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Part II
Department of Justice
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Competitive Discretionary Assistance Program and Application Kit; Final
Comprehensive Plan and Notice of Availability for Fiscal Year 1994;
Notice
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Final Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1994 and Notification of
the Availability of the FY 1994 Competitive Discretionary Assistance
Program and the Application Kit
AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention.
ACTION: Notice of Final Program Plan for Fiscal Year 1994 and Notice of
the Availability of the Competitive Discretionary Assistance Programs
and Juvenile Justice Application Kit for Fiscal Year 1994.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is
publishing this Notice of its Final Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year
1994 and Notice of the Availability of the Competitive Discretionary
Assistance Programs and Juvenile Justice Application Kit for Fiscal
Year 1994 (a separate publication of the Competitive Discretionary
Assistance Programs and the Application Kit is available in one
document from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse).
The OJJDP Application Kit contains the discretionary program
announcements, general application and administrative requirements, an
application form (Standard Form 424), the OJJDP Peer Review Guideline,
OJJDP Competition and Peer Review Procedures, and other supplemental
information relevant to the application process. To order an OJJDP
Application Kit please call the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, toll-
free, 24 hours a day, (800) 638-8736.
DATES: See Application Kit for Due Dates.
ADDRESSES: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, room
742, 633 Indiana Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20531.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Program inquiries are to be addressed
to the attention of the OJJDP staff contact person identified in the
application kit's program announcement. For general information,
contact Marilyn Silver, Management Analyst, Information Dissemination
Unit, (202) 307-0751. [This is not a toll-free number.]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 204(b)(5)(A) of
Title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
(JJDP Act), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 5614(b)(5)(A), the Acting
Administrator of OJJDP is publishing a Final Comprehensive Plan
describing the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs
which OJJDP intends to fund during Fiscal Year 1994. This Final Plan
includes activities authorized in parts C and D of title II of the JJDP
Act (42 U.S.C. 5651-5665b).
The 1984 Amendments to the JJDP Act established Title IV, the
Missing Children's Assistance Act. In accordance with Section 406(a) of
Title IV of the JJDP Act, 42 U.S.C. 5776(a), OJJDP announced in this
Final Program Plan priorities for grants and contracts under section
405, 42 U.S.C. 5775, of the Missing Children's Assistance Act.
Application Requirements
See Application Kit.
Eligibility Requirements
Applications are invited from eligible public and private agencies,
organizations, educational institutions, individuals, or combinations
thereof. Eligibility differs from program to program. Please consult
application kit for individual program announcements for specific
eligibility requirements. Where eligible for an assistance award,
private for profit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fee.
Joint applications by two or more eligible applicants are welcome, as
long as one organization is designated as the primary applicant and the
other(s) as co-applicant(s). Applicants must demonstrate that they have
experience in the design and implementation of the type of program or
program activity for which they are an applicant.
Selection Criteria
All applications will be evaluated and rated by a peer review panel
according to announced selection criteria. Peer review will be
conducted in accordance with the OJJDP Competition and Peer Review
Policy, 28 CFR part 34, subpart B. General selection criteria for each
competitive program will determine applicants' responsiveness to
minimum program application requirements, organizational capability,
and thoroughness and innovativeness in responding to strategic issues
related to project implementation. Each competitive program
announcement may also indicate additional program-specific review
criteria and/or changes in points assigned to criteria used in the peer
review for that particular program.
Peer reviews will use the following criteria to rate applications
unless the program announcement contains separate, program-specific
selection criteria:
1. Statement of the Problem. (20 points) The applicant includes a
clear, concise statement of the problem addressed in this program.
2. Definition of Objectives. (20 points) The goals and objectives
are clearly defined and the objectives are clear, measurable, and
attainable.
3. Project Design. (20 points) The project design is sound and
constitutes an effective approach to meet the goals and objectives of
this program. The design provides a detailed implementation plan with a
timeline which indicates significant milestones in the project, due
dates for products, and the nature of the products to be submitted. The
design contains program elements directly linked to the achievement of
the project.
4. Management Structure. (15 points) The project's management
structure and staffing is adequate to successfully implement and
complete the project. The management structure for the project is
consistent with the project goals and tasks described in the
application. Application explains how the management structure and
staffing assignments are consistent with the needs of the program.
