenile Population Characteristics and Hispanic Youth in the Juvenile Justice System sections have been updated to 2018.
- FAQs in the Juvenile Population Characteristics section have been updated, including living arrangements, teen moms, and high school completion.
- Easy Access to State and County Juvenile...
OJJDP/NIJ Bulletin Summarizes Juvenile Arrests
OJJDP and the National Institute of Justice have released "Juvenile Arrests, 2017." This bulletin documents recent trends in juvenile arrests using data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. Overall, juvenile arrests have declined for more than a decade, but patterns vary by demographic group and offense. Findings show that in 2017, law enforcement agencies arrested more than 809,700 persons younger than 18...
OJJDP News @ a Glance, July/August 2019
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News @ a Glance, July/August 2019. This issue's top story discusses the first convening of OJJDP's Restorative Justice Working Group in Washington, DC.
Other features in this issue—
OJJDP News @ a Glance, July/August 2019
Characteristics of Cases Judicially Waived From Juvenile to Criminal Court
Juvenile Arrests, 2017
Visiting Our Partners at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
By Caren Harp, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a critical partner to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), serving as a resource to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. Since its founding in 1984, NCMEC has helped recover more than 296,000 missing...
Registration Open for 2019 Global Youth Justice Conference
On December 3-5, 2019, Global Youth Justice will host its 2019 Global Youth Justice Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Participants will learn strategies to enhance and expand local volunteer-driven juvenile justice and youth justice diversion programs called Youth/Teen/Student/Peer Court or Peer Jury. Conference sessions, panels, and presentations will address administrative, operational, programmatic, funding, grant writing, and peer-to-peer learning related to expanding and enhancing these early...