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Webinar To Discuss "Understanding Girls and the Juvenile Justice System – A Review of Recent National Data"

 

On September 24, 2018, at 2 p.m. ET, OJJDP, in collaboration with the National Girls Initiative, will present "Understanding Girls and the Juvenile Justice System – A Review of Recent National Data." In this 90-minute webinar, participants will learn about available data resources relating to victimization and offending of girls, and the juvenile justice system’s response to law-violating behavior by girls. The presenters...

Build the Skills To Support Tribal Youth

Date Published
November 2016
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed), Factsheet
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Op-Ed: OJJDP Is Simplifying Title II Work to Focus on DMC Reduction, Not Process

Op-Ed By: Caren Harp, OJJDP Administrator

Originally posted by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on June 29, 2018

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is taking a new approach to Title II (the portion of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act authorizing states to innovate efforts to improve juvenile justice systems and ensure the fair treatment of youth) that will facilitate...

OJJDP FY 18 Gang Suppression: A Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach to Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien Children

Closing Date

The primary purposes of the OJJDP FY18 Gang and Youth Prevention Partnerships project are the reduction of violent youth crime, gun and gang violence and victimization in communities and to increase public safety in coordination with law enforcement and local partners. Through comprehensive strategic planning, communities develop and implement specific plans to reduce community violence by taking collective action. These goals will be achieved through...

OJJDP FY 18 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative

Closing Date

This program will support the Administrations priority of responding to the opioid epidemic by addressing public safety to children, youth and families impacted by opioid addiction. Category 1: Implementing Data Driven Strategies and Programs Through Strategic Partnerships will support local units of government and/or Tribal governments to 1) develop multi-disciplinary working groups; 2) collect and interpret data that will assist the working group in developing...

OJJDP FY 18 Supporting Tribal Youth: Training, Technical Assistance and Youth Leadership

Closing Date

This multi-category solicitation will provide regional and national training to build youth leaders across Indian Country, and provide training and technical assistance to OJJDP Tribal grantees and federally recognized Tribes. The specific category titles are: Tribal Youth Leadership Development Initiative, and Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance program.

The AMBER Advocate, Spring 2018

Date Published
April 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored