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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...
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...
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.
This program will provide funding to support reentry strategies that address treatment services for youth with co-occurring substance abuse problems and mental health disorders, reentry services for gang-involved youth, and training and technical assistance to improve community supervision practices for juveniles who are placed on probation or are being released from secure confinement. This solicitation will provide grants under the following categories.
Category 1: Implementing...
OJJDP has announced the following fiscal year 2018 funding opportunities:
OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center will present the first part of the two-part webinar series "Restorative Justice for Tribal Youth: Philosophy and Practice" on March 27, 2018, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET. The second part of the series is on May 29, 2018, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET. The webinars will explore restorative justice for tribal youth...
This project supports a national training and technical assistance program for attorneys and others involved in prosecuting child abuse cases in state or federal courts to enhance the effectiveness of the investigation and prosecution of such crimes.
OJJDP has announced the following fiscal year 2018 funding opportunity:
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The purpose of this program is to ensure that court-appointed special advocates are available to all victims of child abuse or neglect and that they receive high quality representation in dependency court hearings.
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, in partnership with OJJDP's Center for Coordinated Assistance to States, has issued a request for applications from jurisdictions seeking to engage in multi-system improvement efforts. The Multi-System Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance Program supports jurisdictions that are interested in developing a sound infrastructure to promote multi-system approaches to serving at-risk youth, youth who are involved with the...
OJJDP has released the fall 2017 issue of The AMBER Advocate newsletter. This issue features articles on:
The U.S...
OJJDP's National Training and Technical Assistance Center website, including the OJJDP Online University, will no longer be available as of December 22, 2017. Information about OJJDP training and technical assistance services is available on the OJJDP Training and Technical Assistance web page.
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On December 6, 2017, from 12 to 1 p.m. ET, OJJDP, in collaboration with the Age of Criminal Responsibility Research Training and Technical Assistance Center, will present "Practical Impact of the Age of Criminal Responsibility: Perspectives of Youth and Family Members." This webinar will highlight a young adult who was formerly incarcerated as a juvenile within the adult criminal justice system; a family member of...
In 2014, OJJDP selected Kentucky, Hawaii, and Georgia to participate in its Comprehensive Juvenile Justice System Improvement Initiative. Since then, South Dakota and West Virginia (2015), Kansas (2016), and Utah (2017) have joined the initiative. Under the initiative's Comprehensive Strategy to Juvenile Justice Reform, these states are working to provide diversion alternatives, community-based options, and other improvements to reduce recidivism, decrease correctional spending, and...
