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Comprehensive Program Plan for Fiscal Year 1999; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
[OJP(OJJDP)-1204f]
RIN 1121-ZB71


Comprehensive Program Plan for Fiscal Year 1999

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

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

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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is 
publishing its Final Program Plan for fiscal year (FY) 1999.

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 published for public comment a Proposed 
Comprehensive Plan describing the program activities that OJJDP 
proposed to carry out during Fiscal Year (FY) 1999. The Proposed 
Comprehensive Plan included activities authorized in Parts C and D of 
Title II of the JJDP Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 5651-5665a, 5667, 
5667a. The public was invited to comment on the Proposed Plan by March 
18, 1999. The Administrator analyzed the public comments received, and 
the comments and OJJDP's responses are provided below. The 
Administrator took these comments into consideration in developing this 
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 Final 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 Final 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 was coordinated with 
the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and 
all OJP components. The program planning process involved 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 provided 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 the Proposed Comprehensive Plan.

Discretionary Program Activities

Discretionary Grant Continuation Policy

    OJJDP has listed on the following pages continuation projects 
currently funded in whole or in part with Part C and Part D funds and 
eligible for continuation funding in 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 Final Program Plan are those 
that will receive Part C or Part D FY 1999 continuation funding under 
project period or discretionary continuation assistance awards and new 
programs that OJJDP intends to fund 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 was 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 summary of 
public comments and the introductory section below, the continuation 
programs that OJJDP will fund in FY 1999 are listed and summarized 
within these five categories. New programs are described in the 
introductory section.

Summary of Public Comments on the Proposed Comprehensive Plan for 
Fiscal Year 1999

