[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
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Part IV





Department of Justice





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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention



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Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1996; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention


Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1996

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention.

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Program Plan for fiscal year 1996.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is 
publishing this notice of its Proposed Comprehensive Plan for fiscal 
year 1996.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 5, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Shay Bilchik, Administrator, 
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Room 742, 633 
Indiana Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen M. Garry, Special Assistant to 
the Administrator, (202) 307-6226. [This is not a toll-free number.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a component of the Office of Justice 
Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. Pursuant to the provisions 
of Section 204(b)(5)(A), of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq. ( JJDP 
Act), the Administrator of OJJDP is publishing for public comment a 
Proposed Comprehensive Plan describing the program activities that 
OJJDP proposes to carry out during fiscal year 1996. The Proposed 
Comprehensive Plan includes activities authorized in Parts C and D of 
Title II of the JJDP Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5651-5665a, 5667, 
5667a. Taking into consideration comments received on this Proposed 
Comprehensive Plan, the Administrator will develop and publish a Final 
Comprehensive Plan describing the particular program activities that 
OJJDP intends to fund during fiscal year 1996, using in whole or in 
part funds appropriated under Parts C and D of Title II of the JJDP 
Act.
    At the time of publication, OJJDP's fiscal year 1996 appropriation 
level has not been determined. Consequently, OJJDP has not provided 
dollar amounts for programs included in the proposed plan. Both the 
final decision to fund new and continuation programs and the amount of 
funds provided will depend, in part, on the level of Part C and Part D 
funds available for fiscal year 1996.
    By receiving public comment at this point in time, the Office will 
be able to make appropriate modifications in the final program plan, if 
necessitated by a lower appropriation, that reflect priorities in the 
field.
    Notice of the official solicitation of grant or cooperative 
agreement applications under the Final Comprehensive Plan will be 
published at a later date in the Federal Register. No proposals, 
concept papers, or other forms of application should be submitted at 
this time.

Overview

    OJJDP was established by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq. 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 more than 100 projects through its Special Emphasis 
Discretionary Grant Program and its National Institute for Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and coordinates Federal activities 
related to juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.
    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 Sec. 42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.

Fiscal Year 1996 Program Planning Activities

    The OJJDP program planning process for fiscal year 1996 is 
coordinated with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice 
Programs (OJP), and the four other OJP Program Bureaus: the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance (BJA); the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS); the 
National Institute of Justice (NIJ); and the Office for Victims of 
Crime (OVC). 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 service providers, 
juvenile justice practitioners, and researchers, including focus group 
sessions held during fiscal year 1995 to receive input in proposed new 
program areas.
     Consideration of suggestions made by juvenile justice 
policy makers concerning State and local needs.
     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 1996, 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. The amount of award is 
based on prior projections, demonstrated need, and fund availability.
    Consideration for continuation funding 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 1996 program priorities.
     Compliance with performance requirements of prior grant 
years.
     Compliance with fiscal and regulatory requirements.
     Compliance with any special conditions of the award.
     Availability of funds (based on program priority 
determinations).
    In accordance with Section 262 (d)(1)(B) of the JJDP Act, as 
amended, U.S.C. Sec. 5665a, the competitive process for the award of 
Part C funds 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 in which the 
President declares under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act codified at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5121 et seq. that a 
major disaster or emergency exists, or
    2. With respect to a particular program described in part C that is 
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OJJDP Funding Policy

    OJJDP seeks to focus its assistance on the development and 
implementation of programs with the greatest potential for reducing 
juvenile delinquency and improving the juvenile justice system by 
establishing partnerships with State and local governments and public 
and private 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 and early intervention 
efforts that reduce the flow of juvenile offenders into the juvenile 
justice system, the numbers of serious and violent offenders, and the 
development of chronic delinquent careers.
     To foster the use of community-based programs and services 
for juvenile offenders, consistent with preserving the public safety, 
and in a manner that serves the appropriate development and best use of 
secure detention and corrections options.
     To improve the juvenile justice system and the response of 
the system to juvenile delinquents, status offenders, and dependent, 
neglected, and abused children.
    Underlying each of the three goals is the overarching premise that 
achievement of these goals is vital to protecting the long-term safety 
of the public from increased juvenile delinquency and violence. In 
pursuing these goals, we divide our programs into the key categories 
you will find in the program plan: public safety and law enforcement, 
strengthening the juvenile justice system, delinquency prevention and 
intervention, and child abuse and neglect and dependency courts. The 
following discussion, however, addresses the broader goals of OJJDP.

Delinquency Prevention and Early Intervention

    A primary goal of OJJDP is to identify and promote programs that 
prevent or reduce the occurrence of juvenile offenses, both criminal 
and non-criminal, and to intervene immediately and effectively when 
delinquent or status offense conduct first occurs. A sound policy for 
juvenile delinquency prevention seeks to strengthen the most powerful 
contributing factor to socially acceptable behavior--a productive place 
for young people in a law-abiding society. Delinquency prevention 
programs can operate on a broad scale, providing for positive youth 
development, or can target juveniles identified as being at high risk 
for delinquency, with programs designed to reduce future juvenile 
offending. OJJDP prevention programs take a risk-focused delinquency 
prevention approach based on public health and social development 
models.
    Early interventions are designed to provide services to juveniles 
whose non-criminal misbehavior indicates that they are on a delinquent 
pathway, or for first time non-violent delinquent offenders or non-
serious repeat offenders who do not respond to initial system 
intervention. These interventions are generally non-punitive but serve 
to hold a juvenile accountable while providing services tailored to the 
individual needs of the juvenile and the juvenile's family. They are 
designed to both deter future misconduct and ameliorate risk or enhance 
protective factors.

Community-Based Alternatives

    A second OJJDP goal is to identify and promote effective community-
based programs and services for juveniles who have formal contact with 
the juvenile justice system, emphasizing options that maintain the 
safety of the public, are appropriately restrictive, and promote and 
preserve positive ties with the child's family, school, and community. 
Communities cannot afford to place responsibility for juvenile 
delinquency entirely on publicly operated juvenile justice system 
programs. A sound policy for combating juvenile delinquency and 
reducing the threat of youth violence makes maximum use of a full range 
of public and private programs and services, most of which operate in 
the juvenile's home community, including those provided by the health 
and mental health, child welfare, social service, and educational 
systems.
    Coordination of the development of community-based programs and 
services with the development and use of a secure detention and 
correctional system capability for those juveniles who require a secure 
option is cost effective, will protect the public, reduce facility 
crowding, and result in better services for both institutionalized 
juveniles and those who can be served while remaining in their 
community environment.

Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System

    A third goal of OJJDP is to promote improvements in the juvenile 
justice system and facilitate the most effective allocation of system 
resources. This goal is necessary for holding juveniles who commit 
crimes accountable for their conduct, particularly serious and violent 
offenders who sometimes slip through the cracks of the system or are 
inappropriately diverted. This includes assisting law enforcement 
officers in their efforts to prevent and control delinquency and the 
victimization of children through community policing programs and 
coordination and collaboration with other system components and with 
child caring systems. It involves helping juvenile and family courts 
and the prosecutors and public defenders who practice in those courts, 
to provide individualized justice that maintains due process 
protections. It requires trying innovative programs and carefully 
evaluating those programs to determine what works and what does not 
work. It includes a commitment to involving crime victims in the 
juvenile justice system and ensuring that their rights are considered. 
OJJDP will continue to work closely with the Office for Victims of 
Crime to further cooperative programming, including the provision of 
services to juveniles who are crime victims or when the provision of 
victims services improves the operation of the juvenile justice system. 
It also calls for building an appropriate juvenile detention and 
corrections capacity and for intensified efforts to use juvenile 
detention and correctional facilities when necessary and under 
conditions that maximize public safety, while providing effective 
rehabilitation services. It requires encouraging states to carefully 
consider the use of expanded transfer authority that sends the most 
serious, violent, and intractable juvenile offenders to the criminal 
justice system, while preserving individualized justice. It 
necessitates conducting research and gathering statistical information 
in order to understand how the juvenile justice system works in serving 
children and families. And finally, the system can only be improved if 
information and knowledge is communicated, understood, and applied for 
the purpose of juvenile justice system improvement.