5. Organizational Capability. (15 points) The applicant
organization's potential to conduct the project successfully must be
documented. Applicant demonstrates that staff members have sufficient
substantive expertise and technical experience. The applications will
be judged on the appropriateness of the position descriptions, required
qualifications, and staff selection criteria.
6. Reasonableness of Costs. (10 points) Budgeted costs are
reasonable, allowable, and cost effective for the activities proposed,
and are directly related to the achievement of the program objectives.
All costs are justified in a budget narrative that explains how costs
are determined.
Introduction
The youth of America are our Nation's future. However, along with
increasing adult violence, the serious and violent crime rate among
juveniles has increased sharply in the past few years. At the same
time, a small portion of juvenile offenders account for the bulk of all
serious and violent crime. 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.
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 the prenatal period.
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 children's 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:
Strengthen families in their role of providing guidance,
discipline and strong values as their children's first teachers.
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.
Promote prevention strategies that reduce the impact of
negative risk factors and enhance protective factors.
Intervene immediately when delinquent behavior first
occurs.
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.
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.
Overview
OJJDP was established by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974 (P.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.
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 State participates.
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 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.
In implementing the Fiscal Year 1994 Program Plan, OJJDP will
continue the process of developing, testing and demonstrating the
graduated sanctions concept throughout its programs, while also
maintaining an appropriate emphasis on Weed and Seed Sites.
For both new competitive programs to be funded at the
State or local level and new programs that provide funds to national
organizations to provide services at the State and local level.
Applicants are encouraged to provide services in Weed and Seed Sites
eligible for such services, as appropriate.
For continuation national project recipients, OJJDP has
already focused a variety of program resources on Weed and Seed Sites
and will continue an appropriate emphasis throughout Fiscal Year 1994.
For other continuation awards OJJDP, will negotiate with
grantees and task contractors to identify and ensure the provision of
appropriate technical assistance, training, information and direct
program services to Weed and Seed Sites, other jurisdictions adopting
the graduated sanctions program approach, and other eligible service
recipients.
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
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). 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. OJJDP programs encourage a risk-
focused approach, based on public health and social development models.
Community-Based Alternatives
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. 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.
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
The third goal of OJJDP is to promote improvements in the juvenile
justice system and facilitate the most effective allocation of system
resources. 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.
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.
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 these
10 programs. As a result, a number of proposed planned programs had to
be removed from the program plan. These programs will receive careful
considerations for funding in FY 1995.
Fiscal Year 1994 Program Listing
Delinquency Prevention
New Programs
Interagency Demonstration on Youth, Firearms and Violence.. $150,000
Mental Health in the Juvenile Justice System............... 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
``Just Say No'' International*............................. 250,000
Jackie Robinson Center (JRC)*.............................. 250,000
Parents Anonymous Inc.*.................................... 250,000
Youth Crime Watch*......................................... 50,000
Delinquency Prevention
Continuation Programs
Law-Related Education (LRE)*............................... 2,700,000
The Congress of National Black Churches:
National Anti-Drug Abuse Programs*..................... 200,000
Federal Interagency Partnership, Phase I (CIS)............. 200,000
Targeted Outreach with a Gang Prevention and Intervention
Component (Boys and Girls Clubs).......................... 400,000
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 Nin.6o Seguro Services--Addressing Missing and
Exploited Children........................................ 45,258
Community-Based Alternatives
New Programs
Program to Promote Alternative Programs for Juvenile Female
Offenders................................................. 200,000
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment
Program................................................... 2,000,000
Field-Initiated Research Program........................... 250,000
Robeson County, North Carolina*............................ 337,075
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania*........................... 50,000
Portland Summer Diversion Project*......................... 100,000
Douglas County, Nebraska*.................................. 67,055
PACE*...................................................... 150,000
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........ 540,000
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
Pulling America's Communities Together: Program Development 250,000
Violence Studies*.......................................... 1,000,000
Child Centered Community-Oriented Policing................. 300,000
What Works: Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders......... 50,000
Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Corrections and
Detention................................................. 250,000
Comprehensive Gang Program (Part D)........................ 2,000,000
Marketing the Conditions of Confinement Study.............. 100,000
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.................................... 100,000
Statistics Improvement..................................... 175,000
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... 569,076
Seeds of Success--Log Cabin Honor Ranch*................... 150,000
Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System
Continuation Programs
Children in Custody........................................ 300,000
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse............................. 1,016,740
Coalition for Juvenile Justice*............................ 650,000
Juvenile Justice Data Resources............................ 25,000
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development........ 275,000
Juveniles Taken Into Custody (JTIC):
Interagency Agreement.................................. 200,000
National Juvenile Court Data Archive*...................... 610,915
Contract for the Evaluation of OJJDP Programs.............. 652,341
Children at Risk........................................... 350,000
Delay in the Imposition of Sanctions....................... 100,000
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................................................. 199,963
Improving Literacy Skills of Institutionalized Juvenile
Delinquents............................................... 250,000
Juvenile Court Training*................................... 1,100,270
Technical Assistance to the Juvenile Courts*............... 389,943
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.
