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Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 2000; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
[OJP(OJJDP)-1252]
RIN No. 1121-ZB86


Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 2000

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

ACTION: Notice of proposed program plan for fiscal year 2000.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is 
publishing this notice of its Proposed Comprehensive Plan for fiscal 
year (FY) 2000.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 29, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Shay Bilchik, Administrator, 
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 810 Seventh 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen M. Garry, Director, Information 
Dissemination Unit, at 202-307-5911. [This is not a toll-free number.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a component of the Office of Justice 
Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. Pursuant to the provisions 
of Section 204(b)(5)(A) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq. (JJDP 
Act), the Administrator of OJJDP is publishing for public comment a 
Proposed Comprehensive Plan describing the program activities that 
OJJDP proposes to carry out during fiscal year (FY) 2000 under Parts C 
and D of Title II of the JJDP Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5651-
5665a, 5667, 5667a. Taking into consideration comments received on this 
Proposed Comprehensive Plan, the Administrator will develop and publish 
OJJDP's Final Comprehensive Plan describing the particular program 
activities that OJJDP intends to fund during FY 2000, using in whole or 
in part funds appropriated under Parts C and D of Title II of the JJDP 
Act.
    OJJDP acknowledges that at this time its reauthorization 
legislation is in conference and the Department of Justice's FY 2000 
appropriation is not yet final. Depending on the outcome of these 
legislative actions, the structure of OJJDP's programs may be altered. 
If that occurs, OJJDP will make any necessary modifications to this 
Proposed Program Plan when it is published in final form following the 
public comment period. The programs described here represent OJJDP's 
current thinking and initial priorities for this fiscal year. These 
priorities also reflect feedback from OJJDP's ongoing outreach to the 
field asking for their ideas on priority areas and the most promising 
types of programs for those areas.
    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.