Introduction to Fiscal Year 1996 Proposed Program Plan

    Unprecedented rates of juvenile violence and delinquency, 
victimization, school drop out, teen pregnancy, illegal drug use, and 
child abuse and neglect are plaguing our country. In jurisdictions 
across the Nation, over-burdened juvenile justice and dependency court 
systems are too often responsible for redressing the results of 
unstable families lacking parenting skills and communities with 
inadequate health and mental health support networks, fragmented social 
service delivery systems, a shortage of constructive activities for 
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lack the resources necessary to respond to serious, violent, and 
chronic delinquency, to hold juveniles accountable, and to turn back 
the tide of increasing violent delinquency by providing early 
intervention services for at-risk juveniles and their families.
    The OJJDP fiscal year 1996 Proposed Comprehensive Plan seeks to 
support programming that is built on sound research and strengthens 
collaborations needed to empower the juvenile justice and dependency 
court systems to work effectively with communities in preventing and 
controlling delinquency and reducing juvenile victimization.
    In 1993, OJJDP published a Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, 
Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders (Comprehensive Strategy). 
Designed to provide a response to the social crisis we are facing, the 
Comprehensive Strategy utilizes statistics, research, and program 
evaluations as the basis for a set of sound principles for establishing 
a continuum of care for our children. The Comprehensive Strategy 
emphasizes the importance of local planning teams assessing the factors 
which put youth at risk for delinquency, determining available 
resources, and putting in place prevention programs that either reduce 
those risk factors or provide protective factors that buffer juveniles 
from the impact of risk factors. The Comprehensive Strategy also 
stresses the importance of early intervention for juveniles whose 
behavior puts them on one or more pathways to delinquency and of having 
a system of graduated sanctions that can ensure immediate and 
appropriate accountability and treatment for juvenile offenders.
    During Fiscal Year 1995 OJJDP published a Guide for Implementing 
the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile 
Offenders (Guide). The Guide provides information on the process of 
identifying risk and protective factors in the community and offers 
detailed information about programs known to prevent delinquency or 
reduce recidivism. By providing a foundation and framework for each 
community's individualized strategy, the Guide can serve as a powerful 
tool for states, cities, counties, and neighborhoods that are 
mobilizing to address the problem of juvenile violence and delinquency.
    The Comprehensive Strategy also served as the foundation for the 
development of the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan (Action Plan), 
due to be published by the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention in March. The Action Plan provides an additional 
resource to communities that seek to balance vigorous enforcement of 
the law and prevention services in order to reduce juvenile delinquency 
and violence. The Action Plan prioritizes Federal activities and 
resources under eight critical objectives, each of which needs to be 
addressed in order to effectively combat delinquency and violence. The 
Action Plan describes grants, training, technical assistance, 
information dissemination, and research and evaluation activities that 
will assist jurisdictions to: (1) Strengthen their juvenile justice 
systems; (2) prosecute certain serious, violent and chronic juvenile 
offenders in the criminal justice system; (3) target youth gun, gang 
and drug violence through comprehensive policing and prevention 
techniques; (4) create positive opportunities for youth; (5) break the 
cycle of violence by addressing child victimization, abuse and neglect; 
(6) mobilize communities into effective partnerships for change; (7) 
conduct research and evaluate programs; and (8) develop a public 
education campaign in order to both get the message out about successes 
in addressing juvenile delinquency and violence and rebuild confidence 
in every community's ability to impact this serious problem. These are 
the activities that the research, as well as numerous expert 
commissions on at-risk children, youth, families, and communities, 
indicates are necessary to make a lasting difference. It is these 
activities, coupled with the Comprehensive Strategy implementation, 
that form the basis of OJJDP's 1996 Proposed Program Plan.
    The Program Plan supports a balanced approach to aggressively 
addressing juvenile delinquency and violence through graduated 
sanctions, improving the juvenile justice system's ability to respond, 
and preventing the onset of delinquency. It takes into account the 
short term need to ensure public safety and the long term imperative of 
supporting children's development into healthy, productive citizens 
through a range of prevention, early intervention, and graduated 
sanctions programs.
    Three major new program areas were identified through a process of 
engaging OJJDP staff, other Federal agencies, and juvenile justice 
practitioners in an examination of existing programs, research 
findings, and the needs of the field. They are: (1) Developing one-
stop, community-based intake, assessment and case referral centers and 
programs for juveniles who may require services or juvenile justice 
system interventions; (2) supporting the linkage between community and 
law enforcement responses to youth gun violence; and (3) improving the 
dependency and criminal court system's and the community's response to 
child abuse and neglect. In addition, a range of proposed research and 
evaluation projects that will expand our knowledge about juvenile 
offenders, the effectiveness of prevention, intervention, and treatment 
programs, and the operation of the juvenile justice system have been 
identified for fiscal year 1996 funding consideration. Enhanced program 
support in the area of disproportionate minority confinement, gender-
specific services, and technical assistance to Native American Tribes, 
would also be provided. Combined with OJJDP programs being continued in 
fiscal year 1996, these new demonstration and support programs form a 
continuum of programming that supports the objectives of the Action 
Plan and mirrors the foundation and framework of the Comprehensive 
Strategy.
    These continuation activities and programs, as complemented by 
proposed new programs, are at the heart of OJJDP's categorical funding 
efforts. For example, while focusing on the possible development of 
assessment centers as a new area of programming, OJJDP will continue to 
offer training seminars in the Comprehensive Strategy and look to the 
SafeFutures program to implement the Comprehensive Strategy model under 
existing grants and contracts. Combined, these activities provide a 
holistic approach to prevention and early intervention programs while 
enhancing the juvenile justice system's capacity to provide immediate 
and appropriate accountability and treatment for juvenile offenders.
    OJJDP's Part D Gang Program will continue to support a range of 
comprehensive prevention, intervention, and suppression activities at 
the local level, evaluate those activities, and inform communities 
about the nature and extent of gang activities and effective and 
innovative programs through OJJDP's National Youth Gang Center. 
Similarly, the proposed demonstration program focusing on juvenile gun 
violence would complement existing law enforcement and prosecutorial 
training programs by supporting grassroots community organization's 
efforts to address juvenile access, carriage, and use of guns. This 
programming would build upon OJJDP's youth-focused community policing, 
mentoring, and conflict resolution initiatives, as well as programming 
in the area of drug abuse prevention, such as funding to the Congress 
of National Black Churches and the National Center for Neighborhood 
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church and neighborhood-based drug abuse prevention programs.
    In support of the need to break the cycle of violence, OJJDP's new 
demonstration program to improve linkages between the dependency and 
criminal court systems, child welfare and social service providers, and 
family strengthening programs will complement ongoing support of Court 
Appointed Special Advocates, Child Advocacy Centers, and prosecutor and 
judicial training in the dependency field that is funded under the 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as amended.
    The Plan's proposed research and evaluation programming would 
support many of the above activities by filling in critical gaps in our 
knowledge about the level and seriousness of juvenile crime and 
victimization, its causes and correlates, and effective programs in 
preventing delinquency and violence. At the same time, OJJDP's research 
efforts will also be geared toward efforts that monitor and evaluate 
the ways juveniles are treated by the juvenile and criminal justice 
systems and any trends in this response, particularly as they relate to 
juvenile violence and its impact.
    OJJDP is also utilizing the national perspective afforded it, to 
disseminate information to those at the grassroots level--
practitioners, policy makers, community leaders, and service providers 
who are directly responsible for planning and implementing policies and 
programs that impact on juvenile crime and violence.
    OJJDP will continue to fund longitudinal research on the causes and 
correlates of delinquency, the findings of which are shared regularly 
with the field through OJJDP publications, utilize state-of-the-art 
technology to develop and disseminate an interactive CD-ROM on programs 
that work to prevent delinquency and reduce recidivism, air national 
satellite teleconferences on key topics of relevance to practitioners, 
and publish new reports and documents on timely topics such as school-
based conflict resolution, curfews, the Federal Educational Records 
Privacy Act, confidentiality of juvenile court records, innovative 
sentencing options, and strategies to reduce youth gun violence.
    The various contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and 
interagency fund transfers described in the Program Plan form a 
continuum of activity designed to address the crisis of youth violence 
and delinquency in our Nation. In isolation, this programming can do 
little. However, the emphasis of OJJDP's programming is on 
collaboration. It is through collaboration that Federal, State, and 
local agencies, Native American Tribes, national organizations, private 
philanthropies, the corporate and business sector, health, mental 
health and social service agencies, schools, youth, families, and 
clergy can come together to form partnerships and leverage additional 
resources, identify needs and priorities, and implement innovative 
strategies. Together, we can make a difference.

Fiscal Year 1996 Proposed Programs

    The following are brief summaries of each of the proposed new and 
continuation programs for fiscal year 1996. As indicated above, the 
program categories are public safety and law enforcement, strengthening 
the juvenile justice system, delinquency prevention and intervention, 
and child abuse and neglect and dependency courts. However, because 
many programs have significant elements of more than one of these 
program categories, or generally support all of OJJDP's programs, they 
are listed in an initial program category called ``Overarching 
Programs''. The specific program priorities proposed within each 
category are subject to change with regard to their priority status, 
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.
    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. Such programs are indicated by an asterisk 
(*). The 1996 Appropriations Act Conference Report for the Departments 
of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Programs identified six programs for OJJDP to examine and fund if 
warranted. One of these programs is included in the Plan for 
continuation funding. The remaining five will receive careful 
consideration for funding in fiscal year 1996.

Fiscal Year 1996 Program Listing

Overarching

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency
Field-Initiated Research
Evaluation of SafeFutures
OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development
Research Program on Juveniles Taken into Custody--NCCD
Juveniles Taken into Custody--Interagency Agreement
Children in Custody--Census
Juvenile Justice Data Resources
National Juvenile Court Data Archive*
National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training and 
Technical Assistance Center
Technical Assistance for State Legislatures
OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--JJRC
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
Telecommunications Assistance
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Insular Area Support *

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

Kids and Guns: Reducing Youth Gun Violence
Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, 
Intervention, and Suppression Program
Targeted Outreach with a Gang Prevention and Intervention Component 
(Boys and Girls Clubs)
National Youth Gang Center
Child-Centered Community-Oriented Policing
Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program
Violence Studies *
Hate Crimes

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Development of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, 
and Chronic Juvenile Offenders
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment Program
Community Assessment Centers
Juvenile Restitution: A Balanced Approach
Training and Technical Assistance Program to Promote Gender-Specific 
Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders
Technical Assistance to Native American Programs
National Indicators of Juvenile Violence and Delinquent Behavior and 
Related Risk Factors
Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression
Evaluation of Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and 
Technical Assistance Program
Evaluation of Statewide DMC Projects
Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) Evaluation
Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies
Technical Assistance to Juvenile Courts *
Juvenile Court Judges Training *
The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit
Due Process Advocacy Program Development
Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical 
Assistance Program
Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations to Reduce 
Disproportionate Minority Confinement (The Deborah Wysinger Memorial 
Program)
Juvenile Probation Survey Research
Improvements in Correctional Education for Juvenile Offenders
Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Detention and Corrections 
Facilities
Technical Assistance to Juvenile Corrections and Detention (The 
James E. Gould Memorial Program)
Training for Juvenile Corrections and Detention Staff
Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Detention and Corrections 

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Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional 
Teams to Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding
National Program Directory

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Training In Risk-Focused Prevention Strategies
Youth-Centered Conflict Resolution
Pathways to Success
Teens, Crime, and the Community: Teens in Action in the 90s *
Law-Related Education
Cities in Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership
Race Against Drugs
The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse/
Violence Campaign (NADVC)
Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project
Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Services
Henry Ford Health System *
Jackie Robinson Center *

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

A Community-Based Approach to Combating Child Victimization
Permanent Families for Abused and Neglected Children *
Parents Anonymous, Inc.*
Lowcountry Children's Center, Inc.*

Overarching

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency

    Three projects sites comprise the Program of Research on the Causes 
and Correlates of Delinquency: The University of Colorado at Boulder, 
the University of Pittsburgh, and the State University of New York at 
Albany. The main purpose of fiscal year 1996 funding would be to 
support additional data analyses in support of OJJDP program 
development. Results from this program have been used extensively in 
the development of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, 
and Chronic Juvenile Offenders and other program initiatives.
    OJJDP began funding this program in 1986 and has invested 
approximately $10 million to date. The program has addressed many 
issues of juvenile violence and delinquency. These include developing 
and testing causal models for chronic violent offending and examining 
interrelationships among gang involvement, drug selling, and gun 
ownership/use. To date, the Program has produced a massive amount of 
information on the causes and correlates of delinquent behavior.
    Although there is great commonality across the projects, each has 
unique design features. Additionally, each project has disseminated the 
results of its research through a variety of publications, reports, and 
presentations.
    With proposed fiscal year 1996 funding, each site of the Causes and 
Correlates Program would be provided additional funds to further 
analyze the longitudinal data. New publications, including two joint 
publications, would be developed in fiscal year 1996 and both the role 
of mental health in delinquency and pathways to delinquency would be 
the subject of further analyses.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantees, 
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; 
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; and 
Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, State University of New 
York at Albany. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal 
year 1996.

Field-Initiated Research

    Through the fiscal year 1996 Field-Initiated Research program, 
OJJDP would solicit innovative programs that address critical research 
and evaluation needs of the juvenile justice field. Priority research 
topics include: youth gangs in residential facilities; mental health 
issues; waiver and transfer to the juvenile justice system; reporting 
of child victimization; improving data collaboration efforts between 
juvenile justice, child welfare, child protective services, and mental 
health; institutional crowding; and topics related to OJJDP's 
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile 
Offenders. In addition to research topics, this program would also 
entertain proposals from State and local agencies wishing to conduct 
evaluations of programs initiated with OJJDP Formula, Title V, and 
discretionary funds that appear to be having significant impact and 
offer a possibility for national replication.
    OJJDP proposes to issue a competitive solicitation for this 
initiative in fiscal year 1996.

Evaluation of SafeFutures

    In fiscal year 1995, OJJDP funded six communities under the 
SafeFutures: Partnerships to Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency 
Program. The program sites are: Contra Costa County, California; Fort 
Belknap Indian Community, Montana; Boston, Massachusetts; St. Louis, 
Missouri; Seattle, Washington; and Imperial County, California. The 
SafeFutures Program provides support for a comprehensive prevention, 
intervention, and treatment program to meet the needs of at-risk 
juveniles and their families.
    Approximately $8 million per year will be made available over a 5-
year project period to support the efforts of these jurisdictions to 
enhance existing partnerships, integrate juvenile justice and social 
services, and provide a continuum of care that is designed to reduce 
the number of serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders.
    The Urban Institute received a competitive 3-year Phase I 
cooperative agreement award in fiscal year 1995. The national 
evaluation of the SafeFutures program will consist of both process and 
impact components for each funded site. The evaluation process includes 
an examination of planning procedures and the extent to which each 
sites'' implementation plan is consistent with the principles of a 
continuum of care/graduated sanctions model. The evaluation will 
identify the obstacles and key factors contributing to the successful 
implementation of the SafeFutures continuum of care model. The 
evaluator is responsible for developing a cross-site monograph 
documenting the process of program implementation for use by other 
communities that want to develop and implement a comprehensive 
community-based strategy to address serious, violent, and chronic 
delinquency.
    A fiscal year 1996 supplemental award will be made to the current 
grantee, the Urban Institute, to complete first year funding. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

    The purpose of this contract, competitively awarded in fiscal year 
1995 to Caliber Associates, is to provide to OJJDP an expert resource 
capable of performing independent, management-oriented evaluations of 
selected OJJDP programs. These evaluations are designed to determine 
the effectiveness and efficiency of either individual projects or 
groups of projects. The contractor also assists OJJDP in determining 
how to make the best use of limited evaluation resources and how best 
to design and implement evaluations. Work plans that have been 
requested or will be requested from the contractor in fiscal year 1996 
include: continuing the evaluation of three OJJDP-funded bootcamps; 
continuing to support the evaluation of Title V delinquency prevention 
programs at the local level; preparation of OJJDP's Title V Program 
report to Congress; providing assistance to OJJDP program development 
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OJJDP in the creation of an ``evaluation partnership for juvenile 
justice'' designed to improve the number and quality of evaluations 
conducted by Formula Grants Program grantees, other Federal agencies, 
private foundations that fund evaluations, and State and local 
governments; and conducting other short- or long-term evaluations as 
required. The contract will be performed by the current contractor, 
Caliber Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development