Interagency Demonstration on Youth, Firearms and Violence, $150,000
The unacceptably high levels of violent crimes, injuries, and
deaths in the United States among our Nation's youth are creating a
generation of victims and undermining the economic and communal fabric
of society. Firearms are a central part of the problem--for young
people 10 to 34 years of age, firearms are the second leading cause of
death. In 1990, more teenagers died from firearm-related injuries than
from all natural diseases combined.
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in
partnership with the National Institute of Justice, and with the
Centers for Disease Control, seeks to develop a strategy for preventing
and controlling youth violence. From this partnership has come a
solicitation requesting proposals to design and implement a
demonstration program utilizing a problem-solving approach to
understand, prevent and control youth violence. The proposed
demonstration project would involve a partnership among the juvenile
justice system, a public health agency, and a law enforcement or
criminal justice agency within a target community. The funding for this
initiative is up to $500,000, including a $150,000 contribution from
OJJDP. For a copy of this separate solicitation, Interagency
Demonstration on Youth, Firearms, and Violence, call the National
Criminal Justice Reference Service, 1-800-851-3420, Box 6000,
Rockville, MD 20850.
Mental Health in the Juvenile Justice System, $100,000
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 U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S.
Department of Education 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.
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)(7) ``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.
``Just Say No'' International,* $250,000
A grant to ``Just Say No'' International to expand its Youth Power
program to public housing projects in Oakland, California.
Jackie Robinson Center (JRC),* $250,000
JRC is a comprehensive program targeting at-risk youth which
provides education, sports and counseling services. This effort will
expand their recreational and cultural after school programs to
additional schools.
Parents Anonymous, Inc.,* $250,000
Parents Anonymous, Inc. will expand its national network of state
and local organizations which seek to reduce juvenile delinquency
through family self-help groups. The main focus of this program is to
prevent child abuse and neglect.
Youth Crime Watch,* $50,000
Youth Crime Watch of America is a widespread, comprehensive and
popular student-led anti-crime and drug problem. Youth Crime Watchers
are crime fighters, students K-12 involved in a crime prevention
movement BY STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS. The students are ready to do what it
takes to create a strong sense of pride, respect and citizenship, using
positive peer pressure to reduce crime in schools and neighborhoods.
This is a jointly funded program with the Department of Education and
the Bureau of Justice Assistance. This program will be expanded in 4 to
5 competitively selected Weed and Seed site and will be administered by
BJA.
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 a 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.
Federal Interagency Partnership, Phase I (Cities in Schools), $200,000
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 ``Federal Partnership Program I.''
This program is jointly funded by OJJDP and the Departments of the
Army, 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,
$400,000
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 towards 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 and receive an additional $100,000 FY 1995 funds. 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 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 grantee. 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,
$200,000
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 two 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 or delinquent 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 competitively funded with the two 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, $250,000
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 $83,000 each under
this program.
Robeson County, North Carolina,* $337,075
This grant is to the State of North Carolina to initiate two pilot
violence reduction programs based on a successful model program
implemented by the Governor's Crime Commission in Robeson County, N.C.
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania,* $50,000
This is a grant to Lackawanna County, PA to initiate a Juvenile
Crime Prevention Program with the local District Attorney, community
representatives and counseling practitioners.
Portland Summer Diversion Project,* $100,000
An innovative gang prevention program in northeast Portland, Oregon
established a summer program for high school youth that are at risk of
joining gangs. It includes employment efforts, counseling and classroom
instruction on life skills.
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
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 1994. 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, $540,000
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. In addition, program development will be
provided to the PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together) program
sites. 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.
``Pulling America's Communities Together: Program Development'',
$250,000
Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together) is a Federal
initiative designed to empower communities to fight crime. The project
presently focuses on four areas: Metropolitan Denver, the State of
Nebraska, Metropolitan Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. In these four
areas, the Federal Government is supporting and fostering the
development of broad-based, fully coordinated local and statewide anti-
violence initiatives that work strategically to secure community
safety.
The grantee will provide the sites with advice and assistance in
assessing youth violence problems and in identifying successful crime
prevention and violence reduction programs and models for
consideration, adaptation, and implementation in PACT area violence
reduction strategies. Moreover, the grantee will provide training and
technical assistance on crime prevention and violence reduction topics
and coalition and team-building processes.
The program will be implemented by a current grantee, the National
Council on Crime and Delinquency. The Bureau of Justice Assistance
(BJA) and OJJDP are jointly funding this project. BJA is contributing
$200,000. No additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year
1994.
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. 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, $50,000
This project would assess promising programs providing prevention
and treatment services for juvenile female offenders and conduct 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 which, 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 symposium 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 and a research
and program development agenda for the future. One award will be made
to supplement the work being done by the Girls, Inc. in an amount up to
$50,000.
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.
Comprehensive Gang Program, $2,000,000
OJJDP has developed a Comprehensive Gang Program in response to the
Part D amendments to the 1994 JJDP Act. Our program includes five major
components which will be coordinated efforts. The first three are new
initiatives for which applications are being competitively solicited in
Fiscal Year 1994.
1. The National Gang Assessment Resource Center will be established
to assess the nature and extent of the gang problem; to review the
current gang literature; to advance statistical data collection and
analyses; to identify promising program models; to conduct gang-related
legislative analysis; and to synthesize such information gathered into
meaningful dissemination products. ($500,000 in FY 1994 and $250,000 in
FY 1995)
2. OJJDP will fund five sites ($200,000 each) to implement the
Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention
and Suppression Program, developed by Irving Spergel and his colleagues
at the University of Chicago (1993). ($1,000,000)
3. An independent Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide
Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention and Suppression Program will
be sponsored to assist sites in establishing realistic and measurable
objectives, to document program implementation, to measure the efficacy
of a variety of program strategies, and to provide useful interim
feedback to program implementors. ($250,000)
4. Training and technical assistance regarding the Comprehensive
Community Strategy for Dealing with Gangs and Drugs will be provided to
all OJJDP-sponsored prevention and intervention sites, as well as to
other jurisdictions considering implementation of this approach. OJJDP
will use an existing training/technical assistance contract to provide
such services. No applications are being solicited.
5. Targeted Acquisition and Dissemination of Gang Materials will be
provided through the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, in cooperation
with all of the above integrated gang response participants. OJJDP's
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse will provide these services. No
applications are being solicited.
OJJDP will establish a Gang Consortium which will include OJJDP
gang program managers, and project directors and key staff from each of
the OJJDP sponsored gang program initiatives. The membership of the
Gang Consortium may also include interested representatives of other
Federal agencies who are involved in gang-related program development.
The purpose of the Gang Consortium will be to facilitate ongoing
coordination of program development, information exchange, and service
delivery nationwide.
Marketing the Conditions of Confinement Study, $100,000
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.
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, $100,000
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 $100,000 would be awarded in FY 1994.
Juvenile Statistics Improvement, $175,000
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 entering into a one-year interagency agreement
with the Bureau of the Census to carry out the tasks associated with
this work.
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 John 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-month
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 an award 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 trainer's 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 $200,000 would be awarded with Fiscal Year 1994 funds
and $100,000 of Fiscal Year 1995 funds.
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 $100,000 would be awarded with Fiscal Year 1994 funds and $100,000
of Fiscal Year 1995 funds.
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, local units of government and not-for-profit organizations to
demonstrate effective interventions designed to eliminate the
disproportionate confinement 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 and incarceration
for minority youths; and
Aftercare programs designed to assist minority youths
returning to their communities from secure institutions.
Grants would be available to State and local agencies, local units
of government and not-for-profit organizations as defined in section
223(a)(1) of the JJDP Act in amounts ranging from $55,000 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 over-representation 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, $569,076
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.
Seeds of Success--Log Cabin Honor Ranch,* $150,000
The City of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department and the San
Francisco State University are working on a joint project with the Log
Cabin Honor Ranch. This project provides education and training
opportunities for at-risk youth.
Douglass County, Nebraska,* $67,055
This is a grant for a youth pretrial diversion program in Douglas,
County, NE.