    OJJDP published its Proposed Comprehensive Plan for FY 1999 in the 
Federal Register (Vol. 64, No. 20) on February 1, 1999, for a 45-day 
public comment period. OJJDP received 17 letters commenting on the 
Proposed Plan. (Each letter had one signature.) All comments have been 
considered in the development of OJJDP's Final Comprehensive Plan for 
Fiscal Year 1999.
    Comment: Eight letters suggested that OJJDP should include career 
academies in its program plan. Originally established in inner-city 
Philadelphia in the late 1960's, high school career academies are 
designed to restructure high schools to support students academically 
while providing them with marketable skills, work-based learning 
experiences, and clearer pathways to postsecondary education and 
productive employment. Support for including career academies in the 
program plan came from the president of the National Career Academy 
Coalition, two high school principals, the executive director of the 
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and a person 
associated with the ASPA Philadelphia Regional Chapter, two career 
academy coordinators, and the professional standards officer for the 
Law Enforcement Training Board of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.
    Response: OJJDP is a strong supporter of the career academy concept 
and is working with LAWNET, the National Career Academy Coalition's 
collaborative initiative to link law-related career academies with 
police departments and communities across the country. The U.S. 
Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice have 
provided funding and personnel support to two academies (Academy for 
Law, Justice, and Security and the Public Service Academy) in Anacostia 
Senior High School in Washington, D.C. OJJDP has also long supported 
the Communities in Schools program, which has facilitated a number of 
career academies. [Note: At the time this response was sent to the 
commenters, OJJDP was considering working with LAWNET; however, this 
effort was not chosen to be part of the final program plan.]
    Comment: One writer, a State juvenile justice specialist, made four 
comments and one request. The comments concerned: (1) Mental health 
issues and education for system professionals in recognizing signs of 
mental illness, (2) technical assistance to Title V and the need to 
increase the capacity of States to conduct the training without 
entailing a high cost for training materials, (3) the need for an 
annual report of products developed by the various projects, and (4) 
the survey of juvenile probation and inclusion of social service and 
community placements. The fifth item was a request for additional 
information about funds earmarked for the National Association of State 
Fire Marshals.
    Response: OJJDP's responses are presented in order below.
    1. Concerning mental health issues, the joint funding efforts OJJDP 
is engaged in with the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), 
encompasses work with the education system. The U.S. Department of 
Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is also a 
partner in this effort. The program that CMHS funds is designed to 
support the development of a system of care for children and youth 
across the developmental spectrum. Forty-five sites are currently 
funded to create this system of care. OJJDP's funds support training 
and technical assistance to assist with the greater inclusion of the 
juvenile justice system in the sites' efforts to develop a 
comprehensive system of care, and the OSEP funds support the same for 
the education system.
    OJJDP funds that were transferred for the system of care on Native 
American reservations under a program called Circles of Care are being 
used to fund an additional site. These Native American recipients will 
be planning for the development and implementation of a system of care 
for youth on the reservation, including the school system.
    OJJDP has also transferred funds to the National Institute of 
Mental Health to support studies of attention deficit hyperactivity 
disorder and a study of mental health issues among a school population. 
Both of these studies will be of assistance to schools and communities 
in future efforts to address the mental health needs of children and 
youth.
    2. The answer to the comment about the technical assistance to 
Title V is that the contractor will work with OJJDP's Formula Grants 
Program technical assistance contractor to develop a community planning 
curriculum for delinquency prevention planning and implementation 
activities and use it to train groups of trainers in different States. 
OJJDP intends to expand the pool of in-State trainers and to encourage 
wide use of training materials, thereby making Title V training and 
technical assistance accessible to a large number of communities.
    3. The suggestion for a single annual report of the products 
developed by the various projects certainly has some merit, but at this 
time, OJJDP does not have any plans for such a publication. Although 
OJJDP does not issue the type of report the writer described, the 
Office does publish a wealth of information about the latest promising 
and effective programs, an annual report that gives an overview of 
OJJDP's major accomplishments, and various program-specific reports 
such as the annual report to Congress on Title V and last year's report 
to Congress on OJJDP's Juvenile Mentoring Program. The commenter is on 
OJJDP's mailing list to receive all these publications.
    4. In regard to the Survey of Juvenile Probation, the writer asked 
if this effort to determine the number of juveniles under some form of 
community supervision includes social service placements and community 
placements of youth in the custody of the State correctional system. 
The answer is yes. OJJDP will endeavor to enumerate those juveniles who 
are under supervision as part of an official juvenile court sanction. 
Therefore, all those not currently in a residential placement will be 
enumerated. However, at this stage in the development of the project, 
OJJDP reserves the right not to cover particular parts of the system 
for practical or theoretical reasons. To make the survey consistent 
across jurisdictions, if OJJDP chooses to exclude or include particular 
populations in one jurisdiction, those populations will be excluded or 
included in all jurisdictions.
    5. In response to the request for more information about the 
earmarked funds for the National Association of State Fire Marshals 
(NASFM), the following information was provided. NASFM was awarded 
$382,640 to implement the Juvenile Fire-Setter Intervention Project. 
NASFM will develop a national juvenile fire-setting intervention 
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establishment of juvenile fire-setter intervention programs, based on 
existing valid models at the State and local levels.
    NASFM also plans to provide the first comprehensive study that will 
look at the problem of juvenile fire-setting through an examination of 
the best of what has been done to date and the best of what might be 
done in the future. This study will serve as the basis of a strategic 