    The Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development (SSD) 
Program was competitively awarded to the National Center for Juvenile 
Justice (NCJJ) in fiscal year 1990 to improve national, state, and 
local statistics on juveniles as victims and offenders. The project has 
focused on three major functions: (1) Assessment of how current 
information needs are being met with existing data collection efforts 
and recommending options for improving national level statistics; (2) 
analyzing data and disseminating information gathered from existing 
Federal statistical series and national studies. Based on this work, 
OJJDP released the first ``Juvenile Offenders and Victims: A National 
Report'' in September 1995; and (3) provision of training and technical 
assistance for local agencies in developing or enhancing management 
information systems. A training curriculum, ``Improving Information for 
Rational Decision making in Juvenile Justice,'' was drafted for pilot 
testing.
    In this final phase of the SSD project, NCJJ will complete a long-
term plan for improving national statistics on juveniles as victims and 
offenders, including constructing core data elements for a national 
reporting program for juveniles waived or transferred to criminal 
court, an implementation plan for integrating data collection on 
juveniles by juvenile justice, mental health, and child welfare 
agencies, and a report on standardized measures and instruments for 
self-reported delinquency surveys. The project will also make 
recommendations to fill information gaps in the areas of juvenile 
probation, juvenile court and law enforcement responses to juvenile 
delinquency, violent delinquency, and child abuse and neglect. In 
addition, the SSD Project will provide an update of Juvenile Offenders 
and Victims: A National Report, and work with the Office of Justice 
Programs Crime Statistics Working Group and other Federal interagency 
working groups on statistics. The project will be implemented by the 
current grantee, NCJJ. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Research Program on Juveniles Taken Into Custody--NCCD

    The Research Program on Juveniles Taken into Custody was designed 
and implemented in fiscal year 1989 in response to a growing need for 
comprehensive juvenile custody data. The project now has the 
participation of all State juvenile corrections agencies. Each year the 
project produces a report on juveniles taken into custody. In fiscal 
year 1996, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) will 
continue to refine the State Juvenile Correctional System Reporting 
Program. It is anticipated that individual-level data for 1996 will be 
representative of more than 85 percent of the at-risk juvenile 
population. In addition, NCCD will prepare reports providing a detailed 
summary and analysis of the most recent data regarding: (1) The number 
and characteristics of juveniles taken into custody; (2) the rate at 
which juveniles are taken into custody; and (3) the trends demonstrated 
by the data.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, NCCD. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Juveniles Taken Into Custody (JTIC)--Interagency Agreement

    OJJDP would continue its program to improve the collection of 
juvenile custody data through an interagency agreement with the Bureau 
of the Census. This agreement provides for the collection and 
processing of individual-level data on juveniles under State 
correctional custody. The Census Bureau and OJJDP have developed close 
working relationships with State juvenile corrections agencies. Through 
these relationships, OJJDP has developed a program to collect data on 
each juvenile in State custody and the Census Bureau has developed an 
understanding of the State data that allows for ``translation'' of 
State information to a national format. Each year since 1990, the 
Census Bureau has collected this information and processed it for 
analysis by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).
    The resulting analyses are published by OJJDP in annual Juveniles 
Taken Into Custody reports that are disseminated to practitioners and 
planners and used to meet statutory information requirements in OJJDP's 
Annual Report to the President and Congress.
    The program would be implemented in fiscal year 1996 by the Bureau 
of the Census under an interagency agreement.

Children in Custody--Census

    Under this ongoing collaborative program between OJJDP and the U.S. 
Bureau of the Census, OJJDP proposes to transfer funds to the Census 
Bureau to complete the 1995 biennial census of public and private 
juvenile detention, correctional, and shelter facilities. The Census 
describes juvenile custody facilities in terms of their resident 
population, programs, and physical characteristics. It also provides 
information on trends in the use of juvenile custody facilities for 
delinquent juveniles and status offenders. The Census Bureau's Center 
for Survey Methods Research would also continue to develop and test a 
roster-based data collection system designed to enhance information 
collected on juveniles in custody beginning with the 1997 biennial 
census. Finally, the Bureau's Governments Division would continue its 
efforts to develop a complete directory of juvenile justice facilities 
and programs. This directory would serve as the frame for conducting 
the 1997 census and other future surveys. It would contain basic 
information on each facility that is necessary for creating 
representative samples. It would also contain basic administrative 
information to be used in conducting the census. The program would be 
implemented by the U.S. Bureau of the Census under an existing 
interagency agreement.

Juvenile Justice Data Resources

    OJJDP has entered into an agreement with the Inter-University 
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University 
of Michigan to make OJJDP data sets routinely available to researchers. 
Under this agreement, ICPSR assures the technical integrity and 
develops a universal format for the data. The codebooks, along with the 
data, provide clear guidance for additional analyses. Once prepared, 
ICPSR provides access to these data sets to member institutions and the 
public. Among the data sets previously processed and available through 
ICPSR are the Children in Custody Census (1971-1991); the Conditions of 
Confinement Study; and the National Incidence Studies of Missing, 
Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART).
    This program would be implemented under an interagency agreement 
with ICPSR. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal 
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National Juvenile Court Data Archive*

    The National Juvenile Court Data Archive collects, processes, 
analyzes, and disseminates automated data and published reports from 
the Nation's juvenile courts. The Archive's reports examine referrals, 
offenses, intake, and dispositions, in addition to providing 
specialized topics such as minorities in juvenile courts and 
information on specific offense categories. The Archive also provides 
assistance to jurisdictions in analyzing their juvenile court data. In 
1995, this project produced a bulletin, Offenders in Juvenile Court 
1992, and a report, Juvenile Court Statistics 1992, along with a number 
of OJJDP Fact Sheets and special analyses.
    In fiscal year 1996, the Archive will enhance the collection, 
reporting, and analysis of more detailed data on detention, 
dispositions, risk factors, and treatment data using offender-based 
data sets from a sample of juvenile courts.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will 
be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training and 
Technical Assistance Center

    The National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training 
and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) was competitively funded in 
fiscal year 1995 for a 3-year project period to develop a national 
training and technical assistance clearinghouse, inventory juvenile 
justice training/technical assistance resources, and establish a data 
base with respect to these resources.
    In fiscal year 1995, work involved organization and staffing of the 
Center, providing an orientation for OJJDP training and technical 
assistance providers regarding their role in the Center's activities, 
and initial data base development.
    In fiscal year 1996, NTTAC will conduct needs assessments, support 
training/technical assistance program development, promote 
collaboration between OJJDP training/technical assistance providers, 
develop training/technical assistance materials, and promote evaluation 
of OJJDP-supported training and technical assistance. In addition, 
NTTAC will prepare program materials and implement specialized 
training, including training-of-trainers programs, and develop 
standards and procedures for academic/professional accreditation/
certification of OJJDP training and trainers. NTTAC provides a single, 
central source for information pertaining to the availability of OJJDP 
supported training/technical assistance programs and will publish and 
maintain an up-to-date catalog of such programs.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Community 
Research Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

    State legislatures are being pressed to respond to public fear of 
juvenile crime and a loss of confidence in the capability of the 
juvenile justice system to respond effectively. For the most part, 
State legislatures have had insufficient information to properly 
address juvenile justice issues. In fiscal year 1995, OJJDP awarded a 
two-year grant to the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) 
to provide relevant, timely information on comprehensive approaches in 
juvenile justice that are geared to the legislative environment. In 
fiscal year 1995, NCSL convened a Leadership Forum with invited 
legislators; convened several focus groups; and established an 
information clearinghouse function. In fiscal year 1996, OJJDP will 
award second-year funding to the NCSL to further identify, analyze, and 
disseminate information to help State legislatures make more informed 
decisions about legislation affecting the juvenile justice system. A 
complementary task will involve supporting increased communication 
between State legislators and State and local leaders who influence 
Decision making regarding juvenile justice issues. NCSL will provide 
technical assistance to four states, will continue outreach activities 
and maintain its clearinghouse function.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCSL. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract: Juvenile Justice Resource 
Center

    This 3-year contract, competitively awarded in fiscal year 1994, 
provides technical assistance and support to OJJDP, its grantees, and 
the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
in the areas of program development, evaluation, training, and 
research. This program support contract will be supplemented in fiscal 
year 1996. The contract will be implemented by the current contractor, 
Aspen Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited 
in fiscal year 1996.

Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse

    A component of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service 
(NCJRS), the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (JJC) is OJJDP's central 
source for the collection, synthesis, and dissemination of information 
on all aspects of juvenile justice, including research and evaluation 
findings, State and local juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment 
programs and plans, availability of resources, training and educational 
programs, and statistics. JJC serves the entire juvenile justice 
community, including researchers, law enforcement officials, judges, 
prosecutors, probation and corrections staff, youth-service personnel, 
legislators, the media, and the public.
    Among its many support services, JJC offers toll-free telephone 
access to information, prepares specialized responses to information 
requests, produces, warehouses, and distributes OJJDP publications, 
exhibits at national conferences, maintains a comprehensive juvenile 
justice library and database, and administers several electronic 
information resources. Recognizing the critical need to inform juvenile 
justice practitioners and policy makers on promising program 
approaches, JJC continually develops and recommends new products and 
strategies to communicate more effectively the research findings and 
program activities of OJJDP and the field. The entire NCJRS, of which 
the OJJDP-funded JJC is a part, is administered by the National 
Institute of Justice under a competitively awarded contract . The 
project will be implemented by the current grantee, Aspen Systems 
Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in fiscal 
year 1996.

Telecommunications Assistance

    Developments in information technology and distance training can 
expand and enhance OJJDP's capacity to disseminate information and 
provide training and technical assistance. These technologies have the 
following advantages when used properly: increased access to 
information and training for persons in the juvenile justice system; 
reduced travel costs to conferences; and reduced time attending 
meetings requiring one or more nights away from one's home or office. 
Additionally, the successful use of ``live'' satellite teleconferences 
by OJJDP during the past year has generated an enthusiastic response 
from the field.
    During the past twelve months the grantee has produced four live 
satellite teleconferences on the following topics: Community 
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Delinquency Prevention; Model Juvenile Correctional Programs for 
Serious, Violent, Chronic Offenders; Youth Focused Community Policing; 
and Juvenile Boot Camps.
    OJJDP proposes to continue the competitive cooperative agreement 
award to Eastern Kentucky University in 1994 to provide program support 
and technical assistance for a variety of information technologies, 
including audio-graphics, satellite teleconferences, and fiber optics. 
The grantee would also continue to provide limited technical assistance 
to other grantees interested in using this technology and explore 
linkages with key constituent groups to advance mutual goals and 
objectives. This project would be implemented by the current grantee, 
Eastern Kentucky University. No additional applications would be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

    The Coalition for Juvenile Justice supports and facilitates the 
purposes and functions of each State's Juvenile Justice State Advisory 
Group (SAG). The Coalition, acting as a statutorily authorized, duly 
chartered Federal advisory committee, reviews Federal policies and 
practices regarding juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, and 
prepares and submits an annual report and recommendations to the 
President, Congress, and the Administrator of OJJDP. The Coalition also 
serves as an information center for the SAGs and conducts an annual 
conference to provide training for SAG members. The program would be 
implemented by the current grantee, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice. 
No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Insular Area Support*

    The purpose of this program is to provide supplemental financial 
support to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands (Palau), and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. Funds are available to address the special 
needs and problems of juvenile delinquency in these insular areas, as 
specified by Section 261(e) of the JJDP Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 5665(e).

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

Kids and Guns: Reducing Youth Gun Violence

    This project is intended to enhance the effectiveness of 
comprehensive youth gun violence reduction efforts by supporting 
innovative local community-generated strategies. Under a competitive 
announcement, OJJDP proposes funding community-based organizations and 
local units of government to strengthen their linkages to broader youth 
gun violence reduction efforts.
    Applicants would be encouraged to: be creative in designing 
initiatives for the prevention, intervention, and reduction of youth 
gun violence in targeted neighborhoods; coordinate their efforts with 
other community-based law enforcement initiatives, youth-serving 
organizations, crime victim organizations, and the juvenile justice 
system; and collaborate with these agencies to evaluate program 
effectiveness. Applicants would also be required to show that their 
proposed initiative reflects current youth gun violence research and a 
local assessment of youth access to guns, why young people carry guns, 
and why they use them.
    OJJDP also proposes to support an independent evaluation of this 
project that focuses on collecting and analyzing data on the program 
implementation process. The evaluator would also design an impact 
evaluation in collaboration with OJJDP and an approved advisory board.
    The Reducing Youth Gun Violence project would be competitively 
funded in up to three sites with a 2-year project period. The 
evaluation would be competitively funded under a cooperative agreement 
to a single grantee for a 3-year project period.

Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, 
and Suppression Program

    This program supports the implementation of a comprehensive gang 
program model in five jurisdictions. The program was competitively 
awarded with fiscal year 1994 funds under a 3-year project period. The 
demonstration sites implementing the model, developed with OJJDP 
funding support by the University of Chicago, are: Mesa, Arizona; 
Tucson, Arizona; Riverside, California; Bloomington, Illinois; and San 
Antonio, Texas. Implementation of the comprehensive gang program model 
requires the mobilization of the community to address gang-related 
violence by making available social interventions, providing social/
academic/vocational and other types of opportunities, supporting gang 
suppression through law enforcement, prosecution and other community 
control mechanisms, and supporting organizational change and 
development in community agencies to more effectively address gang 
violence prone youth.
    During the past year, the demonstration sites began an ongoing 
problem assessment process to identify the full nature and extent of 
the gang problem in the community and its potential causes. The 
assessment process will also help communities to understand what may 
cause gang violence in their community and to identify benchmarks by 
which program success may be measured. The demonstration sites also 
participated in training and technical assistance activities, including 
two cluster conferences sponsored by OJJDP. In addition, the 
demonstration sites began strategy implementation and service provision 
and made progress in community mobilization, either through existing 
planning structures or by creating new structures.
    In fiscal year 1996, demonstration sites will receive second year 
funding to continue implementation of the model program and build upon 
the sustained mobilization, planning and assessment processes. 
Additionally, the demonstration sites will continue to target youth 
prone to gang violence through continuing implementation of the program 
model and work with the independent evaluator of this demonstration 
program. No additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 
1996.

Targeted Outreach With a Gang Prevention and Intervention Component 
(Boys and Girls Clubs)

    This program is designed to enable local Boys and Girls Clubs to 
prevent youth from entering gangs and to intervene with gang members in 
the early stages of gang involvement to divert them from gang 
activities into more constructive programs. In fiscal year 1996, Boys 
and Girls Clubs of America would provide training and technical 
assistance to existing gang prevention and intervention sites and 
expand the gang prevention and intervention program to 30 additional 
Boys and Girls Clubs, including those in SafeFutures sites. This 
program would be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys and Girls 
Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

National Youth Gang Center

    The proliferation of gang problems ranging from large inner cities 
to smaller cities, suburbs, and even rural areas over the past two 
decades led to the development by OJJDP of a comprehensive, coordinated 
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involves five program components, one of which is the implementation 
and operation of the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC). The NYGC was 
competitively funded with fiscal year 1994 funds for a three-year 
project period. The purpose of the NYGC is to expand and maintain the 
body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective responses to 
them. NYGC assists State and local jurisdictions in the collection, 
analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, 
legislation, research, and promising program strategies. The Center 
also coordinates activities of the OJJDP Gang Consortium--a group of 
Federal agencies, gang program representatives, and service providers. 
Other major tasks include statistical data collection and analysis on 
gangs, analysis of gang legislation, gang literature review, 
identification of promising gang program strategies, and gang 
consortium coordination activities.
    Fiscal year 1996 funds will support second year funding of the NYGC 
cooperative agreement to the current grantee, the Institute for 
Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications will be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Child Centered Community-Oriented Policing

    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 
being implemented in New Haven, Connecticut. The basic elements of the 
model are a 10-week training course in child development for all new 
police officers and child development fellowships for all community-
based district commanders who direct neighborhood police teams. The 
fellowships provide 4 to 6 hours of training each week over a 3-month 
period at Yale's Child Study Center. The program also includes: (1) a 
24-hour consultation from a clinical professional and a police 
supervisor to patrol officers who assist children who have been exposed 
to violence; (2) weekly case conferences with police officers, 
educators, and child study center staff; and (3) open police stations, 
located in neighborhoods and accessible to residents for police and 
related services, community liaison, and neighborhood foot patrols.
    In fiscal year 1994, BJA community policing funds helped support 
the first year of a 3-year training and technical assistance grant to 
replicate the program nationwide. These funds supported the development 
of criteria for a request for proposals, protocols for consultation, 
train-the-trainer sessions for New Haven police and clinical faculty, 
and the development of a multi-model strategy for data collection and 
program evaluation. Fiscal year 1995 OJJDP funds supported continuation 
of the project's expansion in up to four replication sites.
    Fiscal year 1996 funds will support the implementation of the five-
phase replication protocol in the four selected sites, replication site 
data collection and analysis activities, and development of a detailed 
casebook about the model and program.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Yale 
University School of Medicine. No additional applications will be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program

    This continuation award will supplement the 3-year law enforcement 
and technical assistance support contract, competitively awarded in 
fiscal year 1994 to Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, 
Wisconsin. Fiscal year 1996 funds will be used to continue to provide 
services under the nationwide training and technical assistance program 
designed to improve law enforcement's capability to respond to juvenile 
delinquency, to contribute to delinquency prevention, and to address 
issues of missing and exploited children and child abuse and neglect. 
Technical assistance under this contract is provided in response to a 
wide variety of requests from Federal, State, county, and local 
agencies with responsibility for the prevention and control of juvenile 
delinquency and juvenile victimization. The contract supports 
continuation of the Gang, Gun, and Drug Policy Training Program, the 
Police Operations Leading to Improved Children and Youth Services 
series of training programs, a Native American Law Enforcement Training 
Program, and a variety of other law enforcement training programs 
offered by OJJDP.
    This contract will be implemented by the current contractor, Fox 
Valley Technical College. No additional applications will be solicited 
in fiscal year 1996.

Violence Studies*

    The 1992 Amendments to the JJDP Act required OJJDP to fund two-year 
studies on violence in three urban and one rural jurisdiction. Building 
on the results of OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and 
Correlates of Delinquency, these studies were to examine the incidence 
of violence committed by or against juveniles in urban and rural areas 
of the United States. In fiscal year 1994, OJJDP initiated this program 
by supporting studies of homicides by and of youth in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin and a cross-site study in rural areas in South Carolina, 
Georgia, and Florida. The grantees are the University of Wisconsin and 
the University of South Carolina. In fiscal year 1995, OJJDP provided 
funding for the second year of these studies and initiated two new 
violence studies in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C. The 
grantees are the University of Southern California and the Institute 
for Law and Justice.
    These four studies will provide valuable information regarding 
community violence patterns, with a particular focus on homicide and 
firearm use involving juveniles. They will also improve the juvenile 
justice system by identifying strategic law enforcement responses to 
juvenile violence and by identifying diversion, prevention, and control 
programs that ameliorate juvenile violence.
    During fiscal year 1996, the University of Wisconsin and the 
University of South Carolina will analyze their data and issue their 
findings with prior year funds. The University of Southern California 
will receive fiscal year 1996 funds to identify violence prevention 
programs and conduct a household survey and interview adolescents and 
their care givers in Los Angeles County. The Institute for Law and 
Justice will receive fiscal year 1996 funds to collect and analyze 
aggregate data from various juvenile justice providers and from a 
series of interviews with agency staff serving adjudicated juveniles. 
This will be followed by analysis and the preparation of a 
comprehensive report.
    The program will be continued by the current project grantees. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Hate Crimes

    In fiscal year 1993, OJJDP competitively awarded a grant to 
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), to assess existing curriculum 
materials and develop a multi-purpose curriculum for use in educational 
and institutional settings. In fiscal years 1994 and 1995, EDC 
developed a multipurpose curriculum for hate crime prevention in school 
and other classroom settings and the curriculum was pilot tested in the 
eighth grade of the Collins Middle School in Salem, Massachusetts. 
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curriculum redesigned. EDC then tested the curriculum in additional 
sites in New York and Florida to ensure that it was geographically and 
demographically representative. In consultation with the Office for 
Victims of Crime, EDC also developed a dissemination strategy for the 
curriculum and other products, including a judges guide on sanctions 
for juveniles who commit hate crimes.
    In fiscal year 1996, EDC would identify school districts and 
juvenile justice agencies across the country who are interested in 
receiving training in the curriculum. EDC would also provide training 
to education and juvenile justice personnel in order to foster adoption 
of the curriculum. The project would be implemented by the current 
grantee, EDC. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal 
year 1996.

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Development of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders

    The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, in collaboration 
with Developmental Research and Programs, Inc., has completed Phase I 
and II of a collaborative effort to support development and 
implementation of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, 
and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. Phase I involved assessing existing and 
previously researched programs in order to identify effective and 
promising programs that can be used in implementing the Comprehensive 
Strategy. In Phase II, a series of reports were combined into a Guide 
for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders. Phase II also included convening of a 
forum, ``Guaranteeing Safe Passage: A National Forum on Youth 
Violence,'' and holding two regional training seminars for key leaders 
on implementing the Comprehensive Strategy.
    In fiscal year 1996, Phase III of the project will be funded to 
provide: targeted dissemination of the Comprehensive Strategy at 
national conferences; intensive training for selected States to 
implement the Comprehensive Strategy in up to six local jurisdictions; 
individualized technical assistance for the five Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offender Program sites and the six SafeFutures sites; 
technical assistance to a limited number of individual jurisdictions 
interested in implementing the Comprehensive Strategy; and continued 
development of Comprehensive Strategy implementation materials.
    The program will be implemented by the current grantees, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency and Developmental Research 
and Programs, Inc., under third-year funding of this 3-year program. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment Program

    The Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offender Treatment 
Program is designed to assist local jurisdictions in the development 
and implementation of a comprehensive strategy for the intervention, 
treatment, and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. The program is an 
extension of an initial effort, funded by OJJDP in 1993, entitled 
``Accountability-Based Community Intervention (ABC) Program.'' Under 
the ABC initiative, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. were 
competitively funded to plan and implement a comprehensive graduated 
sanctions strategy.
    In fiscal year 1994, under a competitive announcement, OJJDP 
awarded funds under the Serious, Violent, and Chronic Offender 
Treatment Program to three additional jurisdictions (Boston, 
Massachusetts; Richmond, Virginia; and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana) to 
develop and implement a graduated sanctions plan. The plan's basic 
elements include: (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 program strategy; (4) develop and implement an 
evaluation; (5) integrate private nonprofit, community-based 
organizations into the provision of offender services; (6) incorporate 
an aftercare program as an integral 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 using local organizations.
    In fiscal year 1995, the ABC Program jurisdictions completed 
program funding and in fiscal year 1996, each of the three fiscal year 
1994 grantees will receive awards to continue implementation 
activities. No additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 
1996.

Community Assessment Centers

    In fiscal year 1996, OJJDP proposes to identify jurisdictions that 
have developed assessment programs for juveniles and established 
linkages to integrated service delivery systems through the use of 
assessment centers. The concept of community assessment centers, 
reflecting the use of community input in a center's development and 
operations, offers many advantages, including comprehensive needs 
assessments of at-risk, dependent, or delinquent youth; improved access 
to integrated services; the promotion of alternatives to incarceration; 
and an enhanced ability to monitor racial and gender disparities in 
juvenile justice processing through automated information systems. 
OJJDP will examine current efforts across the Nation in order to 
identify replicable components or models that meet, or could be adapted 
to meet, the following goals:
     Ensuring positive outcomes for youth through the provision 
of comprehensive, community-based assessments that result in the 
development of an integrated treatment plan while avoiding unnecessary 
detention.
     Promoting and increasing the use of alternatives to 
detention and a system of graduated sanctions for delinquent offenders.
     Providing for more accurate and timely monitoring of the 
processing of at-risk, dependent, or delinquent juveniles to ensure 
fair and equitable treatment and outcomes in all phases of the juvenile 
justice system.
     Enhancing access to data or records across disciplines and 
integrating assessment, case management, and community-based services 
through the use of automated information systems, consistent with the 
principles of confidentiality.
    If it is determined through this initial survey that a replicable 
model exists or can be developed, OJJDP intends to issue a competitive 
solicitation, late in fiscal year 1996, for the replication or 
development of the model, including an evaluation component. OJJDP 
seeks comment on the proposed program and funding process at this time.