P.A.C.E. Center for Girls, Inc.,* $150,000
The State of Florida will expand its P.A.C.E. Center for Girls,
Inc. to several new sites. P.A.C.E. provides a juvenile judge with an
alternative to incarcerating at-risk teenage girls arrested for status
and minor offenses.
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 a 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 a 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, $275,000
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 SSD Program helps OJJDP 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 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,* $610,915
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.
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, six 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; Savannah, Georgia; and Newark, New Jersey.
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.
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, $199,963
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,* $1,100,270
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,* $389,943
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 reestablishing 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.
Discussion of Comments
OJJDP published its proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year
1994 in the Federal Register on March 31, 1994, 57 FR 53339, for a 45-
day period of public comment. The Office received 65 letters commenting
on the proposed plan. All comments have been considered in the
development of the Final Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1994.
The majority of the letters OJJDP received provided positive
comments about the overall plan and its programs.
The following is a summary of the substantive comments and the
responses by OJJDP. Unless otherwise indicated, each comment was made
by a single respondent.
Comment: Seven responses were received advocating continuation
funding for two recipients of the Law-Related Education (LRE) in
Juvenile Justice Settings program, the American Correctional
Association in collaboration with the New York State Division for Youth
and the Juvenile Justice Trainer's Association, and Virginia
Commonwealth University in collaboration with the Virginia Institute
for Law and Citizenship Studies.
Response: These programs were designed and funded as one year
projects. Consequently, current recipients for this program will not be
eligible for continuation funding.
Comment: A respondent commenting on the proposed
``Telecommunications Assistance'' initiative indicated that the RFP
should carefully define ``fiber optics.''
Response: The term ``fiber optics'', will no longer be used in the
RFP.
Comment: Three responses were received supporting the National
Juvenile Detention Association's development of a training curriculum
for juvenile detention center care givers.
Response: The National Juvenile Detention Association's efforts can
become an integral part of the new solicitation in support of training
line staff in both juvenile detention and juvenile corrections.
Comment: Several respondents identified the following initiatives
as worthy of funding and ones in which the field considered critical:
Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Detention and Corrections;
Marketing the Conditions of Confinement Study; Conditions of
Confinement Follow-Up--Performance Standards; Telecommunications
Assistance; and Training and Technical Support for State and Local
Jurisdiction Teams to Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention
Crowding.
Response: The final program plan contains each of the
aforementioned initiatives.
Comment: A respondent expressed strong support for the Yale Child
Study Center/New Haven Department of Police Service Child-Centered
Community-Policing'' Program.
Response: OJJDP recognizes the potential value of the Child-
Centered Community-Policing Program model developed by the Yale mental
health professionals in collaboration with the New Haven Police
Department. Funding will be provided for replication of the Yale/New
Haven model in other jurisdictions.
Comment: Eight comments were received indicating specific or
general support for a National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Training and Technical Assistance Center. One of the
respondents, while expressing support, cautioned against possible
overlap between activities of the Center, other grantees/contractors,
and OJJDP staff.
Response: The Office proposes to support the development of a
Center that will eliminate, rather than create, duplication of effort
by addressing training/technical assistance tasks and areas beyond the
normal scope of coverage by individual grantees or contractors. Multi-
disciplinary programs and training of trainers programs are examples of
projects to be undertaken by the center.
Comment: Three comments were submitted recommending OJJDP support
for juvenile restitution programs in the context of the currently
funded Balanced and Restorative Justice Project. One respondent
suggested an increased allocation for this continuation project, and
two suggested restoration of the funding level established prior to a
50% budget reduction imposed on the project in Fiscal Year 1993.
Response: OJJDP supports the Balanced and Restorative Justice
Project. The proposed Fiscal Year 1994 funding for this project
reflects the projected third year funding level and restoration of 50%
of the amount by which the funding level was reduced in Fiscal Year
1993.
Comment: A comment was received advising against the expenditure of
OJJDP funds to address the violence content in mass media. Another
respondent suggested that OJJDP include partnership opportunities with
community-based organizations as part of the requirements for any
proposed Media Violence program. A third respondent recommended that
the Media Violence program develop information for parents, teachers
groups, youth serving organizations, youth groups and community
organizations about the relationship between media violence and
aggressive behavior, and that seed-money grants be awarded.
