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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Parts 2, 15, 22, and 99
[GEN Docket No. 90-314; FCC 93-451]
Amendment of the Commission's Rules To Establish New Personal
Communications Services
Corrections
In rule document 93-27336 beginning on page 59174 in the issue of
Monday, November 8, 1993, make the following corrections:
1. On page 59176, in the third column, in Sec. 2.106, the Table of
Frequency Allocations is corrected in its entirety and should read as
set forth below.
Sec. 2.106 Table of Frequency Allocations.
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International table United States table FCC use designators
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Government Non-Government
Region 1-allocation Region 2- Region 3- -------------------------------------------- Rule part(s) Special-use
MHz allocationMHz allocationMHz Allocation MHz Allocation MHz frequencies
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
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* * * * * * *
1670-1675 METEOROLOGICAL AIDS. *****
FIXED.
METEOROLOGICAL-
SATELLITE (space-to-
Earth).
MOBILE 740A
722
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1675-1690 1675-1690 1675-1690
METEOROLOGICAL AIDS. METEOROLOGICAL AIDS. METEOROLOGICAL AIDS.
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED.
METEOROLOGICAL- METEOROLOGICAL- METEOROLOGICAL-
SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to-
Earth). Earth). Earth).
MOBILE except MOBILE except MOBILE except
aeronautical aeronautical aeronautical
mobile. mobile. mobile.
722 722735A 722
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1690-1700 1690-1700 1690-1700
METEOROLOGICAL AIDS. METEOROLOGICAL AIDS. METEOROLOGICAL AIDS.
METEOROLOGICAL METEOROLOGICAL METEOROLOGICAL
SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to-
Earth). Earth). Earth).
FIXED. MOBILE except MOBILE-SATELLITE ....................
aeronautical mobile (Earth-to-space).
671722741 671722735A740 671722740742
------------------------------------------------------------------
1700-1710 1700-1710 1700-1710
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED.
METEOROLOGICAL- METEOROLOGICAL- METEOROLOGICAL-
SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to- SATELLITE (space-to-
Earth). Earth). Earth).
MOBILE except MOBILE except MOBILE except
aeronautical aeronautical aeronautical
mobile. mobile. mobile.
MOBILE-SATELLITE
(Earth-to-space).
671722 671722735A 671722743
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1710-1930 FIXED.
MOBILE740A *****
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722744745746746A
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1930-1970 1930-1970 1930-1970 1850-1990 1850-1990
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED. FIXED. PERSONAL EMERGING
MOBILE. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES.
SERVICES (99).
MOBILE. MOBILE MOBILE. PRIVATE OPERATIONAL-
MOBILE-SATELLITE FIXED MICROWAVE
(Earth-to-space). (94).
RADIO FREQUENCY
DEVICES (15).
746A 746A 746A
------------------------------------------------------------------
1970-1980 1970-1980 1970-1980
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED.
MOBILE. MOBILE. MOBILE.
MOBILE-SATELLITE
(Earth-to-space).
746A 746A 746B 746A
746C
------------------------------------------------------------------
1980-2010 FIXED. US331NG153
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MOBILE.
MOBILE-SATELLITE .................... 1990-2110 1990-2110
(Earth-to-space).
746A746B746C FIXED. AUXILIARY BROADCAST
MOBILE (74).
CABLE TELEVISION
(78).
------------------------------------------------------------------
2010-2025 FIXED.
MOBILE.
746A
------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-2110 FIXED.
MOBILE 747A.
SPACE RESEARCH
(Earth-to-space)
(space-to-space).
SPACE OPERATION
(Earth-to-space)
(space-to-space).
EARTH EXPLORATION-
SATELLITE (Earth-to-
space) (space-to-
space).
750A .................... US90US111US219 US90US111US219
US 222 US222NG23NG118
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2110-2120 FIXED. 2110-2200 2110-2150
MOBILE. FIXED. DOMESTIC PUBLIC EMERGING
MOBILE. FIXED (21). TECHNOLOGIES.
SPACE RESEARCH (deep PERSONAL
space) (Earth-to- COMMUNICATIONS
space). SERVICES (99).
746A PRIVATE OPERATIONAL-
FIXED MICROWAVE
(94).
PUBLIC MOBILE (22).
------------------------------------------------------------------
2120-2160 2120-2160 2120-2160
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED.
MOBILE. MOBILE. MOBILE. US111US252US331
MOBILE-SATELLITE NG23-NG153
(space-to-Earth).
-----------------------------------------------------------------
2150-2160
FIXED. MULTIPOINT
DISTRIBUTION (21).
746A 746A 746A NG23 PRIVATE OPERATIONAL-
FIXED MICROWAVE
(94).
----------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
2160-2170 2160-2170 2160-2170 2160-2200
FIXED. FIXED. FIXED. FIXED. DOMESTIC PUBLIC EMERGING
FIXED (21). TECHNOLOGIES.
MOBILE. MOBILE. MOBILE. MOBILE. ....................
MOBILE-SATELLITE PERSONAL
(space-to-Earth). COMMUNICATIONS
SERVICES (99).
PRIVATE OPERATIONAL-
FIXED MICROWAVE
(94).
746A 746A746B746C 746A PUBLIC MOBILE (22).
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2170-2200 FIXED.
MOBILE.
MOBILE-SATELLITE
(space-to-Earth).
746A746B746C US111US252US331 US331NG23NG153
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2200-2290 FIXED.
SPACE RESEARCH *****
(space-to-Earth)
(space-to-space).
SPACE OPERATION
(space-to-Earth)
(space-to-space).
EARTH EXPLORATION-
SATELLITE (space-to-
Earth) (space-to-
space).
MOBILE 747A
750A
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PART 15--[CORRECTED]
2. On page 59179, in the third column, the Table of contents Part
heading ``PART 156'' should read ``PART 15''.
3. On page 59179, in the Table of contents entry for Sec. 15.321,
the word ``iosochronous'' should read ``isochronous''.
Sec. 15.321 [Corrected]
3. On page 59181, in the second column, in Sec. 15.321(a), in the
tenth line, ``Sec. 15.319)(c)'' should read ``Sec. 15.319(c)''.
4. On page 59181, in the third column, in Sec. 15.321(c)(5), in the
third line from the bottom, ``on'' should read ``or''.
5. On page 59182, in the first column, in Sec. 15.321(d), in the
fifth line, ``channel'', should read ``channel;''.
6. On page 59182, in the second column, in Sec. 15.321(f), in the
second line, ``international'' should read ``intentional''.
Sec. 15.323 [Corrected]
7. On page 59182, in the second column, in Sec. 15.323(a), in the
first line, ``hall'' should read ``shall'' and in the second line,
``on'' should read ``one''.
Sec. 99.12 [Corrected]
8. On page 59184, in the second column, in Sec. 99.12, in the last
line, ``Secs. 99.202(2)'' should read ``Secs. 99.202(c)''.
Sec. 99.53 [Corrected]
9. On page 59185, in the second column, in Sec. 99.53(d), in the
third line, ``elevators'' should read ``elevations''.
Sec. 99.103 [Corrected]
10. On page 59185, in the third column, in Sec. 99.103(a), in the
third line from the bottom, after ``stations'', insert ``within''.
Sec. 99.130 [Amended]
11. On page 59186, in the first column, in Sec. 99.130(a), is
corrected by reprinting in its entirety ``Table 2 for Unpaired
Frequencies (MHz)''.
Unpaired Frequencies (MHz)
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License area
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Mobile transmit\1\ (12.5 kHz bandwidth):
901.90625,901.94375,
901.98125,901.91875,
901.95625,901.99375,
901.93125,901.96875
BTA
Base or mobile transmit (50 kHz bandwidth):
940.775, 940.825, 940.875 Nationwide
940.925, 940.975 MTA
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\1\Limited to paging licensees authorized under parts 22 and 90 of this
chapter.
Sec. 99.132 [Corrected]
12. On page 59186, in the first column, in Sec. 99.132(a), in the
second line, ``ban'' should read ``band''.
Sec. 99.231 [Corrected]
13. On page 59187, in the second column, in Sec. 99.231(a), Table 1
should read as set forth below:
Table 1.--Reduced Power for Base Station Antenna Heights Over 300 Meters
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Maximum
HAAT--meters (feet) E.I.R.P.
(watts)
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300 (984)....................................... 100
500 (1640)...................................... 65
1000 (3280)..................................... 30
500 (4920)...................................... 15
2000 (6560)..................................... 10
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Sec. 99.233 [Corrected]
14. On page 59187, in the third column, in Sec. 99.233(a), in Table
2, the headings should read as set forth below:
Table 2.--Coordination Distances in Kilometers (Miles)
PCS Base Station Antenna HAAT in Meters (Feet)
BILLING CODE 1505-01-D
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Part II
Department of Justice
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1994; Notice
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1994
AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, DOJ.
ACTION: Notice of proposed comprehensive plan for Fiscal Year 1994.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is
publishing for public comment this Notice of its Proposed Comprehensive
Plan for Fiscal Year 1994.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 16, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to John J. Wilson, Acting
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
633 Indiana Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20531.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marilyn Silver, Information
Dissemination and Planning Unit, (202) 307-0751. (This is not a toll-
free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a component of the Office of Justice
Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. Pursuant to the provisions
of section 204(b)(5)(A), 42 U.S.C. 5614 (b)(5)(A), of the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
5601 et seq. (hereinafter called the JJDP Act), the Acting
Administrator of OJJDP is publishing for public comment a Proposed
Comprehensive Plan describing the program activities which OJJDP
intends to carry out during Fiscal Year 1994. The Proposed
Comprehensive Plan includes activities authorized in Parts C and D of
Title II (42 U.S.C. 5651-5665a and 42 U.S.C. 5667-5667a) and in Title
IV, the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5651-5665a and 42
U.S.C. 5667-5667a) of the JJDP Act. Taking into consideration comments
received on this Proposed Comprehensive Plan, the Acting Administrator
will develop and publish a Final Comprehensive Plan describing the
particular program activities which OJJDP intends to fund during Fiscal
Year 1994 using in whole or in part funds appropriated under Parts C
and D of Title II and Title IV of said Act.
The actual solicitation of grant applications under the Final
Comprehensive Plan will be published separately, at a later date, in
the Federal Register. No proposals, concept papers, or other forms of
application should be submitted at this time.
Introduction
The youth of America do not simply represent our Nation's future.
They are our Nation's future. However, the serious and violent crime
rate among juveniles has increased sharply in the past few years.
Juveniles account for an increasing share of all violent crimes in the
United States. At the same time, a small portion of juvenile offenders
account for the bulk of all serious and violent delinquency.
Simultaneously, the number of juveniles taken into custody has
increased, as has the number of juveniles waived or transferred to the
criminal justice system. Admissions to juvenile facilities are at their
highest levels ever, and an increasing percentage of these facilities
are operating over capacity. Unfortunately, the already strained
juvenile justice system does not have adequate fiscal and programmatic
resources to identify juveniles at risk of becoming serious, violent,
or chronic delinquents and to provide appropriate prevention services
or intervene effectively with those juveniles who are already serious,
violent, or chronic delinquents.
A Comprehensive Strategy
To reverse national trends in juvenile violence, juvenile
victimization and family disintegration will require both a change in
national priorities and an unprecedented commitment by public and
private agencies, institutions, organizations, and individuals. OJJDP
has developed a comprehensive strategy to address serious, violent and
chronic delinquency. The strategy is based on OJJDP's review of
statistics, research and evaluation and focuses on promising approaches
in family strengthening, support for core institutions, delinquency
prevention, intervention, and treatment. Its implementation at the
State and local levels will require all sectors of the community to
participate in determining local needs and in formulating and funding
programs to meet those needs in order to prevent and treat delinquency.
(A Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile
Offenders, OJJDP (1993)).
This year, OJJDP will fund a variety of programs and projects to
implement the Comprehensive Strategy and foster community planning
efforts. OJJDP will work with a number of jurisdictions to test
mechanisms designed to assist communities to plan and implement
programs that address youth violence and delinquency.
Communities engaged in comprehensive planning to address the issue
of serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders will be supported by
OJJDP funding, technical assistance, information, and training
resources. As part of the current program development work on OJJDP's
Comprehensive Strategy, communities will be furnished a ``how to''
manual, providing a blueprint for assessing youth violence problems and
resources. An inventory of promising and successful program models to
help address the identified problems will also be provided to
interested jurisdictions. These resources will be made available to
cities and communities, including Weed and Seed jurisdictions, to
assist in the planning and implementation of coordinated efforts to
deal with youth violence problems. Program development work on OJJDP's
Comprehensive Strategy will also support the Attorney General's
national agenda for children by producing an early intervention program
strategy, focused on families and beginning with children aged 0-3.
Program models included in the early intervention strategy will seek to
preserve and strengthen families that need support in providing
healthy, nurturing environments for their childrens' social
development. Educare programs that provide both child care help for
parents and education readiness opportunities will be featured.
OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy is based on five key principles for
preventing and reducing chronic, serious and violent juvenile
delinquency. Each of these principles has as its aim either reducing or
identifying and controlling the small percentage of juvenile offenders
who are serious, violent and chronic offenders. These are stated below,
followed by examples of program activities to be carried out in FY 1994
that support each of the principles:
Strengthen families in their role of providing guidance,
discipline and strong values as their children's first teachers.
(1) A program of support for children of incarcerated parents.
(2) A Conference on mental health services and the juvenile justice
system.
(3) The permanent families for abused and neglected children
program.
(4) Support for regional and local advocacy centers for abused and
neglected children.
Support core social institutions, including schools,
religious institutions, and other local community based organizations,
to alleviate risk factors for delinquency and help children develop
their full potential.
(1) Law-Related Education programs in juvenile justice settings/
innovative approaches in Law-Related Education.
(2) Youth leadership and violence prevention programs for at-risk
youth.
(3) National School Safety Center.
(4) Technical assistance and training to juvenile courts.
(5) Congress of National Black Churches--National Anti-Drug Abuse
Program.
Promote prevention strategies that reduce the impact of
negative risk factors and enhance protective factors.
(1) Training and technical assistance in risk focused prevention to
be provided to 5,000 community leaders.
(2) Title V delinquency prevention--$13 million to be awarded to
States for subgrants to local units of government that have formulated
prevention plans (a separate program guideline will be issued for Title
V).
(3) Children and Firearms.
(4) Media Violence.
Intervene immediately when delinquent behavior first
occurs.
(1) Boys and Girls Clubs Gang Prevention and Intervention Program
to intervene with juvenile gang members in the early stages of gang
involvement.
(2) Program to promote alternative programs for juvenile female
offenders.
(3) Research on the impact of delay in the delivery of juvenile
court sanctions.
(4) Enforcement strategies for juvenile impaired driving due to
drug and alcohol abuse.
Establish a broad range of graduated sanctions that
provides both accountability and a continuum of services to respond
appropriately to the needs of each delinquent offender.
(1) Models of Effective Court-based Service Delivery to Children
and their Families.
(2) Juvenile Restitution and Community Service Training and
Technical Assistance.
(3) What Works: An Assessment of Programs for Juvenile Female
Offenders.
(4) Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders--an Intermediate Sanction
Program for Nonviolent Juvenile Offenders.
(5) The Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment
Program will provide funds to four jurisdictions to implement a
continuum of services for serious, violent, and chronic delinquents.
(6) Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration, Technical
Assistance and Evaluation program.
OJJDP is also assisting Denver, Atlanta, Omaha and other Nebraska
jurisdictions, and the District of Columbia, under a Department
initiative, ``Pulling America's Communities Together'' (PACT) Program,
to address violence issues in these jurisdictions, in designing and
implementing short-term measures to reduce the incidence of violence on
our streets, in our schools, and in our homes. These measures will be
integrated with long-term strategies such as those described above to
address the root causes of serious and violent crime and delinquency.
OJJDP is also participating in a collaborative effort with the
Bureau of Justice Assistance in the ``Comprehensive Communities
Program.'' Under this program, cities or counties faced with high rates
of drug-related crime and violence will develop a comprehensive
strategy for crime- and drug-control which requires law enforcement and
other governmental agencies to work in partnership with the community
to address these problems in terms of the environment which fosters
them. Each strategy must include a jurisdiction-wide commitment to
community policing, coordination among public and private agencies
(including, social services, public health, etc.), and efforts that
encourage citizens to take an active role in problem solving.
The Goals
OJJDP's Fiscal Year 1994 program plan is designed to address three
goals that reflect OJJDP's commitment to its mission and to
implementation of the comprehensive strategy.
OJJDP believes that prevention is the most cost-effective means of
dealing with juvenile delinquency. The first program plan goal for
Fiscal Year 1994 is to prevent the initial occurrence of all types of
juvenile offenses. This will require programs to strengthen and support
families in their role of providing guidance and discipline and to
support such core social institutions as schools, churches and
synagogues, and other community-based organizations to help children
develop to their maximum potential. OJJDP's prevention approach is
designed to mobilize communities, through community leaders, to
identify risk factors for delinquency as well those youth who are at
risk so that programs can be designed that are responsive to community
and youth needs and that will deter juveniles from becoming involved in
law violating conduct.
The second goal of the Fiscal Year 1994 program plan is to design
and establish community-based alternatives to detention and confinement
that are the least restrictive alternatives appropriate to the
juvenile's needs and protection of community safety and which promote
the maintenance of ties with family, school and community.
OJJDP also seeks to establish a broad spectrum of graduated
sanctions that provide accountability and a continuum of services that
respond appropriately to the needs of each juvenile offender.
Therefore, the third program plan goal for Fiscal Year 1994 is to
promote the development and implementation of juvenile justice policies
and practices that improve the juvenile justice system while promoting
law-abiding behavior and ensuring the most effective allocation of
system resources.
Overview
OJJDP was established by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-415), as amended, to provide a
comprehensive, coordinated approach to prevent and control juvenile
crime and improve the juvenile justice system. OJJDP administers a
State Formula Grants Program in 57 States and territories, funds over
100 projects through its Special Emphasis and National Institute for
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Discretionary Grant
Programs, and is charged with coordinating all Federal activities
related to juvenile justice and delinquency.
The OJJDP comprises four divisions. The first two, the Research and
Program Development and the Training and Technical Assistance
Divisions, together form the National Institute for Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention (NIJJDP). The Institute also includes the
Information Dissemination and Planning Unit in the Office of the
Administrator. The State Relations and Assistance Division and the
Special Emphasis Division are the two remaining OJJDP divisions.
In addition, OJJDP serves as the staff agency for the Coordinating
Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, coordinates the
Concentration of Federal Efforts Program, and administers the Title IV
Missing and Exploited Children's program, the Title V Prevention
Incentive Grants Program, and programs under the Victims of Child Abuse
Act of 1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.).
1992 JJDP Act Amendments
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Amendments of 1992
expanded the role of OJJDP in Federal efforts to prevent and treat
juvenile delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system by
including three new priorities: Strengthening the families of
delinquents; improving State and local administration of justice and
services to juveniles; and assisting States and local communities in
preventing youth from entering the justice system. The Amendments
encourage parental involvement in treatment and services for juveniles,
coordination of services and interagency cooperation. Seven new studies
are mandated. The Comptroller General is conducting five of these
studies: (1) Juveniles waived, certified, or transferred to adult
court; (2) admissions of juveniles with behavior disorders to private
psychiatric hospitals; (3) gender bias in State juvenile justice
systems; (4) Native American pass-through under the Formula Grants
Program; and (5) access to counsel in juvenile court proceedings. OJJDP
is conducting the remaining two: (1) The incidence, nature, and causes
of violence committed by or against juveniles in urban and rural areas;
and (2) the extent and characteristics of juvenile hate crimes.
The JJDP Act Amendments of 1992 also authorize several new grant
programs to be administered by OJJDP:
Part E, State Challenge Activities, authorizes grants to
States participating in the Part B Formula Grants Program that provide
up to 10 percent of a State's Formula Grants Program allocation for
each of 10 challenge activities in which the States participate.
Part F, Treatment for Juvenile Offenders Who are Victims
of Child Abuse or Neglect, authorizes grants to public and nonprofit
private organizations for treatment of juvenile offenders who are
victims of child abuse or neglect, transitional services, and related
research.
Part G, Mentoring, authorizes three-year grants to or in
partnership with local education agencies for mentoring programs
designed to link at-risk youth with responsible adults to discourage
youth involvement in criminal and violent activity.
Part H, Boot Camps, authorizes grants to establish up to
ten military-style boot camps for delinquent juveniles.
Title V, Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention
Programs, authorizes grants to local governments for a broad range of
delinquency prevention activities targeting youth who have had contact
with, or are likely to have contact with, the juvenile justice system.
In FY 1994, two of the five new programs listed above received an
appropriation--Part G Mentoring ($4 million) and Title V Incentive
Grants ($13 million). These programs are not included in this plan, nor
are programs authorized and funded under the Victims of Child Abuse Act
of 1990, as amended.
Fiscal Year 1994 Program Planning Activities
The OJJDP program planning process for Fiscal Year 1994 is
coordinated with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice
Programs (OJP), and the four other Program Bureau components of the
OJP. The program planning process involves the following steps:
Internal review of existing programs by OJJDP staff;
Internal review of proposed programs by OJP Bureaus and
selected Department of Justice components;
Review of information and data from OJJDP grantees and
contractors;
Review of information contained in State comprehensive
plans;
Review of comments made by youth services providers,
juvenile justice practitioners and researchers;
Consideration of suggestions made by juvenile justice
policy makers concerning State and local needs; and
Consideration of all comments received during the period
of public comment on the Proposed Comprehensive Plan.
Discretionary Program Activities
Discretionary Grant Continuation Policy
OJJDP has listed on the following pages continuation projects
currently funded in whole or in part with Part C and Part D funds and
eligible for continuation funding in Fiscal Year 1994, either within an
existing project period or through an extension for an additional
project period. A grantee's eligibility for continued funding for an
additional budget period within an existing project period depends on
the grantee's compliance with funding eligibility requirements and
achievement of the prior year's objectives.
Continuation funding consideration for an additional project period
for previously funded discretionary grant programs will be based upon
several factors, including:
The extent to which the project responds to the applicable
requirements of the JJDP Act;
Responsiveness to OJJDP and Department of Justice Fiscal
Year 1994 program priorities;
Compliance with performance requirements of prior grant
years;
Compliance with fiscal and regulatory requirements;
Compliance with any special conditions of award; and
Availability of funds (i.e. based on program priority
determination).
In accordance with 42 U.S.C. 5665a, section 262 (d)(1)(B), the
competitive process described in subparagraph (A) of such section shall
not be required if the Administrator makes a written determination
waiving the competitive process:
(1) With respect to programs to be carried out in areas with
respect to which the President declares under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)
that a major disaster or emergency exists; or
(2) with respect to a particular program described in part C that
is uniquely qualified.
OJJDP seeks to focus its assistance on the development and
implementation of programs with the greatest potential for reducing
juvenile delinquency and to cultivate partnerships with State and local
organizations. To that end, OJJDP has set three goals that constitute
the major elements of a sound policy for juvenile justice and
delinquency prevention:
To promote delinquency prevention efforts,
To foster the use of community-based alternatives to the
traditional juvenile justice system, and
To improve the juvenile justice system.
Delinquency Prevention
A sound policy for juvenile delinquency prevention strives to
strengthen the most powerful contributing factor to good behavior: A
productive place for young people in a law-abiding society. Preventive
measures can operate on a large scale, providing gains in youth
development while reducing youthful misbehavior. The first goal of
OJJDP is to identify and promote programs which prevent or preclude
minor, serious, and violent delinquency from occurring (and which
prevent the commission of status offenses).
Community-Based Alternatives
Communities cannot afford to place responsibility for juvenile
crime entirely on the juvenile justice system. A sound policy for
combatting juvenile crime makes maximum use of a community's less
formal, often less expensive, and less alienating responses to youthful
misbehavior. OJJDP's second goal is to identify and promote community-
based alternatives for each stage of a child's contact with the
juvenile justice system, emphasizing options which are least
restrictive and promote or preserve positive ties with the child's
family, school and community.
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
The limited resources of the juvenile justice system must be
reserved for the most difficult and intractable problems of juvenile
crime. A sound policy concentrates the more formal, expensive, and
restrictive options of the juvenile justice system in two areas:
Youth behavior which is most abhorrent and least amenable
to preventive measures and community responses; and
Problems of youths and their families which exceed
community resources and require more stringent legal resolution.
The third goal of OJJDP is to promote improvements in the juvenile
justice system and facilitate the most effective allocation of system
resources.
Fiscal Year 1994 Programs
The following are brief summaries of each of the proposed new and
continuation programs for Fiscal Year 1994. The specific program
priorities proposed within each category are subject to change with
regard to their priority status, estimated amount, sites for
implementation, and other descriptive data and information based on the
review and comment process, grantee performance, application quality,
fund availability, and other factors. OJJDP has a limited amount of
appropriations available for new programs in Fiscal Year 1994. New
programs are therefore being proposed with funding levels subject to
change based on public review and comment. New programs may also be
added to the plan based on the review and comment process.
A number of programs contained in this document have been
identified for funding by Congress with regard to the grantee(s), the
amount of funds, or both. An asterisk (*) indicates those programs. In
addition, the 1994 Appropriations Act Conference Report for State,
Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies identified 10 programs for the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to examine and
provide grants if warranted. Concept papers were requested from the 10
programs and are currently under review by OJJDP staff. To the extent
that FY 1994 Part C and D funds are used to fund these programs, those
funds would reduce the amounts available for funding programs
identified in this program plan.
Fiscal Year 1994 Program Listing
Delinquency Prevention
New Programs:
Children and Firearms....................................................................... $150,000
Family Strengthening Support................................................................ 500,000
Media Violence.............................................................................. 125,000
Mental Health in the Juvenile Justice System................................................ 200,000
Children of Incarcerated Parents............................................................ 100,000
Law-Related Education in Juvenile Justice Settings*......................................... 440,000
Innovative Approaches in Law-Related Education*............................................. 260,000
National Student/Parent Mock Election*...................................................... 100,000
Delinquency Prevention
Continuation Programs:
Law-Related Education (LRE)*................................................................ 2,700,000
The Congress of National Black Churches:
National Anti-Drug Abuse Program........................................................ 200,000
Partnership Plan, Phase V (Cities in Schools)........................................... 300,000
Targeted Outreach with a Gang Prevention and Intervention Component (Boys and Girls
Clubs)................................................................................. 500,000
Satellite Prep School Program and Early Elementary School for Privatized Public Housing. 600,000
Teens, Crime and Community: Teens in Action in the 90s*................................. 1,000,000
Race Against Drugs...................................................................... 115,000
Missing Children:
Prevention, Early Intervention, and Mediation Project for Missing and Exploited Children.... 75,000
Missing and Exploited Children Prevention and Services...................................... 75,000
Paul and Lisa Prevention and Intervention Efforts: Expansion and Improvement of Non-Profit
Organization Projects...................................................................... 75,000
Project Nino Seguro Services--Addressing Missing and Exploited Children..................... 45,258
Community-Based Alternatives
New Programs:
Program to Promote Alternative Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders....................... 400,000
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment Program........................... 2,000,000
Field-Initiated Research Program............................................................ 300,000
Community-Based Alternatives
Continuation Programs:
Permanent Families for Abused and Neglected Children*....................................... 225,000
National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers*............................................ 500,000
Professional Development for Youth Workers.................................................. 200,000
School Safety Center........................................................................ 250,000
Juvenile Restitution........................................................................ 250,000
Insular Area Support*....................................................................... 403,000
OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract: Juvenile Justice Resource Center............... 650,000
Native American Alternative Community-Based Program......................................... 600,000
Missing Children:
Community Action for the Prevention of Missing and Exploited Children....................... 125,000
Provide Services to Recovered Missing Children and Their Families........................... 30,000
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
New Programs:
Violence Studies*........................................................................... 1,000,000
Child Centered Community-Oriented Policing.................................................. 300,000
What Works: Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders.......................................... 100,000
Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Corrections and Detention............................... 250,000
Integrated Gang Program (Part D)............................................................ 2,000,000
Marketing the Conditions of Confinement Study............................................... 125,000
Conditions of Confinement Follow Up--Performance Standards.................................. 250,000
Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams to Focus on Juvenile
Corrections and Detention Overcrowding..................................................... 125,000
Statistics Improvement Project.............................................................. 275,000
Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration, Technical Assistance, and Evaluation
Program.................................................................................... 750,000
National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training and Technical Assistance
Center..................................................................................... 300,000
Telecommunications Assistance............................................................... 200,000
Interventions to Reduce Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Secure Detention and
Correctional Facilities (The Deborah M. Wysinger Memorial Program)......................... 600,000
Non-Violent Dispute Resolution.............................................................. 250,000
Models of Effective Court Based Service Delivery to Children and Their Families............. 250,000
Delinquency Prevention Training and Technical Assistance.................................... 560,000
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
Continuation Programs:
Children in Custody......................................................................... 300,000
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse.............................................................. 1,006,798
Coalition for Juvenile Justice*............................................................. 650,000
Juvenile Justice Data Resources............................................................. 25,000
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development......................................... 550,000
Juveniles Taken Into Custody (JTIC): Interagency Agreement.................................. 200,000
National Juvenile Court Data Archive*....................................................... 611,000
Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program (Gangs)........................... 250,000
Contract for the Evaluation of OJJDP Programs............................................... 652,341
Children at Risk............................................................................ 350,000
Delay in the Imposition of Sanctions........................................................ 100,000
Enhancing Enforcement Strategies for Juvenile Impaired Driving Due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse 75,000
Violence Study--Causes and Correlates*...................................................... 300,000
Training and Technical Assistance for Juvenile Detention and Corrections (The James E. Gould
Memorial Program).......................................................................... 225,000
Training for Juvenile Corrections Staff..................................................... 475,000
Improvement in Correctional Education for Juvenile Offenders................................ 200,000
Improving Literacy Skills of Institutionalized Juvenile Delinquents......................... 250,000
Juvenile Court Training*.................................................................... 1,074,000
Technical Assistance to the Juvenile Courts*................................................ 390,000
Due Process Advocacy Program Development.................................................... 250,000
Training in Cultural Differences for Law Enforcement/Juvenile Justice Officials............. 150,000
Bootcamps for Juvenile Offenders: Constructive Intervention and Early Support............... 550,000
Comprehensive Gang Initiative............................................................... 500,000
Missing Children:
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children/Resource................................. 3,600,000
Training and Technical Assistance for Nonprofit Missing and Exploited Children's
Organizations.............................................................................. 250,000
Model Treatment and Services Approaches for Mental Health Professionals Working with
Families of Missing Children............................................................... 200,000
Obstacles to Recovery and Return of Parentally Abducted Children: Training, Technical
Assistance................................................................................. 250,000
Development and Expansion of the Child Find Mediation Program to Locate Missing and
Exploited Children and Prevent Child Abduction............................................. 75,000
ECHO Program Expansion Assistance........................................................... 19,538
Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Plan (M/CAP)............................ 999,905
Funding Support for Private Non-profit Organizations Involved with Missing and Exploited
Children................................................................................... 70,500
Investigative Case Management of Missing Children Homicides................................. 150,000
Missing Children Data Archive............................................................... 50,000
Remember They're Children: Using Video to Train Law Enforcement Personnel................... 200,000
National Alzheimer's Patient Alert Program: Safe Return*.................................... 650,000
Delinquency Prevention
New Programs
Congress has appropriated $13 million in Fiscal Year 1994, under
Title V of the JJDP Act, for a new delinquency prevention program. This
program also supports OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy by reducing the
onset of delinquency among youths who might otherwise have begun on a
pathway to serious, violent and chronic delinquency. Moreover,
``community planning teams'' will be established under this program to
conduct risk and resource assessments in order to determine what
delinquency prevention programs are needed for a particular
jurisdiction. In communities that are planning system responses for
serious, violent and chronic offenders, the work of these planning
teams will be coordinated with other system planning.
The following are some key features of this program:
Some 5,000 community leaders will be trained in the risk
and resource assessment process over the next few months.
Communities will then submit applications for Federal
funding for local prevention programs that the community leaders and
planning teams have determined are needed to prevent delinquency, based
on the community's determination of its needs and priorities.
Communities must provide a matching contribution and should establish
partnerships with the private sector, especially corporations and
foundations.
These prevention programs will include a number of multi-
disciplinary program approaches incorporated in the Attorney General's
national agenda for children:
--Job training and employment opportunities,
--Drug abuse education,
--After school programs, and
--Other programs cutting across disciplines and linking schools and
social service agencies.
Other delinquency prevention programs are set forth below for which
communities engaging in comprehensive community planning can apply
directly to OJJDP for funding. They include projects that initiate or
expand specific family strengthening efforts. In addition to self-help,
these include crisis intervention and treatment models. Families that
will benefit include those that have children in the juvenile justice
system, including non-English speaking families. Communities wishing to
help troubled families as a means of preventing delinquency will be
provided such resources as a publication on Family Strengthening
Program Models.
Children and Firearms
$150,000
This is a collaborative effort which will be jointly funded by
OJJDP, the National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Deaths among juveniles by firearms have reached
an all-time high. Every day in America, 12 youths ages 19 and under are
killed in gun accidents, suicides and homicides. Many more are wounded.
In 1989, 2,367 children and teenagers were murdered with guns; 1,380
committed suicide with guns; and 567 died in unintentional shootings.
This is a new initiative with the primary goal of preventing and
reducing the number of illegal guns accessible to juveniles. The
project would incorporate a program development model consisting of
four phases: (1) Assessment, (2) model(s) development and related
policies and procedure development, (3) training and technical
assistance, and (4) testing and dissemination. Each phase will consist
of a plan, a final report or products, and a dissemination strategy.
The program would be designed to prevent youths from utilizing guns
to settle disputes. A single cooperative agreement would be awarded for
up to $150,000 in Fiscal Year 1994 to complete phases 1 and 2
(assessment and model development).
Family Strengthening and Support
$500,000
Strengthening and supporting families, including non-English
speaking families, is a priority area in the JJDP Act and a key
component of a comprehensive approach to delinquency prevention. In
support of this priority, the Office proposes to provide funding to a
select number of local jurisdictions (city and county) to initiate or
expand specific family-strengthening interventions and treatment
programs for English speaking and non-English speaking families that
involve the juvenile justice system, schools, and other local entities.
A major family-strengthening research project funded by OJJDP was
recently completed. The University of Utah and Pacific Institute for
Research and Evaluation produced a User's Guide, ``Strengthening
America's Families: Promising Parenting and Family Strategies for
Delinquency Prevention,'' and an Executive Summary that reviews both
the current impact of family characteristics on risk for delinquency
and the most promising family change interventions. Given the multiple
variations of intervention strategies, the project recommends the
organization of family strengthening programs and services according to
the family's level of functioning and the child's age. The researchers
identified a representative group of 25 programs as particularly
promising. Special attention must also be given to cultural issues for
non-English speaking families.
In this program, OJJDP would solicit applications from local
jurisdictions (city and county) which provide a preliminary plan for
developing comprehensive family-strengthening programs including
programs for non-English speaking families. OJJDP would support the
implementation of new or expanded family-strengthening efforts to
improve parental functioning as part of an overall plan to prevent
delinquency or intervene with youth who are in the juvenile justice
system. The project would also support the development of a
comprehensive plan to target other Federal, State, and local resources
to fund and operate a range of services to juveniles and their
families, including self-help programs such as parent-support groups.
This program would be competitively funded with approximately 5
applications selected at a funding level of up to $100,000 each year
for three years.
Media Violence
$125,000
The National Youth Violence Forum, ``Safeguarding our Youth:
Violence Prevention for our Nation's Children'' held in Washington, DC,
July 21 and 22, 1993, recognized that an increasing number of American
citizens no longer perceive the electronic media as neutral
entertainment. Participants suggested that the public can change the
content and impact of negative media messages through audience
education and networking. As such changes will not occur quickly, long-
term vision and strategies are required. Recommendations included
support for a major public movement to challenge corporate media to act
as more responsible citizens in an increasingly violent society. This
recommendation recognizes the potential of the media, particularly
television, to prevent delinquency and other at-risk behaviors such as
delinquency, drug abuse, and truancy and to educate the public on
successful programs for youth.
In response to these recommendations, OJJDP would support a program
which develops consumer-oriented materials that inform parents,
teachers' groups, youth-serving organizations, youth groups, and
community organizations about the relationship between electronic media
violence and aggressive behavior. The purpose of this program would be
to stimulate advocacy to reduce violence on television and in music and
other media. The program would also support dissemination of existing
consumer materials such as those developed by the program ``Turn Off
The Violence.''
Mental Health in the Juvenile Justice System
$200,000
This program would implement a two-pronged strategy to address the
mental health and juvenile justice systems' lack of coordinated and
adequate mental health treatment for America's at-risk and delinquent
youth. Juveniles specifically targeted under the two-phased strategy
proposed are those with mental health problems and impairments,
including learning disabilities, who are at risk of becoming status or
delinquent offenders, and alleged and adjudicated status offenders and
delinquents with undiagnosed or untreated mental health problems,
including those in residential care or in juvenile detention and
correctional facilities.
The first phase would be funded in Fiscal Year 1994 to develop and
implement a two-day conference for up to 200 attendees to address the
topics of at-risk juveniles and juveniles with mental health problems
or learning disabilities in the juvenile justice system. The purpose of
the conference would be to bring together individuals from multiple
disciplines to discuss potential solutions to the failure to address
the mental health needs of at-risk juveniles and those in our juvenile
justice system in a coordinated and systematic manner. The conference
would recommend actions that community organizations and local, State,
and Federal agencies need to take to address this issue. The conference
would be developed in cooperation with the Centers for Mental Health
Services and Maternal and Child Health of the Department of Health and
Human Services and components of other federal agencies, as
appropriate.
The second phase, to be considered for funding in Fiscal Year 1995,
would establish three to six demonstration programs at the State and
local levels to plan comprehensive, coordinated and collaborative
approaches to improving mental health services for juveniles.
Children of Incarcerated Parents
$100,000
This program is designed to provide supportive services to children
whose parents are incarcerated. These juveniles are at particularly
high-risk of involvement in delinquent behavior and becoming victims of
abuse or neglect.
