[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 20 (Monday, February 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4940-4955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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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 1999; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
[OJP (OJJDP)-1204]


Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1999

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

ACTION: Notice of proposed program plan for fiscal year 1999.

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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 (FY) 1999.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 18, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Shay Bilchik, Administrator, 
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 800 K Street, 
NW., Third Floor, Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen M. Garry, Director, Information 
Dissemination Unit, at 202-307-5911. [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. 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 (FY) 1999. 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. 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 FY 1999, using in whole or in part funds 
appropriated under Parts C and D of Title II of the JJDP Act.
    Notice of the official solicitation of grant or cooperative 
agreement applications for competitive programs to be funded 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

    After a steady climb in the rates of juvenile violent crime 
arrests, resulting in an increase of 60 percent between 1988 and 1994, 
the Nation experienced a substantial, 23 percent, decline in the 3 
years between 1994 and 1997. More notable were the trends in the 
juvenile arrest rate for murder, which, after doubling between 1987 and 
1993, dropped by more than 40 percent between 1993 and 1997. In 
addition, in the discussion of trends, it is important to note that in 
any given year less than \1/2\ of 1 percent of this country's juveniles 
ages 10 to 17 are arrested for violent crime. Even though rates have 
been dropping, however, they are still more than 20 percent higher than 
the average rate of the years between 1980 and 1988.
    The serious concerns engendered by the increase in violent juvenile 
crime in the 1980's led many States to enact legislation to address the 
changing nature of juvenile delinquency and to use a more 
accountability-based approach in dealing with serious violent juvenile 
offenders. At the same time, a national dialog began over how best to 
reform the juvenile justice system to make it more effective in 
preventing and intervening with juvenile delinquency and victimization 
and in protecting the public. In order to see this become a reality, 
the positive achievements of recent years should lead not to 
complacency, but to a renewed commitment to continue to pursue the 
research-based, comprehensive approach to problems of delinquency, 
violence, and victimization that OJJDP inaugurated with the publication 
in December 1993 of its Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, 
and Chronic Juvenile Offenders.
    It is encouraging that in recent years communities have begun to 
take on this work and make the commitment needed to make a 
comprehensive strategy a reality. More and more communities are coming 
to the understanding that a long-term, consistent commitment will be 
required to reduce juvenile delinquency, violence, and victimization 
and to ensure public safety.
    This Proposed Comprehensive Plan describes OJJDP's plans for 
funding activities authorized under Part C (National Programs) and Part 
D (Gang-Free Schools and Communities; Community-Based Gang 
Intervention) of Title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention (JJDP) Act. The activities authorized under Parts C and D 
make up part of OJJDP's overall responsibilities under the JJDP Act. 
These responsibilities are outlined briefly below.
    In 1974, the JJDP Act established OJJDP as the Federal agency 
responsible for providing national leadership, coordination, and 
resources to develop and implement effective methods to prevent and 
reduce juvenile delinquency and improve the quality of juvenile justice 
in the United States. OJJDP administers State Formula Grants under Part 
B of Title II, State Challenge Grants under Part E of Title II, and 
Community Prevention Grants under Title V of the JJDP Act to assist 
States and territories to fund a range of delinquency prevention, 
control, and juvenile justice system improvement activities. OJJDP 
provides support activities for these and other programs under 
statutory set-asides that are used to provide related research, 
evaluation, statistics, demonstration, and training and technical 
assistance services. OJJDP also funds Special Emphasis programs 
authorized under Part C; school and community-based gang prevention, 
intervention, and suppression programs under Part D; and mentoring 
programs under Part G of Title II of the JJDP Act; funds numerous 
research, evaluation, statistics, demonstration, training and technical 
assistance, and information dissemination activities through its 
National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; 
administers the Drug Prevention Program, the Underage Drinking Program, 
the Safe Schools Initiative, a Native American discretionary grants 
program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, and 
the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program. OJJDP also 
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 both the 
Title IV Missing and Exploited Children's Program and programs under 
the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 13001 et 
seq.
    OJJDP focuses 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, American Indian and 
Alaska Native jurisdictions, and public and private agencies and 
organizations. OJJDP performs its role of national leadership in 
juvenile justice and delinquency prevention through a cycle of 
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collecting data and statistics to determine the extent and nature of 
issues affecting juveniles; funding research that can lead to 
demonstrations funded by discretionary grants; evaluating demonstration 
projects; sharing lessons learned from the field with practitioners 
through a range of information dissemination vehicles; providing seed 
money to States through formula and block grants to implement projects 
or reform efforts; and providing training and technical assistance to 
assist States and local governments to implement programs effectively 
and to maintain the integrity of model programs as they are being 
replicated.
    It is important to note that OJJDP emphasizes coordination with 
other Office of Justice Program (OJP) components and other Federal 
agencies whenever possible to concentrate Federal resources to achieve 
maximum results from its programs and initiatives. This coordination, 
which is evidenced in many of the program descriptions that follow, 
includes joint funding, interagency agreements, and partnerships to 
develop, implement, and evaluate projects. More important, it is 
critical that the reader become familiar with the program activities of 
the other OJP Bureaus and Offices as reflected in the Office of Justice 
Programs Fiscal Year 1999 Program Plan. The work undertaken in OJP in 
many instances cuts across components and areas of practice; therefore, 
the work undertaken by OJJDP should be viewed as part of a larger OJP 
composite.
    Considering all the factors discussed above, OJJDP has prepared 
this Proposed Comprehensive Plan for FY 1999 for activities authorized 
under Part C (National Programs) and Part D (Gang-Free Schools and 
Communities; Community-Based Gang Intervention) of Title II of the JJDP 
Act, as described in the following pages.

Fiscal Year 1999 Program Planning Activities

    The OJJDP program planning process for FY 1999 is being coordinated 
with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), 
and all OJP components. 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 
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 from youth service providers, juvenile 
justice practitioners, and researchers who provide input in proposed 
new program areas.
     Consideration of suggestions made by juvenile justice 
policymakers concerning State and local needs.
     Consideration of all comments received during the period 
of public comment on this 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 FY 1999, 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.
    The only projects described in this Proposed Program Plan are those 
that would receive Part C or Part D FY 1999 continuation funding under 
project period or discretionary continuation assistance awards and 
programs that OJJDP is considering for new awards in FY 1999. Readers 
should note that they will not find descriptions of other OJJDP 
programs, including mentoring programs under Part G of Title II of the 
JJDP Act, the Drug Prevention Program, the Underage Drinking Program, 
the Safe Schools Initiative, the Native American discretionary grants 
program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, and 
the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program. When 
appropriate, separate solicitations are issued for applications for 
funding for programs that are not authorized under Parts C and D.
    Consideration for continuation funding for an additional project 
period for previously funded discretionary grant programs will be based 
upon several factors, including the following:
     The extent to which the project responds to the applicable 
requirements of the JJDP Act.
     Responsiveness to OJJDP and Department of Justice FY 1999 
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 appropriations and program 
priority determinations).
    In accordance with section 262 (d)(1)(B) of the JJDP Act, as 
amended, 42 U.S.C. 5665a, the competitive process for the award of Part 
C funds is not 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. 5121 et seq. that a 
major disaster or emergency exists, or
    2. With respect to a particular program described in Part C that is 
uniquely qualified.

Program Goals

    The three goals listed below constitute the major elements of a 
sound policy that ensures public safety and security while establishing 
effective juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs. 
Underlying each of the goals is the overarching premise that their 
achievement is vital to protecting the long-term safety of the public 
from juvenile delinquency and violence.
     Delinquency Prevention and Early Intervention. OJJDP 
promotes 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. While removing serious and violent juvenile 
offenders from the street serves to protect the public, long-term 
solutions lie primarily in taking aggressive steps to stop delinquency 
before it starts or becomes a pattern of behavior.
     Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System. OJJDP seeks to 
improve the juvenile justice system and the response of the system to 
juvenile delinquents, status offenders, and dependent, neglected, and 
abused children.
     Corrections, Detention, and Community-Based Alternatives. 
OJJDP supports efforts to preserve the public safety through the 
appropriate development and best use of secure detention and 
corrections options, while at the same time fostering the use of 
community-based programs for juvenile offenders.
    In pursuing these broad goals, OJJDP divides its programs into four 
categories: public safety and law enforcement; strengthening the 
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justice system; delinquency prevention and intervention; and child 
abuse and neglect and dependency courts. A fifth category, overarching 
programs, contains programs that have significant elements common to 
more than one of the other four categories. Following the introductory 
section below, the programs that OJJDP proposes to fund in FY 1999 are 
listed and summarized within these five categories.

Introduction to Fiscal Year 1999 Program Plan

    Since 1993, when it published the Comprehensive Strategy for 
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders, OJJDP has been 
advocating that States, local governments, and communities adopt this 
research-based comprehensive strategy approach to address the problems 
of juvenile crime and victimization. OJJDP has synthesized decades of 
research and practice from practitioners and established a framework 
for implementing an effective juvenile justice system. Through support 
of research, demonstration programs, and training and technical 
assistance, OJJDP encourages States, local governments, and communities 
to use the Comprehensive Strategy to develop coordinated, communitywide 
approaches to preventing and intervening with juvenile delinquency and 
victimization. OJJDP focuses its support on programs and initiatives 
that further one or more of the basic principles of the Comprehensive 
Strategy:
     Strengthen families in their role of guiding, 
disciplining, and instilling sound values in their children.
     Support core social institutions and their role in 
supporting families and helping children develop to their maximum 
potential.
     Promote prevention strategies and activities that reduce 
the impact of negative (risk) factors and enhance the influence of 
positive (protective) factors in the lives of youth at greatest risk of 
delinquency.
     Intervene immediately and appropriately at the first signs 
of trouble in a child's life and establish a system of graduated 
sanctions and a continuum of services to respond appropriately to the 
needs of each juvenile offender.
     Protect the public from the most serious, violent, and 
chronic juvenile offenders by providing for their incapacitation while 
at the same time addressing their treatment needs.
    For the fourth consecutive year, OJJDP proposes a Program Plan 
rooted in its Comprehensive Strategy. The Plan also supports the 
Coordinating Council's National Juvenile Justice Action Plan released 
in 1996. This Action Plan, which grew out of the Comprehensive 
Strategy, provides eight objectives to reduce juvenile violence and 
describes ways to meet these objectives. OJJDP proposes to continue to 
support development and refinement of the Comprehensive Strategy and 
training and technical assistance to help jurisdictions begin to 
implement it by developing a continuum of care to deal with both 
juvenile offenders and juveniles at risk of becoming offenders. 
Development, dissemination, and support of the Comprehensive Strategy 
and the Action Plan are prime examples of how OJJDP's national 
leadership is instrumental in moving the field from innovation to 
infrastructure.
    OJJDP-funded programs that emphasize early prevention and family 
involve a variety of approaches, including parent training, nurse-based 
home visitation for at-risk first-time mothers, problem solving, parent 
support groups led by parents themselves, multisystemic therapy, and 
training and technical assistance for replicating exemplary programs. 
Other prevention programs reach out to youth in the schools and the 
community. They include youth development, conflict resolution, 
mentoring, career preparation, truancy reduction, drug prevention, 
violence prevention, and antigang outreach programs.
    Efforts involving intervention, accountability, and sanctions 
include dissemination of the principles of balanced and restorative 
justice, emphasis on reducing overcrowding and disproportionate 
minority confinement in secure facilities, gender-specific services 
targeted to female juvenile offenders, intensive aftercare services, 
services for chemically involved young people, and a communitywide 
approach to preventing and suppressing gangs. Funds are also provided 
for collaborations between police and health services agencies and for 
appropriate training for legislators, prosecutors, and line staff in 
secure facilities.
    Research and evaluation can assure policymakers, practitioners, and 
the public that juvenile justice is moving in the right direction and 
that programs being supported do indeed work. OJJDP proposes to 
continue supporting a range of research studies, including its landmark 
study of the causes and correlates of delinquency; studies of very 
young offenders and of the origins of and pathways to youth violence; a 
cost-benefit analysis of juvenile justice programs; analyses of a range 
of juvenile justice data; development of a juvenile sex offender 
typology; studies of risk reduction for delinquency, substance abuse, 
and school failure in school children and of delinquency and attention 
deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and censuses and surveys related to 
confinement and probation. Continued support would be provided for 
evaluations of the SafeFutures initiative, Safe Kids/Safe Streets, 
Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence, Intensive Community-Based 
Aftercare, teen court training and technical assistance, and several 
gang-related programs.
    OJJDP is also considering support for new programs in several areas 
related to emerging issues facing the juvenile justice system. This 
Proposed Plan does not include descriptions of any specific new 
programs. Ideas for possible programming are discussed generally below. 
It must be emphasized that this wide range of possibilities exceeds 
OJJDP's ability to provide new funding. OJJDP wants to consider 
comments from policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and other 
concerned citizens about the broad areas it is considering before 
prioritizing those areas and identifying new programs to be supported 
with the discretionary funding that is available.
    Dissemination of information to the field is an important OJJDP 
function. Information dissemination support under consideration would 
focus on events, programs, and activities relating to the 1999 
centennial of the juvenile court; on findings from summits, policy 
forums, centers, and education campaigns devoted to preventing crime 
and violence, including gun violence, whether deliberate or accidental; 
on public outreach, especially to youth, via television programming, 
public service announcements, videos, and CD-ROMS that encourage and 
model development of life skills and decisionmaking abilities in regard 
to key issues. Dissemination efforts would also be directed toward 
supporting various critical partners with juvenile justice system 
responsibilities, such as city and county officials, legislators, and 
Governors, to inform them of effective strategies and approaches to 
prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.
    OJJDP is considering providing funding to increase existing 
training and technical assistance capacity in the area of jobs and 
vocational training for juveniles involved in the justice system. The 
purpose would be to enable them to gain skills, knowledge, and 
experience that would help them succeed in the workplace.
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management information systems (MIS) are important issues for juvenile 
justice practitioners. OJJDP proposes to support training and technical 
assistance efforts to model information sharing and to replicate best 
practices in MIS.
    In the area of child abuse and neglect, OJJDP is considering 
support for a program that helps older foster children make the 
transition from foster care to independent adult living. Another 
approach to reducing child abuse and neglect is to support the efforts 
of community-based organizations to build their capacity to respond 
appropriately to abused and neglected children. OJJDP also proposes to 
evaluate the effectiveness of children's advocacy centers, which are 
designed to prevent the inadvertent revictimization of an abused child 
by the judicial and social service systems in their efforts to protect 
the child.
    Recognizing that school failure is a risk factor for delinquency 
and a barrier to positive development, OJJDP proposes to join with the 
U.S. Department of Education to sponsor a center for students with 
learning disabilities in the juvenile justice system. Interagency 
coordination between the Departments of Justice and Education would 
enhance justice system knowledge and use of research-based strategies 
and practices and the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act. The center would provide guidance and assistance to 
States, schools, justice programs, families, and communities to design, 
implement, and evaluate comprehensive educational programs based on 
research-validated practices, for students with disabilities within the 
juvenile justice system.
    As communities seek to adopt effective methods of dealing with 
juvenile offenders, OJJDP proposes to continue to support efforts to 
develop community justice and balanced and restorative justice 
approaches to enhance the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system.
    Mental health issues are an integral part of juvenile justice 
concerns. OJJDP is considering funding research to systematically 
review, summarize, and assess what is known about mentally disordered 
youth in the juvenile justice system and programs that address general 
and managed mental health care for juvenile justice system involved 
juveniles.
    OJJDP proposes to explore the critical operational issue of risk 
and needs assessments. What instruments exist, how are they being used, 
and what is their impact? What do communities need to do to promote the 
use of valid risk and needs assessments?
    In the broad area of prevention, OJJDP would focus on supporting 
programs that offer positive growth experiences to youth. Examples 
would include afterschool programs targeted at high-risk youth, model 
recreation and parks programs, and other types of programs and services 
that promote delinquency prevention and positive youth development.
    Finally, in the area of research, OJJDP is interested in studies 
that concentrate on the needs of at-risk female juveniles and girls 
involved in the juvenile justice system. Demonstration programs 
focusing on girls would also be considered for funding.
    Together, the programs in this Proposed Plan constitute a 
practical, multifaceted, and comprehensive approach to effectively 
preventing juvenile delinquency and victimization.

Fiscal Year 1999 Programs

    The following are brief summaries of each of the new and 
continuation programs proposed to receive Part C and Part D funding in 
FY 1999. 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. With regard to implementation 
sites and other descriptive data and information, program priorities 
within each category will be determined based on grantee performance, 
application quality, fund availability, and other factors. Programs are 
listed alphabetically within each category.
    A number of OJJDP programs have been identified for funding 
consideration by Congress with regard to the grantee(s), the amount of 
funds, or both. These programs, which are listed below, are not 
included in the program descriptions that follow.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Teens, Crime, and the Community
Parents Anonymous, Inc.
Juvenile Offender Transition Program
Suffolk University Center for Juvenile Justice
Center for Crimes and Violence Against Children
Metro Denver Gang Coalition
L.A. Best Youth
Intensive Services for Juveniles and Families
Delancy Street
Juvenile Justice Program in Alaska
National Association of State Fire Marshals
Syracuse-Onondaga County Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission
Law-Related Education
Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence
    In addition, OJJDP has been directed to examine each of the 
following, provide assistance if warranted, and report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both the House and the Senate on its 
intention for each proposal:
Low Country Children's Center
Center for Prevention of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie View 
University
Project O.A.S.I.S.
Consortium on Children, Families, and Law
Women of Vision Program for Youthful Female Offenders
Violence Institute of New Jersey
L.A. Bridges Youth Programs
Compton Youth Intervention Center for AfterSchool Programs
Kids With a Promise Program
Operation Quality Time
Achievable Dream Program
Secure School Pilot Program
Youth Advocates Program
Camden Urban Science Enrichment Program
Juvenile Crime Reduction Strategies Pilot Program
School Security Technology Center
New Mexico Cooperative Service Extension 4-H Youth Development Program
Adolescent Residential Treatment Program
Coalition for Drug-Free Lanai
Youth Courts in Alaska
Sioux Falls, South Dakota School District for Youth Programs
South Dakota Unified Judicial System
Nebraska Commission for Law Enforcement for Youth Programs
Chicago Public Schools Substance Abuse Program
Minnehaha, South Dakota, County Sheriff's Office for Youth Programs
Essex Teen Center and other Vermont Coalition for Teen Center's Members
Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Initiative in 
Gainesville
Multistate Youth Violence Prevention Network
State of Hawaii to combat teen prostitution
Safe Places for Kids
    The FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Conference agreement also urges 
OJJDP to work with the Head

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Start Bureau and other Federal agencies to coordinate an effort to 
increase public/private partnerships, such as Free to Grow, aimed at 
strengthening families and communities in their efforts to reduce the 
negative effect of substance abuse and use on the development of young 
children.

Fiscal Year 1999 Program Listing

Overarching

Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Juvenile Justice Programs
Evaluation of SafeFutures
Insular Area Support
Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development
OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract
OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--Juvenile Justice Resource 
Center
Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency
SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency
Study Group on Very Young Offenders
Technical Assistance for State Legislatures
Telecommunications Assistance
Training and Technical Assistance Coordination for the SafeFutures and 
Safe Kids/Safe Streets Initiatives

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, 
and Suppression Program
Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program
Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program
Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)
National Youth Gang Center
Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence
Safe Start--Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)
Survey of School-Based Gang Prevention and Intervention Programs
Training and Technical Assistance for the Rural Gang Initiative

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future
Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders
The CETARY Project
Communities in Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership
Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project
The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse/
Violence Campaign (NADVC)
A Demonstration Afterschool Program
Diffusion of State Risk- and Protective-Factor Focused Prevention
Hate Crime
Home Visitation
Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention 
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
National Center for Conflict Resolution Education
No Hope in Dope Project
Partnerships for Preventing Violence
Proactive Youth Program
Risk Reduction Via Promotion of Youth Development
The SAGE Project and PRIDE Center Afterschool Program
Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and 
Families
Technical Assistance to Title V
Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Programs

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ)
Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Training and Technical Assistance
Building Blocks for Youth
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement
Circles of Care Program
Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders
Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program
Evaluation of Teen Courts
Gender-Specific Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders
Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical 
Assistance Program
Intensive Treatment Family Programs (ITF)
The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit
Juvenile Residential Facility Census
Juvenile Sex Offender Typology
Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies
Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)
National Academy of Sciences Study of Juvenile Justice
National Juvenile Justice Program Directory
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97
Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention 
Facilities
Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) Evaluation
Survey of Juvenile Probation
Technical Assistance to Juvenile Corrections and Detention (The James 
E. Gould Memorial Program)
Technical Assistance to Native Americans
TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative
Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce 
Disproportionate Minority Confinement (The Deborah Ann Wysinger 
Memorial Program)
Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams 
To Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

National Evaluation of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program
Safe Kids/Safe Streets: Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and 
Neglect and Preventing Delinquency

Overarching

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

    This project supports the Coalition in its efforts to meet the 
statutory mandates through the development of a technical assistance 
capability that provides training, technical assistance, and 
information to the State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups. This will be 
accomplished through a series of regional training and information 
workshops and a national conference designed to address the needs of 
the membership of the Coalition.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Coalition for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Juvenile Justice Programs

    The University of Texas and the Dallas County Juvenile Department 
are working together to perform a substantive cost-benefit analysis of 
juvenile adjudications in the county to explore the extent to which the 
method can provide better answers to increasingly urgent questions by 
decisionmakers. The work, funded under an FY 1997 competitive grant, is 
examining several important methodological and practical issues, 
including methods of determining alternative measures for and the 
extent of beneficial program effects and estimating and allocating unit 
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benefit relationships of different programs. Through the process of 
addressing these and related matters under the guidance of an advisory 
board composed of individuals directly engaged in the juvenile justice 
field at the local and State level, the project will also show how the 
method can be made immediately useful to decisionmakers.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Texas--Dallas. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of SafeFutures

    A national evaluation competitively awarded with FY 1995 funds is 
being conducted by the Urban Institute to determine the success of the 
SafeFutures initiative in creating a comprehensive continuum of care 
for youth in six participating sites (Boston, Massachusetts; Contra 
Costa County and Imperial County, California; Fort Belknap, Montana; 
Seattle, Washington; and St. Louis, Missouri). The evaluation addresses 
the program implementation process and measures performance outcomes 
and lessons learned about the challenges and accomplishments across the 
six sites. A cross-site report will document the process of program 
implementation and community outcomes for use by other funding agencies 
or communities that want to develop and implement a comprehensive 
community-based strategy to address serious, violent, and chronic 
delinquency.
    The evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Urban Institute. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Insular Area Support

    The purpose of this statutorily required program is to provide 
support to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, 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 of 1974, 
as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5665(e).

Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project

    The purpose of this project is to expand on the Rochester Youth 
Development Study by examining the development of antisocial behavior 
and delinquency in the children of the original Rochester, New York, 
subjects of OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of 
Delinquency. By age 21, 40 percent of the original Rochester subjects 
were parents. This provides a unique opportunity to examine and track 
the development of delinquent behavior across three generations in a 
particularly high-risk sample. Results of the study should provide 
useful findings with policy implications for prevention programs. The 
program is being funded under an FY 1998 interagency agreement between 
OJJDP and the National Institute of Mental Health.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, SUNY 
Research Foundation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse

    A component of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service 
(NCJRS), the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (JJC) collects, 
synthesizes, and disseminates information on all aspects of juvenile 
justice. OJJDP established the Clearinghouse in 1979 to serve the 
juvenile justice community, legislators, the media, and the public. 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. NCJRS is 
administered by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under a 
competitively awarded contract to Aspen Systems Corporation.
    This program will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen 
Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development

    The Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development (SSD) 
program was competitively awarded in FY 1990 to the National Center for 
Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) to improve national, State, and local 
statistics on juveniles as victims and offenders. The project has 
focused on three major tasks: (1) Assessing 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; and (3) providing 
training and technical assistance tools for local agencies in 
developing or enhancing management information systems.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, NCJJ. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

    This contract was competitively awarded in FY 1995 for a period of 
3 years to provide OJJDP with an expert resource to perform independent 
program evaluations and assist in implementing evaluation activities. 
Evaluations may be conducted on OJJDP-funded programs and on other 
programs designed to prevent and treat juvenile delinquency. The time 
and cost of each evaluation depends on program complexity, availability 
of data, and purpose of the evaluation. Because the purpose of many 
evaluations is to inform management decisions, the completion of an 
evaluation and submission of a report may be required in a specific 
and, often, short time period.
    This contract will be implemented by the current contractor, 
Caliber Associates. However, a new competitive contract solicitation 
will also be issued and a new contract awarded in FY 1999.

OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--Juvenile Justice 
Resource Center

    This contract has been competitively awarded since the mid-1980's 
when OJJDP identified the need for technical assistance support in 
carrying out its mission. The Juvenile Justice Resource Center (JJRC) 
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. With assistance from expert consultants, JJRC coordinates the 
peer review process for OJJDP grant applications and grantee reports, 
conducts research and prepares reports on current juvenile justice 
issues, plans meetings and conferences, and provides administrative 
support to various Federal councils and boards.
    This contract will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen 
Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency

    Since 1986, this longitudinal study has addressed a variety of 
issues related to juvenile violence and delinquency and has produced a 
massive amount of information on the causes and correlates of 
delinquent behavior. Three project sites participate: Institute of 
Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; Western 
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and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; and Hindelang Criminal Justice 
Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York. 
The sites pursue both collaborative research efforts and site-specific 
research. Results from the study have been used extensively in the 
field of juvenile justice and contributed significantly to the 
development of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders and other program initiatives.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantees. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency

    Since FY 1995, this 5-year project has awarded grants of up to $1.4 
million annually to each of six communities (Boston, Massachusetts; 
Contra Costa County and Imperial County, California; Fort Belknap, 
Montana; Seattle, Washington; and St. Louis, Missouri) to assist in 
implementing comprehensive community programs designed to reduce youth 
violence, delinquency, and victimization through the creation of a 
continuum of care in communities. This continuum enables communities to 
respond to the needs of youth at critical stages of their development 
through a range of prevention, intervention, treatment, and sanctions 
programs.
    SafeFutures activities will be carried out by the current grantees. 
No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Study Group on Very Young Offenders

    Modeled after the OJJDP Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile 
Offenders, this program is exploring what is known about the prevalence 
and frequency of very young (under the age of 13) offending. In FY 
1998, OJJDP supplemented a grant to the University of Pittsburgh, the 
grantee for the Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. 
The Study Group on Very Young Offenders is examining whether such 
offending predicts future delinquent or criminal careers, how these 
youth are handled by various systems including juvenile justice, mental 
health, and social services; and what methods are best for preventing 
very young offending and persistence of offending. This project will 
disseminate the results of its research to the public, policymakers, 
and practitioners. The Study Group is also assisting OJJDP in 
formulating a 5-year research agenda for OJJDP and the juvenile justice 
field.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of 
Pittsburgh. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

    Since FY 1995, OJJDP has awarded annual grants to the National 
Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to provide relevant, timely 
information on comprehensive approaches in juvenile justice to aid 
State legislators in improving State juvenile justice systems. Nearly 
every State has enacted, or is considering, statutory changes affecting 
the juvenile justice system. This project has helped policymakers 
understand the ramifications and nuances of juvenile justice reform. 
The grant has improved capacity for the delivery of information 
services to legislatures. The project also supports increased 
communication between State legislators and State and local leaders who 
influence decisionmaking regarding juvenile justice issues.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCSL. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Telecommunications Assistance

    OJJDP uses information technology and distance training to 
facilitate access to information and training for juvenile justice 
professionals. This cost-effective medium enhances OJJDP's ability to 
share with the field salient elements of the most effective or 
promising approaches to various juvenile justice issues. In FY 1995, 
OJJDP awarded a competitive grant to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) 
to produce live satellite teleconferences. In FY 1998, OJJDP continued 
the cooperative agreement with EKU to provide program support and 
technical assistance for a variety of information technologies. The 
grantee also explored linkages with key constituent groups to advance 
mutual information goals and objectives. During the past year, EKU has 
experimented with cybercasting ``live'' satellite videoconferences on 
the Internet.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, EKU. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance Coordination for the SafeFutures 
and Safe Kids/Safe Streets Initiatives

    OJJDP proposes to continue to provide funding for long-term 
training and technical assistance to the SafeFutures and Safe Kids/Safe 
Streets initiatives. This coordination effort builds local capacity for 
implementing and sustaining effective continuum of care and systems 
change approaches in six SafeFutures and five Safe Kids/Safe Streets 
sites. Project activities include assessment, identification, and 
coordination of the implementation of training and technical assistance 
needs at each of the sites and administration of cross-site training.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, Patricia 
Donahue. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention

    The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention is a citywide, long-
term effort to reduce violence. Objectives include reductions in 
homicide, physical injury, disability and emotional harm from assault, 
domestic abuse, sexual abuse and rape, and child abuse and neglect. A 
partnership among the Chicago Department of Public Health, the Illinois 
Council for the Prevention of Violence, the University of Illinois, and 
Chicago communities, the project began in 1995 with joint funding from 
OJJDP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National 
Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
The project provides technical assistance to a variety of community-
based and citywide organizations involved in violence prevention 
planning.
    The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention would be implemented by 
the current grantee, the University of Illinois, School of Public 
Health. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    This program supports implementation of a comprehensive gang 
program model in five jurisdictions (Bloomington, Illinois; Mesa, 
Arizona; Riverside, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Tucson, 
Arizona). OJJDP proposes to continue funding for the program, which was 
competitively awarded with FY 1994 funds. The demonstration sites are 
implementing a model developed by the University of Chicago with OJJDP 
funding support. Implementation requires the mobilization of the 
community to address gang-related violence by making available and 
coordinating social interventions, providing social/academic/vocational 
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opportunities, and supporting gang suppression through law enforcement, 
probation, and other community control mechanisms. Each site has 
established a multidisciplinary team to coordinate the services that 
project youth receive. Included in the service mix is accountability or 
social control. Demonstration sites also receive training and technical 
assistance.
    This project would be implemented by the current demonstration 
sites. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    OJJDP proposes to continue funding this evaluation. Under a 4-year 
competitive cooperative agreement awarded in FY 1995, the evaluation 
grantee assisted the five program sites (Bloomington, Illinois; Mesa, 
Arizona; Riverside, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Tucson, 
Arizona) in establishing realistic and measurable objectives, 
documenting program implementation, and measuring the impact of this 
comprehensive approach. It has also provided interim feedback to the 
program implementors and trained the local site interviewers. The 
grantee will continue to gather and analyze data required to evaluate 
the program; monitor and oversee the quality control of data; provide 
assistance for completion of interviews; and provide ongoing feedback 
to project sites.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program

    This 3-year project began with a competitive award in FY 1997 to 
document and evaluate the process of community mobilization, planning, 
and collaboration needed to develop a comprehensive, collaborative 
approach to reducing gun violence involving juveniles. The Partnerships 
to Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program is being implemented in four 
sites: Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana; Oakland, California: and 
Syracuse, New York. In addition to working with these sites, the 
grantee will also identify additional promising or effective programs 
underway in communities across the country and evaluate a select number 
of these programs. An expanded base of youth gun violence programs 
offers greater opportunity to identify sites that are employing similar 
strategies with different populations.
    This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, COSMOS 
Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)

    The purpose of this program is to enable local Boys & Girls Clubs 
to prevent youth from entering gangs, intervene with gang members in 
the early stages of gang involvement, and divert youth from gang 
activities into more constructive programs. This program reflects the 
ongoing pattern of cooperation between OJJDP and the Boys & Girls Clubs 
to reduce problems of juvenile delinquency and violence. The Boys & 
Girls Clubs of America provides training and technical assistance to 
local gang prevention and intervention sites, including some at 
SafeFutures and OJJDP Comprehensive Gang sites. The project includes 
funds for local clubs to implement the Targeted Outreach program. A 
national evaluation of this program is being implemented by Public/
Private Ventures.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys 
& Girls Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

National Youth Gang Center

    The proliferation of gang problems over the past two decades led 
OJJDP to develop a comprehensive, coordinated response to America's 
gang problem. This response involved five program components, one of 
which was implementation and operation of the National Youth Gang 
Center (NYGC), competitively funded with FY 1994 funds, to expand and 
maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective 
responses to them. NYGC provides support services to the National Youth 
Gang Consortium, composed of Federal agencies with responsibilities in 
this area. NYGC is also providing technical assistance for the Rural 
Gang Initiative planning and assessment phase. OJJDP proposes to extend 
the NYGC project an additional year and provide FY 1999 funds to NYGC 
to conduct more indepth analyses of the National Youth Gang Survey 
results that track changes in gang membership and gang-related crime, 
produce timely information on the nature and scope of the youth gang 
problem, and continue its efforts to foster integration of gang-related 
items into other relevant surveys and national data collection efforts.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Institute for Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 1999.

Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence

    OJJDP will award continuation grants to each of three competitively 
selected communities that initially received funds in FY 1997 to 
increase the effectiveness of existing youth gun violence reduction 
strategies by enhancing and coordinating prevention, intervention, and 
suppression strategies and strengthening linkages between community 
residents, law enforcement, and the juvenile justice system. Baton 
Rouge, Louisiana; Oakland, California: and Syracuse, New York, were 
selected to receive 3-year awards. The goals of this initiative are to 
reduce juveniles' illegal access to guns and address the reasons they 
carry and use guns in violent exchanges. A national evaluation 
currently underway will document the process of community mobilization, 
planning, and collaboration needed to develop a comprehensive, 
collaborative approach to reducing juvenile gun violence.
    The Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence program will be 
carried out by the three current grantees. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 1999.

Safe Start--Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)

    The Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP) program 
is an innovative partnership between the New Haven Department of Police 
Services and the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of 
Medicine that addresses the psychological burdens on children, 
families, and the broader community of children witnessing increasing 
levels of community violence. In FY 1993, OJJDP provided support to 
document Yale--New Haven's child-centered, community-oriented policing 
model. The model consists of interrelated training of police officers, 
consultation, and teaming mental health clinicians with law enforcement 
in intervening onsite with children and families who witness violence. 
OJJDP, with first-year support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, 
funded a 3-year replication of the model in Buffalo, New York; 
Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon. 
Other OJP components joined OJJDP in funding an expansion of CD-CP in 
FY 1998 under the Safe Start Initiative. This expansion moved the 
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school-based activities and the area of addressing exposure to violence 
in domestic violence settings and will continue to do so in FY 1999.
    This project would be continued by the current grantee, the Yale 
University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the New Haven 
Department of Police Services. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Survey of School-Based Gang Prevention and Intervention Programs

    Under a competitively awarded FY 1997 grant, this project is 
classifying and describing approaches used by schools to prevent or 
reduce gang involvement among students in a large sample of urban, 
suburban, and rural schools. In addition, a search and review of 
activities undertaken by States to identify and evaluate school-based 
gang prevention and intervention programs will be completed. Based on a 
review of programs identified in a national survey currently under way, 
a small number of promising programs will be examined more closely and 
described. Technical reports will describe the full range of gang 
prevention and intervention currently being implemented in the United 
States, and they will compare program types and quality of 
implementation across different school levels and locations. A report 
will highlight promising programs and practices and include guidelines 
on program development.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, 
Gottfredson Associates, Inc. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance for the Rural Gang Initiative

    In FY 1998, OJJDP provided supplemental funding support to the 
National Youth Gang Center to provide training and technical assistance 
to demonstration sites under OJJDP's Rural Gang Initiative. In FY 1999, 
training and technical assistance will continue to be provided to those 
sites chosen to implement the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang model. Training 
and technical assistance will focus on adapting the OJJDP model to 
rural jurisdictions and on implementing the model in a theoretically 
sound manner. Assistance will be delivered through onsite visits, 
conferences, meetings, and other means such as telephone and electronic 
media.
    This initiative will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Youth Gang Center. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future

    OJJDP proposes to continue its support, which began in FY 1997, of 
the National Crime Prevention Council's (NCPC's) ad campaign, 
``Investing in Youth for A Safer Future,'' through the transfer of 
funds to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under an Intra-agency 
Agreement. OJJDP and BJA are working with the NCPC Media Unit to 
produce, disseminate, and support effective public service advertising 
and related media to inform the public of effective solutions to 
juvenile crime and to motivate young people and adults to get involved 
and support these solutions. The featured solutions include effective 
prevention programs and intervention strategies.
    The program would be administered by BJA through its existing grant 
to NCPC. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders

    This project supplements an ongoing National Institute of Mental 
Health study assessing alcohol, drug, and mental health disorders among 
juveniles in detention in Cook County, Illinois. The project has three 
primary goals: (1) To determine how alcohol, drug, and mental disorders 
develop over time among juvenile detainees; (2) to investigate whether 
juvenile detainees receive needed psychiatric services after their 
cases reach disposition (and they are back in the community or serving 
sentences); and (3) to study the development of dangerous and risky 
behaviors. The study will investigate how violence, drug use, and HIV/
AIDS risk behaviors develop over time, what the antecedents of these 
behaviors are, and how these behaviors are interrelated. This project 
is unique because the sample is so large: it includes 1,833 youth from 
Chicago who were arrested and interviewed between 1996 and 1998. The 
sample is stratified by gender, race (African American, non-Hispanic 
white, Hispanic), age (10-13, 14-17), and severity of charge. The 
investigators will reinterview subjects whether they are back in the 
community or incarcerated. Because the sample is so large, there will 
be sufficient statistical power to study rarer disorders (especially 
comorbidity), patterns of drug use, and risky, life-threatening 
behaviors. OJJDP funding for this project began in FY 1998.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, 
Northwestern University. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

The CETARY Project

    The goals of this project are to provide 20 second-time juvenile 
offenders, up to age 18, an opportunity to enroll in an intense and 
structured culinary arts training program; develop and maintain linkage 
and employment opportunities for the youth; and place a minimum of 18 
youth in an accredited continuing education program and/or in the 
workplace with full-time employment. Funded in FY 1998, the project 
also provides a counseling specialist who helps the youth establish job 
readiness and who coordinates placement between career development and 
employment. General educational development (GED) classes are also 
offered. Continuous progress evaluations and needs assessments are 
implemented and enforced for each youth.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Johnson & 
Wales University. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Communities In Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership

    This program would continue an ongoing national school dropout 
prevention model developed and implemented by Communities In Schools, 
Inc. (CIS). CIS, Inc., provides training and technical assistance in 
adapting and implementing the CIS model in States and local 
communities. 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 they exist, CIS State 
organizations assume primary responsibility for local program 
replication during the Federal Interagency Partnership. The Partnership 
is based on enhancing (1) CIS, Inc., training and technical assistance 
capabilities; (2) its capability to introduce selected initiatives to 
youth at the local level; (3) its information dissemination capability; 
and (4) its capability to network with Federal agencies on behalf of 
State and local CIS programs.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantee, 
Communities In Schools, Inc. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

    Through the Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher 
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been awarding vouchers for several years to grassroots organizations to 
purchase technical assistance and training to effectively address the 
problem of juvenile drug abuse. NCNE has established a clearinghouse 
featuring more than 1,200 promising and proven anti-drug programs. The 
impact of technical assistance vouchers includes enhanced 
organizational visibility, larger grant awards for indigenous groups, 
and expanded and increased services resulting from technical assistance 
in program development and staff training. In addition to awarding 
vouchers for technical assistance, NCNE provides technical assistance 
to applicants regarding the development of their mission, goals, and 
objectives.
    The Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project 
would be implemented by the current grantee, the National Center for 
Neighborhood Enterprise. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

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

    The Congress of National Black Churches (CNBC) addresses the 
problems of juvenile drug abuse, violence, and hate crime through its 
national public awareness and mobilization strategy. The strategy 
coordinates the black religious leadership, in cooperation with the 
U.S. Department of Justice and other Federal agencies and 
organizations, to mobilize community residents to combat juvenile drug 
abuse and drug-related violence. The CNBC National Anti-Drug Abuse/
Violence Campaign (NADVC) is a partner in the Education Development 
Center's (EDC) Juvenile Hate Crime Initiative. NADVC's training and 
technical assistance have helped sites leverage funds from public and 
private sources. The NADVC model for the development of prevention 
programs is easily tailored to the local community's assessment of its 
drug, delinquency, violence, and hate crime problems.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Congress of National Black Churches. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 1999.

A Demonstration Afterschool Program

    This project, known as Estrella, is using FY 1998 funds to design 
and evaluate a pilot afterschool program to reduce juvenile delinquency 
and increase educational retention at Gadsden Independent School 
District in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Through a curriculum of hands-
on science and reading projects and supervised recreation, Estrella is 
providing a constructive alternative to afternoons of unsupervised free 
time. New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (NM 
MESA) will provide the academic component of the program. Middle school 
students will mentor elementary students in a highly interactive 
learning environment developed through the use of the nationally 
recognized MESA curriculums. The New Mexico Police Athletic League 
(PAL) will provide a sports component to round out the program. The 
University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research will evaluate 
the program using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of New Mexico--Regents. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Diffusion of State Risk- and Protective-Factor Focused Prevention

    Since FY 1997, OJJDP has provided funds to the National Institute 
on Drug Abuse, through an interagency agreement, to support this 5-year 
study of the public health approach to prevention, focusing on risk and 
protective factors for substance abuse at the State and community 
levels. The study will identify factors that influence the adoption of 
the public health approach and assess the association between this 
approach and the levels of risk and protective factors and substance 
abuse among adolescents. The study will also examine State substance 
abuse data gathered from 1988 through 2001 and use interviews to 
describe the process of implementing the epidemiological risk- and 
protective-factor approach in Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Maine, 
Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Social 
Development Research Group at the University of Washington School of 
Social Work. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Hate Crime

    Under an OJJDP grant competitively awarded in FY 1993, the 
Education Development Center (EDC) developed Healing the Hate, a 
multipurpose curriculum for hate crime prevention in middle schools and 
other classroom settings. OJJDP expanded this grant to allow EDC to 
provide training and technical assistance to youth, educators, juvenile 
justice and law enforcement professionals, and representatives of local 
public/private community agencies and organizations and the faith 
community. In FY 1999, EDC would expand its training and technical 
assistance to new sites and further disseminate the products through 
the education and juvenile justice networks. In addition, EDC would 
provide onsite, short-term technical assistance to practitioners 
interested in hate crime issues. EDC would also assist State juvenile 
justice agencies to formulate hate crime prevention components for 
their juvenile delinquency prevention plans.
    The project would be implemented, in partnership with the U.S. 
Department of Education, by the current grantee, Education Development 
Center. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Home Visitation

    This program integrates prenatal and early childhood nurse home 
visitation into five sites of Operation Weed and Seed (Clearwater, 
Florida; Fresno, Los Angeles, and Oakland, CA; and Oklahoma City, OK) 
and one SafeFutures site (St. Louis, MO). Operation Weed and Seed is a 
national initiative to make communities safe through law enforcement 
activities and to rebuild the community through social services and 
economic redevelopment in crime-ridden communities across the country. 
SafeFutures is an initiative to assist in implementing comprehensive 
community programs designed to reduce youth violence, delinquency, and 
victimization through the creation of a continuum of care in 
communities. The nurse home visitation program addresses three major 
goals: (1) preparation of clear, comprehensive home visitation 
materials to facilitate dissemination and accurate replication of the 
program; (2) dissemination of the program to the six sites and 
provision of technical support and training to local staff; and (3) an 
evaluation of the program with a significant research focus on the 
dissemination process.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Colorado Health Services Center. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention 
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    OJJDP will transfer funds under an interagency agreement with the 
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to support this research, 
funded principally by NIMH. In 1992, NIMH began a study of the long-
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behavioral and educational treatment for children with attention 
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Although ADHD is classified as a 
childhood disorder, up to 70 percent of afflicted children continue to 
experience symptoms in adolescence and adulthood. The study will 
continue through 2000 and will follow the original families and a 
comparison group. OJJDP's participation, which began in FY 1998, will 
allow for investigation into the subjects' delinquent behavior and 
contact with the legal system, including arrests and court referrals.
    OJJDP will support this study through an interagency agreement with 
NIMH. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