Response: While OJJDP disagrees with the first respondent, no
funding related to media violence reduction is included in the final
program plan. This is due principally to the limited budget of OJJDP
and the fact that a variety of agencies and organizations are examining
this issue. Partnerships with community-based organizations are
anticipated as a part of any future OJJDP Media Violence program
initiative. The anticipated program approach to Media Violence would
have provided for development and dissemination of user-friendly
information, to the groups identified, on the relationship between
media violence and aggressive behavior of children.
Comment: A respondent supported the Professional Development for
Youth Workers Program, recommending that training of youth workers
should be an OJJDP priority and urging that existing training programs
offered by community-based youth serving organizations be used, and
that these organizations be involved in development of curricula for
several program settings. This respondent also encouraged OJJDP to
utilize the resources of existing community-based agencies in enhancing
safety of children through sub-contracts with community-based
organizations for after-school activities.
Response: The Professional Development for Youth Workers Program is
completing its second year of funding. OJJDP anticipates testing the
curriculum in several community-based settings. A broad base of
community-based youth serving organizations have been involved in the
implementation of this program from the outset. The curriculum has been
developed with their assistance through an advisory committee, working
groups, and using a survey of needs and training programs conducted
during the first year of implementation. In response to the suggestion
that community-based youth serving organizations be used on a
contractual basis to provide safe havens for school children, the
National School Safety Center is not tasked to provide such services.
The Center provides training and technical assistance to local schools
and school districts to assist them to formulate plans and support
activities that enhance school safety.
Comment: A respondent supported OJJDP's continued support for the
National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers, urging a focus on
child sexual-assault-focused models in the program ``Models of
Effective Court Based Service Delivery to Children and Their
Families''.
Response: OJJDP appreciates support for the National Network of
Children's Advocacy Centers training program. We have passed this
suggestion along to the Network for their consideration.
Comment: A commentor was concerned that no support for
``dissertation programs'' was included in the Plan. This respondent
noted that such grants encourage graduate students to pursue research
in the area of juvenile justice. In addition, it was pointed out that a
considerable amount of in-kind contributions are provided by
universities for these types of projects.
Response: In past years, OJJDP has provided limited funds for
Graduate and Summer Research Fellowships. However, this is not a
priority area for Fiscal Year 1994. The National Institute of Justice
(NIJ) provides Research Fellowship opportunities, including juvenile
justice research. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS) 1-800-851-3420 will provide NIJ's FY 94-95 Program Plan upon
request.
Comment: One commentor praised the nature of the comprehensive
Program Plan and commended the five key principals as outlined in the
Comprehensive Strategy section. The respondent suggested that OJJDP
clearly state that secure facilities must be used when necessary to
assure public safety.
Response: OJJDP's A Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent,
and Chronic Juvenile Offenders clearly states the need to provide
secure facilities in order to protect the public safety.
Comment: One commentor expressed support for the Field Initiated
Research Program and looks forward to reviewing the results of the
research.
Response: The innovative research applications submitted for the
Field Initiated Research Program have historically produced projects or
relevant research topics that would not otherwise be addressed.
Comment: Another respondent expressed support for the Field
Initiated Research Program, violence studies and the female offenders
project, but believes that these programs should receive greater
funding levels.
Response: OJJDP agrees that the programs should receive greater
funding. However, due to funding constraints, expansion is not possible
at this time.
Comment: One respondent expressed concern that most of the program
funds for Fiscal Year 1994 has either already been allocated, or the
allocation is geared toward governmental agencies that already exist.
This respondent felt that collaborative programming that include
technical assistance from governmental agencies to non-profit service
providers who are already working with youth is the solution to
programs for at-risk youth who feel alienated.
Response: OJJDP believes there are adequate opportunities for non-
profit community-based organizations to compete for available new
program funds. OJJDP has always supported collaborative efforts between
public and private agencies. Training and technical assistance support
for public and private non-profit agencies have been included in the
program plan.
Comment: Twelve respondents expressed support to the proposed
program ``To Promote Alternative Programs for Juvenile Female
Offenders.'' The respondents represented a broad range of
professionals, including detention administrators, juvenile court
service officials, youth service workers, members of major youth
related associations, and community-based program youth care givers and
administrators. The respondents viewed the program as a needed first
step in addressing the special needs of females in the juvenile system.
Several expressed concern that the requirements (planning, initial
development and implementation) for such a comprehensive service
program could be accomplished within the designated time and budget.
OJJDP was urged to define the at-risk female population to be served
and to expand the funding period and increase the allocation. One
respondent more narrowly questioned the benefits of OJJDP's
coordination with the Bureau of Prisons and the Women's Bureau,
Department of Labor to female adolescents in the juvenile system.