Up to two awards would be made at a cost not to exceed $50,000 each
to support organizations and agencies that address the special needs of
children of incarcerated parents.
Awards would be competitive, and while no specific program strategy
is required, issues to be addressed must be specified. Successful
applicants must demonstrate that they are currently providing, or have
an integrated plan to provide, special services which address the needs
of children whose parents are incarcerated, including but not limited
to, the areas of parental education, housing, physical and mental
health, family strengthening activities, mentoring, and care-giver
support.
Law-Related Education in Juvenile Justice Settings*
$440,000
This Law Related Education (LRE) Program (and the Innovative
Approaches program that follows) is established pursuant to section
299(e) of the JJDP Act which provides that 20 percent of the funds
appropriated for the national law-related education program under
section 261(a)(6) ``shall be reserved each fiscal year for not less
than two programs that did not receive funding prior to October 1,
1992.''
In 1990, OJJDP began experimenting with LRE for at-risk youths when
its consortium of grantees implemented the national LRE program in
schools. Interim assessments of this effort suggest positive effects on
youths. Administrators and staff of facilities and programs using LRE
with this target population have been extremely supportive of the
effort.
To expand and augment these initial activities, OJJDP funded two
organizations in Fiscal Year 1993 to provide training and technical
assistance in law-related education focused on youths in juvenile
justice settings. Fiscal Year 1993 awards were made to American
Correctional Association/New York Division for Youth and to the
Virginia Commonwealth University/Virginia Institute for Law and
Citizenship Studies for implementation of LRE in juvenile justice
settings.
Applications will be solicited for two new projects to be funded
under the initiative in Fiscal Year 1994. The program's major
objectives are to increase awareness of LRE in the juvenile justice
community; develop or adapt and disseminate LRE curricula and lesson
plans used to train youths under the supervision of the juvenile court;
provide training and technical assistance to teachers and others in the
juvenile justice system; increase public awareness of LRE in juvenile
justice settings; and develop an implementation model for future
evaluation of this intervention with targeted youths.
Innovative Approaches in Law-Related Education*
$260,000
The purpose of this initiative is to provide support for programs
to develop promising, innovative ideas for the delivery of law-related
education. The program encompasses the following objectives:
To promote and support innovative research, development,
demonstration, or training programs in the field of law-related
education;
To encourage new methods of focusing law-related education
on delinquency prevention within or outside the traditional classroom
setting; and
To develop knowledge that will lead to new techniques,
approaches, or methods to deliver law-related education for purposes of
preventing delinquency.
Fiscal Year 1993 awards were made to the Boulder County (Colorado)
Board of County Commissioners and to the Professional Development and
Training Center at the University of Maryland.
Applications will be solicited for up to three new projects to be
funded under this initiative for Fiscal Year 1994 for one year project
periods.
National Student/Parent Mock Election*
$100,000
The National Student/Parent Mock Election (NSPME) is an educational
exercise in American government and civic responsibility. It invites
millions of middle and high school youth to participate with their
parents to cast a ``mock'' vote on the candidates running for Office in
November, 1994 and on key issues facing the country.
The program is a law-related education experience that includes a
curricula that is highly interactive and concludes with the mock
election itself. The program is administered by a non-profit
organization which relies on an extensive group of volunteers to
conduct mock elections throughout the country. The vote on Mock
Election Night (usually one week prior to Election Day) will be
televised from a national election headquarters in Washington, D.C.
(During past mock elections, Cable News Network carried the election
results ``live.'') The program relies on a number of private and public
organizations donating facilities, equipment and expertise.
Delinquency Prevention
Continuation Programs
Law-Related Education (LRE)*
$2,700,000
The Law-Related Education (LRE) National Training and Dissemination
Program currently involves five national LRE projects and programs
which operate in 48 States and four jurisdictions.
The program's purpose is to provide training and materials to State
and local school jurisdictions to encourage and guide them in
establishing LRE delinquency prevention programs in K-12 curricula and
in juvenile justice settings. Grantees will be encouraged to emphasize
drug abuse prevention programs in primary, middle, and secondary
schools in urban minority communities. The major components of the
program are coordination and management, training and technical
assistance, preliminary assistance to future sites, public information,
program development, and assessment.
This program will be implemented by the current grantees, the
American Bar Association, the Center for Civic Education, the
Constitutional Rights Foundation, the National Institute for Citizen
Education in the Law, and the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity. No
additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse
Program
$200,000
OJJDP proposes the continuation of this organization's national
public awareness and mobilization strategy to address the problem of
drug abuse and drug abuse prevention in targeted communities across the
United States. The goals of the national mobilization strategy are to
summon, focus, and coordinate the leadership of the black religious
community in cooperation with the Department of Justice and other
federal agencies and organizations to help mobilize groups of community
residents to combat effectively the supply and demand problems of drug
abuse and drug-related crime activities among adults and juveniles.
The program would be expanded to address family violence
intervention issues and target up to 10 additional cities. No
additional applications would be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Partnership Plan, Phase V (Cities in Schools)
$300,000
This program is a continuation of a national school dropout
prevention model developed and implemented by Cities in Schools, Inc.
(CIS). CIS provides training and technical assistance to States and
local communities enabling them to adapt and implement the CIS model.
The model brings social, employment, mental health, drug prevention,
entrepreneurship and other resources to high-risk youths and their
families at the school level. Where CIS State organizations are
established, they will assume primary responsibility for local program
replication during the ``Partnership Plan, Phase V.''
This program is jointly funded by OJJDP and the United States
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Commerce under an
OJJDP grant. The total award for Fiscal Year 1993 was $1,400,000. This
project would be implemented by the current grantee, Cities in Schools,
Inc. No additional applications would be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Targeted Outreach With a Gang Prevention and Intervention Component
$500,000
This program is designed to enable local Boys and Girls Clubs to
prevent youths from entering gangs and to intervene with gang members
in the early stages of gang involvement to divert them away from gangs
and toward more constructive programs. The National Office of Boys and
Girls Clubs would provide training and technical assistance to the 81
existing sites and add 25 new gang prevention and 6 intervention sites.
The program would be implemented by the current grantee, Boys and Girls
Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited in
Fiscal Year 1994.
Satellite Prep School Program and Early Elementary School for
Privatized Public Housing
$600,000
This is a continuation of a demonstration program, in which OJJDP
supported the establishment of an early elementary school program in
Ida B. Wells Public Housing Development in Chicago, Illinois. This
program is a collaborative effort between OJJDP, the Chicago Housing
Authority (CHA), and the Westside Preparatory School and Training
Institute (WSP) to establish a Prep-School on the premises of the Ida
B. Wells Housing Development for kindergarten to fourth grade children
living in this public housing development.
The Wells Prep-School opened with kindergarten and first grade
students on September 14, 1992. In September 1993 a second grade was
added. The Prep-School has been established and operates as an early
intervention educational model based upon the Marva Collins Westside
Preparatory School educational philosophy, curriculum, and teaching
techniques. The Westside Preparatory School, a private institution
located in the Chicago's inner city, has had dramatic success in
raising the academic achievement level of low-income minority children.
Fiscal Year 1994 funds will be used to continue the operation and
management of the school to continue technical assistance for the
program and to add a third grade. Awards will be made to existing
grantees. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Teens, Crime, and Community: Teens in Action in the 90s*
$1,000,000
This continuation program is conducted by the National Crime
Prevention Council (NCPC) and the National Institute for Citizen
Education in the Law (NICEL). Teens in Action in the 90s is a special
application of the Teens, Crime and the Community program, which
operates on two premises: (1) Teens are disproportionately victims of
crimes, and (2) teens are resources that can contribute to improving
their schools and communities through a broad array of activities.
Under the Fiscal Year 1994 award, NCPC and NICEL will work through
the National Teens, Crime, and the Community Program Center to harness
the energies of young people toward constructive activities and to
reduce crime and violence. The Program Center will be enlarged to serve
as a formal clearinghouse for information and materials dissemination
and to provide technical assistance and training to communities in
establishing the program. With the increase in resources, NCPC will
significantly expand the number of communities participating in this
program.
This program will be implemented by the current grantees. No
additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Race Against Drugs
$115,000
Race Against Drugs (RAD) is a unique drug awareness, education and
prevention campaign designed to help young people understand the
dangers of drugs and live a non-impaired lifestyle. With the help and
assistance from 21 motorsports organizations and the cooperation of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Child Safety Council it
has become a fun and exciting new addition to drug abuse prevention
programs. RAD now includes national drug awareness and prevention
activities at schools, malls and motorsports events, posters, 21 TV
public service announcements, signage on T-Shirts, hats, decals, etc.,
and specialized programs like the ``Adopt-a-School Essay and
Scholarship'' programs: and 6-8 grades school Be A Winner Action Book,
A RAD Adult Guide and A RAD Coloring Book for K-4 grades. This program
will be jointly funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
($40,000) and OJJDP ($75,000) and will be implemented by the current
grantee, National Child Safety Council. No additional applications will
be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Missing Children
Prevention, Early Intervention, and Mediation Project for Missing and
Exploited Children
$75,000
The purpose of this project, administered by Our Town Family Center
of Tucson, Arizona, is to enhance the range of services to missing,
exploited, and abused children and their families. These services
include a school-based prevention program and home-based crisis
intervention services. A new family mediation and dispute resolution
program seeks to reduce the negative impact of high-conflict divorce
and separation on children. The project will provide training workshops
for local juvenile justice and school personnel. No additional
applications will be solicited during Fiscal Year 1994.
Missing and Exploited Children Prevention and Services
$75,000
The purpose of this project, administered by Counseling Services of
Addison County, Middlebury, Vermont, is to continue to expand and
develop services to assist missing and exploited youth and their
families in Addison County. Project activities include community
education programs on child safety issues, counseling, outreach and
safe shelter services for runaway and thrownaway youths, training for
law enforcement officers, and crisis counseling for families of missing
children. No additional applications will be solicited during Fiscal
Year 1994.
Paul and Lisa Prevention and Intervention Efforts: Expansion and
Improvement of Non-Profit Organization Projects
$75,000
This project expands Paul & Lisa's school-based exploitation
prevention program in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Project
activities include helping children develop ways to handle and
discourage sexual advances, abduction, and exploitation by adults, and
providing school personnel and service providers with strategies to
prevent these problems and assist missing and exploited children.
Training and technical assistance to organizations and coalitions in
selected cities will be provided. No additional applications will be
solicited during Fiscal Year 1994.
Project Nino Seguro Services--Addressing Missing and Exploited Children
$45,258
This project, administered by South Bay Community Services of Chula
Vista, California, serves English-speaking and Spanish-speaking
communities by providing education, information, and services to
parents, children, and the community. The project is designed to reduce
the occurrence of missing, abducted and exploited children. Project
Nino Seguro provides direct counseling to individuals, families, and
peer groups. No additional applications will be solicited during Fiscal
Year 1994.
Community-Based Alternatives
New Programs
Communities attempting to refocus their juvenile justice system
resources on serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders will be
assisted in developing and implementing comprehensive programs for
juvenile offenders that combine accountability with treatment and
rehabilitation services. These sites will be planning and implementing
as many elements of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy as resources permit.
If successful, they will serve as models for other jurisdictions.
Communities will also be assisted in developing a continuum of
community-based care for offenders who do not present a threat to the
public safety. For example, a program to provide a continuum of
alternatives for females in the juvenile justice system is proposed.
In addition, a field-initiated research program will provide
support to address issues related to the Comprehensive Strategy,
including mental health issues, family preservation, and waiver and
transfer to the criminal justice system.
Program To Promote Alternative Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders
$400,000
Historically, the unique service needs of females have not been
given adequate attention in the juvenile justice system. Not only do
females represent a smaller percentage of the delinquent population,
when females act out their problems, they more often than boys become
self-destructive, run away, become involved in prostitution, or turn to
unhealthy, exploitative, or abusive environments for attention and
shelter. Females may be further victimized when they seek help or come
under the juvenile justice system because there are so few resources
available to them. Since 1974, the JJDP Act has called for alternatives
to confinement for females who have been placed in secure residential
programs for less serious offenses than males or confined for longer
periods than males.
Today, however, increasing numbers of females live on the streets
or in unhealthy, exploitative, or abusive environments. Studies
document the inequities of services between males and females and the
perpetuation of a cycle of generational abuse, teen pregnancy,
delinquency, and emotional dysfunction.
This initiative would fund four to six demonstration projects to
serve the needs of female status offenders, delinquents, dependents,
dropouts, and pregnant or teenage mothers. Each selected site must
develop a comprehensive continuum of services designed to meet the
unique needs of at-risk female juveniles. The programs must include
such specific components as training and education, life management and
personal growth skills, health and counseling, parenting skills, job
training skills, and community service. The resources provided for the
first year would be used to support planning, initial development and
implementation of the program.
This program would be coordinated with the Women's Bureau of the
Department of Labor and the Psychology Services and Special Needs
Offender Division of the Bureau of Prisons.