Juvenile Restitution: A Balanced Approach

    OJJDP proposes to continue support of the juvenile restitution 
training and technical assistance program in fiscal year 1996. The 
project design is based on practitioner recommendations regarding 
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restitution and community service as key components of juvenile justice 
dispositions. In 1992, a working group was convened to help map out a 
plan for optimum development of the components of restitution programs. 
Plan components include community service, victim reparation, victim-
offender mediation, offender employment and supervision, employment 
development, and other program elements designed to establish 
restitution as an important element to improving the juvenile justice 
system. This project is guided by balanced and restorative justice 
principles, which include the need to provide a balance of community 
protection, offender competency development, and accountability in 
programs for sanctioning and controlling juvenile offenders.
    In fiscal year 1995, the project assisted three local jurisdictions 
to implement the ``balanced approach,'' participated in presenting 
regional ``round tables'' for States interested in adopting the 
balanced and restorative justice model, and provided ad hoc technical 
assistance. In fiscal year 1996 the project will continue this work and 
also develop guideline materials on the balanced and restorative 
justice program. This project will be implemented by the current 
grantee, Florida Atlantic University. No additional applications will 
be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Training and Technical Assistance Program To Promote Gender-Specific 
Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders

    The 1992 Amendments to the JJDP Act, Public Law 102-586, 106 Stat. 
4982, addressed for the first time the issue of gender specific 
services. The Amendments required States participating in OJJDP's State 
Formula Grants Program to conduct an analysis of gender-specific 
services for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, 
including the types of services available, the need for such services, 
and a plan for providing needed gender-specific services for the 
prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency.
    In fiscal year 1995, the OJJDP Gender Specific Services Program 
effort focused on providing training and technical assistance directly 
to States and on providing and promoting the establishment of State 
level gender-specific programs. Training and technical assistance have 
been provided to a broad spectrum of policymakers and service providers 
regarding services for juvenile female offenders.
    In addition, OJJDP, in conjunction with the American Correctional 
Association (ACA), sponsored a National Juvenile Female Offender 
Conference. The purpose of the Conference was to provide juvenile 
corrections agency staff with an increased awareness of the unique 
problems and rehabilitative needs of female offenders and improve 
skills in working effectively with these offenders. Innovative juvenile 
female corrections programs were presented, including new approaches 
and strategies for operating facility-based programs for female 
offenders.
    OJJDP also awarded discretionary grants to implement programs for 
female juvenile offenders and at-risk girls. Under the competitive 
Program to Promote Alternative Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders, 
OJJDP funded programs in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, Illinois. In 
addition, OJJDP has funded expansion of the Practical and Cultural 
Education Center for Girls, Inc. (P.A.C.E.) Program in Miami, Florida. 
Also, in order to provide the field with information regarding existent 
projects and current research, OJJDP funded Girls, Incorporated to 
conduct a national gender-specific services forum, which will be held 
during fiscal year 1996. Finally, OJJDP's six SafeFutures Program sites 
will implement components designed to establish services for at-risk 
and delinquent girls.
    In fiscal year 1996, OJJDP proposes to award a competitive grant to 
support a training and technical assistance program designed to build 
upon the work of these multiple efforts. It would transfer lessons 
learned, stimulate formulation of State and local policies based upon 
research findings and statistical trend data, and assist community-
based youth serving agencies and juvenile detention and correctional 
programs to initiate, refine, and expand gender-specific programming 
that utilizes the strengths and capabilities unique to females.
    In fiscal year 1996, one two-year project period award would be 
made based upon a competitive solicitation.

Technical Assistance to Native American Programs

    Native American programs for juveniles are facing increasing 
pressures because of the increasing numbers of youth who are involved 
in drug abuse, gang activity and delinquency. Many reservations are 
experiencing the problems that plague communities nationwide: gang 
activity; violent crime; use of weapons; and increasing drug and 
alcohol abuse.
    From fiscal years 1992 to 1995, OJJDP funded four Native American 
sites to support the development of programs to impact these problems. 
These sites are Gila River, Pueblo Jemez, the Navajo Nation and the Red 
Lake Band of Chippewas. Each of these sites has been implementing 
programs specifically designed to meet the needs of the tribe. In Gila 
River an alternative school has been developed and implemented. The 
Navajo Nation has expanded the Peace Maker program to accommodate 
additional delinquent offenders and this approach has been adapted to 
the Red Lake and Pueblo Jemez communities. Additional programing, such 
as job skills development, has also been developed in some of the sites 
to meet the needs of their youth.
    Although these programs have been successful, there is a need at 
these sites to expand programing options such as gang prevention and 
intervention programs. Other Native American Tribes have similar 
problems and needs, as do programs for Native Americans in many major 
metropolitan areas.
    OJJDP proposes to fund a national technical assistance program to 
support the development of additional programing for the four sites 
that OJJDP currently funds and to extend programing support to Tribes 
and urban tribal programs across the country. OJJDP would fund a 
technical assistance provider to provide direct technical assistance 
and to coordinate the delivery of technical assistance by other 
experts. It is anticipated that this would be a three-year technical 
assistance program.

National Indicators of Juvenile Violent and Delinquent Behavior and 
Related Risk Factors

    The difficulty of using juvenile arrests as a reliable measure of 
the level and nature of juvenile crime is well known. While juvenile 
arrest statistics have been useful as a barometer of juvenile 
involvement in crime, there are many critical dimensions in measuring 
this phenomenon that cannot be captured by any method other than direct 
measures of self-reported delinquency. The Department of Labor's Bureau 
of Labor Statistics is launching a 12,000-subject survey of 12-17-year-
old juveniles that provides an opportunity to supplement the data 
collection by asking relevant questions about delinquency, guns, and 
violence. This longitudinal survey also provides an unprecedented 
opportunity to determine the generalizability of the findings from 
OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency 
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to the Department of Labor is anticipated.

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention and Suppression Program

    The University of Chicago, School of Social Services 
Administration, received a competitive cooperative agreement award in 
fiscal year 1994. This four-year project period award supports an 
evaluation of OJJDP's Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program. The evaluation will 
assist the five program sites in establishing realistic and measurable 
objectives, to document program implementation, and to measure the 
impact of a variety of gang program strategies. It will also provide 
interim feedback to the program implementors. The five sites are 
Bloomington, Illinois; Mesa, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; Riverside, 
California; and San Antonio, Texas.
    In fiscal year 1996, the grantee will: design and implement 
organizational surveys and youth interviews; develop and implement 
program tracking and worker questionnaires and interviews; gather and 
track aggregate level offense/offender client data from police, 
prosecutor, probation, school, and social service program sources; 
develop and implement uniform individual level criminal justice data 
collection efforts; consult with local evaluators on development and 
implementation of local site parent/community resident surveys; and 
coordinate ongoing efforts with local researchers conducting special 
surveys of gang youth in the program.
    This project will be continued by the current grantee, the 
University of Chicago, School of Social Services Administration. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Evaluation of Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and 
Technical Assistance Program

    The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) received a 3-
year competitive fiscal year 1994 grant to conduct a process evaluation 
and design an impact evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based 
Aftercare Demonstration and Technical Assistance Program at sites in 
Colorado, New Jersey, Nevada, and Virginia. NCCD's initial award funded 
the design and implementation of the process evaluation, the design of 
an impact evaluation, and start-up data collection. A report on the 
process evaluation will be submitted in the spring of 1996. Fiscal year 
1996 funding will enable NCCD to begin the impact evaluation. Because 
of the excellent progress made during the first two years on the 
process evaluation, OJJDP intends to extend this program for three 
additional years to allow sufficient time for completion of an impact 
evaluation.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCCD. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Evaluation of Statewide DMC Projects

    This program would include completion of a process evaluation begun 
by OJJDP's Management Evaluation Program contractor, Caliber 
Associates, and would be continued with an impact evaluation following 
approval of an impact evaluation design. A 3-year program is 
anticipated.
    This program would supplement evaluation efforts of OJJDP directed 
at State and local programs designed to impact disproportionate 
minority confinement (DMC). Caliber Associates has conducted 
evaluations of the five DMC pilot sites funded from OJJDP discretionary 
funds to formulate and test programs designed to reduce DMC. The pilot 
site evaluations were, for the most part, process evaluations because 
it was difficult to identify specific impacts of small programs at the 
local level. This State-level evaluation will be expected to measure 
changes in disproportionate minority confinement and test assumptions 
about the reasons for these changes.
    Michigan has been tentatively selected as the site for this study 
through a State application process. To prepare for this evaluation, 
Caliber Associates will complete an evaluability assessment and a 
preliminary process evaluation. The grantee would have full access to 
the Caliber data, complete the process evaluation, and design and 
implement an outcome evaluation. The grantee would complete a process 
evaluation report at the end of the first year, incorporating the 
earlier data collection and analysis conducted by Caliber Associates. A 
single competitive agreement would be awarded under this program in 
fiscal year 1996.

Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) Evaluation

    The Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) was funded at 41 sites by 
OJJDP in fiscal year 1995. In compliance with Part G, Section 288 H of 
the JJDP Act, all JUMP sites are participating in a national evaluation 
designed to determine the success and effectiveness of JUMP in reducing 
delinquency and gang participation, improving academic performance, and 
reducing the dropout rate. Each program participant has been provided 
with a JUMP Evaluation Workbook containing data collection instruments 
and instructions on their use. It provides for the collection of data 
on delinquency, school performance, family functioning, and project 
operations. Grantees are responsible for collecting and analyzing site 
data and preparing periodic evaluation reports for OJJDP.
    The evaluation grantee would be expected to: assist the sites in 
implementing the JUMP Evaluation Workbook; provide other evaluation 
technical assistance to the funded sites; and complete a cross-site 
evaluation of results from the 41 sites at the end of the JUMP program 
grants. A draft report to Congress would be prepared based on the 
cross-site evaluation.
    It is anticipated that one two-year cooperative agreement would be 
competitively awarded to carry out this program.

Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies

    States are increasingly enacting juvenile code revisions broadening 
judicial waiver authority, providing prosecutor direct file authority, 
and mandating transfer of older, more violent juveniles to criminal 
court. Many States are also developing innovative procedures, such as 
blending traditional features of juvenile and criminal justice 
sentencing practices, through statutes that categorize juvenile 
offenders into different classes according to the seriousness of the 
offense, designating juvenile or criminal court for each class, or 
providing judges with discretion to make these judgments at sentencing. 
Studies of the impact of criminal court prosecution of juveniles have 
yielded mixed conclusions. Solid research on the intended and 
unintended consequences of transfer of juveniles to criminal court will 
enable policy makers and legislatures to develop statutory provisions 
and policies and improve judicial and prosecutorial waiver and transfer 
decisions.
    To address this shortage of research programs, OJJDP competitively 
funded two juvenile waiver and transfer research projects in fiscal 
year 1995. The first, awarded to the National Center for Juvenile 
Justice, compares juvenile and criminal court handling of juveniles in 
four States that authorize judicial waiver of serious and violent 
juvenile offenders and mandate criminal court handling for specified 
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awarded to the Florida Juvenile Justice Advisory Board, evaluates 
Florida's system of blending the option of criminal and juvenile 
justice system sentencing to handle serious or violent juvenile 
offenders. Additional funding is proposed in fiscal year 1996 to enable 
the projects to collect case specific information on sentence 
completion and recidivism data to provide a more definitive assessment 
of the impact of criminal versus juvenile justice system handling of 
serious and violent offender cases.
    The projects would be implemented by the current grantees, the 
National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Florida Juvenile Justice 
Advisory Board. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal 
year 1996.

Technical Assistance to Juvenile Courts*

    The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), the research 
division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 
provides technical assistance under this grant for juvenile court 
practitioners. The focus of the technical assistance is on court 
administration and management, program development, and special legal 
issues. During fiscal year 1995, NCJJ responded to over 830 requests 
for technical assistance.
    In fiscal year 1996, special emphasis will be placed on appropriate 
sanctions for handling serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders 
and other emerging issues confronting the juvenile court, such as the 
increased use of waivers and transfers. The program will be implemented 
by the current grantee, NCJJ. No additional applications will be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Juvenile Court Judges Training*

    The primary focus of this project in fiscal year 1996 will be to 
continue and refine the training and technical assistance program 
offered by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. 
The objectives of the training are to supplement law school curriculums 
by providing basic training to new juvenile court judges and to provide 
experienced judges with state-of-the-art training on developments in 
juvenile and family case law and effective dispositional options. 
Emphasis is also placed on alcohol and substance abuse, child abuse and 
neglect, gangs and violence, disproportionate incarceration of minority 
youth, and intermediate sanctions. Training is also provided to other 
court personnel, including juvenile probation officers, aftercare 
workers, and child protection and community treatment providers. In 
fiscal year 1995, over 13,000 judges and court personnel received 
training through some 80 different programs. In addition, over 800 
training related technical assistance requests were completed.
    The project 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 1996.