plan to better coordinate existing public and private resources needed 
to reduce the severity and incidence of fires started by children. 
Through this study, NASFM plans to develop a consensus statement on the 
nature, dynamics, and scope of children's involvement with fire; 
present an analytical summary of public and private sector initiatives 
addressing juvenile fire-setting; recommend how best to use existing 
public and private resources to reduce the severity and incidence of 
fires started by children; and establish a clearinghouse to create 
linkages among fire services, educational, product safety, and child 
welfare professionals addressing juvenile fire-setting issues.
    Experts nationwide will analyze the issues and techniques that have 
been key to effective intervention programs and recommend national 
standardized approaches that have acceptance from both professional and 
peer groups.
    Comment: One writer, director of a university training resource 
center, affirmed the ``importance of addressing the educational issues 
related to youth in the juvenile justice system'' and indicated support 
for the OJJDP proposal to ``establish with the Department of Education 
a Center for Students with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile 
Justice System.''
    Response: OJJDP appreciates the words of support for a cooperative 
effort between OJJDP and the U.S. Department of Education to establish 
a Center for Students with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile 
Justice System. The commenter was sent an information copy of the 
announcement of a new U.S. Department of Education grant for 
establishing this center. The application deadline was April 23, 1999.
    OJJDP agrees that it is important to address educational issues 
related to youth in the juvenile justice system. Most of OJJDP's 
funding is not provided under Parts C and D but is distributed to the 
States and territories through Formula Grants, Challenge, and Title V 
(Community Prevention) programs and education-related concerns can be 
addressed through these programs. Two of the Challenge Grant 
activities, for example, refer to ``appropriate education services, 
including special education, for youth in the juvenile justice system'' 
and comprehensive education services as part of aftercare programs.
    Comment: A second writer, executive director of the National 
Juvenile Detention Association, also applauded the proposed 
collaboration with the Department of Education in developing the Center 
for Students with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System. 
This commenter also expressed appreciation for OJJDP's ``continued 
support in funding projects to improve systemic and programmatic issues 
within the juvenile justice system and more specifically the juvenile 
detention and corrections field.''
    Response: OJJDP appreciates the words of approval for its funding 
of projects to improve systemic and programmatic juvenile justice 
issues, specifically in the field of detention and corrections. In 
response to the comments in support of the Center for Students with 
Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System, OJJDP sent the 
writer an information copy of the announcement of a new U.S. Department 
of Education grant for establishing this center. The application 
deadline was April 23, 1999.
    Comment: One commenter, the associate legislative director of the 
National Association of Counties, expressed concern that the plan 
``fails to address the county role in the partnership'' between State 
legislators and State and local leaders. The writer offered to work 
with OJJDP in building a county policymaker component in the plan.
    Response: OJJDP recognizes the important role counties play in the 
overall effort to effectively deal with juvenile justice issues. During 
the past year, OJJDP officials have met with the writer and other 
representatives of the National Association of Counties and the 
National Organization of Black County Officials to discuss development 
of a long-term approach to improving the juvenile justice system at all 
levels'national, State, county, and community. OJJDP plans to continue 
to work with and encourage representatives of the various levels of 
government to identify and agree on ways to collaborate to prevent and 
reduce juvenile crime and victimization throughout the country.
    Comment: Another writer, president of a State council on crime and 
delinquency, also suggested that the program of Technical Assistance 
for State Legislatures should be more focused on county officials. The 
writer also commented on two other areas: field-initiated research and 
the Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) Project. The response 
concerning the need for more focus on counties was essentially the same 
as the response provided to the preceding comment. The other two 
comments are noted and addressed below.
    1. Field-Initiated Research. The writer asked that funding for 
field-initiated research be included in the Final Program Plan. OJJDP 
has added a field-initiated program of general research to the plan.
    2. BARJ. The writer praised this project and recommended increased 
funding to expand its training and technical component to jurisdictions 
throughout the United States. Although OJJDP's grant support for the 
Project is modest, the Office shares the commenter's enthusiasm for the 
BARJ Project. OJJDP views the BARJ Project as an evolving, not a 
static, venture to improve juvenile justice systems and expects to see 
further growth and development of the BARJ Project and further positive 
outcomes for juvenile justice from it.
    Comment: One writer, a juvenile prosecutor in a county attorney's 
office, objected to money or attention going to anything titled 
``balanced and restorative justice,'' which he referred to as an 
oxymoron. He wrote that a balanced approach is ``balanced between 
fixing the kid, protecting the community, and restoring the victim'' 
and that restorative justice ``focuses primarily on restoring the 
victim.'' The writer praised OJJDP's December 1998 teleconference on 
Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System.
    Response: OJJDP grant support for the BARJ Project is quite modest. 
The BARJ Project was deliberately organized to merge the concepts and 
practices of the ``balanced approach'' and ``restorative justice.'' 
OJJDP determined that the goals of community safety, victim reparation, 
and offender rehabilitation are best achieved if the offender is 
directed to engage in restorative activities. These activities are 
structured to foster the offender's sense of accountability and hands-
on competency to pursue constructive rather than destructive life 
styles. One of the main authors of the balanced approach concept 
(Dennis Maloney) is a senior associate of the BARJ Project and assists 
the Project in joining not only the theoretical and programmatic 
elements of the balanced approach and restorative justice, but of 
``community justice'' as well. OJJDP views the BARJ Project as an 
evolving, not a static, venture to improve juvenile justice systems. 
Its roots are in effective juvenile restitution