Background

    In developing its program plan for Parts C and D each year, OJJDP 
must take into consideration the latest available data on juvenile 
crime and victimization in the United States and view these statistics 
in relation to those of recent years. To know where the Nation's 
juveniles are headed, it is necessary to know where they are and where 
they have been. OJJDP's Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National 
Report (National Report) 1 uses the latest data available 
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other sources to provide a 
comprehensive picture of the nature of juvenile crime and violence 
across the Nation.
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    \1\ Copies of the National Report can be obtained by calling 
OJJDP's Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse at 800-638-8736 or by 
visiting OJJDP's Web site at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org and clicking on 
``Publications.''
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    At the end of the 1990's, juvenile crime and violence are 
continuing a downward trend that began in 1994, bringing a halt to the 
dramatic annual increases that had alarmed the Nation since 1988. The 
National Report indicates that in 1997, homicides of juveniles, which 
had peaked in 1993, fell to their lowest level in the decade (p. 16). 
Despite well-publicized instances of shocking school violence, students 
are safer at school than elsewhere, and school crime declined from 1993 
through 1996 (p. 31). In 1997, homicides involving a juvenile 
perpetrator were the lowest in the decade but still 21 percent above 
the average of the 1980's (p. 53). Serious violence by juveniles 
dropped 33 percent between 1993 and 1997, compared with a reduction of 
25 percent in violence by adults in the same period (p. 62). On the 
other hand, gang problems now affect more jurisdictions than ever 
before--including rural and suburban areas (p. 77). Illicit drug use by 
juveniles, which had declined during the 1980's, has increased since 
1992 (p. 74), although the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse 
reported that the percentage of 12- to 17-year-olds who reported using 
illegal drugs in the preceding month dropped from 11.4 percent in 1997 
to 9.9 percent in 1998. Looking at arrest data, while drug arrests 
continued to increase for both juveniles and adults between 1993 and 
1997, arrests for most serious violent offenses and property offenses 
declined--with violent crime arrests down 6 percent for juveniles and 
property crime arrests down 3 percent (p. 117). In 1997, the juvenile 
violent crime arrest rate, which had increased 62 percent from 1988 to 
1994, was at its lowest level in this decade: just 7 percent above the 
1989 rate, but still 25 percent above the 1988 rate (p. 120).
    Even in the area of violent behaviors that do not reach the 
attention of the justice system, positive trends are seen. A recent 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) biennial survey of 
16,000 9th through 12th graders found sharp decreases in certain 
categories of violent activity by teenagers between 1991 and 1997. For 
example, 18.3 percent of the students surveyed in 1997 reported having 
carried a gun, knife, or club in the previous month, compared with 26.1 
percent of those surveyed in 1991, and the percentage carrying such 
weapons on school property decreased from 11.8 percent in 1993 to 8.5 
percent in 1997. The frequency of fighting also declined, with 37 
percent of the 1997 surveyed youth reporting involvement in a physical 
fight in the previous year, compared with nearly 43 percent of those 
surveyed in 1991.
    This mixture of some reassuring and some still troubling statistics 
serves as a reminder that while great progress has been made in 
reducing juvenile delinquency, violence, and victimization, much more 
needs to be done. Although it is impossible to definitively identify 
the reasons for the downward trend in juvenile violence, factors cited 
by the authors of the CDC study include community policing and an 
expansion of violence prevention programs. As research and evaluation, 
much of it supported by OJJDP funding, continue to provide information 
about what works in the areas of prevention and intervention, 
policymakers, practitioners, and citizens can make informed decisions 
as to what programs and approaches will best serve to reinforce and 
continue existing trends away from juvenile delinquency, violence, and 
victimization.
    In this Proposed Comprehensive Plan, OJJDP describes its priorities 
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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 constitute part, but 
not all, of OJJDP's overall responsibilities, which 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.
    Under Part C of Title II of the JJDP Act, OJJDP funds Special 
Emphasis programs and--through its National Institute for Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention--numerous research, evaluation, 
statistics, demonstration, training and technical assistance, and 
information dissemination activities. OJJDP funds 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. 
OJJDP also coordinates Federal activities related to juvenile justice 
and delinquency prevention through the Concentration of Federal Efforts 
Program and serves as the staff agency for the Coordinating Council on 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; both of these activities 
are authorized in Part A of Title II of the JJDP Act. Another OJJDP 
responsibility under the JJDP Act is to administer the Title IV Missing 
and Exploited Children's Program.
    Other programs administered by OJJDP include the Drug Prevention 
Program, the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program, the Safe Schools 
Initiative, the Tribal Youth Program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed 
to Violence Initiative, and the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block 
Grants Program. OJJDP also administers programs under the Victims of 
Child Abuse Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 13001 et seq.
    OJJDP focuses its assistance funding and support activities 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 activities. These include collecting data and statistics to 
determine the extent and nature of issues affecting juveniles, funding 
research and studies 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 and 
local governments through formula and block grants to implement 
programs, 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.
    As noted previously, OJJDP is a component of the Office of Justice 
Programs (OJP). This Department of Justice agency emphasizes the 
importance of coordination among its components and with other Federal 
agencies whenever possible in order to obtain maximum results from OJP 
programs and initiatives. OJJDP's coordination efforts include joint 
funding, interagency agreements, and partnerships to develop, 
implement, and evaluate projects. This proposed plan reflects OJJDP's 
coordination efforts. For a more complete picture of OJP program 
activities that affect the field of juvenile justice, readers are 
encouraged to review the Office of Justice Programs Fiscal Year 2000 
Program Plan when it becomes available. (Readers should check the OJP 
Web site at www.ojp.usdoj.gov periodically for an announcement of the 
availability of the OJP Program Plan.)

Fiscal Year 2000 Program Planning Activities

    The OJJDP program planning process for FY 2000 is being coordinated 
with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), 
and all OJP components. The program planning process involves the 
following steps:
     Internal review of existing programs by OJJDP staff.
     Internal review of proposed programs by OJP bureaus and 
Department of Justice components.
     Review of information and data from OJJDP grantees and 
contractors.
     Review of information contained in State comprehensive 
plans.
     Review of comments from youth service providers, juvenile 
justice practitioners, and researchers who provide input in proposed 
new program areas.
     Consideration of suggestions made by juvenile justice 
policymakers concerning State and local needs.
     Consideration of all comments received during the period 
of public comment on this Proposed Comprehensive Plan.

Discretionary 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 2000, either within an existing 
project period or through an extension for an additional project or 
budget period. A grantee's eligibility for continued funding for an 
additional budget period within an existing project period depends on 
the grantee's compliance with funding eligibility requirements and 
achievement of the prior year's objectives. The amount of award is 
based on prior projections, demonstrated need, and fund availability.
    The only projects described in this Proposed Program Plan are those 
that would receive Part C or Part D FY 2000 continuation funding under 
project period or discretionary continuation assistance awards and 
program areas that OJJDP is considering for new awards under Part C or 
Part D in FY 2000. This plan does not include descriptions of other 
OJJDP programs, including mentoring programs under Part G of Title II 
of the JJDP Act, the Drug Prevention Program, the Enforcing Underage 
Drinking Laws Program, the Safe Schools Initiative, the Tribal Youth 
Program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, and 
the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants Program. When 
appropriate, OJJDP issues separate solicitations for applications for 
funding for these or other programs that are not authorized under Parts 
C and D. Readers interested in learning about all OJJDP funding 
opportunities are encouraged to call OJJDP's Juvenile Justice 
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site at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org and click on ``Grants & Funding.''
    Consideration for continuation funding for an additional project 
period for previously funded discretionary grant programs will be based 
on 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 2000 
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. Sec. 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. Sec. 5121 et seq. that a 
major disaster or emergency exists, or
    2. With respect to a particular program described in Part C that is 
uniquely qualified.

Introduction to Fiscal Year 2000 Program Plan

    In administering the discretionary grants program under Parts C and 
D of Title II, OJJDP has identified four goals as the major elements of 
a sound policy that ensures public safety and security while 
establishing effective juvenile justice and delinquency prevention 
programs. Achieving these goals, which are discussed below, is vital to 
protecting the long-term safety of the public from juvenile delinquency 
and violence.
     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.
     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.
     OJJDP supports efforts in the area of corrections, 
detention, and community-based alternatives to preserve the public 
safety in a manner that serves 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.
     OJJDP seeks to support law enforcement, public safety, and 
other justice agency efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency, intervene 
in the development of chronic delinquent careers, and collaborate with 
the juvenile justice system to meet the needs of dependent, neglected, 
and abused children.
    In 1993, OJJDP published its Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, 
Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders, which set forth a research-
based comprehensive approach for addressing the problems of juvenile 
crime and victimization and for achieving its program goals. The 
Comprehensive Strategy was developed to assist States and local 
communities in preventing at-risk youth from becoming serious, violent, 
and chronic juvenile offenders and in crafting a practical response to 
those who do. Over the past few years, OJJDP has tested and refined the 
prevention and graduated sanctions components of the Comprehensive 
Strategy. In 1996, OJJDP began assisting three pilot sites to formulate 
the Comprehensive Strategy plans at the local level. Lessons learned 
from those sites are being used in eight States to implement a 
strategic planning and implementation process through State 
partnerships with up to six local jurisdictions that are developing and 
implementing their own comprehensive strategies.2
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    \2\ For more information about the Comprehensive Strategy, 
readers can request a copy of OJJDP Fact Sheet No. 9883, An Update 
on the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic 
Juvenile Offenders, by calling the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse at 
800-638-9736. Additional information is available from the 
Comprehensive Strategy program section of OJJDP's Web site at 
www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/strategy/index.html.
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    This Proposed Plan also supports the Coordinating Council's 1996 
National Juvenile Justice Action Plan, which grew out of the 
Comprehensive Strategy. This Action Plan, which the Coordinating 
Council is currently updating, provides eight objectives to reduce 
juvenile violence and describes ways to meet these objectives. 
Together, the Comprehensive Strategy and the Action Plan constitute a 
sound strategy for translating innovation and research findings to 
infrastructure.

