Populations

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...

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...