National Center for Conflict Resolution Education

    Funded under a competitively awarded cooperative agreement in FY 
1995, the National Center for Conflict Resolution Education works to 
integrate conflict resolution education (CRE) programming into all 
levels of education in schools, juvenile facilities, and youth-serving 
organizations. In FY 1998, OJJDP entered into a partnership with the 
U.S. Department of Education to expand and enhance this project. The 
grantee provides training and technical assistance through onsite 
training and consultation for teams from schools, communities, and 
juvenile facilities; by providing resource materials including the 
guide to implementing conflict resolution programs; and by partnering 
with State-level agencies to establish State training institutes and 
otherwise build local capacity to implement successful CRE programs for 
youth. The Center also facilitates peer-to-peer mentoring.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, Illinois 
Institute for Dispute Resolution. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

No Hope in Dope Project

    The goal of the No Hope in Dope (NHID) program, funded under an FY 
1998 OJJDP grant, is to prevent, reduce, or delay the onset of 
substance abuse in elementary, intermediate, and high school students 
in Hawaii's Windward Oaho area. This goal will be accomplished by using 
a community-based approach that makes antidrug norms clear, salient, 
and useful as guides for behavior. The program uses opinion-leading 
student athletes, the No Hope in Dope seminar, and the Officer Honolulu 
Safety Program. NHID is a program of Project Hope in coordination with 
the Kahuku and Castle School complexes of the Windward Oahu School 
District and the Honolulu Police Department. The program will be 
evaluated with a pre/post intervention design that will allow 
conclusions about the effectiveness of this community- and school-level 
intervention.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Operation 
Hope. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Partnerships for Preventing Violence

    This program would continue for a second year in a multiple funding 
agreement among OJJDP, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services to provide support for distance 
training using satellite video conferencing as the medium. The project, 
funded under a 3-year grant, consists of a series of six live, 
interactive satellite training broadcasts that focus on violence 
prevention programs and strategies that have proven promising or 
effective. The training is targeted to school and community violence 
prevention personnel, health care providers, law enforcement officials, 
and other service providers representing a variety of community-based 
and youth-serving organizations. To date, two events have been held; 
the third telecast is scheduled for April 16, 1999.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, Harvard 
University School of Public Health. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Proactive Youth Program

    The New Mexico Police Activities League (PAL) is implementing a 
statewide prevention project consisting of recreational, educational, 
and cultural activities for families and youth between the ages of 5 
and 18, but focused on at-risk youth and their families. The 
Albuquerque PAL will provide the initial model for the organization and 
implementation of the New Mexico PAL project. Local PAL programs will 
be initiated in at least 12 other New Mexico communities. Schedules for 
core programs will be coordinated, and a system of regional and 
statewide activities will be established. The overall goal of the 
project, which received an FY 1998 OJJDP grant, is to reduce negative 
behavior and promote healthy behavioral patterns among New Mexico's 
youth by providing activities that unite youth with law enforcement 
officers, educators, and other positive adult role models.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of New Mexico--Regents. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Risk Reduction Via Promotion of Youth Development

    This program, also known as Early Alliance, is a large-scale 
prevention study involving hundreds of African-American and Caucasian 
children in several elementary schools in lower socioeconomic 
neighborhoods of Columbia, SC. This project is designed to promote 
coping-competence and reduce risk for conduct problems, aggression, 
substance use, delinquency and violence, and school failure beginning 
in early elementary school. Children are being followed longitudinally 
throughout the 5 years of the project. The program is funded through an 
interagency agreement with the National Institute of Mental Health 
(NIMH). NIMH's grantee is the University of South Carolina. Funding has 
also been provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
    Funded initially in FY 1997 through a fund transfer to NIMH under 
an interagency agreement, support will be continued for an additional 3 
years. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

The SAGE Project and PRIDE Center Afterschool Program

    The SAGE project is continuing development of a project to prevent 
and reduce juvenile delinquency and school violence. The long-term goal 
of the PRIDE Center is to provide a comprehensive, year-round juvenile 
delinquency prevention and intervention program that supports the youth 
objectives of the SAGE Secondary School and the youth and community 
objectives of the SAGE project as a whole. Under an FY 1998 grant, the 
project is providing the collaborating organizations with the means to 
(1) expand and enhance adult-mentored and supervised, structured 
educational opportunities to court-involved and high-risk youth; (2) 
involve additional city agencies and community-based organizations 
through the PRIDE Center; and (3) continue to evaluate and disseminate 
findings on the project's success for replication in other urban areas.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, 
Springfield College. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

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Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and 
Families

    The U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services and 
the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) provide services to 
children affected by parental substance use or abuse. OJJDP administers 
this training and technical assistance program, which began in FY 1998, 
with funds transferred to OJJDP by the U.S. Department of Health and 
Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration, through a cooperative agreement to the Child Welfare 
League of America (CWLA), a nonprofit organization. CWLA is assisting 
child welfare personnel to provide appropriate intervention services 
for children impacted by the abuse of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and 
for their caregivers. CWLA is producing a comprehensive assessment tool 
and decisionmaking guidelines for child welfare workers and 
supervisors. CWLA training and technical assistance will help to 
develop innovative and effective approaches to meeting the needs of 
children in the child welfare system whose parents are AOD abusers. 
ONDCP is considering transferring funds for this project in FY 1999.
    This jointly funded project would be implemented by CWLA. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance to Title V

    The purpose of this continuation contract is to provide OJJDP with 
training support for the Title V program. This training, which the 
grantee has developed and refined over several years, will continue to 
introduce key community leaders to data-based risk-and resiliency-
focused delinquency prevention strategies and provide localities with 
the knowledge and skills to assess risk factors and resources in their 
communities. This contract will also increase the capacity of States to 
conduct data-based risk and resiliency focused training without Federal 
support.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, 
Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Programs

    OJJDP proposes to continue funding a cooperative agreement 
competitively awarded in FY 1995 to the University of Utah's Department 
of Health Education (DHE) to provide training and technical assistance 
to communities interested in establishing or enhancing a continuum of 
family strengthening efforts. After a literature review, the grantee 
convened regional training conferences to showcase selected exemplary 
and promising family strengthening programs; developed a process for 
sites to receive followup training on specific program models; 
conducted program-specific workshops; produced and then updated user 
and training-of-trainers guides; and distributed videos of several 
family strengthening workshops. The grantee's technical assistance 
delivery system and the overall impact of the project are being 
assessed. In FY 1999, this program would expand its surveys and 
research on effective practices and assist in replication of identified 
programs.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Utah's DHE. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ)

    OJJDP has supported development and improvement of juvenile 
restitution programs since 1977. The purpose of the BARJ project is to 
enhance the development of restitution programs as part of systemwide 
juvenile justice improvement using balanced approach concepts and 
restorative justice principles. The BARJ program model was first 
described in a 1994 OJJDP Program Summary, Balanced and Restorative 
Justice, which became a reference source for BARJ training. The BARJ 
project has provided intensive training, technical assistance, and 
guideline materials to three selected sites (Allegheny County, 
Pennsylvania; Dakota County, Minnesota; and West Palm Beach County, 
Florida), which have been implementing major systemic change in 
accordance with the BARJ model. The BARJ Project also offers technical 
assistance and training to other jurisdictions nationwide.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, Florida 
Atlantic University. No additional applications would be solicited in 
FY 1999.

Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Training and Technical Assistance

    OJJDP will continue to fund an FY 1998 cooperative agreement with 
the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the 
University of Colorado. Under this grant, CSPV provides intensive 
training and technical assistance to community organizations and units 
of local government to replicate 10 ``Blueprint'' model programs. These 
are programs that CSPV identified as meeting a rigorous scientific 
standard of proven program effectiveness and replicability for reducing 
adolescent violence, crime, and substance abuse. CSPV will help 
communities determine the feasibility of program development and also 
monitor and assist in the replication of these Blueprint programs for 2 
years.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, CSPV. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Building Blocks for Youth

    The goals of this initiative are to protect minority youth in the 
justice system and promote rational and effective juvenile justice 
policies. These goals are accomplished by the following components: (1) 
Conducting research on issues such as the impact on minority youth of 
new State laws and the implications of privatization of juvenile 
facilities by profit-making corporations; (2) undertaking an analysis 
of decisionmaking in the justice system and development of model 
decisionmaking criteria that reduce or eliminate disproportionate 
impact of the system on minority youth; (3) building a constituency for 
change at the national, State, and local levels; and (4) developing 
communication strategies for dissemination of information. A fifth 
component, direct advocacy for minority youth is funded by other 
sources, not by OJJDP. Funding by OJJDP began in FY 1998.
    This initiative will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Youth Law Center. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement

    In FY 1998, the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) 
replaced the biennial Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, 
Correctional, and Shelter Facilities, known as the Children in Custody 
census. CJRP collects detailed information on the population of 
juveniles who are in juvenile residential placement facilities as a 
result of contact with the juvenile justice system. New methods 
developed for CJRP are expected to produce more accurate, timely, and 
useful data on the juvenile population, with less reporting burden for 
facility respondents.
    This program would be implemented through an existing interagency 
agreement with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 1999.