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programs, which by definition are ``restorative.'' Besides evidence 
from other sources, the effectiveness of these programs was determined 
by a study in the writer's own State of Utah (please see OJJDP Update 
on Research: Restitution and Juvenile Recidivism by Jeffrey A. Butts 
and Howard N. Snyder, September 1992). OJJDP incorporated lessons 
learned from the best restitution programs into the BARJ Project and 
expects to see further growth and development of the BARJ Project and 
further positive outcomes for juvenile justice from it.
    Comment: The director-designate of a State department of juvenile 
justice wrote to support OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, 
Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders and the plan's emphasis on 
delinquency prevention. Of the areas that OJJDP is considering for new 
programs, the writer specifically expressed support for five: community 
justice and balanced and restorative justice, risk and needs assessment 
instruments, education programs for students in the juvenile justice 
system, and programs for abused and neglected children within the 
juvenile justice system.
    Response: OJJDP appreciates the writer's support for the 
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile 
Offenders and for the emphasis on delinquency prevention. It is also 
helpful to know which of the proposed broad priority areas the writer 
believes should be given major consideration.
    Comment: The president of a private program to combat juvenile 
delinquency commended the programs OJJDP proposed to fund this fiscal 
year. In addition, the writer stated that there is need for reform in 
how adults view and deal with young people.
    Response: OJJDP appreciates the writer's support for the Proposed 
Program Plan. In regard to the issue of ``how adults view and deal with 
young people,'' OJJDP notes that the programs it supports all involve 
an element of respect for the young people they serve. As the Proposed 
Comprehensive Plan points out, the foundation of OJJDP's work is its 
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile 
Offenders. The Comprehensive Strategy provides a strategic planning 
framework for States and communities to increase their ability to 
effectively combat juvenile delinquency and victimization and provide 
for public safety. Based on three decades of research on what causes 
juvenile delinquency and what works to address it, the Comprehensive 
Strategy emphasizes six key principles. The first two principles touch 
on the writer's concern about respect for youth:
    1. Strengthening families as their children's first and primary 
teachers and role models.
    2. Supporting core social institutions such as schools, religious 
institutions, and community organizations in their efforts to develop 
youth who will lead productive and law-abiding lives.
    An example of a specific OJJDP program that helps to build mutual 
respect between youth and adults is the Juvenile Mentoring Program 
(JUMP), which provides one-on-one mentoring for youth at-risk of 
delinquency, gang involvement, educational failure, or dropping out of 
school. The adults who volunteer as mentors give their time and talents 
to try to make a difference in the lives of these young people. Initial 
evaluation findings from 93 JUMP sites across the county show that 
youth in the program reported that mentoring helped them stay away from 
alcohol and drugs, keep away from gangs, and avoid using guns and 
knives.
    Comment: A writer with a background in paralegal and security work 
stressed the importance of early prevention, parent involvement, 
mentoring, and other programs that reduce the risk of involvement in 
delinquency and described positive results that her community has 
achieved through collaboration among business, schools, mentoring 
groups, and government.
    Response: OJJDP's proposals for FY 1999 reflect a similar 
commitment to prevention activities.

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 has developed 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 will 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 strengthening the dependency 
court, 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, 
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    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 will 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 will 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.

New Programs

    OJJDP will also support new programs in several areas related to 
emerging issues facing the juvenile justice system. These programs are 
described below. The availability of funding for new competitive 
programs will be announced in the next few months in the Federal 
Register and posted on OJJDP's Web site at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org under 
Grants and Funding.
    Three new programs fall in the area of information dissemination. 
The first, the Children's Court Communications Project, will help to 
publicize the centennial of the juvenile court. Jointly designed by the 
Justice Policy Institute, a project of the Center on Juvenile and 
Criminal Justice, and the Children and Family Justice Center at 
Northwestern University School of Law, this project is designed to 
humanize juvenile court ``graduates,'' highlight their successes, and 
publicize lessons learned and best practices of the juvenile justice 
system. OJJDP funds will enable the project to disseminate stories 
about successful former juvenile court clients through a combined 
effort involving television, radio, and print public service 
announcements; a summary publication; and electronic and print media 
interviews, stories, and talk shows. In funding this effort, OJJDP is 
engaging in a public-private partnership with the MacArthur Foundation 
and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The project will expand public 
knowledge and dialog about the juvenile court during its centennial and 
open the door for professionals, advocates, and community-based 
entities to learn about best practices and successes in the system.
    Education on Gun Violence and Safety is the second new program 
focusing on disseminating information and educating the public. OJJDP 
will partner with the Bureau of Justice Assistance to support Education 
on Gun Violence and Safety. This project seeks to educate gunowners and 
parents about how to safely use and store guns and how to protect 
children from gun violence. Through a coordinated communications, 
education, grassroots, and media campaign, the project will reach 
gunowners and other caring adults with important information on 
preventing youth's illegal access to and unlawful use of guns. In FY 
1999, critical communications research with gunowners will determine 
their perceptions, attitudes, habits, and inclinations and thereby 
inform the communications strategy.
    OJJDP will participate in a joint Department of Justice/Federal 
Trade Commission Study of the Marketing of Media Violence, which will 
examine whether the motion picture, television, music, and video game 
industries market adult-rated material to young people. This study will 
analyze the degree to which violent entertainment is targeted at the 
very people who should not be exposed to it. The year-long study will 
also examine whether entertainment industries require, monitor, or 
encourage enforcement of the rating systems in stores and movie 
theaters.
    As described in the Proposed Program Plan, OJJDP is planning a 
joint initiative with the Office of Special Education and 
Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education, to establish a 
Center for Students With Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System. 
The Secretary of Education and the Attorney General expect this project 
to have a significant impact on services for students with disabilities 
in the juvenile justice system. Improvements in these services will be 
based on a combination of research, training, and technical assistance. 
To meet the challenges of serving this population of students, positive 
changes must occur in the following areas: prevention, educational 
programming, and reintegration/transition. The Center for Students With 
Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System will 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.
    A new school-related prevention program is the School and Classroom 
Management Demonstration Project. OJJDP will support this North 
Carolina pilot initiative designed to improve classroom management and 
to assist in the creation of safe learning environments. Funds will be 
awarded to the Center for the Study of School Violence to manage the 
initial pilot in partnership with the University of North Carolina and 
the North Carolina State Board of Education. The State of North 
Carolina has made a commitment to support full implementation of the 
program. The purpose of the pilot program is to increase the ability of 
teachers and administrators to model and use sound conflict resolution 
practices by integrating skills training into preservice curriculums at 
North Carolina schools of education and by working with the North 
Carolina State Board of Education to change curriculum requirements to 
include conflict resolution skills training in the context of effective 
classroom management.
    OJJDP plans to partner with the U.S. Department of Education's Safe 
and Drug-Free Schools Program to fund Training and Technical Assistance 
for Sharing Information, a program on information sharing across 
disciplines. Protecting children, preventing delinquency, maintaining 
safe schools and communities, and ensuring accountability for juvenile 
offenders all require effective information sharing across the agencies 
responsible for these outcomes. Educators who see warning signs of 
delinquency can, by sharing information with justice and other youth-
serving agencies, develop effective intervention strategies. At the 
other end of the spectrum, when the juvenile justice system is about to 
send an adjudicated offender back into the regular school system, 
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need to notify the school so it can provide needed support services to 
help the student succeed. These are just two examples of circumstances 
in which it is both appropriate and necessary to share information to 
ensure public safety.
    This new training and technical assistance program would provide 
guidance to school, court, police, probation and parole, child 
protective services, and health and social service agencies on 
opportunities, barriers, and legislation regarding sharing information 
on juveniles. The training would expand on guidance provided in Sharing 
Information: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 
and Participation in Juvenile Justice Programs (OJJDP Program Report, 
1997) to assist professionals interested in developing a range of 
interagency information sharing agreements. Training sessions would 
provide instruction on the legal, ethical, and institutional barriers 
to information sharing between/among parties with ``legitimate 
interests.'' Technical assistance would facilitate planning and 
implementing a practical system of information exchange that meets 
legal, ethical, and institutional requirements locally through 
collaborative decisionmaking and negotiation among agencies. The 
program would also support the development of interagency agreements 
and protocols for sharing information and data that reflect mutually 
agreeable policies and procedures.
    Two programs, in addition to the Circles of Care Program described 
in the Proposed Program Plan, address mental health issues as they 
relate to juvenile justice. These programs will further the overall 
goal of OJJDP's mental health strategy: to increase understanding of 
the mental health needs of at-risk youth and juvenile offenders, 
improve the quality of services and treatment they receive, and prevent 
their future involvement in the juvenile justice system. (Readers 
should note that, besides the programs funded under Parts C and D of 
Title II of the JJDP Act, funding for mental health programs related to 
juvenile justice is also available under the Juvenile Accountability 
Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) Program administered by OJJDP. 
Information about JAIBG funding opportunities is available from the 
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse at 800-638-8736 and from OJJDP's Web 
site at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org.)
    In FY 1999, support for an update of the 1992 report Responding to 
the Mental Health Needs of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System will 
provide important information as to current trends and prevalence of 
mental health disorders and approaches and programs for dealing with 
this population. Systems interactions and legal issues affecting 
mentally disordered youth in the juvenile justice system are likely to 
be other topics covered by Responding to the Mental Health Needs of 
Youth in the Juvenile Justice System--Part II. Of particular importance 
is the need to address the issue of youth of color and their under 
representation in services. The GAINS Center on Co-occurring Disorders 
will provide oversight and technical review of individual chapters by 
knowledgeable researchers and practitioners.
    Another mental health project is Technical Assistance Support for 
the Comprehensive Children and Families Mental Health Projects. For the 
past several years, OJJDP has been participating in the Federal 
Partnership for Children's Mental Health, which was organized by the 
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration. In addition to OJJDP, this task 
group includes agencies within the U.S. Departments of Education and 
Health and Human Services. An outgrowth of this task group has been the 
development of interagency agreements between OJJDP and CMHS for OJJDP 
to support training and technical assistance for the 45 Comprehensive 
Children and Families Mental Health sites. The funds transferred to 
CMHS have supported training and technical assistance for the past 2 
years to the sites on strategies for greater inclusion of juvenile-
justice-involved youth in the continuum of care being developed under 
these grants. OJJDP will continue this support in FY 1999 as CMHS 
rebids its training and technical assistance contract. CMHS's 45 sites, 
with their developing comprehensive mental health services for children 
and families, present an excellent opportunity to improve mental health 
services for all children, including juvenile offenders.
    In a project called Helping Communities To Promote Youth 
Development, OJJDP will provide support to the Institute of Medicine/
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, to establish a 
committee that will review and synthesize existing evidence regarding 
the effectiveness of community-level interventions and service programs 
designed to promote positive youth development. The committee will also 
assess the strengths and limitations of measurement and methodologies 
that have been used to evaluate these interventions and address the 
policy and programmatic implications of this research. The committee 
will be composed of an interdisciplinary group of individuals with 
expertise in a range of fields (child and adolescent development, 
