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U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

January/February 2002Volume I Number 1

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Special Feature

Agency News

Funding Update

Upcoming Events

New Publications

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A New Approach toInformation Dissemination

Sharing information with juvenile justice practitioners, policymakers, and thepublic—information about research, statistics, and programs that work—is alongstanding priority at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre-

vention (OJJDP). The agency uses many methods to move information to the field,including print publications, electronic products (such as CD–ROMs, listservs, andWeb sites), and satellite videoconferences. OJJDP recently has begun to change itsapproach to information dissemination, relying more on its Web site as a disseminationvehicle and exploring the advantages of electronic publishing.

Beginning in 2002, OJJDP is targeting its mailings of publications and solicitations tomore carefully defined audiences. As always, electronic versions of all publications andsolicitations may be viewed and downloaded at the agency’s Web site (ojjdp.ncjrs.org).A limited number of print copies will be available from the Juvenile Justice Clearing-house on request. New publications and solicitations will be announced in this newsletter,on OJJDP’s Web site, and through the JUVJUST listserv (for more information onJUVJUST, see page 5). This new approach to information dissemination—more targetedmailings and greater reliance on the Web—will reduce paper clutter for OJJDP’s con-stituents and will bring considerable savings in postage and print costs for taxpayers.

OJJDP also is looking to online publication as an alternative to print for disseminatingcertain information. For example, statistics and other time-sensitive materials are anatural for the Web, where they can be published more quickly, updated more easily(and therefore more frequently), and presented without the physical constraints ofprint. Online publication will help OJJDP provide its constituents with the most up-to-date and comprehensive information possible.

Welcome to the first issue of OJJDP’s bimonthly newsletter, OJJDP News @ a Glance.The newsletter will bring you up-to-date notices of agency activities, recent publications,funding opportunities, and upcoming events. The first issue includes a special featurehighlighting OJJDP’s approach to information dissemination.

We hope to make News @ a Glance a one-stop shop for the latest developments atOJJDP, with an emphasis on providing quick access to online sources for publicationsand other resources. Let us know what types of features will make the newsletter mostuseful for you (e-mail askjj@ncjrs.org).

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Although the volume of OJJDP’smailings will decrease, the agency’soverall information disseminationactivity should expand—particularlywhen the economies of electronic

Agency News

Along-term vision or plan is essential to meaningfulchange. For communities, having a vision meansidentifying specific areas of need and deciding to

address them. For OJJDP, the process is much the same—identifying areas of need and deciding how best to supportcommunities in their efforts to bring about meaningfulchange related to juvenile justice. The process is an ongoingone. OJJDP evaluates its vision and adjusts its prioritiesperiodically to reflect the Nation’s current expectations ofthe juvenile justice system.

Now at the heart of OJJDP’s vision is a critical area of need:addressing the issue of serious and violent juvenile offenders.Research studies indicate that many of these juvenile offend-ers will continue offending into adulthood. By making a dif-ference in their lives, OJJDP hopes to reduce the problemsthey cause in their families, neighborhoods, and communitiesand to help them become contributing members of society.

With the problem of serious and violent juvenile offendersas its overarching concern, OJJDP is defining its areas offocus for 2002 and beyond. In 2002, the agency will givehigh priority to preparing serious and violent juvenile of-fenders to return successfully to their communities afterthey leave correctional institutions and training schools.

OJJDP will be part of a comprehensive effort to facilitatethe successful reentry of juvenile and adult serious andviolent offenders into communities across the country. TheOffice of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department ofJustice, has developed the Serious and Violent OffenderReentry Initiative in collaboration with agency partnersthroughout the Federal Government, including the U.S.Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,Education, and Housing and Urban Development, andthe National Institute of Corrections.

The Reentry Initiative represents a new way of doingbusiness for Federal, State, and local agencies. Insteadof focusing the Initiative on a competition for a limitedamount of discretionary funds, the Federal partners are

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dissemination are fully realized. Infor-mation sharing remains a top priorityas OJJDP streamlines its publishingprocesses and looks for innovativeways to provide the best possible

access to information. As a resultof the agency’s new approach, thejuvenile justice field should benefitfrom quicker, more focused accessto the information it needs. ■

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coming together to help State and local agencies navigatethe complex field of existing State formula and block grantsand to assist them in accessing, redeploying, and leveragingthose resources to support all components of a comprehen-sive reentry program. The discretionary funding to be madeavailable through this Initiative will be provided only to fillany gaps in existing Federal, State, and local resources.

The mission of the Reentry Initiative is to identify, imple-ment, and enhance reentry strategies and to build knowledgein the field regarding best practices for successful reentry.The goals of the Initiative are to reduce recidivism, enhancecommunity safety, and equip returning offenders with theability to become productive, law-abiding citizens. TheInitiative will encompass three phases:

➤ Protect and Prepare: Institution-based programs de-signed to prepare offenders to reenter society. Serviceswill include education, mental health and substanceabuse treatment, job training, mentoring, and fulldiagnostic and risk assessment.