The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

    OJJDP has historically supported prosecutor training activities 
through the National District Attorneys' Association (NDAA). To 
continue that work, OJJDP awarded a 3-year project period grant in 
fiscal year 1995 to enable NDAA to establish a Juvenile Justice 
Prosecution Unit to provide prosecutor training, implement workshops on 
juvenile justice related executive policy, leadership, and management 
for chief prosecutors and juvenile unit chiefs, and provide background 
information to prosecutors on juvenile justice issues and programs.
    The project is implemented by the American Prosecutors Research 
Institute (APRI), based on planning and input by prosecutors familiar 
with juvenile justice needs. APRI is the research and technical 
assistance affiliate of NDAA. The project utilizes a working group of 
chief prosecutors and juvenile unit chiefs to support project staff in 
providing training, technical assistance, and juvenile justice-related 
research and program information to practitioners nationwide. Start-up 
activities focused on the collection of information regarding juvenile 
programs in prosecutor offices. In fiscal year 1996, the project will 
convene a symposium of prosecutor coordinators from all 50 States in 
order to refine prosecutor training and technical assistance needs. 
APRI will also conduct three workshops for elected and appointed 
prosecutors and juvenile unit chiefs to help improve prosecutor 
handling of juvenile cases.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, APRI. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Due Process Advocacy Program Development

    In fiscal year 1993, OJJDP funded the American Bar Association 
(ABA), in partnership with the Juvenile Law Center (JLC) of 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Youth Law Center (YLC) of San 
Francisco, California, to develop strategies to improve due process and 
the quality of legal representation. The goals of the program are to 
increase juvenile offenders' access to legal services and to improve 
the quality of preadjudication, adjudication, and dispositional 
advocacy for juvenile offenders. The strategies developed 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.
    In fiscal years 1994 and 1995, the ABA, JLC, and YLC conducted an 
assessment of the current state of the art with regard to legal 
services, training, and education. This survey included a review of 
literature, case law, State statutes, and a survey of public defenders, 
court appointed lawyers, law school clinical programs, and judges. A 
report, entitled ``A Call for Justice, An Assessment of the Access to 
Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings'' was 
developed and published by the ABA. It has been widely distributed to 
State and local bar associations, Chairs of State Juvenile Justice 
Advisory Committees, participants in the ABA survey, the National 
Association of Child Advocates, and others.
    In fiscal year 1996, training is scheduled to begin with the first 
training being provided to the States of Tennessee, Maryland, and 
Virginia. The structure and scope of the training will be tailored to 
fit the needs of each site. A training manual, under development, will 
cover training on key issues such as detention, transfer or waiver, and 
dispositions. It is designed to fill gaps in existing training 
programs. The ABA and its partners will also establish networks with 
public defenders offices, children's law centers, and others through 
the HANDSNET system and mailings that provide program updates.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, ABA. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical 
Assistance Program

    This initiative is designed to support implementation, training and 
technical assistance, and evaluation of an intensive community-based 
aftercare model in four jurisdictions that were competitively selected 
to participate in this demonstration program. The overall goal of this 
intensive aftercare model is to identify and assist high-risk juvenile 
offenders to make a gradual transition from secure confinement back 
into the community. The Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) model can be 
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segments: (1) Pre-release and preparatory planning activities during 
incarceration; (2) structured transitioning involving the participation 
of institutional and aftercare staffs both prior to and following 
community reentry; and (3) long-term reintegrative activities to insure 
adequate service delivery and the required level of social control.
    In fiscal year 1994, The Johns Hopkins University received a grant 
to test an intensive community-based aftercare model in four 
demonstration sites: Denver (Metro), Colorado; Clark County (Las 
Vegas), Nevada; Camden and Newark, New Jersey; and Norfolk, Virginia. 
Each of the four sites received additional funds to support program 
implementation in fiscal year 1995. The Johns Hopkins University 
contracts with California State University at Sacramento to assist in 
the implementation process by providing training and technical 
assistance and by making funds available through contracts to each of 
the four demonstration sites. Each of the sites have developed risk 
assessment instruments for use in selecting specific youth who need 
this type of intensive aftercare intervention, hired and trained staff 
in the intensive aftercare model, identified existing and needed 
community support (intervention) services, and identified data 
necessary for an accurate evaluation of the intensive community-based 
aftercare program. In addition, each of the sites has begun random 
assignment of clients to the program. The Johns Hopkins University and 
its sub-contractor, California State University at Sacramento, have 
provided continuous training and technical assistance to both 
administrators/managers and line staff in the intensive community-based 
aftercare sites. Staff have been trained in the theoretical 
underpinnings of the IAP model as well as in the practical applications 
of the model, such as techniques for identifying juveniles appropriate 
for the program. Training and technical assistance in this model have 
also been available to other states and OJJDP grantees on a limited 
basis.
    In fiscal year 1996, the sites will continue to implement and test 
the aftercare model. An independent evaluation contractor is performing 
a process evaluation and has designed an impact evaluation to be 
implemented under a separate grant. The Johns Hopkins University will 
provide continuing training and technical assistance to the four 
selected sites and will initiate aftercare technical assistance 
services to jurisdictions participating in the OJJDP/Department of the 
Interior Youth Environmental Services (YES) Program and to OJJDP's six 
SafeFutures Program sites. This funding supports the third budget 
period of a 3-year project period.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, The Johns 
Hopkins University. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce 
Disproportionate Minority Confinement (The Deborah Wysinger Memorial 
Program)

    National data and studies have shown that minority children are 
over represented in juvenile and criminal justice facilities across the 
country. Accordingly, Congress, in the 1988 reauthorization of the JJDP 
Act, amended the Formula Grants Program State plan requirements to 
include addressing disproportionate confinement of minority juveniles. 
This is accomplished by gathering data, analyzing it to determine the 
extent to which minority juveniles are disproportionately confined, and 
designing strategies to address this issue. A Special Emphasis 
discretionary grant program was developed to demonstrate model 
approaches to addressing disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) in 
five State pilot sites (Arizona, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, and 
Oregon). Funds were also awarded to a national contractor to provide 
technical assistance to assist both the pilot sites and other States, 
to evaluate their efforts, and share relevant information.
    In fiscal years 1994 and 1995, OJJDP made additional Special 
Emphasis discretionary funds available to non-pilot States that had 
completed data gathering and assessment in order to provide initial 
funding for innovative projects designed to address DMC.
    These efforts to impact DMC have yielded an important lesson: that 
systemic, broad-based interventions are necessary to reduce DMC. OJJDP 
recognizes the need to foster the development and documentation of 
effective strategies using training, technical assistance, information 
dissemination, provision of practical and targeted resource tools, and 
public education. In order to further these strategies, OJJDP proposes 
to competitively solicit innovative proposals to implement a 3-year 
national training, technical assistance, and information dissemination 
initiative focused on the disproportionate confinement of minority 
youth. The selected grantee would: (1) review and synthesize current 
State and local practices and policies designed to reduce DMC; (2) 
develop and deliver training to juvenile justice specialists, SAG 
Chairs, and selected grantees to inform them of DMC requirements, best 
practices and issues; (3) assist key OJJDP grantees to incorporate DMC 
issues, practices and policies into their training and education 
programs (key grantees are those training and technical assistance 
providers working with police, the courts and juvenile detention staff, 
SafeFutures sites, Title V, and some State Challenge Program grant 
recipients); (4) assist the eight current DMC grantees to manage and 
institutionalize their programs; (5) support the Formula Grants Program 
technical assistance contractor and OJJDP staff in reviewing State DMC 
plans; and (6) develop and carry out a national dissemination and 
public education program on DMC and help States and localities develop 
similar local education programs.
    The selected DMC grantee would coordinate with OJJDP's National 
Training and Technical Assistance Center and other OJJDP contractors to 
identify OJJDP program areas where DMC policies and practices can be 
integrated into ongoing program activities. The DMC grantee and the 
National Training and Technical Assistance Center would also 
collaborate in the development of toolkits and resource products--
screening tools, assessment, and training components--to be used by 
jurisdictions at each stage of their DMC data gathering, assessment and 
program response cycle. Other resource products would include 
educational curricula, technical assistance protocols for working with 
courts, police, intake services, probation and prosecutor's offices, 
assessment and screening tools, and planning and analysis tools for 
juvenile justice specialists.
    OJJDP proposes to competitively award a single grant to implement a 
3-year national training, technical assistance, and information 
dissemination initiative focused on the disproportionate confinement of 
minority youth.

Juvenile Probation Survey Research

    Juvenile probation is one of the most critical areas of the 
juvenile justice system. However, there is presently very little 
information available on juveniles on probation. We do not know how 
many juveniles are on probation, their demographic characteristics, 
their offenses, or the conditions of their probation, including length, 
residential confinement, electronic monitoring, restitution, etc. This 
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conduct survey research and develop a questionnaire to collect this 
important information. As States operate their juvenile probation 
systems in very different manners, this project would also examine how 
these differences will affect the information collected.
    It is anticipated that one 2-year cooperative agreement would be 
competitively awarded to carry out this program.

Improvements in Correctional Education for Juvenile Offenders

    The Improvements in Correctional Education for Juvenile Offenders 
Program, a program development and demonstration initiative, was 
awarded to the National Organization for Social Responsibility (NOSR) 
in fiscal year 1992. It is being implemented in three phases: 
identification, assessment, and testing and dissemination. The purpose 
of the Program is to assist juvenile corrections administrators in 
planning and implementing improved educational services for detained 
and incarcerated juvenile offenders.
    During the 3-year project period, the grantee implemented the first 
two phases of the program. An extensive literature search of effective 
education practices was undertaken and a report on effective practices 
in juvenile corrections education was published and a training and 
technical assistance manual were published. In addition, three State 
juvenile corrections facilities were selected as model sites for 
testing effective educational practices. The sites are: Adobe Mountain 
School, Arizona; Lookout Mountain Youth Center, Colorado; and Sauk 
Centre, Minnesota.
    In fiscal year 1995, NOSR received funding to implement Phase III, 
testing and dissemination. The three model test sites are receiving 
site specific technical assistance in the assessment of their 
educational programs and in the development and implementation of 
effective educational practices, including reintegration of appropriate 
juveniles back into the mainstream education system.
    Fiscal year 1996 funds would be used to assist each site to enhance 
its curriculum and implementation strategy to better address the needs 
of the juveniles they serve.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, NOSR. No 
additional applications would be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Detention and Correctional 
Facilities

    There is a need to increase the accountability of detention and 
correctional agencies, facilities, and staff in performing their basic 
functions. The development of performance-based standards has emerged 
as a primary strategy for improving conditions of confinement. This 
program supports the development and implementation of performance-
based standards for juvenile detention and corrections. The performance 
measures and standards being developed will address both services and 
the quality of life for confined juveniles. They will reflect the 
consensus of a broadly representative group of national organizations 
on the mission, goals, and objectives of juvenile detention and 
corrections. OJJDP plans to promote nationwide adoption and 
implementation of the measures and standards through a future training 
and technical assistance program.
    In fiscal year 1995, OJJDP awarded a competitive 18-month 
cooperative agreement to the Council of Juvenile Corrections 
Administrators (CJCA) to develop national performance-based standards 
for juvenile detention and correctional facilities. A National 
Consortium of major professional and advocacy organizations is 
providing technical advice and support in all aspects of the 
development and implementation of the standards. The project will focus 
on standards in the areas of: safety; security; order; programming/
treatment/education; health; and justice.
    During fiscal year 1996, the working groups will complete the 
drafting of performance criteria and measures, as well as assessment 
tools for monitoring performance in all substantive areas. In addition, 
all materials will be field tested and revised as needed. A plan for 
implementation will also be submitted.
    By 1997, initial performance standards and a measurement system 
will be developed along with specific plans for an 18-month period of 
intensive demonstration and testing of the performance-based standards 
and their impact on juvenile corrections and detention programming.
    The program will be implemented by the current grantee, CJCA. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Technical Assistance to Juvenile Corrections and Detention (The James 
E. Gould Memorial Program)