sociology, psychology, statistics and evaluation, youth service, and 
other relevant areas). The committee will meet periodically and will 
convene two workshops and commission background papers to inform the 
field. In addition to a final report that will synthesize the work of 
the committee, brief summary fact sheets will be widely disseminated to 
policymakers, local decisionmakers, program administrators, service 
providers, researchers, community organizers, and other key 
stakeholders.
    Three new efforts will be undertaken in the research area. The 
first, Field-Initiated Program of General Research, is part of OJJDP's 
larger Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program, which will 
combine general research with three additional topical areas (at-risk 
girls, Native Americans, and juvenile justice system interventions). 
Although most of the research funded by OJJDP derives from 
congressional mandates or addresses statutory priority areas that are 
narrowly defined, many innovative and important research ideas 
deserving support arise outside the Federal Government. The Field-
Initiated Program of General Research allows OJJDP to provide flexible 
funding for creative and rigorous research that supports its mission. 
The ideal field-initiated project not only will increase the knowledge 
base regarding juvenile delinquency, but will have practical 
implications for juvenile justice policies and practices. In past 
years, OJJDP has supported field-initiated research on such topics as 
gangs in correctional institutions, mental health issues in the 
juvenile justice system, and juvenile sex offending. Investigators 
applying for FY 1999 funding may wish to consider (but are not limited 
to) projects in the following areas: serious and violent juvenile 
offenders, risk versus protective factors for juvenile offending, 
development of risk and needs assessment tools for courts and 
correctional facilities, impact of juvenile transfers to adult court, 
causes of early-onset offending, causes of desistance from offending, 
characteristics and needs of very young offenders, and development of 
innovative intervention programs for specific subgroups of juvenile 
offenders.
    In another research program, Pornography on the Internet, OJJDP 
will provide funds to the National Academy of Sciences for a 2-year 
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address the capabilities of today's technologies for controlling 
electronic transmission of pornographic images, identify what is needed 
to develop more effective and practical control technology for such 
material, analyze the inherent limitations of such technology, and 
identify operational policies or management techniques needed to ensure 
the effectiveness of technologies for controlling transmission of 
pornographic images. The results of this study will be used in the 
context of possible options for action by legislators, law enforcement, 
regulators, industry groups, online service providers, educators, and 
parents.
    In collaboration with the National Institute of Justice's Crime 
Mapping Research Center, OJJDP will support the research and 
development of mapping software that will allow State and local 
communities to use geographic data to facilitate and strengthen 
planning and implementation of programmatic activities, assessment of 
conditions and trends, and development of comprehensive plans. The 
Crime and Data Mapping Project will create a software package that will 
map geospatial data and be useful for immediate strategic planning 
needs within a local community. It will also provide a geographic 
information system (GIS) program platform for bringing together 
multiple data elements and sources for more thorough strategic 
planning. The software developed will provide not only the ability to 
map GIS-coded data that includes crime data, but also a tool for 
analyzing the multiple data variables. This funding will provide 
initial support to a technologically appropriate organization for the 
development of software.
    With the endorsement of the Drug-Free Communities Advisory 
Commission, OJJDP has decided to provide additional resources to 
support the strengthening of the training and technical assistance 
component of the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. This support 
will directly supplement the Office of National Drug Control Policy's 
training and technical assistance budget, which currently funds the 
Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies through an 
interagency agreement with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. 
This funding will provide additional support and customized assistance 
to the Drug-Free Communities Support Program grantees.
    Finally, in FY 1999, OJJDP is considering enhancing its assistance 
to the field in the area of community-based gang intervention, 
consistent with the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model, and in the area of 
school-centered antigang efforts. Work currently being conducted under 
OJJDP's Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, 
Intervention, and Suppression and OJJDP's Rural Gang Initiative has 
resulted in lessons learned that will be helpful to various types of 
jurisdictions around the country as they develop comprehensive gang 
programs. No applications are currently being solicited. Separate 
solicitations for these programs (both community-based gang 
intervention and school-centered antigang efforts) may be issued at a 
later date.
    Together, the programs in this Comprehensive 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 projected 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 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