This program would be competitively funded with the four to six
sites funded at a level of up to $100,000 each during Fiscal Year 1994.
Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment Program
$2,000,000
In Fiscal Year 1993, under a competitive announcement OJJDP funded
two jurisdictions (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Juvenile Court and
the Department of Human Services in Washington, DC) to develop a plan
for a systematic strategy for juvenile offenders that combines
accountability and sanctions with increasingly intensive community-
based intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation services as the
seriousness of the offense increases or warrants. The plan's basic
elements are to (1) assess the existing continuum of secure and
nonsecure intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in each
jurisdiction; (2) define the juvenile offender population; (3) develop
and implement a programmatic strategy; (4) develop and implement an
evaluative design; (5) integrate private nonprofit community-based
organizations into juvenile offender services; (6) incorporate an
aftercare program as a formal component of all residential placements;
(7) develop a resource plan to enlist the financial and technical
support of other Federal, State, and local agencies, private
foundations, or other funding sources; and (8) develop a victim
assistance component utilizing local organizations.
In Fiscal Year 1994, funds will be awarded noncompetitively to
support implementation of the plan in the initial two sites, if they
successfully develop action plans. In addition, funds will be
competitively awarded to two new sites to plan and implement a
comprehensive treatment program. All grants would be for up to $500,000
each.
Field-Initiated Research Program
$300,000
The Field-Initiated Research Program seeks to develop promising and
innovative research programs relevant to the mission of OJJDP. This
program offers an opportunity for support for research ideas generated
in the field rather than by OJJDP. Priority topics would include mental
health issues, gender bias, rural delinquency, family preservation, due
process, waiver and transfer to the criminal justice system, violent
youth gangs, disproportionate minority representation, institutional
crowding, and other issues directly related to OJJDP's ``A
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile
Offenders.''
OJJDP would provide up to three awards of up to $100,000 each under
this program.
Community-Based Alternatives
Continuation Programs
Permanent Families for Abused and Neglected Children*
$225,000
This is a national project to prevent unnecessary foster care
placement of abused and neglected children, to reunify the families of
children in care, and to ensure permanent adoptive homes when
reunification is impossible. The purpose of this project is to ensure
that foster care is used only as a last resort and as a temporary
solution. Accordingly, the project is designed to ensure that
government's responsibility to children in foster care is duly
acknowledged by the appropriate disciplines. Project activities include
national training programs for judges, social service personnel,
citizen volunteers, and others under the Reasonable Efforts Provision
of 42 U.S.C. 671(a)(15); training in selected lead States; and
development of a model guide to risk assessment.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the
National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges. No additional
applications will be solicited during Fiscal Year 1994.
National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers*
$500,000
This program will continue to support the National Network of
Children's Advocacy Centers through the development and implementation
of coordinated training, technical assistance, and information sharing
programs. The network links local Children's Advocacy Center programs
whose purpose is to provide multi-disciplinary coordination in the
investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases, limited seed money,
training, and technical assistance. National leaders in this effort are
the National Children's Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the
University of Oklahoma's Justice Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the
National Children's Advocacy Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, two of which
will be under contract to provide training and technical assistance. A
continuation application will be solicited from one organization in the
National Network. No other applications will be solicited during Fiscal
Year 1994.
Professional Development for Youth Workers
$200,000
The primary purpose of this program is to promote professional
development of youth service and juvenile justice system providers
through formal training. The program will include an inventory of
existing training programs and their effectiveness, a needs
assessment training survey, the development of curricula for several
program settings, the design of a dissemination strategy, and the
creation of an implementation plan for the second half of a two-year
program.
Initially funded in Fiscal Year 1992, the Academy for Educational
Development, Inc. will continue this three year program in Fiscal Year
1994. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
School Safety Center
$250,000
The purpose of this collaborative program between OJJDP and the
Department of Education is to provide training and technical assistance
regarding school safety to elementary and secondary schools, and to
identify methods to diminish crime, violence, and illegal drug use in
schools and on campuses, with special emphasis on gang-related crime.
The National School Safety Center (NSSC) maintains a library and
clearinghouse with specialized information, provides research on school
safety issues, and develops publications and training programs. These
funds would focus on prevention of drug abuse and violence in schools
and establish State personnel trained in school safety to provide
technical assistance to localities.
The Department of Education contributed to the support of this
program with a transfer of $1 million of Fiscal Year 1993 funds for
expenditure in Fiscal Years 1993-1994. This program would be
implemented by the current grantee, the National School Safety Center
at Pepperdine University. No additional applications would be solicited
in Fiscal Year 1994.
Juvenile Restitution
$250,000
OJJDP will continue to support the juvenile restitution training
and technical assistance program in Fiscal Year 1993. The project
design is based on practitioner recommendations for current needs in
the field. OJJDP initiated a survey on how best to expand and
institutionalize restitution as a viable juvenile justice disposition.
In addition to the survey, a working group was convened to help map out
the course of OJJDP's support for optimum development of the components
of restitution. These components will include community service, victim
reparation, victim-offender mediation, offender employment and
supervision, employment development, and potential program elements
designed to establish restitution as an important alternative in
improving the juvenile justice system. This project is guided by the
need to provide a balance of community protection, offender competency
development and accountability in the provision of community-based
sanctions.
The Division of Applied Research of Florida Atlantic University was
competitively selected in Fiscal Year 1992 to implement this three year
project. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Insular Area Support *
$403,000
The purpose of this program is to provide supplemental financial
support to the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American
Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Palau), and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. These funds are available
to address the special needs and problems of juvenile delinquency in
the insular areas, as specified by section 261(e) of the JJDP Act, 42
U.S.C. 5665(e).
OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract: Juvenile Justice Resource
Center
$650,000
The purpose of this contract is to provide technical assistance and
support to OJJDP, the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, OJJDP grantees, and the Coordinating Council on
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the areas of program
development, evaluation, training, and research. The program will be
completed during FY 1994.
Native American Alternative Community-Based Program
$600,000
This program is designed as a collaborative interagency effort
between OJJDP and other public and private organizations concerned
about juvenile delinquency among Native Americans. Its purpose is to
develop community-based alternative programs for Native American youths
adjudicated delinquent and to develop a re-entry program for Native
American delinquents returning from institutional placements. A multi-
component design has been developed in the four project sites.
Additional training and technical assistance will be provided to
integrate the critical elements of the OJJDP Intensive Supervision and
Community-Based Aftercare programs with cultural elements traditionally
used by Native Americans to control and rehabilitate offending youths.
The project sites, initially funded in Fiscal Year 1992, are the
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, the Navajo Nation, the Gila River
Indian Community and the Pueblo of Jemez. A training and technical
assistance provider, The National Indian Justice Center, provides the
sites with training and technical assistance. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Missing Children
Community Action for the Prevention of Missing and Exploited Children
$125,000
This project enables the District of Columbia's Center for Child
Protection and Family Support to expand its direct service activities
to high-risk inner city youths, specifically teenage parents, through
the development of a specialized education component designed to
educate families on child safety, enhance their understanding of
potential abduction and exploitation, and improve the systematic
response to dealing with the issues of missing and exploited children.
No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Provide Services To Recovered Missing Children and Their Families
$30,000
The purpose of this project is to support the activities of Find
the Children of Los Angeles, California, as coordinator of a local
multi-agency task force activated upon the recovery of a child. Find
the Children coordinates interagency communication to evaluate a
child's or family's needs at the time of recovery, assists them in
obtaining access to available services, collects data, manages relevant
treatment-intervention plans, and issues reports in conjunction with
the Interagency Council of Child Abuse and Neglect. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
New Programs
The new programs funded under this objective support the
Comprehensive Strategy. The four new violence studies will provide
valuable information regarding community violence patterns, with a
particular focus on homicides, and identify strategic law enforcement
responses. Child-centered community policing will be furthered, under
joint support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in New Haven,
Connecticut. The city's exemplary program will serve as a host site for
training other jurisdictions. In another effort, promising program
models for prevention, intervention, and treatment of female juvenile
offenders will be identified and distributed to jurisdictions across
the country. Other projects will focus on detention and corrections,
helping the juvenile justice system refocus resources on the most
serious, violent, and chronic offenders while improving conditions of
confinement.
Finally, a major effort under this objective will be focused on
community interventions with violent youth gangs. Additional funds
appropriated this year for Part D of the JJDP Act will be used to
expand the Office's previous work in this area into an Integrated Gang
Program to include demonstration programs and evaluation, research,
training, technical assistance, and information dissemination. Many
cities experiencing gang problems will benefit directly from
information and technical assistance resource to address gang violence.
Violence Studies*
$1,000,000
The 1992 Amendments to the JJDP Act require OJJDP to conduct a
study on violence in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Los Angeles, California;
Washington, DC; and one rural area. Building on the results of OJJDP's
Program of Research on Causes and Correlates, the study will address
the incidence of violence committed by or against juveniles in urban
and rural areas of the United States. In Fiscal Year 1993 OJJDP
initiated the study by supporting its planning phase. The study design,
to be completed by the end of calendar 1993, will be detailed in the
final OJJDP program plan for Fiscal Year 1994. It is anticipated that
awards will be made to conduct studies in each of the four designated
sites.
Child-Centered Community-Oriented Policing
$300,000
In Fiscal Year 1993, OJJDP provided support to the New Haven,
Connecticut, Police Department and the Yale University Child
Development Center to document a child-centered community-oriented
policing model, the first phase of which is being implemented in New
Haven. The basic elements of the model are a ten-week training course
in child development for all new police officers and child development
fellowships for all community-based sergeants who direct neighborhood
police teams. Fellowships provide four to six hours of training a week
over a three-month period at the Child Study Center; 24 hour
consultation services from a clinical professional and a police
supervisor to patrol officers to assist children in violent situations;
weekly case conferences with police officers, educators, and child
study center staff; open police stations located in neighborhoods
available to residents, used for purposes other than processing
arrestees; community liaison; and neighborhood foot patrols.
For Fiscal Year 1994, Community Policing funds transferred from the
Bureau of Justice Assistance would support a technical assistance and
training grant to support the New Haven and Yale partnership in serving
as a host site to jurisdictions interested in replicating the essential
elements of the model. Participating jurisdictions must either have an
established community-oriented policing program which lends itself to
replicating the child-centered elements or have strategic plans for
implementing a community-oriented policing model, and propose to
replicate the model's essential elements.
Additionally, eligible jurisdictions must have the support of the
mayor, or chief executive, and must have as co-applicant the human
services agency responsible for providing social, medical, or
psychological services to families and children in the jurisdiction.
Jurisdictions selected will send a team of the city's key decision
makers (mayor, police chief, director of human services agency) to New
Haven for intensive orientation, followed by an extended visit from key
staff of the agencies responsible for implementing the program. On-site
technical assistance will be available from New Haven during
implementation.
The program is expected to reduce the disproportionate
incarceration of minority youths and the number of youths referred to
detention and jails by training patrol officers to support prevention
activities and to intervene positively with youths. Jurisdictions
interested in participating in this program would coordinate with Yale/
New Haven to apply for consideration. Details would be provided in the
final program plan. No additional applications would be solicited in
Fiscal Year 1994.
What Works: Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders
$100,000
This project would include both an assessment of promising programs
providing prevention and treatment services for juvenile females and a
national symposium of researchers and practitioners. Because female
status offenders are detained at a much higher rate than males, this
project would also examine alternatives to detention. The assessment
and symposium would be coordinated with States who, under the OJJDP
Formula Grants Program and the Government Accounting Office, are
examining gender-bias and gender specific services in the juvenile
justice system. The conference papers and proceedings will identify
critical issues related to prevention, intervention, and treatment
alternatives for female juvenile offenders. This would be a one-year
project culminating in a report on promising approaches. One
cooperative agreement application from public and nonprofit private
agencies would be funded in an amount up to $100,000.
Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Corrections and Detention
$250,000
OJJDP proposes to support a multi-year training program for line
staff of juvenile corrections and detention facilities. The training
would convey that the mission of juvenile justice is to create a
positive environment that encompasses education, social services,
mental and physical health, and corrections. Training curricula would
be designed or developed from existing resources that are timely,
current, and meet the needs of the populations served in these
facilities. For example, training could be offered in risk assessment,
a range of treatment modalities, behavior management, safety and health
issues, peer mediation, and conflict resolution.
A certification program would be developed to facilitate
development of progressive skills. Special attention would be devoted
to motivation in relation to institutional culture. The grantee chosen
to implement the program would establish a limited technical assistance
capability to complement this program. Practitioner-oriented
organizations are encouraged to submit joint applications. One
application would be funded in the amount of up to $250,000.
