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The OJJDP Tribal Youth Resource Center, in partnership with the National Native Children's Trauma Center, will be hosting online learning events in June 2019. Webinars start at 2 p.m. ET, topics and dates include:
On June 12, 2019, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP, in collaboration with the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania and the National Partnership for Juvenile Services, will present "More Than Half: Brain Injury Among Justice-Involved Youth." This webinar will discuss brain injury and its impact among justice-involved youth. The webinar will also summarize the latest research related to the overrepresentation of brain injury...
On May 22, 2019, the Department of Justice issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today recognized 17 law enforcement officers from California, Florida, and Texas, as well as two firefighters from Tennessee, for their efforts to find missing children and bring sexual predators and pornographers to justice.
Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O'Callaghan, Office of Justice Programs Principal...
On April 25, 2019, the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs awarded more than $74.5 million in grants to reduce recidivism among adults and youth after confinement. OJJDP, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the National Institute of Justice awarded grants to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions, research institutions, and organizations to support reentry. OJJDP awarded $14.2 million to support reentry for detained juveniles...
By Jerry Milner, Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau and Caren Harp, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Nearly five children die daily from abuse and neglect. In 2017, an estimated 1,720 children died from abuse, and 72% of them were younger than three years old.
In order to promote safety for children, focus on abuse prevention, and raise awareness, President Donald Trump...
The FY 2019 Addressing the Training Needs of Juvenile Prosecutors program will fund state agencies responsible for administering, managing, or overseeing the training, education, and professional development needs of juvenile prosecutors and their support staff. The juvenile prosecutor's office has a need for legal training because of the specialized nature of juvenile and family law. This funding will allow states to develop or supplement existing...
OJJDP has released "Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2016." This fact sheet presents statistics on delinquency cases handled in U.S. juvenile courts from 2005 to 2016. During the 12-year period, the number of delinquency cases involving juveniles declined 49 percent. Decreases were experienced across four offense categories: property, public order, person, and drug law violations. The estimates are based on data from more...
On June 18-20, 2019, Global Youth Justice, in collaboration with the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, will host its 22nd Global Youth Justice Training in Las Vegas, NV. Participants will learn strategies to establish or enhance local volunteer-driven juvenile justice and youth justice diversion programs called Youth/Teen/Student/Peer Court or Peer Jury. Training will address administrative, operational, programmatic, and fiscal topics related...
This program will support states and localities in developing and implementing strategies to ensure that youth involved with the juvenile justice system have fair and equal access to quality legal representation; ensure that offenders involved with the juvenile justice system have resources that address the collateral consequences of justice system involvement; and/or provide training for the juvenile indigent defense bar, including public defenders and court-appointed...
OJJDP has added new arrest data resources on its Statistical Briefing Book:
The OJJDP FY 2019 Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Prosecutors program will fund a national training and technical assistance program for attorneys and others who are involved in the criminal prosecution of child abuse to enhance the effectiveness of the investigation and prosecution of such crimes. The successful applicant will be required to provide training and technical...
OJJDP has released "Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2016: Selected Findings." This bulletin presents findings from OJJDP’s Juvenile Residential Facility Census, a biennial survey that collects data on every state’s public and private juvenile residential facilities. Findings from the 2016 census indicate that the number of youth in residential placement continues to decline, a trend that has lasted nearly two decades. The data also indicate...