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Circles of Care Program

    In FY 1998, OJJDP and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) 
entered into an interagency agreement to have OJJDP provide support to 
the Circles of Care Program, which CMHS had developed. OJJDP 
transferred funds to CMHS to support the funding of an additional site. 
The Circles of Care Program is designed to facilitate the planning and 
implementation of a continuum of care for Native American youth at risk 
of mental health, substance abuse, and delinquency problems. CMHS 
funded nine sites in FY 1998 and will continue these sites in FY 1999, 
based on availability of funds and project performance. OJJDP will 
transfer additional funds in FY 1999 to continue support for this 
program.
    The currently funded projects will continue in FY 1999. No new 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders

    OJJDP has been providing support for development of its 
Comprehensive Strategy for several years. This project will complete 
ongoing strategic planning efforts in six States and expand to two 
additional States, Oregon and Wisconsin. In each State, up to six 
jurisdictions have been identified to receive Comprehensive Strategy 
planning training and technical assistance. OJJDP internal technical 
assistance capacity will be developed during this time to further 
assist States through training and technical assistance, including 
States planning on developing a Comprehensive Strategy planning 
framework. Implementation support will be developed and provided to the 
six States and one pilot site scheduled to complete Comprehensive 
Strategy plans in 1999. Further development and updates of the Guide 
for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders will also occur in FY 1999.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantees, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency and Developmental Research 
and Programs, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program

    In FY 1995, OJJDP competitively awarded a grant to the National 
Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) to perform a process evaluation 
and design an outcome evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based 
Aftercare Demonstration and Technical Assistance program. In FY 1998, 
the project was supplemented and extended for an additional 2 years to 
continue the outcome evaluation. The outcome evaluation seeks to 
determine the extent of the differences between the Intensive 
Community-Based Aftercare Program (IAP) participants and the 
``regular'' parolees, the supervision and services provided to both 
groups, and the cost-effectiveness of IAP. Data collection is being 
accomplished using several methods including searches of State police 
records to measure recidivism and analyzing State agency and juvenile 
court data to estimate costs.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCCD. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of Teen Courts

    This project, which OJJDP began in FY 1997, is measuring the effect 
of handling young, relatively nonserious law violators in teen courts 
rather than in traditional juvenile or family courts. Researchers are 
collecting data on several dimensions of program outcomes, including 
postprogram recidivism, changes in teens' perceptions of justice, and 
their ability to make more mature judgements. Analyses of these 
dimensions will be used to compare youth handled in at least three 
separate teen court programs with those processed by the traditional 
juvenile justice system. In addition, the study will conduct a process 
evaluation of the teen court programs, exploring legal, administrative, 
and case processing factors that affect the ability of the programs to 
achieve their goals.
    This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Urban Institute. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Gender-Specific Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders

    Using a FY 1995 competitive OJJDP grant, Cook County has built a 
network of support for juvenile female offenders. The county has 
developed gender-specific needs, strengths, and risk assessments for 
juvenile female offenders; provided training in implementing gender-
appropriate programming; and designed a pilot program with a community-
based continuum of care and a unique case management system. In FY 
1998, OJJDP provided continuation funding to the Cook County gender-
specific program and began providing funding to the State of 
Connecticut to develop specialized programs for girls from prevention 
to detention. Connecticut's objectives and activities also include 
planning, implementing, and demonstrating a program that will develop a 
hierarchy of sanctions with specific emphasis on females up to age 18 
and incorporating systemic changes. The primary emphasis of the 
Connecticut program is on the needs of pregnant girls and those who are 
mothers. Technical assistance is being provided to both Cook County and 
the State of Connecticut by Greene, Peters, and Associates, OJJDP's 
gender-specific training and technical assistance grantee.
    The project will be implemented, in partnership with the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance, by the current grantee, the Cook County Bureau of 
Public Safety and Judicial Coordination, and by the State of 
Connecticut's Office of Alternative Sanctions. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical 
Assistance Program

    This initiative supports implementation, training and technical 
assistance, and an independent evaluation of an intensive community-
based aftercare model in three competitively selected demonstration 
sites. The overall goal of the 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 has three distinct, yet overlapping 
segments: (1) Prerelease 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 ensure 
adequate service delivery and the required level of social control. The 
grantee provides continuing training and technical assistance to 
administrators, managers, and line staff at the intensive community-
based aftercare sites. The grant was competitively awarded in FY 1995
    The IAP project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Johns Hopkins University. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

Intensive Treatment Family Programs (ITF)

    The purpose of KidsPeace is to provide individualized foster care 
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adolescents in a therapeutic family setting. KidsPeace proposes to 
expand their program to additional sites, with the assistance of 
OJJDP's funding, first provided in FY 1997. KidsPeace has established 
four sites (Union, New Jersey; Orchard Park and Albany, New York; and 
Muncie, Indiana). A fifth site is currently under development.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, KidsPeace 
National Centers for Kids in Crisis of North America. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

    Under an FY 1996 OJJDP grant, the American Prosecutors Research 
Institute, the research and technical assistance affiliate of the 
National District Attorneys Association, established the Juvenile 
Justice Prosecution Unit (JJPU) to promote prosecutor training. JJPU 
holds workshops on juvenile-related policy, leadership, and management 
for chief prosecutors and juvenile unit chiefs and also provides 
prosecutors with background information on juvenile justice issues, 
programs, training, and technical assistance. The project solicits 
planning and other advisory input from prosecutors familiar with 
juvenile justice system and prosecutor needs. It draws on the expertise 
of working groups of elected or appointed prosecutors and juvenile unit 
chiefs to support project staff in providing technical assistance, 
juvenile justice-related research, program information, and training to 
practitioners nationwide.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Prosecutors Research Institute. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 1999.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

    As part of a long-term relationship with the Bureau of the Census, 
OJJDP proposes to continue to fund the development and testing of a new 
census of juvenile residential facilities. This census would focus on 
those facilities that are authorized to hold juveniles based on contact 
with the juvenile justice system. From interviews with facility 
administrators and staff at 20 locations, project staff have produced a 
detailed report discussing how best to capture information on 
education, mental health and substance abuse treatment, health 
services, conditions of custody, staffing, and facility capacity. 
Project staff have also drafted and tested a questionnaire based on the 
interview results. The questionnaire will be finalized in 1999. The 
first full implementaiton will take place in October 2000.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division and Statistical 
Research Division. No new applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Juvenile Sex Offender Typology

    In FY 1998, OJJDP competitively funded two feasibility studies in 
an effort to develop a juvenile sex offender typology. One study is 
being conducted by the University of Illinois-Springfield, the other by 
Health Related Research. Efforts to effectively address issues related 
to juvenile sex offenders' dangerousness, the most appropriate level of 
placement restrictiveness, the potential for rehabilitation, assessment 
requirements, and intervention needs have been hampered by the lack of 
an empirically based system for classifying this heterogeneous 
population into meaningful subgroups. These initial studies will 
determine specific methodologies best suited to generate an empirically 
validated typology of the juvenile sex offender. Based on the results 
of these initial studies, OJJDP will determine the feasibility of 
developing a juvenile sex offender typology or the desirability of 
continuing in the specific directions suggested by Phase I of this 
work.
    An expansion of this work would be implemented by one or both of 
the current grantees, University of Illinois-Springfield and Health 
Related Research. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 
1999.

Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies

    This study explores the impact of the 1994 changes in Florida law 
by contrasting transfer policies and practices and sentences received 
for 1993 with those for 1995. Postsentencing recidivism of the 400 
transferred youth in 1993 will be examined. Detailed data on the role 
of the offender in the commission of the offense; the involvement of 
gangs, guns, and drugs; and prior offense histories will be used in 
analyzing sentencing outcomes and postrelease offending. Predictions 
will be made on rearrest and time to failure in multivariate models 
with variables reflecting characteristics of offenses, offenders, and 
offense histories. Cross-group recidivism analyses are planned to 
compare the recidivism of youth transferred to adult court with that of 
those retained in the juvenile justice system.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Florida Juvenile Justice Accountability Board. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)

    The goal of this program is to continue development of a 
comprehensive, integrated, balanced and restorative system of justice 
for youthful offenders that holds them accountable to victims, protects 
the community, builds offender skills and competencies, and offers 
opportunities for positive connections to community members. OJJDP 
funding for the program began in FY 1998. To hold youth accountable, 
the project will establish a network of accountability boards. The 
project will also pilot Community Justice Centers, which will 
demonstrate that the community is the core of the justice process and 
recognizes youth as a vital part of the community.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

National Academy of Sciences Study of Juvenile Justice

    In FY 1997, OJJDP initiated support for a 2-year study by the 
National Academy of Sciences to draw upon expertise from relevant 
disciplines in the scientific and practitioner communities to develop a 
synthesis of the relevant scientific research and expert opinion 
regarding the prevention, treatment, and control of juvenile crime. 
Following an examination of empirical and clinical research relevant to 
the origin of and pathways to youth violence and justice system 
treatment of juveniles, the review will be supplemented by two 
workshops and site visits to selected programs. These activities will 
help to identify (1) the elements of settings, with a particular 
emphasis on family and school, that inhibit or contribute to the ways 
in which serious delinquency develops; (2) juvenile and criminal 
justice system concerns regarding the shifts in youth crime prevention 
and control policies; and (3) juvenile violence and policing practices 
in public and federally assisted housing. The study will identify key 
elements of current efforts and policies that appear to either 
contribute to or inhibit the development of effective interventions and 
control mechanisms for youth violence and delinquency. The project is 
also being supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