Continuation Programs

    OJJDP organizes its proposed programs under four broad categories 
that reflect its program goals and the principles of the Comprehensive 
Strategy. The following summaries briefly describe some of the types of 
activities proposed for continuation funding in each category, subject 
to the appropriations for Parts C and D for FY 2000.
Public Safety and Law Enforcement
    Eight programs related to the important public policy issue of 
proliferating youth gangs are a major focus of OJJDP's proposals in 
this category. The programs range from demonstrations and replications 
of models to technical assistance and from evaluation to data 
collection and analysis. Funds would also be provided to a partnership 
between youth and health services agencies to continue school-based 
activities and efforts to address the effects on children of exposure 
to domestic violence. Two programs deal with a problem of increasing 
public concern, gun violence. An evaluation is looking at the effect of 
transferring the responsibility for child protective investigations to 
law enforcement agencies.
Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
    OJJDP proposes to fund a range of programs that focus on reducing 
risk factors and increasing protective factors in children's lives. The 
types of programs include demonstrations, pilots, and replications of 
model programs; outreach; studies and evaluations; and training and 
technical assistance. Beginning with early programs such as prenatal 
nurse home visitation, OJJDP's delinquency prevention and intervention 
efforts feature arts programs for at-risk youth and for those in 
detention and corrections facilities; programs that assess the role of 
alcohol, illegal drugs, mental health problems, and learning disorders 
in juvenile delinquency and programs that study effective interventions 
for these risk factors. Funding is also proposed for programs to reduce 
truancy and keep students from dropping out of school, conflict 
resolution programs, programs that discourage violence and hatred, and 
programs that provide opportunities for positive development and 
promote public awareness of effective solutions to juvenile crime.

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Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System
    In this category, OJJDP proposes to support efforts to develop 
comprehensive approaches to juvenile justice and delinquency 
prevention, including programs designed to reform juvenile justice 
systems in specific locations. Some programs attempt to increase 
youth's accountability for their behavior and to prevent violence, 
while others seek to improve the quality of youth's legal 
representation and the equity and efficiency of the treatment of youth 
(including girls and minorities) at all points within the juvenile 
justice system, including points where the justice and mental health 
systems intersect and the time when youth return to the community from 
residential facilities. In addition, OJJDP would fund programs focusing 
on providing the information base necessary for sound policymaking. 
Examples include censuses and surveys of juveniles in facilities and on 
probation, an accurate program directory for use in the censuses and 
surveys, and a data analysis project.
Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts
    Three programs fall within this category: Safe Kids/Safe Streets: 
Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and Neglect and Preventing 
Delinquency, its national evaluation, and a research program focusing 
specifically on the issue of child neglect.
Overarching
    In addition to the activities in the four categories described 
above, OJJDP supports programs in a broader, overarching category. 
These are programs with significant elements common to more than one of 
the other four categories. Among the overarching programs is a major 
longitudinal study of the causes and correlates of delinquency, which 
is also providing an opportunity for an examination of the 
intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior. School violence 
is addressed by a university-based consortium and by a national 
resource center. One initiative is assisting six communities in 
implementing comprehensive programs to reduce youth violence and 
delinquency. Another program is evaluating a demonstration program for 
reducing truancy. Research-based guidance will be provided to States 
and others to improve juvenile justice services for students with 
disabilities. OJJDP proposes to continue a crime prevention center 
whose tasks include investigating the reasons for the 
overrepresentation of minorities in the Texas juvenile justice system. 
Finally, national-level statistical support, training and technical 
assistance programs, and a clearinghouse are included in the 
overarching category, as are an OJJDP management evaluation contract 
and telecommunications assistance.
    Descriptions of the specific programs in each of the five 
categories follow the discussion of new programs.

