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On October 8 to 12, 2017, the National Partnership for Juvenile Services will host its 23rd National Symposium on Juvenile Services in Orlando, FL. This event will bring together juvenile and human services leadership and professionals for training and the opportunity to share program approaches being implemented within the juvenile justice system nationwide. OJJDP staff and grantees will present at the event.
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The National Center for Juvenile Justice, with support from OJJDP, has published "5 Ways Juvenile Court Judges Can Use Data." This issue brief provides examples of how juvenile court judges can use data to improve the functioning of their courtrooms and outcomes for youth appearing before the court. This brief is one of a series that will include briefs for law enforcement...
On August 1, 2017, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET, OJJDP, in collaboration with the National Girls Initiative, will present Mi Hermana's Keeper: A Toolkit of Promising Practices for Juvenile Justice Prevention Programs Supporting Latina Youth." This webinar will highlight a new toolkit for serving Latina youth who have been or are at risk of being involved with the juvenile justice system. This toolkit...
OJJDP has released the spring 2017 issue of its online Journal of Juvenile Justice. This issue features articles on factors that help reduce recidivism and support successful reentry for youth. This includes articles on how juvenile facility operations affect recidivism, the effect that neighborhood characteristics have on recidivism rates, and how girls perceive their supports and challenges as they transition to home after incarceration...
The Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center has released a series of research reports based on its evaluation of OJJDP's Juvenile Justice Reform and Reinvestment Initiative (JJRRI), which was implemented in demonstration sites in Delaware, Iowa, and Milwaukee County, WI. JJRRI helped the sites develop and implement a comprehensive approach to juvenile justice decisionmaking and practice to reduce recidivism, make them more cost effective, and improve existing...
The National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS), in collaboration with Juvenile Detention Centers and Alternative Programs, is hosting a Training for Trainers on July 10-14, 2017, in Harrisburg, PA. This event will help agency trainers learn the skills they need to develop staff who work with justice-involved youth. Participants will learn how to better apply adult learning methodology to their agency training events. Attendees...
On September 26-28, 2017, Global Youth Justice will host its 17th Global Youth Justice Training Institute in Cape Cod, MA. Participants will learn strategies to enhance and establish volunteer-driven youth diversion programs-teen, peer, youth, and student courts and peer juries. Topics will include training sessions on recruiting and training adult/youth volunteers, data collection, juvenile referral sources, improving peer-imposed community service, community partnerships, wrap-around services, and...
A new article posted on The Pew Charitable Trusts website highlights seven states taking the lead in systemwide, multicomponent, juvenile justice reform as part of Pew's Public Safety Performance Project. In the article, Project Director Jake Horowitz describes his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about policy reform in the first six states to join the project-Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, South Dakota, and West Virginia...
On May 24, 2017, the Department of Justice issued the following press release: WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein today recognized two law enforcement officers, two state-level task forces, and a private citizen for their efforts to recover missing and abducted children and investigate cases of sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.
The awards, coordinated by the Office of Juvenile...
OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB):
By: Eileen M. Garry, Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
We all hear stories about inner city violence, the abuse and victimization suffered by youth in rural areas, and children who have been bullied in school or online. Few of us, however, are fully aware of the prevalence of this violence and the lasting impact it has on our children. While crime...
The Performance-based Standards (PbS) Learning Institute has released two publications—"PbS Perspective" and "What Youths Say Matters: A Historical Look"—that focus on using data-driven performance-based standards to improve juvenile justice agencies and residential facilities. The first publication highlights practices in youth residential facilities that are improving education and recidivism outcomes. The second publication reports findings based on PbS' Youth Climate Survey regarding the perceptions of youth...
