Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program aims to  reduce juvenile delinquency, gang involvement, academic failure, victimization and school dropout rates by funding a coordinator position at a local continuum of mentoring services for youth. Full announcement (PDF, 356KB)
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention demonstration program will study efforts to improve mentoring practices at three to five sites in one geographic area. Improvements will cover (1) the matching of youth and mentors based on needs, skills, experiences, and interests; (2) initial and ongoing training for mentors, and (3) ongoing mentor support. Full announcement (PDF,...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will fund the annual collection, verification, and analysis of data about the juvenile justice court system and its response to youth who break the law or are at-risk of getting into trouble. The archive will disseminate information on juvenile court case processing and make national and state data publicly accessible online. The archive...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program wishes to support research that will enhance our understanding of how mentoring can prevent problems for those who are at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. While mentoring appears to be a promising way of helping these youth, more work is needed to identify the components of a mentoring program...
The Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention seeks an organization to plan and put on the National Intertribal Youth Summit. Read the funding opportunity announcement (PDF, 361KB).
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