New Programs

    As stated earlier, because this Proposed Plan is being published 
before the FY 2000 appropriation is enacted, possible new programming 
can be discussed only in the most general terms. If there should be 
sufficient funding to support new programs in addition to those 
proposed for continuation funding, OJJDP is considering 10 broad areas 
in which new programs might be funded in FY 2000. The public is asked 
to comment on these proposed areas, which are described briefly below.
1. Improving the Juvenile Sanctioning System
    OJJDP is considering several efforts to improve the juvenile 
sanctioning system. As a result of new State laws over the past decade, 
juvenile correctional systems are increasingly being burdened with 
older, more violent offenders, while still having responsibility to 
serve less serious offenders. Areas of interest for possible new 
programs concerning sanctions include screening and assessment, key 
clinical issues, school-based probation services, educational needs of 
juveniles in corrections and detention, training and technical 
assistance for juvenile probation officers, improvements in and 
alternatives to detention, and correctional treatment and transition 
programs for juvenile offenders.
2. Developing and Studying Programs Addressing Female Offenders
    OJJDP proposes to support demonstration projects to test promising 
programs that target the unique needs of female offenders. Recent 
research indicates that females have become increasingly involved in 
more serious and violent delinquent behavior, but research on female 
delinquency is often secondary to the study of males. Although male and 
female delinquents experience many of the same problems (e.g., chaotic 
home environments, poverty, substance abuse), female offenders have 
unique needs (e.g., sexual abuse and teen pregnancy) that challenge the 
ability of the justice system to provide appropriate treatment.
3. Monitoring and Understanding the ``Whys'' Behind Juvenile Crime 
Trends
    OJJDP is considering support for a rigorous study to better 
understand juvenile crime trends. Numerous explanations have been 
offered for the recent decline in the juvenile violent crime rate but 
none with a solid empirical basis. A local-level inquiry would explore 
a wide range of factors including policy, programmatic and community 
initiatives, and other potential variables that may help explain 
community trends. Both retrospective and prospective approaches are 
contemplated for better understanding juvenile crime trends.
4. Developing Blueprint Programs Through Replication and Evaluation
    Another effort under consideration involves building on the work 
currently being done through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention 
project at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) 
at the University of Colorado. In the course of identifying 10 
effective ``blueprint'' programs, CSPV also found a number of highly 
promising programs that fit some, but not all, of its criteria for 
proven effectiveness. OJJDP is considering funding a new project that 
would replicate some of these promising programs in communities that 
demonstrate a capacity to implement and rigorously evaluate them, with 
the goal of increasing the number of programs that communities can 
confidently implement to reduce their levels of youth violence, 
substance abuse, and delinquency through prevention, early 
intervention, and treatment.
5. Replicating Effective Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment 
Program Models on Native American Tribal Lands and in Alaskan Native 
Communities
    In this program area, OJJDP would support an effort to assist 
Native American tribes in adapting a selected group of program models 
proven to be effective in communities outside Native American settings. 
The process would draw on ethnographic and applied behavioral science 
skills and techniques. The end products would include a replicable 
process to facilitate future tribal adaption and a set of ``generic'' 
program models with potential permutations reflecting variations across 
Native American cultures. Four tribes funded by OJJDP