Integrated Gang Program
$2,000,000
OJJDP is developing an integrated program design to implement the
Part D Gang-Free Schools and Communities; Community-Based Gang
Intervention Program established under the 1992 Amendments to the JJDP
Act. Part D contains two Subparts: (1) Gang-free schools and
communities, and (2) Community-based Gang Intervention. OJJDP's
integrated program would include demonstration projects (including
program evaluations), research projects, information dissemination
activities, training programs, and technical assistance. The overall
program would be designed to implement the gang component of OJJDP's
``A Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile
Offenders.'' Individual program elements and projects would be detailed
in the final OJJDP program plan for Fiscal Year 1994.
Marketing the Conditions of Confinement Study
$125,000
The recently completed Abt Associates report on the Conditions of
Confinement study, which focused primarily on standards conformity,
provided a preliminary analysis of data collected under this research.
There are numerous substantive areas that have not yet been explored.
The keen interest of the field in the results of this first report
indicates the need to provide support to further analyze the data base,
particularly data from site visits and interviews with facility staff,
youths, and administrators; prepare practitioner-friendly reports;
respond to ad hoc requests for special data analyses; and make
specialized presentations to a variety of audiences who have an
interest in improving conditions of confinement.
Further analysis and dissemination of this report will provide
support to the National Consortium formed to foster the implementation
of the study recommendations. A continuation grant would be awarded to
Abt Associates. No additional applications would be solicited in Fiscal
Year 1994.
Conditions of Confinement Follow Up--Performance Standards
$250,000
One of the major findings of the Abt Associates ``Conditions of
Juvenile Confinement'' study is that existing correctional standards
are procedural in nature and do not, even if complied with, reflect
positively on conditions of confinement in the institutions that house
our nation's troubled youths.
A group of corrections and detention administrators who met in
Austin, Texas, in the spring of 1993, concluded that performance-based
standards must be developed if the field is to move toward improved
services for youths and greater accountability for performance in
service areas. In developing these standards, drafters will be required
to confer and agree on their goals, and to define indicators that
measure goal attainment.
The grantee selected would work with representatives from a broad-
based consortium of corrections and detention practitioners and youth
advocacy professionals in education, health, mental health, and social
services to develop, on a priority basis, measurable performance
standards. In the second year, the grantee would develop a curriculum
and technical assistance package with a strategy for marketing these
standards. This curriculum would be field-tested and implemented in a
selected number of sites in the third year. If funding levels permit a
companion task in the second year would be the development and testing
of a curriculum and technical assistance package for health care
performance standards currently being developed by the National
Commission on Correctional Health Care.
The standards developed under this initiative would be practitioner
driven and enhance existing nationally recognized standards for
juvenile correction and detention facilities. The standards should
cover system, staff, and youth performance as well as the quality of
life for residents of these facilities.
OJJDP would solicit a multi-year grant for the development of
performance-based standards for juvenile corrections and detention.
Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams
To Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding
$125,000
The Conditions of Confinement Study identified overcrowding as the
most urgent problem facing juvenile corrections and detention
facilities. Overcrowding in juvenile facilities is a function of
decisions and policies made at the State, county, and city levels. The
trend in a number of jurisdictions toward the inappropriate use of
detention and commitment to State facilities has been reversed when key
decision makers, such as the chief judge, chief of police, director of
the local detention facility, head of the State juvenile correctional
agency, and others who affect the flow of juveniles through the system,
agree to make decisions collaboratively and to modify practices and
policies. In some instances, modification has occurred in response to
court orders. Compliance with court orders is improved with the support
of enhanced interagency communication and planning among those agencies
affecting flow.
To address the problems of overcrowded facilities, OJJDP plans to
support an initiative focused on implementing the recommendations of
the Abt study regarding overcrowding. This project would involve
developing training and technical assistance materials for use by State
and local jurisdictional teams. Assistance would be provided in
planning and problem solving strategies to reduce or prevent
overcrowding in juvenile facilities. Follow-up technical assistance
would also be provided to assist in carrying out plans and strategies
developed under the training phase.
It is anticipated that one competitive grant or cooperative
agreement in the amount of $125,000 would be awarded in FY 1994.
Juvenile Statistics Improvement
$275,000
OJJDP proposes to fund a project to improve juvenile custody
statistics and further the development of an integrated and
comprehensive program of national juvenile justice statistics. The
initial emphases of this program will focus on: (1) Juvenile custody
statistics, and (2) information on juveniles waived or transferred to
criminal court. Custody was chosen for improvement because custody
statistics are needed to monitor the custody rates and characteristics
of offenders who penetrate the juvenile justice system and the types of
intervention received.
OJJDP recently convened a Juvenile Custody Statistics Symposium of
juvenile justice practitioners, data collectors, providers, and users
to help OJJDP reexamine data needs regarding the juvenile custody
population and the custody function. The participants' feedback on the
need for timely, useful and accurate information is reflected in this
plan. The Symposium produced consensus on a number of short-term and
long-term needs. In the immediate future, OJJDP will take steps to
rebuild the data collection infrastructure of custody and waiver/
transfer statistics. The design of work for the waiver and transfer
data collection will be informed by the results of the General
Accounting Office study of juvenile waiver to criminal court.
The Symposium also produced general consensus regarding data
collection priorities and requirements. Within this framework, OJJDP is
weighing specific redesign options for producing custody statistics. To
this end, OJJDP proposes to pilot test new data collection methods to
examine their feasibility and utility among the tests under
consideration are the following:
The design of a new effort to collect individual level
data on juveniles in facilities. This new effort will capture detailed
demographic and offense data.
A redesign of facility-based information collections. The
anticipated data collections would revitalize the present collection
efforts and build on the success of the Conditions and Confinement
study.
A new detention data collection effort to monitor the use
of detention and to serve as a barometer of activity in the juvenile
justice system.
In order to collect data on juveniles tried in criminal court,
OJJDP will pretest data collection instruments for possible use in a
supplemental award to the BJS National Prosecutor's Survey.
These pilot tests would explore new data collection technologies
(such as computer aided surveys, telephone data entry, and electronic
submission of data).
OJJDP anticipates a one-year award of $275,000 to a qualified
organization to carry out the necessary technical support tasks
associated with statistical redesign efforts.
Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration, Technical
Assistance, and Evaluation Program
$750,000
This initiative is designed to support the implementation, delivery
of technical assistance, and the evaluation of a selected number of
jurisdictions currently participating in an OJJDP-sponsored pilot
program.
Eight pilot test sites (NC, NJ, TX, CO, NV, PA, VA, MI) will
compete for the opportunity to participate in a national independent
evaluation. Four sites will be selected and will be awarded up to
$100,000 each to partially support the program design demonstration. An
estimated $140,000 will be awarded to an independent evaluation
contractor to complete initial evaluation design work and document the
process. Funding from Fiscal Years 1995 and 1996 will be utilized to
support an impact evaluation.
The Johns Hopkins University will receive a supplemental award of
up to $210,000 to continue to provide technical assistance and training
to all sites making progress towards implementation. The project period
for this initiative will be 36 months. Awards will be made in 12
monthly increments.
National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training and
Technical Assistance Center
$300,000
Sections 244, 245, and 246 of the JJDP Act of 1974, as amended,
authorize support of training and technical assistance programs for
juvenile justice and related personnel. These services have been
provided through grants, cooperative agreements, and interagency
agreements using a variety of training formats and materials. OJJDP
proposes to establish comprehensive and uniform training coverage of
the field in order to increase the effectiveness of OJJDP-supported
training and technical assistance. To achieve this, the Office would
issue a solicitation for a contract to establish a Training and
Technical Assistance Center to provide the following services and
activities to the juvenile justice field:
A centralized access point for information about training
and technical assistance;
Development of specialized training teams to assist State
and local programs, respond to specialized issues or needs, and provide
training and certification of trainers;
Development and distribution of training and technical
assistance materials;
Support for National and regional training events;
Assessment and evaluation of training programs;
Information on training models and specific issues
affecting training of staff working with juveniles; and
Provide opportunities for networking and exchanging
information and ideas to create learning opportunities for youth
development professionals.
The Center would provide the following benefits to support OJJDP
training and technical assistance responsibilities:
Support coordination of all OJJDP training and technical
assistance projects;
Respond immediately to emerging training needs through
development and delivery of specialized training and technical
assistance;
Support an agency managed system for effective monitoring
of contracted services, efficient use of services, and prevention of
overlap of services;
Coordinate data regarding participants and curricula
received from OJJDP-funded grantees and contractors and centralize the
information gathered;
Facilitate the exchange of information about training
technologies and provide access to information resources.
In the first year, a catalogue of OJJDP's training activities would
be published, including course descriptions, training organizations,
and schedules. Other products of the Center during the first year would
include the design and testing of a trainers curriculum, production of
training manuals and training jurisdictional teams to respond to
critical issues and problems. A competitive multi-year contract in the
initial amount of $300,000 would be awarded in Fiscal Year 1994.
Telecommunications Assistance
$200,000
Developments in information technology and distance training can
expand and enhance the information dissemination, training and
technical assistance activities of OJJDP programs. These technologies
can be employed to enhance present capabilities for existing grantees
by increasing access of persons in the juvenile justice system to
information and training, reducing travel costs to conferences, and
saving time used to attend meetings requiring one or more nights away
from one's home or office.
OJJDP proposes to award a cooperative agreement to a qualified
organization to provide program support, technical assistance and
necessary equipment for a variety of information technologies,
including audio-graphics, satellite teleconferences, and fiber-optic
teleconferences. OJJDP would select from among its grantees to provide
the curricula or program information to be presented via
telecommunications technologies. A secondary purpose of the grant
program would be to support OJJDP in marketing the technology for
additional users. A cooperative agreement in the amount of $200,000
would be awarded in Fiscal Year 1994.
Interventions To Reduce Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Secure
Detention and Correctional Facilities (The Deborah Ann Wysinger
Memorial Program)
$600,000
National data and studies have demonstrated that minority offenders
are overrepresented in secure facilities across the county. In response
to this problem, OJJDP issued regulations in 1989 requiring States
participating in the Formula Grants Program to determine the existence
of `disproportionate minority confinement and to design strategies to
reduce the problem where it exists. As of February 1993, 42 States had
completed the required data analyses, with all but one determining that
minority juveniles were overrepresented in secure facilities. Analysis
of the data provided by the States further indicates that minority
youths are disproportionately represented at several points in the
juvenile justice system.
This competitive Special Emphasis program would provide funds to
States to demonstrate effective strategies designed to eliminate the
overrepresentation of minority juveniles in secure detention or
correctional facilities, adult jails and lockups, and other secure
institutional facilities. Activities appropriate for funding under this
initiative would include such programs as:
Training and education programs for law enforcement and
juvenile justice practitioners;
Diversion programs for minority youths who come in contact
with the juvenile justice system;
Prevention programs in communities with high numbers of
minority residents;
Programs to increase the capacity of community-based
organizations to provide alternatives to detention for minority youths;
and
Aftercare programs designed to assist minority youths
returning to their communities from secure institutions.
Grants would be available to State Agencies as defined in section
223(a)(1) of the JJDP Act in amounts ranging from $25,000 to $100,000
for the implementation and evaluation of interventions to reduce
disproportionate minority confinement. In addition to the general
selection criteria applied to all OJJDP competitive application
solicitations, the Office will take into consideration the
jurisdiction's development of multiple strategies to address the
problem and need based on high minority overrepresentation indices as
identified in the Phase I data collection analysis. Programs will be
required to coordinate with OJJDP's program evaluation contractor.
Non-Violent Dispute Resolution
$250,000
The Non-Violent Dispute Resolution program is a joint effort of
OJJDP and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to test a variety of
proposed strategies to train teenage students to constructively manage
anger, resolve conflict(s), learn the importance of mutual respect, and
be responsible for their actions. Up to three organizations and/or
agencies will be identified to implement program models. Qualified
applicants must have demonstrated successful work in programs which
include collaborative efforts among educators, counselors, criminal
justice representatives, and parents/caretakers. Applications will be
solicited by BJA on a competitive basis.
Models of Effective Court Based Service Delivery to Children and Their
Families
$250,000
The expanding role of State courts in today's complex society is
particularly evident in the struggle to address the problems and needs
of children and families. Courts often have the charge of monitoring
and enforcing treatments recommended by human services professionals,
sanctions sought by law enforcement agencies, and mandates imposed by
Federal and State legislation. In many instances, courts are the last
resort for dysfunctional families. Because of these trends, courts have
become, often by default, service coordinators, attempting to match the
needs of individuals to services available in the community. Courts are
undertaking the role of service provider in a vacuum of information of
what works and why.