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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
Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)
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
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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Coalition for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will 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 
costs-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 
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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. 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, NCJJ. No 
additional applications will 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 
Psychiatric Institute 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 will be implemented by the current grantees. No 
additional applications will 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.

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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 will be implemented by the current grantee, EKU. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    OJJDP will 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 will be implemented by 
the current grantee, the University of Illinois, School of Public 
Health. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

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. This expansion moved the project into 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 will 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 will 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 will 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 
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and other 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 will be implemented by the current demonstration 
sites. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

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

    OJJDP will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. No 
additional applications will 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 and 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys & 
Girls Clubs of America. No additional applications will 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 will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Institute for Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications 
will 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.

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, 
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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 will 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 will be administered by BJA through its existing grant 
to NCPC. No additional applications will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, 
Northwestern University. No additional applications will 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 will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, Communities 
In Schools, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
1999.

Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

    Through the Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher 
Project, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) has 
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 
will be implemented by the current grantee, the National Center for 
Neighborhood Enterprise. No additional applications will 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 
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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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Congress of National Black Churches. No additional applications will 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 will expand its training and technical 
assistance to new sites and further disseminate the products through 
the education and juvenile justice networks. In addition, EDC will 
provide onsite, short-term technical assistance to practitioners 
interested in hate crime issues. EDC will also assist State juvenile 
justice agencies to formulate hate crime prevention components for 
their juvenile delinquency prevention plans.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, Education 
Development Center. No additional applications will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Colorado Health Services Center. No additional 
applications will 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-
term efficacy of stimulant medication and intensive 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 
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State training institutes and otherwise build local capacity to 
implement successful CRE programs for youth. The Center also 
facilitates peer-to-peer mentoring.
    Additionally, the National Center for Conflict Resolution Education 
has developed the interactive portion of a CD-ROM that is part of an 
MTV campaign against violence. Through its Juvenile Justice 
Clearinghouse, OJJDP is making available to MTV viewers 1 million free 
copies of the CD-ROM/Action Guide package. The CD-ROM presents real-
life situations that confront young people and gives them the skills 
needed to resolve conflicts peacefully. Besides OJJDP, the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program of the 
U.S. Department of Education are providing funding for this MTV 
project.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, Illinois 
Institute for Dispute Resolution. No additional applications will 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 will 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 videconferencing 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, Harvard 
University School of Public Health. No additional applications will 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.

Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and 
Families

    The U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) 
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 
HHS's 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 s 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

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child welfare system whose parents are AOD abusers.
    This jointly funded project will be implemented by CWLA. No 
additional applications will 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 will 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 will expand its surveys and research 
on effective practices and assist in replication of identified 
programs.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Utah's DHE. No additional applications will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, Florida 
Atlantic University. No additional applications will 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 will be implemented through an existing interagency 
agreement with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 1999.

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 
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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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Johns Hopkins University. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 1999.

Intensive Treatment Family Programs (ITF)

    The purpose of KidsPeace is to provide individualized foster care 
(IFC) to seriously disturbed children and adolescents in a therapeutic 
family setting. KidsPeace will expand its 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 
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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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Prosecutors Research Institute. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 1999.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

    As part of a long-term relationship with the Bureau of the Census, 
OJJDP will continue to fund the development and testing of a new census 
of juvenile residential facilities. This census will 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 implementation will take place in October 2000.
    This project will be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division and Statistical 
Research Division. No new applications will 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 will be implemented by one or both of the 
current grantees, University of Illinois-Springfield and Health Related 
Research. No additional applications will 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 will be implemented by the current grantee, the Florida 
Juvenile Justice Accountability Board. No additional applications will 
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.
    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 will be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97

    OJJDP will 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 will be implemented by the BLS under an interagency 
agreement. No additional applications will 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 will 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 will be implemented through an interagency agreement 
with the U.S. Department of Labor. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 1999.

Survey of Juvenile Probation

    OJJDP will 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 will 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 will be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No new 
applications will 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 will continue this 
program, which began in FY 1995 under competitive grant for a 3-year 
period.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Correctional Association. No additional applications will 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 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 
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(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: June 29, 1999.
Shay Bilchik,
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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