    The primary purpose of the Technical Assistance to Juvenile 
Corrections and Detention project is to provide specialized technical 
assistance to juvenile corrections, detention, and community 
residential service providers. The grantee, the American Correctional 
Association (ACA), also plans and convenes an annual Juvenile 
Corrections and Detention Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity for 
juvenile corrections and detention leaders to meet and discuss issues, 
problems, and solutions to emerging corrections and detention problems. 
The ACA also provides workshops and conferences on current and emerging 
national issues in the field of juvenile corrections and detention and 
offers technical assistance through document dissemination. OJJDP 
awarded a fiscal year 1995 competitive grant to ACA to provide these 
services over a 3-year project period. The project will be implemented 
by the current grantee, ACA. No additional applications will be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Training for Juvenile Corrections and Detention Staff

    In fiscal year 1996, OJJDP will continue to support the development 
and implementation of a comprehensive training program for juvenile 
corrections and detention management 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, the role of the victim in juvenile 
corrections, juvenile programming for specialized needs of offenders, 
and managing the violent or disruptive offender. The training is 
conducted at the NIC Academy and regionally. This program is a 
continuation activity, initiated in fiscal year 1991 under an 
interagency agreement with NIC that was renewed in fiscal year 1994. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Training for Line Staff in Juvenile Detention and Corrections

    In fiscal year 1994, the National Juvenile Detention Association 
(NJDA) was awarded a competitive 3-year project period grant to 
establish a training program to meet the needs of the more than 38,000 
line staff of juvenile detention and corrections facilities. In the 
first year under the grant, NJDA revised and updated a 40-hour 
Detention Careworker curriculum, developed a 24-hour Train-the-Trainer 
for the Detention Careworker curriculum, conducted 16 separate 
trainings and developed new lesson plans in 7 substantive areas, 
conducted a national training needs assessment for juvenile corrections 
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provided technical assistance to 37 agencies and training to 887 line 
staff.
    In fiscal year 1996, NJDA will continue to offer training to 
practitioners, develop new curriculums around emerging issues, and 
complete the development and testing of a 40-hour basic careworker 
curriculum for juvenile corrections line staff. Additionally, NJDA will 
deliver selected training programs for juvenile detention and 
corrections line staff on a number of topical issues.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, NJDA. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams 
To Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding

    The Conditions of Confinement: Juvenile Detention and Correctional 
Facilities Research Report (1994), completed by Abt Associates under an 
OJJDP grant, 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 
an increased 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 the flow of juveniles through 
the system.
    In addressing the problems of overcrowded facilities, OJJDP 
considered the recommendations of the Conditions of Confinement study 
regarding overcrowding, the data on over-representation of minority 
youth in confinement, and other information that suggests crowding in 
juvenile facilities must be reduced. Policy makers can do this by 
increasing capacity, where necessary, or by taking other steps to 
control crowding. This project, competitively awarded to the National 
Juvenile Detention Association (NJDA) in fiscal year 1994 for a three-
year project period, provides training and technical assistance 
materials for use by State and local jurisdictional teams. In fiscal 
year 1995, the project collected information on strategies that are 
used or could be used to control crowding, and prepared training and 
technical assistance materials. Based on the demonstrated need for 
assistance and related criteria, NJDA will select three jurisdictions 
in fiscal year 1996 for onsite development, implementation, and testing 
of crowding reduction procedures, and will provide regional training on 
these procedures to other jurisdictions.
    A fiscal year 1996 continuation award will be made to the current 
grantee, the National Juvenile Detention Association. No additional 
applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

National Program Directory

    In fiscal year 1995, OJJDP initiated the development of a National 
Program Directory, a national list of all juvenile justice offices, 
facilities, and programs in the United States, through the Bureau of 
the Census. The Census Bureau developed a directory format for juvenile 
detention and correctional facilities, which would contain the 
addresses and phone numbers of localities, names and titles of 
directors, and important classification information, classify 
facilities by the agency or firm that operates them, and list the 
functions of the facility. This structure was developed specifically to 
provide OJJDP with the ability to conduct surveys and censuses of 
juvenile custody facilities. The effort placed into developing this 
structure would also translate to other areas, such as a list of 
juvenile probation offices.
    Beyond developing the computer structure, this project would also 
develop, in fiscal year 1996, the actual sampling frame or address 
list. The development of complete frames for any segment of the 
juvenile justice system requires many different approaches. The Census 
Bureau would use contacts with professional organizations to compile a 
preliminary list of juvenile facilities, courts, probation offices, and 
programs. The Census Bureau would then seek contacts in each State for 
further clarification of the lists. All leads would be followed until a 
complete list of all programs of interest has been exhausted. This 
program would be funded through an interagency agreement with the 
Census Bureau. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal 
year 1996.

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Training In Risk-Focused Prevention Strategies

    OJJDP will provide additional training in fiscal year 1996 to 
communities interested in developing a risk-focused delinquency 
prevention strategy. This training supports OJJDP's Title V Delinquency 
Prevention Incentive Grants Program, codified at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5781-
5785, by providing the knowledge and skills necessary for State, local, 
and private agency officials and citizens to identify and address risk 
factors that lead to violent and delinquent behavior in children. In 
fiscal years 1994 and 1995, this training was offered to all States, 
territories, and the District of Columbia that received discretionary 
grants from OJJDP to implement the Title V Program.
    OJJDP awarded a new contract with fiscal year 1995 funds to perform 
ongoing tasks and provide prevention training in the following areas: 
(1) orientation on risk and resiliency-focused prevention theories and 
strategies for local community leaders; (2) the identification, 
assessment and addressing of risk factors; (3) ``training of trainers'' 
in selected States to provide a statewide capacity to train communities 
in risk-focused prevention; and (4) development of training curriculums 
and materials to increase the capacity of States and localities to 
conduct risk-focused prevention training. These services will be 
provided through second year funding of a competitive contract awarded 
to Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. No additional applications 
will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Youth-Centered Conflict Resolution

    Increasing levels of juvenile violence have become a national 
concern. Violence in and around school campuses and conflict among 
juveniles both in schools and neighborhoods have become extremely 
problematic for school administrators, teachers, parents, community 
leaders, and the public. While experts may debate the merits and impact 
of the varied contributing factors, most would agree that school 
curriculums do not provide for the systematic teaching of problem- and 
conflict-resolving skills.
    To address this issue, OJJDP awarded a competitive grant in fiscal 
year 1995 to the Illinois Institute for Dispute Resolution to develop, 
in concert with other established conflict resolution organizations, a 
national strategy for broad-based education and training in the use of 
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support of this task, the grantee is to conduct four regional 
conferences based on a joint publication being developed by the 
Departments of Justice and Education. The grantee will also provide 
technical assistance and disseminate information about conflict 
resolution programs. The project will be continued by the current 
grantee, the Illinois Institute for Dispute Resolution. No additional 
applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Pathways to Success

    This project is a collaborative effort among OJJDP, the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance (BJA), and the National Endowment for the Arts. The 
Pathways to Success Program promotes vocational skills, entrepreneurial 
initiatives, recreation, and arts education during afterschool, 
weekend, and summer hours by making a variety of opportunities 
available to at-risk youth.
    Through a competitive process, five sites were funded in fiscal 
year 1995, the first year of a 2-year project period. The selected 
programs are located in: Newport County, Rhode Island; New York, New 
York; Anchorage, Alaska; Washington, D.C.; and Miami, Florida.
    The SOS Playbacks: Arts-Based Delinquency Based Juvenile 
Delinquency Prevention Program, located in Newport County, Rhode 
Island, provides an afterschool arts program for students aged 13-18 
from local public housing developments. Students in the program 
participate in peer-to-peer support and education through the mediums 
of visual arts, dance, and drama.
    Project CLEAR, located in New York City, provides extended day 
programs to students in two elementary schools that have a high 
percentage of students who live in low-income areas and have limited 
English proficiency. Services include academic tutoring, arts in 
education instruction, physical recreation, and group counseling 
services. Two hundred students in grades 1-6 are served annually. 
Saturday programs for targeted youth and their families and evening 
programs for parents are also provided.
    The Anchorage School District and the out-North Theater in 
Anchorage, Alaska have collaborated to provide afterschool and summer 
theater programs for students aged 12-14 from low income areas in 
Anchorage. Students involved in this program will produce and perform 
in plays they have written that reflect their personal life 
experiences.
    The District of Columbia Courts Elementary Baseball Program 
provides combined recreational activities, tutoring activities, one-to-
one mentoring, and parent workshops for students aged 6-10 who are 
enrolled in Garrett Elementary School in Washington, D.C. This school 
is located in one of the highest crime areas in Washington, D.C. The 
central activity of this program is interleague baseball games. Team 
participation is contingent upon student participation in tutoring and 
other activities.
    The Aspira ``Youth Sanctuary'' Program, located in Dade County, 
Florida, addresses delinquency and other behavioral problems of Latino 
youth aged 10-16 who reside in migrant camps. This program teaches art, 
including community mural projects, folklore dance incorporating Latino 
dancing, and provides recreation opportunities for targeted students 
afterschool, on weekends, and during the summer months. Parent training 
workshops and parent support are key activities in this program.
    This Program will be implemented in fiscal year 1996 by the current 
project grantees. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Teens, Crime, and the Community: Teens in Action in the 90s*

    This continuation program is conducted by the National Crime 
Prevention Council (NCPC) in partnership with 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 Community (TCC) program 
that operates on the premise that teens, who are disproportionately the 
victims of crimes, can contribute to improving their schools and 
communities through a broad array of activities.
    During fiscal year 1995, the TCC Program expanded to more than 100 
new sites, primarily through five regional expansion centers located in 
New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, the Mid-South, the Deep South, 
and the Pacific Northwest Coast. These TCC projects utilized Boys and 
Girls Clubs of America and their affiliates in six localities to become 
partners in TCC efforts in these cities.
    More than 4,000 teachers, social service providers, juvenile 
justice professionals, law enforcement officers, and other community 
leaders participated in intensive training to help sites implement the 
TCC curriculum in their communities. Over 1,000 individuals benefited 
from technical assistance, materials, and consultation regarding TCC in 
areas of program implementation, fund development, and networking 
opportunities.
    In fiscal year 1996, NCPC and NICEL will implement the National 
Teens, Crime, and the Community Program in additional locations across 
the country. In addition, TCC will seek to implement projects in the 
six SafeFutures Program sites.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, NCPC. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Law-Related Education (LRE)

    The national Law-Related Education (LRE) Program ``Youth for 
Justice'' includes five coordinated LRE projects and programs operating 
in 48 States and 4 non-State jurisdictions.
    The program's purpose is to provide training and technical 
assistance to State and local school jurisdictions that will result in 
the institutionalization of quality LRE programs for at-risk juveniles. 
The focus of the program during fiscal year 1996 would be to continue 
linking LRE to violence reduction and to involve program participants 
in finding solutions to juvenile violence. The major components of the 
program are coordination and management, training and technical 
assistance, assistance to local program sites, public information and 
program development and assessment.
    This program would 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 would be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Cities in Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership

    This program is a continuation of a national school dropout 
prevention model developed and implemented by Cities in Schools, Inc. 
The Cities in Schools (CIS) Program 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 youth and their families in the school setting. Where CIS State 
organizations are established, they assume primary responsibility for 
local program replication during the Federal interagency partnership.
    The Federal Interagency Partnership program is based on a program 
strategy that is designed to enhance CIS, Inc.'s capability to provide 
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initiatives to CIS youth at the local level, disseminate information, 
and network with Federal agencies on behalf of State and local CIS 
programs.
    Fiscal year 1995 accomplishments include the following: 
establishment of 15 student-run entrepreneurship programs; 
establishment of a consulting program consisting of a pool of CIS State 
and local program directors and other experts to support the expanded 
technical assistance needs of the CIS network of State and local 
programs; production and distribution of two publications, a catalogue 
of program resources, and a history of the CIS program; a three-day 
training session featuring presentations from Federal agencies on the 
financial and programmatic resources available through their 
Departments; and a catalogue of State and local programs in the areas 
of family strengthening and parent participation, working with 
adjudicated or incarcerated youth, violence prevention, prevention of 
AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, and conflict resolution.
    The Cities in Schools Federal Interagency Partnership program is 
jointly funded by OJJDP and the Departments of Health and Human 
Services and Commerce under an OJJDP grant. The project would be 
implemented by the current grantee, Cities in Schools, Inc. No 
additional applications would be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Race Against Drugs

    The Race Against Drugs (RAD) Program 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 
help and assistance from 23 motor sports organizations, the cooperation 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, the U.S. Navy, and other government agencies, the 
National Child Safety Council, and a variety of corporate sponsors, RAD 
has become an exciting and innovative addition to drug abuse prevention 
programs. RAD activities now include national drug awareness and 
prevention activities at schools, malls, and motor sport events; 
television and public service announcements, posters, and signage on T-
shirts, hats, decals, etc.; and specialized programs like the ``Adopt-
A-School Essay and Scholarship'' and ``Winner's Circle'' programs. 
Curriculum materials include the Be A Winner Action Book for 6-8th 
graders, a RAD Adult Guide, and a RAD coloring book for K-4th graders.
    In fiscal year 1995 the program was funded to develop additional 
and updated curriculum materials, reach additional program sites, and 
demonstrate the Winner's Circle Program in Seattle, Washington. It was 
funded jointly by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and OJJDP with the 
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) providing extensive 
printing and clearinghouse support.
    In fiscal year 1996, OJJDP proposes to continue funding over a two-
year project period in order to expand program operations to reach 
500,000 youth at 300 RAD events annually, conduct 20 adopt-a-school 
programs in conjunction with major racing events, develop mobile 
educational exhibits and a variety of new educational materials, and 
conduct a program evaluation. OJJDP anticipates that the program would 
operate with private direct funding and in-kind support at the end of 
the project period.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Child Safety Council. No additional applications would be 
solicited in fiscal year 1996.