This program would develop and demonstrate effective models for the
acquisition, delineation and provision of social services through court
auspices. It would examine the nature and extent of the services
provided by courts; at what points in the process the services are
provided; and, the extent of the coordination of the services across
individuals, cases, and service providers. The effectiveness of the
models would be evaluated based on their impact on court operations
(e.g., the resources needed to implement various models) and the
quality of the services provided to clients. This program builds on the
results of the recent National Symposium on Courts, Children, and
Families conducted by the National Center for State Courts in
cooperation with the Conference of State Court Administrators. OJJDP
would participate in and provide funding for this program through the
Bureau of Justice Assistance under a cooperative agreement with the
National Center for State Courts. No additional applications would be
solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Delinquency Prevention Training and Technical Assistance
$560,000
The purpose of this contract is to provide nationwide training and
technical assistance (TA) to local jurisdictions in developing and
implementing comprehensive community-wide risk-focused delinquency
prevention strategies under title V, section 505, of the JJDPA. The
specific training and TA objectives are to: Provide communities with a
full understanding of the risk-focused delinquency prevention approach;
provide a mechanism for the key leadership of a community to develop
consensus on an overall strategy; provide a strategy for involving the
entire community in delinquency prevention planning; provide a process
for communities to conduct a risk and resource assessment; provide
communities with a strategy for developing an action plan based on the
results of the risk and resource assessment; and provide communities
with a strategy to implement their action plan.
The training will be provided in cooperation with the state
agencies that administer the Formula Grants program. A sole source
contract has been awarded to Developmental Research and Programs, Inc.
to provide training in the ``Communities that Care'' prevention
strategy.
Improvement of the Juvenile System
Continuation Programs--Children in Custody
$300,000
Under this collaborative program between the OJJDP and U.S. Bureau
of the Census, OJJDP proposes to transfer funds to the U.S. Bureau of
the Census to conduct the biennial census of public and private
juvenile detention, correctional, and shelter facilities. The census
describes the target facilities in terms of their resident population
as well as their programs and physical characteristics.
The program would be implemented under an interagency agreement
with the U.S. Bureau of the Census. No additional applications would be
solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
$1,006,798
Part of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS),
the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse provides support to OJJDP in: (1)
Collecting, synthesizing and disseminating information on all aspects
of juvenile delinquency; (2) developing publications; and (3) preparing
specialized responses to information requests from the juvenile justice
field. The Clearinghouse maintains a toll-free number for information
requests.
The Clearinghouse also reviews on an continuing basis reports,
data, and standards relating to the juvenile justice system in the
United States and develops special resource products for the juvenile
justice community.
The Clearinghouse serves as an information center for the
acquisition and dissemination of information regarding juvenile
delinquency, including State and local juvenile delinquency prevention
and treatment programs and plans, availability or resources, training
and educational programs, statistics, and other pertinent data and
information. The Clearinghouse serves as an information bank
systematically collecting and synthesizing the data and knowledge
obtained from research and evaluation by public and private agencies,
institutions or individuals concerning all aspects of juvenile
delinquency, including the prevention and treatment of juvenile
delinquency.
Recognizing the critical need to inform juvenile justice
practitioners and other policymakers on program approaches which hold
promise, the Clearinghouse continually develops and recommends new
strategies to communicate the research findings and program activities
of OJJDP to the practitioner community.
The entire NCJRS contract, of which the JJC is a part, and which is
administered by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is scheduled
for competitive award in Fiscal Year 1994.
Coalition for Juvenile Justice*
$650,000
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (Coalition) was established in
1983 as the National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory
Groups. It was renamed the Coalition for Juvenile Justice effective
January 1, 1993. The Coalition supports and facilitates the purposes
and functions of State juvenile justice advisory groups. In 1984,
Congress tasked the Coalition to review Federal policies regarding
juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, prepare and submit an
Annual Report and recommendations to the President and Congress, and
provide advice to the OJJDP Administrator. The Coalition is also
authorized to develop an Information Center for Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Programs, to conduct an Annual Conference and to
disseminate information, data, standards, advanced techniques, and
program models. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal
Year 1994.
Juvenile Justice Data Resources
$25,000
This program addresses the need to enhance the availability of
juvenile justice data sets for secondary analysis. It will be
implemented under an interagency agreement with the University of
Michigan. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development
$550,000
The purpose of this program is to improve Federal, State, and local
juvenile justice statistics and to enhance decision making and
management information systems (MIS) within the juvenile justice
system. The project is divided into two tracks, the National Statistics
Track (NST) and Systems Development Track (SDT). The NST helps to
formulate a comprehensive National Juvenile Justice Statistics program
which will include a series of regular reports on the extent and nature
of juvenile offenses and victimization and the justice system's
response to the same. A major product will be a Report to the Nation on
Juvenile Crime and Victimization.
The SDT will assess juvenile justice agencies' decision making,
needs, and abilities to generate and use information; develop models
for decision making and related MIS; and develop and provide training
and technical assistance to promote the adoption of model systems in
test sites.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will
be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Juveniles Taken Into Custody (JTIC): Interagency Agreement
$200,000
The U.S. Bureau of the Census is working with OJJDP to develop a
national comprehensive statistical reporting system responsive to the
information requirements of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, and to the needs of the juvenile
justice field for data on juvenile custody populations in order to
assist State legislatures and juvenile justice professionals in
planning and policy-making decisions. The Census Bureau acts as the
data collection agent for the JTIC program. The program will be
implemented under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Bureau of the
Census. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
National Juvenile Court Data Archive*
$611,000
This program collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates
available data concerning the Nation's juvenile courts. The Archive
collects automated data and published reports from juvenile courts
throughout the Nation. Using the automated data, the Archive produces
comprehensive reports on the activities of the juvenile courts. These
reports examine referrals, offenses, intake, and dispositions as well
as specialized topics such as minorities in juvenile courts or specific
offense categories. The Archive provides assistance to jurisdictions in
analyzing their juvenile court data.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will
be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program (Gangs)
$250,000
This project provides technical assistance and training for
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to promote a better
understanding of the juvenile justice system. This program offers six
training programs:
Police, Prosecution, Probation Operations Leading to
Improved Children and Youth Services (POLICY I & 2) assists mid-level
managers to develop management strategies that integrate juvenile
services into mainstream law enforcement operations and demonstrates
step-by-step methods to improve police productivity in the juvenile
justice area.
The Child Abuse and Exploitation Investigative Techniques
program provides law enforcement officers with state-of-the-art
approaches for building a case against individuals charged with child
abuse, sexual exploitation, or the abduction of children.
The Managing Juvenile Operations program provides a series
of training approaches for police executives which demonstrates simple,
yet effective, methods to increase departmental efficiency and
effectiveness by integrating juvenile services into mainstream police
activity.
School Administrators for Effective Police, Probation, and
Prosecutors Operations Leading to Improved Children and Youth Services
(SAFE POLICY) brings together the chief executives of schools, law
enforcement agencies, prosecution and probation divisions to promote
interagency cooperation and coordination in dealing with youth-related
problems.
A new training program on the Serious Habitual Offender
Comprehensive Action Program (SHOCAP) has been developed for the POLICY
series of training programs.
The Gang and Drug POLICY Training Program helps local jurisdictions
develop a comprehensive strategy for combatting gangs and drugs. The
objectives of this training program are to:
(1) Provide a process for community leaders to develop cooperative
strategies that address the problems resulting from gang and drug
activities;
(2) Promote an awareness and recognition of (a) the problems of
gangs and drugs, (b) justice system practices, (c) behavior patterns of
gangs and gang members, and (d) current system practices and
demonstration projects;
(3) Provide strategies and techniques for public and private
interagency partnerships dealing with community gang and drug-related
problems;
(4) Clarify and document the roles, responsibilities, and issues
relating to an interagency approach to the prevention, intervention,
and suppression of the illegal activities of youth gangs;
(5) Encourage leadership and innovation in the management and
resolution of gang and drug problems; and
(6) Develop or improve the response capacity to gang and drug
issues through an effective interagency model which matches resources
to demands.
This program will be continued in Fiscal Year 1994 under an
existing competitive contract award.
Contract for the Evaluation of OJJDP Programs
$652,341
Information is being collected on the efficiency, cost-
effectiveness, and impact of OJJDP programs implemented through
discretionary grants, interagency agreements, contracts, and possibly
formula grants. OJJDP will use the reported findings, including
strengths, weaknesses, and other assessment data, to make policy and
planning decisions. The information may also benefit Congress, other
Federal agencies, and State and local juvenile justice and child
service staffs.
The grantee is:
1. Providing evaluative assessments of potential programs;
2. Conducting a process evaluation of, and designing an impact
evaluation for, the Satellite Prep School project;
3. Designing a process and impact evaluation for the LRE Juvenile
Justice Initiative project; and
4. Evaluating: (a) The training provided under the Gang and Drug
POLICY program; (b) The Intensive Community-Based Aftercare project;
(c) NIC Training for Juvenile Detention and Corrections Personnel; (d)
The Disproportionate Representation of Minorities Initiative; and (e)
The Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program.
The contract is awarded to Caliber Associates for a three-year
period. Third year funding, to be awarded in Fiscal Year 1994, is
$652,341. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Children at Risk
$350,000
OJJDP, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), and the Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse (the Center) of Columbia University have
undertaken a joint effort to help communities rescue their high risk
pre-adolescents from the interrelated threats of crime and drugs. The
program tests a specific intervention strategy for reducing and
controlling illegal drugs and related crime in target neighborhoods and
fosters healthy development among youths from drug- and crime-ridden
neighborhoods. Multi-service, multi-disciplinary neighborhood-based
programs are being established which will provide a range of
opportunities and diverse services for pre-adolescents and their
families who are at high risk of involvement in illegal drugs and
crime. Simultaneously, the criminal and juvenile justice systems are
targeting resources to reduce illegal drug use and crime in the
neighborhoods where these young people reside. OJJDP funds are used for
the delinquency prevention components of the program.
The Center has received funding from a number of Foundations, for
this effort, which has been matched by OJJDP and BJA. Based on the
proposals submitted, five communities were selected to receive funds
beginning in Fiscal Year 1992 to implement programs over a three-year
period: Seattle, Washington; Memphis, Tennessee; Bridgeport,
Connecticut; Austin, Texas; and Savannah, Georgia. Foundation and
government funding of between $500,000 and $1 million was allocated per
community. The program will be implemented by the current grantee in
the five communities. OJJDP funds will be transferred to BJA to
implement the program under a BJA Grant and NIJ is supporting the
evaluation with BJA funds. No additional applications will be solicited
in Fiscal Year 1994.
Delay in the Imposition of Sanctions
$100,000
This project is a continuation of research undertaken to study the
delays in the delivery of sanctions to juveniles in the juvenile court
system. Where delays are found in the processing of juvenile court
cases, the study will address the problems created by these delays and
make realistic recommendations on how to correct the problems. This
award will be the third and final year of funding for a three-year
project and will support the completion of Phase III. Phase I and Phase
II, which were completed in the first two years, consisted of a
literature review and survey of court administrators to determine the
extent to which processing delays occur, a description of the
characteristics that define the problem, an identification of the
points in juvenile court case processing that are most susceptible to
delays, an intensive site study that evaluated the effect that case
processing delays have on juvenile courts' effectiveness and efficiency
in handling delinquency cases, including the effect on juveniles
themselves. Phase III will be the final stage of this three-year
project, entailing a review of the project findings and development of
a set of recommendations on how the juvenile justice system can improve
case processing and reduce unnecessary delays. The program will be
implemented by the current grantee, the National Center for Juvenile
Justice. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Enhancing Enforcement Strategies for Juvenile Impaired Driving Due to
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
$75,000
This is a collaborative interagency program between OJJDP and the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The dollar
amount of this program represents OJJDP's contribution. A total of
$125,000 was awarded in Fiscal Year 1993 under this OJJDP grant. The
purpose of this program is to combat the problem of youths involved in
delinquent drinking and driving offenses by combining increased use of
the arrest sanction and adopting uniform procedures for handling
juvenile ``driving under the influence'' (DUI) arrestees. The result
sought is an overall reduction in the incidence of drug- and alcohol-
related accidents, injuries, and fatalities.
During Phase I of the program, the project developed a system-wide
enforcement model which unites key criminal justice agency components--
police, prosecutors, judges, and probation officers--into one
comprehensive DUI enforcement program. In this second phase of the
project, the model will be demonstrated in up to five sites. These
sites will receive a variety of technical assistance services.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the Police
Executive Research Forum. No additional applications will be solicited
in Fiscal Year 1994.
Violence Study--Causes and Correlates*
$300,000
OJJDP proposes to support additional analyses of data collected
under its Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of
Delinquency, conducted at the State University of New York at Albany,
the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Colorado. The draft
final report, ``Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuse,'' is under
review. To use the collected data more fully, additional analyses need
to be performed. These analyses are intended to enhance OJJDP's program
development for serious, chronic, and violent offenders. Topics for
analysis will be determined by program development requirements. For
example, development of risk assessment instruments would benefit from
more specific analyses regarding risk factors and pathways to chronic,
serious, or violent offending.
This program would be implemented by the grantees noted above. No
additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Training and Technical Assistance for Juvenile Detention and
Corrections (The James E. Gould Memorial Program)
$225,000
The project would continue to provide technical assistance and
training to juvenile correctional and detention agencies, serve as a
national forum on juvenile corrections and detention, hold workshops on
selected key issues, provide on-site technical assistance, hold a
National Juvenile Day Treatment Conference, and promote literacy
education and networking.