Response: OJJDP recognizes the importance of a program to address
the unique needs of females in the juvenile justice system. As an
increasing number of females are entering the juvenile justice system,
the Fiscal Year 1994 program will address the needs of adjudicated
female juvenile offenders. OJJDP agrees that coordination with the
Bureau of Prisons and the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, may not
enable the program to reach the targeted population. Unfortunately, due
to budget constraints the allocation has been reduced to $200,000 with
two sites funded up to $100,000 to conduct planning and developmental
activities for an innovative program to provide alternative services
for females in the juvenile justice system.
Comment: One respondent expressed concern that support for mental
health programs in the juvenile justice system was inadequate.
Response: OJJDP recognizes the need to improve mental health
services for juveniles. In FY94, it will provide technical assistance
monies for seven states to develop comprehensive, coordinated and
collaborative strategic plans for addressing the mental health needs of
persons within the justice system. It will also convene a meeting of
national and state leaders to determine what steps should be taken to
encourage States to assess their current practices with juveniles and
move toward collaborative planning with mental health and other social
services. OJJDP recognizes that the $100,000 allocated will have a
limited impact and is moving ahead with plans in FY 95 to co-sponsor
other federal initiatives in this area with the Center for Mental
Health Services (HHS, SAMSA the Office of Special Education Programs
(OSEP) in the Department of Education.
Comment: A respondent would prefer that OJJDP shift its emphasis
toward funding direct service programs whose success could be evaluated
and disseminated for replication. The respondent would like to see
additional funds allocated for program development.
Response: OJJDP would like to support more direct service programs.
Some of the new and continuation programs will support direct services
and others in the early stages of development would lead to direct
service initiatives. One such program is the Serious and Violent
Offender Program which currently funds two sites to conduct planning
and program development. This program development effort is being
supported by a grant to the National Council and Crime and Delinquency
(NCCD), which has identified several promising programs that can be
adapted and developed in new sites. OJJDP also funds Title V--Incentive
Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs through the States to
local units of government to support direct service delinquency
prevention. In Fiscal Year 1994, $13 million was appropriated for this
program.
Comment: A respondent expressed concern that the Integrated Gang
Program may not focus on smaller communities.
Response: The limited funds for the Integrated Gang Program will be
focused on both chronic and emerging gang cities. OJJDP is still
working on the details of the program design. OJJDP appreciates the
respondents concern with regard to gangs in smaller cities and will
take this into consideration in developing the guideline.
Comment: A respondent representing five pilot states funded to
address the issue of minority over-representation in secure confinement
facilities commented that the Program Plan did not take into account
research findings when identifying activities appropriate for the
minority over-representation initiative. The respondent suggest
additional criteria for selecting programs for funding.
Response: OJJDP will give the suggested criteria serious
consideration in drafting the program announcement.
Comments: One respondent expressed concern regarding OJJDP's
support for bootcamp programs, asserting a lack of evidence of positive
effects.
Response: Interest in the use of bootcamp programs for the
prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency continues to increase.
In September 1991, three pilot projects were funded by OJJDP and are
currently participating in a process and impact evaluation. Preliminary
results should be available in early 1995 and the scheduled completion
of the study is early 1996. This evaluation report will be published
and OJJDP will use the information in making determinations regarding
future program efforts.
Comment: Four respondents expressed support for family
strengthening programs. The respondents recommended that OJJDP in
finalizing family strengthening guidelines for Fiscal Year 1994. OJJDP
consider: (1) Increasing the number of language-minority organizations
and cities with significant minority-language populations that receive
funding; (2) including state agencies that are serving disadvantaged
and high-risk non-English speaking families; (3) encouraging
competitive proposals offering programs focused on children at risk as
a result of divorce; (4) inviting proposals that seek to reduce risks
of children of divorced families by addressing the judicial process;
(5) assisting research and demonstration programs that utilize
mediation and other therapeutic approaches with families and in
divorces involving underage children; and (6) ``comprehensive family
strengthening programs'' focusing on family violence.
Response: OJJDP will consider these constructive recommendations in
developing a program strategy in support of family strengthening. As a
result of required redirection of funding initially set aside for
family strengthening initiatives, OJJDP will be unable to support the
development of new programs in this area. The Office will encourage
existing programs to enhance family-strengthening components during
Fiscal Year 1994 and target the development of new family strengthening
programs for Fiscal Year 1995.