The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse/
Violence Campaign (NADVC)

    OJJDP proposes to continue funding the Congress of National Black 
Churches' (CNBC) national public awareness and mobilization strategy to 
address the problem of juvenile drug abuse and violence in targeted 
communities. The goal of the CNBC national strategy is 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 mobilize groups of community residents 
to combat juvenile drug abuse and drug-related violence.
    The campaign now operates in 37 city alliances, having grown from 5 
original target cities. The smallest of these alliances consists of 6 
churches and the largest has 135 churches. The NADVC program involves 
approximately 2,220 clergy and affects 1.5 million youth and the adults 
who influence their lives. NADVC also provides technical support to 
four statewide religious coalitions.
    As a result of NADVC's technical assistance and training workshops, 
project sites have been able to leverage approximately $1.5 million in 
private and government funding.
    NADVC has contributed to the planning and presentation of numerous 
technical assistance and training conferences on violence and substance 
abuse prevention and produced a National Training and Site Development 
Guide and a video to assist sites implement the NADVC model.
    The Program would be expanded in fiscal year 1996 to address family 
violence intervention issues and target up to 6 additional cities, for 
a total of 43 cities. Consideration would be given to SafeFutures sites 
when selecting the new sites. This program would be implemented by the 
current grantee, CNBC. No additional applications would be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Community Anti-Drug-Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

    The National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) has extended 
its outreach to community-based grassroots organizations around the 
country that are working effectively to solve the problems of juvenile 
drug abuse. This project has three goals: (1) To allow various 
neighborhood groups to inexpensively purchase needed services through 
the use of technical assistance vouchers disbursed by NCNE; (2) to 
demonstrate the cost-effective use of vouchers to help neighborhood 
groups secure technical assistance for anti-drug-abuse projects to 
serve high-risk youth; and (3) to extend OJJDP funded technical 
assistance to groups that are often excluded because they lack the 
administrative sophistication, technical and grantsmanship skills, and 
resources to participate in traditional competitive grant programs.
    The Technical Assistance Voucher Project builds upon the strengths 
and problem solving capacity existing in low-income communities 
nationwide and provides much needed technical and monetary resources to 
grassroots organizations that are operating youth anti-drug programs 
and activities for high risk youth.
    The program awards 15-25 vouchers, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 
annually. Eligible organizations must have: proven effectiveness in 
serving a specific constituency; a small operating budget ($150,000 
maximum); 501(c)(3) tax exempt status; and a program that targets high-
risk youth and/or juvenile offenders; and leadership that is indigenous 
to the community. Vouchers can be used for planning, proposal writing, 
program promotion, legal assistance, financial management, and other 
activities. This project would be implemented by the current grantee, 
NCNE. No additional applications would be solicited in fiscal year 
1996.

Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Services

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elements in a community's family support system. In many communities, 
one or more of these elements may be missing or programs may not be 
coordinated. In addition, technical assistance and training have not 
generally been available to community organizations and agencies 
providing family strengthening services. In response, OJJDP awarded a 
three-year competitive grant in fiscal year 1995 to the University of 
Utah's Department of Health and Education to provide training and 
technical assistance to communities interested in establishing or 
enhancing a continuum of family-strengthening efforts, including parent 
training. Grant activities include a literature review, national 
search, rating, and selection of family strengthening models, 
development and implementation of a marketing and dissemination 
strategy, and the selection of sites to receive intensive technical 
assistance. The grantee will also convene two regional conferences, 
produce user and training-of-trainers guides, and distribute videos of 
several family-strengthening workshops.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Utah's Department of Health and Education. No additional 
applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Henry Ford Health System*

    In fiscal year 1995, the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) initiated 
a two-year program in Detroit, Michigan called ``Reducing Youth 
Violence Through School-Based Initiatives.'' The program serves seven 
elementary schools and two middle schools that feed into a Detroit high 
school. Primary Program activities are to identify juveniles at high 
risk, assess the needs of target youth, identify resources available in 
the community to serve those needs, coordinate community resources to 
create comprehensive programs, and evaluate the efficacy of the 
program. Participants include teachers, family members, community 
programs and agencies, as well as student and health center staff. This 
project will be implemented by the current grantee, HFHS. No additional 
applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Jackie Robinson Center*

    This three-year project, initially funded in fiscal year 1994, 
supports expansion of the Brooklyn USA Athletic Association, Inc.'s 
Jackie Robinson Centers for Physical Culture (JRC), which provide a 
comprehensive youth development and delinquency and crime prevention 
program. Presently, there are 18 school and 3 replication sites in 
operation serving in-school youth between the ages of 8 and 18. JRC's 
services are designed to prevent New York City youth from becoming 
involved in street gangs, violence, or drug and alcohol abuse, and to 
alert, educate, and inform youth and their parents about these issues. 
Activities conducted by JRC include development of positive peer 
groups, youth leadership, social and personal skills training, academic 
tutoring, sports, cultural activities, rap and discussion groups, 
individual counseling, parent education and involvement, community 
events, on-site crisis intervention, referral to treatment, physical/
medical examinations, social service referral, and college and job 
placement assistance. JRC has increased its recruitment and 
registration from 750 to 6,600 students. Students in each of the 18 
sites participated in a minimum of 3 special events during the year.
    In fiscal year 1996, JRC will develop a data bank system to monitor 
the in-school progress of participating students through indicators 
such as attendance, academic, and behavioral records. This project will 
be implemented by the current grantee, the Brooklyn USA Athletic 
Association, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in 
fiscal year 1996.

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

A Community-Based Approach to Combating Child Victimization

    Statistics on child abuse and neglect are alarming. In 1994 alone, 
an estimated 3.1 million abused or neglected children were reported to 
public welfare agencies. More than 1 million of these cases were 
substantiated. Each year, an estimated 2,000 children--most under 4 
years old--die at the hands of parents or caretakers.
    Research demonstrating a link between child victimization and later 
involvement in violent delinquency suggests the efficacy of preventing 
child abuse and neglect and treating the victims of abuse as a means of 
reducing later violent and delinquent behavior.
    To break the cycle of childhood victimization and violent 
delinquency, OJJDP proposes to enter into a joint solicitation with 
other bureaus of the Office of Justice Programs, in cooperation with 
other Federal agencies, to foster comprehensive, community-based, 
interagency and multi disciplinary approaches to the prevention, 
identification, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
    It is anticipated that two to five demonstration projects would be 
competitively awarded in fiscal year 1996 as part of a 5-year project 
period. Sites would be required to address each of the following 
program areas: (1) Data collection and evaluation; (2) system reform 
and accountability; (3) training and technical support to 
practitioners; (4) provision of a continuum of services to protect 
children and support families; and (5) prevention education and public 
information.
    Training and technical assistance would be made available to 
selected sites in a number of areas, including system reform, 
practitioner training, victim advocacy, team-building and interagency 
collaboration, family-strengthening services assessment and 
implementation, and diversity/cultural awareness training.
    Applicants would also be expected to demonstrate an ability to 
leverage other available sources of funds and document a readiness to 
engage in reform of child protection systems, progress in assessing and 
addressing child abuse and neglect, and broad community representation, 
commitment, and participation.

Permanent Families for Abused and Neglected Children*

    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 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 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 the Social Security Act, as amended, 42 
U.S.C. Sec. 671(a)(15), training in selected States, and implementation 
of a model guide for risk assessment.
    The project is implemented by the National Council of Juvenile and 
Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). NCJFCJ provides support services to 
coordinate programs, trains judges in the Court Appointed Special 
Advocate (CASA) program, and implements the Model Court Program in 
additional jurisdictions.
    In fiscal year 1996, a new program to divert families from the 
court system through arbitration under court supervision will be 
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sources. However, the program will be incorporated into NCJFCJ's 
permanency planning training.
    The Permanent Families for Abused and Neglected Children Program 
will be implemented by the current grantee, NCJFCJ. No additional 
applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Parents Anonymous, Inc.*

    Parents Anonymous, Inc. (PA) establishes groups and adjunct 
programs that respond to the needs of families through a mutual support 
model of parents and professionals sharing their expertise and their 
belief in each individual's ability to grow and change in ways that 
create caring and safe environments for themselves and their children. 
In fiscal year 1994, OJJDP began supporting PA's Juvenile Justice 
Project to enhance PA's mission to prevent child abuse and neglect by 
developing a new capability within the PA network to address the needs 
of high-risk, inner-city populations, with an emphasis on minority 
parents.
    As a result of OJJDP funding, PA has: developed 31 new groups in 11 
states; produced and disseminated the booklet, I Am A Parents Anonymous 
Parent, in Spanish; convened a National Leadership Conference in 
Washington, D.C. in February 1995 which focused on outreach, 
recruitment and services for families of color and collaboration with 
juvenile justice agencies; convened an Executive Directors'' Leadership 
Conference in Claremont, California, in November 1995; conducted 
written surveys, focus groups, and intensive telephone interviews to 
gather ``best practices'' data; produced and disseminated 12,000 copies 
of an expanded Innovations PA newsletter; and produced and disseminated 
15,000 copies of The Parent Networker, a new semi-annual publication 
focused on issues of diversity.
    In fiscal year 1996, PA will convene at least two regional 
trainings focused on working with families of color in high-risk 
settings, produce and disseminate two technical assistance bulletins, 
one on parent involvement as it relates to communities and families of 
color, and the other on strategies for providing PA programs for 
incarcerated parents, conduct two teleconference trainings, provide 
training and technical assistance to implement PA services in up to six 
SafeFutures Program sites, expand the number of PA affiliates working 
with the Juvenile Justice Project, and publish and disseminate a ``PA 
Best Practices'' manual.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, PA. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.

Lowcountry Children's Center, Inc.*

    OJJDP will continue to fund Lowcountry Children's Center, Inc. 
(LCC) of Charleston, South Carolina in its expansion and coordination 
of the services required to create a model multi-disciplinary, crisis 
intervention program for child victims of sexual assault and their 
families. LCC's goals are to: (1) Continue their existing multi-
disciplinary services, (2) enhance support and coordination between law 
enforcement and the Solicitor's (prosecutors) office in cases 
concerning allegations of child physical and sexual assault, (3) 
provide medical examination in a timely manner, and (4) collect and 
analyze data regarding the demographics of child victims and their 
families and the characteristics of the perpetrator, the sexual 
assault, and the community response. In 1995, as a result of this 
multi-disciplinary approach, LCC has exceeded its initial projections 
regarding the number of individual children who have been assessed and 
the number of clinical treatment units provided to these children and 
their families (as of December 31, 1995). LCC provided physical 
examinations for 194 children alleged to be victims of sexual abuse in 
a child-oriented environment and in a timely manner.
    This project will be continued by the current grantee, LCC, Inc. No 
additional applications will be solicited in fiscal year 1996.
Shay Bilchik,
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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