The project, which would emphasize intermediate sanctions for non-
violent juveniles involved in drug-related offenses and illegal
activities in Fiscal Year 1994, would be implemented by the current
grantee, The American Correctional Association. No additional
applications would be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Training for Juvenile Corrections Staff
$475,000
OJJDP proposes to continue the development and implementation of a
comprehensive training program for juvenile corrections and detention
staff through an interagency agreement with the National Institute of
Corrections (NIC). The program is designed to offer a core curriculum
for juvenile corrections and detention administrators and mid-level
management personnel in such areas as leadership development,
management, training of trainers, legal issues, cultural diversity,
gang activity, juvenile programming for specialized needs of offenders,
and overcrowding. The training would be conducted at the NIC Academy
and regionally. This program would be implemented in Fiscal Year 1994
under an interagency agreement with NIC. No additional applications
would be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Improving Literacy Skills of Institutionalized Juvenile Delinquents
$250,000
This is a competitively awarded program funding two grants:
Mississippi University for Women ($125,000), and The Nellie Thomas
Institute of Learning ($125,000). Many juvenile delinquents in
correctional institutions need to develop basic reading and writing
skills. The program will improve the literacy levels of juvenile
residents in these facilities while creating a national network of
trained reading teachers and volunteers available to juvenile
correctional facilities. It will include training, follow-up technical
assistance on teaching methods, and a curriculum for use by the staff
of detention and corrections facilities.
This program will be implemented by the current grantees, The
Mississippi University for Women, and The Nellie Thomas Institute of
Learning. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
Improvement in Correctional Education for Juvenile Offenders
$200,000
The purpose of this program is to assist juvenile corrections
administrators in planning and implementing improved educational
services for detained and incarcerated juvenile offenders.
In Fiscal Year 1992, the National Office for Social Responsibility
(NOSR) was awarded a three year cooperative agreement to begin a
comprehensive assessment of the literature and to produce a report
documenting the state-of-the-art practices in educational reform. The
results will determine how the information will be used in the future
to improve educational services for incarcerated juveniles.
NOSR also will be awarded up to $200,000 to provide training and
technical assistance to selected sites that are interested in
implementing correctional education reform. No additional applications
will be solicited for this training and technical program during Fiscal
Year 1994.
Juvenile Court Training*
$1,074,000
The primary purpose of this project is to continue and refine the
training and technical assistance program offered by the National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The training objectives
are to supplement law school curricula, provide judges with current
information on developments in juvenile and family case law, and make
available options for sentencing and treatment. Emphasis will be placed
on drug testing, gangs and violence, and intermediate sanctions. The
project will provide foundation training to new judges and to
experienced judges who have been recently assigned to the juvenile or
family court bench.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, The
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Technical Assistance to the Juvenile Courts*
$390,000
The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), the current
grantee, is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges. The four types of technical assistance
available under the grant are (1) Information resources, (2) on-site
consultation, (3) off-site consultation, and (4) cross-site
consultation. Emphasis will be placed on intermediate sanctions for
handling juveniles involved in drug-related offenses and gang
activities. In addition, the project will examine appropriate use of
juvenile records in adult court proceedings, including an examination
of State laws and practices.
The current grantee, the National Center for Juvenile Justice, will
implement the program. No additional applications will be solicited in
Fiscal Year 1994.
Due Process Advocacy Program Development
$250,000
In Fiscal Year 1993, OJJDP funded the American Bar Association
(ABA), in partnership with the Juvenile Law Center (JLC) of
Philadelphia, PA and the Youth Law Center (YLC) of San Francisco, CA,
to develop a due process advocacy program strategy. The goals of the
program are to increase juvenile offenders' access to legal services;
and to improve the quality of pre-adjudication, adjudication, and
dispositional advocacy for juvenile offenders. These strategies will be
made available to state and local bar associations and other relevant
organizations so that they can develop approaches to increase the
availability and quality of counsel for juveniles. The ABA and its
partners (JLC and YLC) will assess the current state-of-the-art with
regard to legal services, training and education, develop strategies to
improve access, availability and the quality of counsel and provide a
comprehensive report on these issues. During the second funding cycle,
training materials will be developed and tested in selected sites.
Training materials will be adjusted based on the experience in the test
sites and a dissemination strategy will be developed. The ABA will
develop mechanisms for networking with legal service providers such as
public defender offices and Children's Law Centers. Fiscal Year 1994
funding will support the first six months of the total second year
budget of this three year effort. An additional $250,000 will be
provided from Fiscal Year 1995 funds for the remaining six months of
the second year. No new applications will be solicited.
Training in Cultural Differences for Law Enforcement/Juvenile Justice
Officials
$150,000
The project will complete, test, implement, and provide for the
dissemination and juvenile justice system utilization of, a cultural
diversity training curriculum. The curriculum will be designed to serve
the training of trainers in the police/juvenile justice field, and will
respond to the unique needs of the major components of the juvenile
justice system. Thus, it is expected that training modules and
supportive materials will be oriented to cover the aspects of cultural/
ethnic diversity particularly relevant to law enforcement, detention
staff, probation officers, judges, institutional personnel, aftercare
workers, and others involved in the various juvenile justice processes.
An award for the current phase of the project will be made to the
present grantee, the American Correctional Association. No new
applicants will be invited.
Bootcamps for Juvenile Offenders: Constructive Intervention and Early
Support
$550,000
During Fiscal Year 1991, and after an extensive competitive review
process, OJJDP selected and funded three jurisdictions to participate
in the Bootcamp for Juvenile Offenders program. The program is designed
to create an alternative intermediate-sanction program for non-violent
juvenile offenders under the age of 18. The program is also designed to
emphasize discipline, treatment and work in a military-style bootcamp
program. These programs are also participating in an independent,
national evaluation to document the process and impact of the program.
OJJDP will use funds transferred from the Bureau of Justice
Assistance (BJA) to provide a limited amount of supplemental funds to
three currently Federally funded Bootcamp programs in a military-style
bootcamp program based on their assessed needs. No new applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Comprehensive Gang Initiative
$500,000
In 1992, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) introduced the
Comprehensive Gang Initiative. Funding for the Fiscal Year 1994
initiative will be a joint effort by BJA and OJJDP (OJJDP would
transfer $500,000 to BJA to support this effort). The Police Executive
Research Forum (PERF) has developed a model comprehensive approach to
gang issues, which carefully balances initiatives for prevention,
intervention and suppression. The model encompasses strategies which
bring together cooperative and coordinated efforts of the police, other
criminal justice agencies, human services providers and community
programs. In addition to a prototype, PERF has developed a training
curriculum and a program for providing technical assistance to model
demonstration sites. The first four competitively selected
demonstration sites were being funded during Fiscal Year 1993 and
technical assistance was provided by PERF. Four additional sites will
be funded in Fiscal Year 1994 through a competitive process.
Applications would be solicited by BJA.
Missing Children
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children/Resource
$3,600,000
This grant will fund the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children to continue to provide the functions of a national resource
center and clearinghouse on matters relevant to and required by Title
IV--the Missing Children's Assistance Act. No additional applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Training and Technical Assistance for Nonprofit Missing and Exploited
Children's Organizations
$250,000
This program will provide technical assistance and training to
improve the capacity of nonprofit community-based missing children's
organizations to engage in activities which will successfully prevent
the abduction and sexual exploitation of children, assist in the
recovery of children, and provide services to child victims and their
families.
The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the
National Victim Center, Arlington, Virginia. No additional applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Model Treatment and Services Approaches for Mental Health Professionals
Working With Families of Missing Children
$200,000
The project's goals are to provide mental health personnel with
effective treatment approaches and for the rehabilitation of families
traumatized by child abduction and faced with re-establishing a state
of normalcy in its aftermath. The current grantee is the Western Center
for Child Protection, Reno, Nevada. No additional applications will be
solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Obstacles To Recovery and Return of Parentally Abducted Children:
Training, Technical Assistance
$250,000
The American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Fund
for Justice and Education, recently completed two years of research
that showed there are significant obstacles to location, recovery, and
return of parentally abducted children. This project will attempt to
alleviate some of these identified problems by developing products
useful to the field, including continuing professional education and
model statutes. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal
Year 1994.
Development and Expansion of the Child Find Mediation Program To Locate
Missing and Exploited Children and Prevent Child Abduction
$75,000
This program is designed to expand mediation program services to
prevent parental abductions by increasing the level of awareness of the
problem through public service announcements and programs targeting
human resources, social service, health care professionals, and the
clergy. Additional training will be provided for core mediators and
Child Find staff in dispute resolution processes. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
ECHO Program Expansion Assistance
$19,538
The purpose of this project is to enable the Exploited Children's
Help Organization (ECHO) of Louisville, Kentucky, to expand existing
services to missing and exploited children and their families. These
services include community education and prevention; a quarterly
newsletter providing information about missing and exploited children
and the services available through ECHO; a parents support program; and
the ``Kids in Court'' program. In cooperation with local police, ECHO
will compile information about repeat runaways in order to develop a
community runaway prevention program. No additional applications will
be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Plan (M/CAP)
$999,905
The Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/
CAP) is a multi-agency community action program. The grantee is Public
Administration Services, McLean Virginia. The primary program activity
is to provide training and technical assistance to help communities
plan responses to priority missing and exploited children issues. The
program provides programmatic, policy, and procedural approaches, and
assists multi-agency community organizations to plan and deliver
services in a more cooperative and responsive manner. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Funding Support for Private Non-profit Organizations Involved With
Missing and Exploited Children
$70,500
The purpose of this project is to continue the implementation of an
in-house information storage and retrieval system. This will enable the
Vanished Children's Alliance of San Jose, California to increase the
efficiency of its direct services to families affected by the loss of
their children, provide information to law enforcement, and other
service providers in a more timely manner, provide more direct
counseling and technical assistance to missing children and their
families upon recovery, develop effective services for families of
long-term missing children, and enhance Vanished Children's Alliance's
crisis intervention and referral systems. No additional applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Investigative Case Management of Missing Children Homicides
$150,000
The purpose of this project is to analyze up to 400 missing
children homicide cases in order to identify, assess, test,
demonstrate, and then describe the investigative practices that will
most effectively solve missing and abducted children murder
investigations.
The program development and activity will be carried out by the
State of Washington Attorney General's Office, Criminal Investigation
Division, and that Office's Homicide Investigation Tracking System
(HITS), in collaboration with the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC) and NCMEC's cadre of volunteer
investigators--America's Law Enforcement Retiree Team (ALERT). The
products of the three-year project will be a child homicide
investigative resource guide and a national law enforcement training
and technical assistance program to aid local, State, and Federal
agencies investigating missing children homicides. No additional
applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
Missing Children Data Archive
$50,000
OJJDP is committed to making publicly available all data sets
produced from the Missing Children research programs. To do so, the
research data files should be configured into a readily understandable
data file with complete documentation. OJJDP has signed an Interagency
Agreement with the University of Michigan for just such preparation and
archiving of the data sets. Specifically, the University of Michigan
will prepare the data and the documentation to conform to generally
accepted standards for electronic data. In this way, the data will be
more readily accessible for secondary analysis by policy analysts and
researchers. During the past fiscal year, this project prepared the
data from OJJDP's ``National Study of Law Enforcement Agencies'
Policies Regarding Missing Children and Homeless Youth.'' Previously,
this project also prepared and distributed OJJDP's first ``National
Incident Study of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children''
(NISMART). In the coming year, OJJDP anticipates preparing the
following data sets: ``Families of Missing Children: Psychological
Consequences and Promising Interventions,'' and ``Obstacles to the
Recovery and Return of Parentally Abducted Children.''
Remember, They're Children: Using Video To Train Law Enforcement
Personnel
$200,000
The purpose of the project is to minimize the negative impact of
law enforcement investigative procedures on maltreated children. This
will be accomplished through the intensive development and innovative
dissemination to law enforcement personnel of a comprehensive video
training curriculum designed to improve investigative responses to
child victims of maltreatment.
The National Child Welfare Resource Center will provide small and
medium-sized departments with the resources (video curriculum,
dissemination avenues, national guidebooks, and other materials) to
train and support their staff on how to conduct effective but
nontraumatizing child abuse investigations. No additional applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
National Alzheimer's Patient Alert Program: Safe Return*
$650,000
This project supports the establishment of a national program to
facilitate the identification and safe return of missing persons
afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The goals of
this project are: (1) To develop a central registry of computerized
information on memory-impaired persons and a national toll-free
telephone line to access the registry; (2) to create an identification
system using ID jewelry and clothing labels, purchased and distributed
through a central service; and (3) to produce educational materials for
use and distribution by participating chapters of the Alzheimer's
Disease and Related Disorders Association. No additional applications
will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1994.
John J. Wilson,
Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention.
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