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    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Academy of Sciences. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

National Juvenile Justice Program Directory

    In FY 1995, OJJDP initiated development of this program directory. 
To conduct its statistical functions, OJJDP must maintain a current and 
accurate list of all entities surveyed either in the various censuses 
or in surveys. This list currently entails a complete list of juvenile 
residential facilities and a list of juvenile probation offices. As 
OJJDP expands its statistical work, it will need to expand this listing 
as well. The list needs to contain contact information for the various 
facilities or agencies and appropriate information for sampling.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97

    OJJDP proposes to continue supporting the second round of data 
collection under the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 (NLSY97) 
through an interagency agreement with the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
(BLS). OJJDP funding began in FY 1997. NLSY97 is studying school-to-
work transition in a nationally representative sample of 8,700 youth 
ages 12 to 16 years old. BLS is also collecting data on the involvement 
of these youth in antisocial and other behavior that may affect their 
transition to productive work careers. This survey provides information 
about risk and protective factors related to the initiation, 
persistence, and desistance of delinquent and criminal behavior and 
provides an opportunity to determine the generalizability of findings 
from OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of 
Delinquency and other longitudinal studies across a nationally 
representative population of youth.
    The program would be implemented by the BLS under an interagency 
agreement. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention 
Facilities

    This program, which began with a competitive OJJDP cooperative 
agreement awarded in FY 1995, is in its third phase. Goals for this 
phase are to (1) introduce concepts, tools, and principles of 
performance-based standards and accountability in 25 to 30 facilities 
nationwide; (2) complete the collection of baseline measures of 
performance on 22 standards covering six critical areas of facility 
operations in all participating facilities using uniform data 
collection instruments and protocols; (3) assist the management team in 
developing appropriate strategies to respond to problem areas based on 
the performance data; (4) facilitate access to OJJDP/OJP resources for 
training and technical assistance and related support services needed 
to carry out the facility improvement plan; (5) monitor results of 
interventions through reassessment and analysis of progress; and (6) 
refine the measurement processes and build database performance 
benchmarks.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, Council of 
Juvenile Correctional Administrators. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 1999.

Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) Evaluation

    OJJDP proposes to continue funding an impact evaluation of the 
Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) through an interagency fund 
transfer to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). OJJDP began funding 
this evaluation in FY 1997. QOP, designed by the Ford Foundation and 
Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, is a career 
enrichment program using a model providing basic education, personal 
and cultural development, community service, and mentoring. The 
evaluation will determine whether QOP reduces the likelihood that 
inner-city youth at educational risk will enter the criminal or 
juvenile justice system. Outcomes to be examined include academic 
achievement in high school; misbehavior in school; self-esteem and 
sense of control over one's life; educational and career goals; and 
personal decisions such as teenage parenthood, substance abuse, and 
criminal activity. Data on criminal activity are being collected from 
individual student interviews.
    This program would be implemented through an interagency agreement 
with the U.S. Department of Labor. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Survey of Juvenile Probation

    OJJDP proposes to continue to support development of a survey of 
juvenile probation offices in an effort to determine the number of 
juveniles under some form of community supervision. The exact nature 
and extent of this survey depends greatly on the results of various 
development efforts OJJDP is pursuing currently. This project would 
fund the Bureau of the Census to establish standard procedures for the 
implementation of this survey. Funding for this project began in FY 
1996.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No new 
applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    The primary purpose of this program is to provide specialized 
technical assistance to juvenile corrections, detention, and community 
residential service providers. The grantee also plans and convenes an 
annual Juvenile Corrections and Detention Forum, which provides an 
opportunity for juvenile corrections and detention leaders to meet and 
discuss issues, problems, and solutions to emerging corrections and 
detention problems. The grantee also provides workshops and conferences 
on current and emerging national issues in the field of juvenile 
corrections and detention, conducts surveys, and offers technical 
assistance through document dissemination. OJJDP proposes to continue 
this program, which began in FY 1995 under competitive grant for a 3-
year period.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Correctional Association. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance to Native Americans

    The goal of this program is to build the capacity of the Gila River 
Indian community, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Navajo Nation, the Red Band 
of Chippewa Indians, other Native American and Alaskan Native 
communities, and urban jurisdictions where tribal people reside to 
address Indian youth crime, delinquency, violence and victimization. 
Project funds support the development of comprehensive, systemwide 
responses to these problems in tribal communities. In FY 1999, OJJDP 
will continue to provide technical assistance to Native Americans to 
enable tribes to further develop alternatives to detention, 
specifically targeting juveniles who are first or nonviolent offenders; 
design guidebooks for the tribal peacemaking process to be used in 
addressing juvenile delinquency issues that are

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reported to Family District Court systems; design and implement 
juvenile justice needs assessments to assist tribes in responding to 
juvenile detention and alternatives to detention needs; develop 
protocols to implement State Children's Code provisions that affect 
Native American Children; and establish sustainable, comprehensive 
community-based planning processes that focus on the needs of tribal 
youth. In FY 1997, American Indian Development Associates (AIDA) was 
selected to implement OJJDP's national technical assistance program for 
tribes and urban tribal programs across the country for a 3-year 
period.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Indian Development Associates. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 1999.

TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative

    In FY 1998, OJJDP, in partnership with the U.S. Department of 
Labor's (DOL's) Employment and Training Administration, provided 
funding support to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for demonstration 
and evaluation of the TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative. This 
initiative provides employment training and other related services to 
at-risk youth through local Boys & Girls Clubs with TeenSupreme 
Centers. In FY 1998, DOL funds supported program staffing in the 
existing 41 TeenSupreme Centers, provided intensive training and 
technical assistance to each site, and provided administrative and 
staffing support to this program from the national office. OJJDP funds 
supported the evaluation component of the program, which is to be 
implemented by an independent evaluator.
    This jointly funded Department of Labor and OJJDP initiative will 
be implemented by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    In FY 1997, recognizing the continued need to improve the ability 
of States and local jurisdictions to address disproportionate 
confinement of minority juveniles, OJJDP awarded a competitive grant to 
Cygnus Corporation to implement a 3-year national training, technical 
assistance, and information dissemination initiative. Since the 1988 
reauthorization of the JJDP Act, State Formula Grants program plans 
have addressed disproportionate minority confinement (DMC). OJJDP's DMC 
funding efforts have included a competitive award to demonstrate model 
approaches in five State pilot sites (Arizona, Florida, Iowa, North 
Carolina, and Oregon) and an award to a national contractor to provide 
technical assistance to the pilot sites and other States. In addition, 
OJJDP made funds available to nonpilot States that had completed data 
gathering and assessment to use for innovative DMC projects.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Cygnus 
Corporation, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

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

    Through systemic change within local juvenile detention systems or 
statewide juvenile corrections systems, this project seeks to reduce 
overcrowding in facilities where juveniles are held. Competitively 
awarded in FY 1994 to the National Juvenile Detention Association 
(NJDA), in partnership with the San Francisco Youth Law Center, the 
project provides training and technical assistance materials for use by 
State and local jurisdictional teams. NJDA selected three jurisdictions 
(Camden, New Jersey; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Rhode Island 
Juvenile Corrections System) for onsite development, implementation, 
and testing of procedures to reduce crowding. Of the original sites 
selected, Oklahoma City has completed its work. The grantee is 
exploring additional sites for comprehensive training and technical 
assistance in FY 1999.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Juvenile Detention Association. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 1999.

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

National Evaluation of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program

    OJJDP will continue funding the grant competitively awarded in FY 
1997 to Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD, for a national evaluation to 
document and explicate the process of community mobilization, planning, 
and collaboration that has taken place before and during the Safe Kids/
Safe Streets awards; to inform program staff of performance levels on 
an ongoing basis; and to determine the effectiveness of the implemented 
programs in achieving the goals of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets program. 
The initial 18-month grant began a process evaluation and determined 
the feasibility of an impact evaluation.
    This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, Westat, 
Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Safe Kids/Safe Streets: Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and 
Neglect and Preventing Delinquency

    This 5\1/2\ year demonstration program is designed to foster 
coordinated community responses to child abuse and neglect. Several 
components of the Office of Justice Programs joined in FY 1996 to 
develop this coordinated program response to break the cycle of early 
childhood victimization and later criminality and to reduce child abuse 
and neglect and resulting child fatalities. OJJDP awarded competitive 
cooperative agreements in FY 1997 to five sites (National Children's 
Advocacy Center, Huntsville, Alabama; the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Heart of America United 
Way, Kansas City, Missouri; Toledo Hospital Children's Medical Center, 
Toledo, Ohio; and the Community Network for Children, Youth and Family 
Services, Chittenden County, Vermont). Funds were provided by OJJDP, 
the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, and the Violence Against Women 
Grants Office.
    In FY 1999, continuation awards will be made to each of the current 
demonstration sites. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

    Dated: January 27, 1999.
Shay Bilchik,
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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