➤ Control and Restore: Community-based transitionprograms that will work with offenders prior to andimmediately following their release from correctionalinstitutions. Services will include, as appropriate, edu-cation, monitoring, mentoring, life skills training, as-sessment, job skills development, and mental healthand substance abuse treatment.

➤ Sustain and Support: Community-based long-termsupport programs that will connect individuals whohave left the supervision of the justice system with anetwork of social services agencies and community-based organizations to provide ongoing services andmentoring relationships.

The Reentry Initiative envisions the development of modelreentry programs that begin in correctional institutionsand continue throughout an offender’s transition to andstabilization in the community. These programs will provide

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All publications may be viewed and downloaded at OJJDP’s Web site. (Visit the “NewPublications” page at ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/new.html for an alphabetical listing of titles, with content sum-maries and links to full-text files.) The publications may also be ordered from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouseat 800–638–8736, 410–792–4358 (fax), and puborder.ncjrs.org.

New Publications

The Criminal Justice System’sResponse to Parental Abduction.Summarizes findings of a national studythat reviewed all stages of the criminaljustice system’s response to parental ab-duction, including the reporting of theabduction, the investigation of the case,the finding and recovery of the victim,and the criminal prosecution of the per-petrator or perpetrators.Bulletin. December 2001. 16 pp. NCJ 186160.

Early Precursors of Gang Mem-bership: A Study of Seattle Youth.Analyzes Seattle Social DevelopmentProject data on the relationship betweenrisk factors present at ages 10 to 12 andthe likelihood of joining a gang betweenages 13 and 18 and explores implica-tions of this risk factor analysis for thedesign of prevention strategies.Youth Gang Series Bulletin. December 2001.6 pp. NCJ 190106.

The 8% Solution. Explains that theprevalence of serious juvenile delinquen-cy could be reduced significantly byidentifying and treating the eight per-cent of juveniles who are at risk ofbecoming chronic offenders when theyfirst come into contact with the juvenilejustice system and describes California’s8% Solution study and 8% Early Inter-vention Program.Fact Sheet. November 2001. 2 pp.FS 200139.

Hybrid and Other Modern Gangs.Focuses on the nature of hybrid gangs,whose customs are clearly distinguishedfrom the practices of more traditionalgangs, and draws on survey data,research findings, and field reports todetail these critical differences, review-ing such issues as gang stereotypesand gang migration in the process. Youth Gang Series Bulletin. December 2001.8 pp. NCJ 189916.

Issues in Resolving Cases of In-ternational Child Abduction byParents. Presents key findings from astudy funded by OJJDP to identify barriersencountered by those seeking to resolvecases of international child abductionby parents and features highlights fromthe study, including survey results, bestpractices, and recommendations.Bulletin. December 2001. 20 pp. NCJ 190105.

Law Enforcement and JuvenileCrime. Presents statistics on the extentand characteristics of juvenile arrests in1999, with trends from the 1980s. Usingdata compiled by the FBI, this Bulletinoffers the reader a wealth of informationon juvenile crime, including arrest ratesfor violent and property crimes, drug andweapon offenses,and violationsof alcohol andcurfew/loiteringlaws; arrest trendsby gender andrace/ethnicity;and characteristicsof homicide vic-tims and offenders.This is the firstBulletin in OJJDP’s new Juvenile Offendersand Victims National Report Series.Includes 94 charts, 2 data maps, and7 tables.National Report Series Bulletin. December 2001. 32 pp. NCJ 191031.

National Evaluation of the Title VCommunity Prevention Grants Pro-gram. Describes the national evaluationof the Title V Community Prevention GrantsProgram, which supports the implementa-tion of collaborative and community-baseddelinquency prevention plans.Fact Sheet. November 2001. 2 pp. FS 200137.

National Juvenile Court DataArchive Web Site. Describes theNational Juvenile Court Data ArchiveWeb site, developed by the NationalCenter for Juvenile Justice as a compo-nent of OJJDP’s online Statistical BriefingBook to inform researchers of data setshoused in the Archive and the proce-dures for accessing them.Fact Sheet. December 2001. 2 pp.FS 200140.

Offenders Incarcerated for CrimesAgainst Juveniles. Uses data fromthe 1997 Survey of Inmates in StateCorrectional Facilities to examine thecharacteristics of persons incarceratedfor victimizing children and youth.Crimes Against Children Series Bulletin.December 2001. 12 pp. NCJ 191028.

Public/Private Ventures’ Evalua-tion of Faith-Based Programs.Describes the work of Public/PrivateVentures (P/PV), a national nonprofit or-ganization whose mission is to improvethe effectiveness of social policies, pro-grams, and community initiatives, espe-cially those that affect juveniles andyoung adults.Fact Sheet. November 2001. 2 pp.FS 200138.