Comment: A respondent questioned the adequacy of studying the
process by which male minority youth enter the juvenile justice system
as a means of addressing the critical issue of disproportionate
minority representation. The respondent recommended review of our
child-rearing, educational, and socialization processes.
Response: It is essential to understand the factors that influence
delinquent behavior. The importance of the family and core social
institutions in preventing delinquency lies at the heart of OJJDP's
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile
Offenders. In Fiscal Year 1994, under Title V, $13 million was
appropriated for planning and implementing programs that enhance
protective factors against delinquent behavior at key points during a
youth's development. OJJDP is committed to reducing disproportionate
minority confinement. States are required under the Formula Grants
Program to determine the extent of this overrepresentation to design
strategies to reduce the problem where it exists. In Fiscal Year 1994,
$600,000 will be made available to States for demonstration projects
that will reduce overrepresentation of juveniles in secure detention or
correctional facilities.
Comment: A respondent expressed a concern that the program plan
does not provide funding for innovative community rehabilitation and
aftercare programs.
Response: The plan includes funds for new community-based
alternatives program. Communities refocusing their resources to address
serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders will be assisted to
develop and implement programs that combine accountability with
treatment and rehabilitative services. A special emphasis has been
placed on promoting alternative programs for female offenders. Funds
have been allocated to continue support for an intensive community-
based aftercare program.
Comment: A respondent recommended support for delinquency
prevention and intervention programs in rural areas.
Response: Rural areas are eligible to apply for funding under
OJJDP's Title V Delinquency Prevention Program. Under Title V, $13
million will be awarded to the States on a formula basis and States
will subgrant through a competitive process. To be eligible to apply
for Title V funding a locality must: (1) Receive a certification of
compliance with the JJDP Act Formula Grants mandates from the State
Advisory Group; (2) convene or designate a prevention policy board, (3)
submit a three-year comprehensive delinquency prevention plan.
Comment: One respondent expressed concern about a lack of focus
given on vocational education and training.
Response: Vocational training and education is a key component of
successful juvenile justice programs. Accordingly, it is built in as a
vital component of several OJJDP initiatives. The Serious, Violent, and
Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment Program which supports
implementation of a comprehensive continuum of care for juvenile
offenders includes vocational training and education. The Intensive
Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration Program places a heavy emphasis
on job training and placement. Vocational education and training is the
key component of the Department of Justice and the Department of
Interior's joint Youth Environmental Service Program for juvenile
offenders, which supports environmental conservation work programs on
Federal lands.
Comment: A respondent urged OJJDP to continue its concern with
substance abusing youth in the juvenile justice system.
Response: Several OJJDP programs have substance abuse treatment as
key components. The Native American Alternative Community-Based Program
includes substance abuse treatment. The Serious, Violent, and Chronic
Juvenile Offender Program which supports implementation of a
comprehensive continuum of care for juvenile offenders includes
substance abuse identification and treatment as key program components.
The Youth Environmental Service Program, a joint initiative of the
Departments of Justice and Interior includes a substance abuse
counseling component.
Comment: One correspondent noted the lengthy interval between
planning, training, and implementation in Title V.
Response: Title V of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act requires that a three-year comprehensive plan establish
the foundation for a community's strategy for delinquency prevention.
This is essential to ensuring that programs and activities target the
root causes of delinquency. Many communities already have such a
planning process in place.
In those communities where such a planning process is just
beginning training will be provided. While Title V requires approval of
a local three-year plan prior to funding, other sources of funds are
available to meet a locality's needs in the interim. Formula Grants
under Title II provide a means for a State to meet these needs as part
of its plan.
Comment: A respondent recommends that the matching requirement
provide a decreasing level of Federal support as programs demonstrate
their effectiveness in prevention.
Response: Title V requires that units of local government or the
State provide a 50 percent match of the amount of the grant, including
in-kind contributions. This provision provides flexibility between the
State and the units of local government in determining the source of
the match, provided that the match requirement does not exceed 50
percent for any unit of local government.
Comment: A correspondent believes preference should be accorded
applicants reflecting regional coordination.
Response: Each State determines the approach it deems appropriate
for its governmental structure. Combinations of units of local
government are eligible to apply for Title V funds.
John J. Wilson,
Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 94-16996 Filed 07-13-94; 8:45 am]
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