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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...