The Uniform Child-Custody Juris-diction and Enforcement Act.Describes the Uniform Child-CustodyJurisdiction and Enforcement Act, auniform State law designed to deterinterstate parental kidnapping andpromote uniform jurisdiction andenforcement provisions in interstatechild-custody and visitation cases.Bulletin. December 2001. 16 pp. NCJ 189181.

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for individualized reentry plans thataddress the issues confronting of-fenders as they return to the com-munity. Examples of potential programelements include institution-basedreadiness programs, institutional andcommunity assessment centers, reentrycourts, supervised or electronicallymonitored boarding houses, mentoringprograms, and community correctionscenters.

For the latest information on OJP’sReentry Initiative, visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reentry. More information on thejuvenile component of the ReentryInitiative and OJJDP’s other areasof focus will be available in futurenewsletters and on the agency’s Website in coming months.

FY 2002 Final Program PlanAs announced in the Federal Register,OJJDP has postponed publicationof its FY 2002 Final Program Planin order to accommodate any writtencomments that may have been delayedin reaching the agency. The ProposedProgram Plan was published in theFederal Register on October 23, 2001,with receipt of comments requestedby December 7. During that time peri-od, however, mail delivery to OJJDPwas severely disrupted as a result ofthe extraordinary circumstances arisingfrom the September 11 terrorist actsand subsequent anthrax attacks in-volving the U.S. mail. OJJDP expectsto receive its backlogged mail soon andwill make every effort to review, con-sider, and respond to any commentsin a timely manner so that the FinalProgram Plan can be published in theFederal Register as soon as possible.

The notice of publication delay waspublished in the Federal Register onDecember 21, 2001 (Vol. 66, No. 246,page 65994). It is also available fromthe Office of the Federal Register’sWeb site at www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. ■

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This section of the newsletter will highlight OJJDP’s current solicita-tions, recent grant awards, and other funding-related developments.Be sure to check the OJJDP Web site regularly for the latest news

on OJJDP funding opportunities.

Current SolicitationsOJJDP is currently accepting FY 2002 funding applications under the follow-ing programs:

➤ Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP). By supporting one-to-one mentor-ing projects throughout the country, JUMP plays a vital role in interveningwith youth at risk of failing in school, dropping out of school, or becominginvolved in delinquent behavior. Since 1994, OJJDP has funded 203 JUMPsites serving more than 9,200 youth in 47 States and 2 territories. (For addi-tional information about the program, visit OJJDP’s JUMP Web site atojjdp.ncjrs.org/JUMP/index. html.) Grant applications for FY 2002 are in-vited from organizations that can demonstrate knowledge of and/or expe-rience with mentoring programs, volunteers, and at-risk youth. (Previousrecipients of JUMP funds are not eligible for funding through this solicita-tion.) Up to $220,000 is available for each grant.

➤ Drug-Free Communities Support Program. A collaborative effort ofOJJDP and the Executive Office of the President, Office of National DrugControl Policy (ONDCP), the Drug-Free Communities Support Programserves as a catalyst for community involvement in confronting the problemof substance abuse among youth. The program seeks to strengthen com-munity antidrug coalitions and to enhance cooperation and coordination atthe Federal, State, and local levels. (For additional information about theprogram, visit OJJDP’s Drug-Free Communities Support Program Website at ojjdp.ncjrs.org/dfcs/index.html.) Grant applications for FY 2002 areinvited from coalitions whose primary mission is reduction of youth sub-stance abuse. Applicants must have worked together on substance abusereduction initiatives for at least 6 months. Proposed projects must focus onmore than one drug. Up to $100,000 is available for each grant. Applicantsmust provide a dollar-for-dollar match.

For application information, materials, and deadlines: Visit OJJDP’s Website at ojjdp.ncjrs.org and click on the “Grants & Funding” icon, or contact theJuvenile Justice Clearinghouse at 800–638–8736.

A Reminder About OJJDP Funding SourcesLocal governments and not-for-profit agencies can access OJJDP funds byapplying directly to State agencies receiving OJJDP Formula Grant, Title VCommunity Prevention, and Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grantfunds. Formula and block grant funds are awarded directly to designated Stateagencies, which establish funding priorities and select subgrant recipients.Contact information for OJJDP and other Office of Justice Program Stateadministering agencies is available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/state.htm. ■

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The third OJJDP NationalYouth Gang Symposium willbe held June 11–13, 2002,

in Orlando, FL. The event will focuson innovative and successful gang-related programs and strategies andwill provide current information onyouth gang activities and trends fromtop national experts. Professionalsfrom all fields are welcome—thesymposium is designed for anyoneinvolved in addressing the Nation’syouth gang problem, including lawenforcement, probation, parole, andcorrections professionals; schoolpersonnel and school resourceofficers; representatives fromcommunity-based organizations;youth-serving professionals; re-searchers; elected officials; andyouth in positions of leadership orintervention roles. A series of 10full-day preconference workshopsis planned for June 10.

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