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from 1992 to 1995 demonstrated that Native American tribes and Alaskan 
Native communities can benefit from assistance designed to accelerate 
program development but that they require a significant level of 
technical assistance rooted in understanding of Native American 
culture, history, and tradition.
6. Developing and Evaluating Model Practices Regarding the Efficacy of 
Delinquency and Dependency Courts
    OJJDP is considering two efforts to assist the juvenile court 
system in appropriately and efficiently handling cases involving 
juvenile delinquency and dependency: one would evaluate the 
effectiveness of model dependency courts that are being implemented 
throughout the United States and one would develop a model juvenile 
delinquency court, including effective risk and needs assessment, best 
practices intake and probation services, and placement options. OJJDP 
would determine best practices by a survey of courts.
7. Reducing Lead and Environmental Hazards
    OJJDP is considering support for a coordinated, interagency 
prevention, education, and intervention program to build local capacity 
through training and technical assistance to solve the problem of lead 
and other environmental hazards that affect children. Funding might 
also be provided for a limited pilot demonstration. Children with 
elevated levels of lead in their blood frequently suffer from physical, 
neurobiological, and cognitive impairment, and possibly from later 
behavioral problems, including aggression and delinquency.
8. Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Sex Offending
    OJJDP is considering support for an effort to inventory the 
research, evaluation, and treatment efforts currently under way and 
completed in the area of juvenile sex offending, to assess these 
efforts, to identify needs that might be supported in the future, and 
to outline an action plan to address these issues. An additional 
product would be an assessment of the feasibility of developing a 
technical assistance and training program. OJJDP would also consider 
support for the development of assessment instruments. Multiple efforts 
in the areas of research, evaluation, and service programs for juvenile 
sex offenders are under way, but no unified inventory exists to provide 
an understanding of the status of knowledge or treatment opportunities 
in this area, nor is there an understanding of how these activities 
relate to each other or build upon an existing knowledge base.
9. Developing Prevention and Treatment Programs for Status Offenders
    OJJDP is considering funding programs that would identify the 
extent and nature of status offending, inventory best practices in 
addressing this behavior from around the county, and support 
demonstration and replication of effective programs for dealing with 
these offenders. Juveniles who commit status offenses (truancy, running 
away, curfew violations, incorrigibility, etc.) are very often taking 
their first steps into the juvenile justice system. Prevention and 
treatment at this early stage are less expensive and more effective 
than efforts to change subsequent delinquent behavior.
10. Supporting Field Initiated Research and Evaluation Programs
    OJJDP is considering support for field-initiated research and 
evaluation projects that complement the new and current programs 
outlined in this Proposed Program Plan. OJJDP would provide funding for 
innovative and rigorous research that supports its mission in 
significant and creative ways. Topics explored in past OJJDP-funded 
field-initiated research include mental health issues in the juvenile 
justice system; juvenile sex offending; gangs; evaluation of juvenile 
justice programs for female juvenile offenders; juvenile justice system 
operations, sanctions, and treatments; and Native American juvenile 
justice and delinquency prevention.

Fiscal Year 2000 Programs

    The programs that OJJDP proposes to fund in FY 2000 are listed 
alphabetically and summarized within each of the five categories: 
Overarching, Public Safety and Law Enforcement, Strengthening the 
Juvenile Justice System, Delinquency Prevention and Intervention, and 
Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts.
    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.
    As part of the appropriations process, Congress is likely to 
identify a number of programs for funding consideration with regard to 
the grantee(s), the amount of funds, or both. These programs will be 
listed in the Final Program Plan. Congress is also likely to direct 
OJJDP to examine certain programs, provide assistance to them if 
warranted, and report to the Committees on Appropriations of both the 
House and the Senate on its intention for each one. These programs will 
also be listed in the Final Program Plan.

Fiscal Year 2000 Program Listing

Overarching

Center for Students with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Program
Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence
Insular Area Support
Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development
National Resource Center for Safe Schools
National Training and Technical Assistance Center
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
Technical Assistance for State Legislatures
Telecommunications Assistance
Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University--
Enhancing Personal Training and Understanding Minority 
Overrepresentation in the Juvenile Justice System
Training and Technical Assistance Coordination for the SafeFutures and 
Safe Kids/Safe Streets Initiatives

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)
Education on Gun Violence and Safety
Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program
Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program
Evaluation of the Rural Gang Initiative
Evaluation of the Transfer of Responsibility for Child Protective 
Investigations to Law Enforcement Agencies
Gang-Free Communities Initiative
Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)
Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance 
Program

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National Youth Gang Center
Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence
Rural Gang Initiative Demonstration Sites
Technical Assistance to Gang-Free Schools and Communities Initiatives
Training and Technical Assistance for the Rural Gang Initiative

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future
America's Promise: Enhanced Collaboration
Arts and At-Risk Youth
Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections
Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders
Communities in Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership
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
Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention 
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
National Center for Conflict Resolution Education
Nurse Home Visitation
Partnerships for Preventing Violence
Proactive Youth Program
Professional Development in Effective Classroom and Conflict Management
Risk Reduction Via Promotion of Youth Development
Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and 
Families
Training and Technical Assistance Program for the Arts Programs for 
Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections Initiative
Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) Training Project
Building Blocks for Youth
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement
Circles of Care Program
Community Assessment Center
Comprehensive Children and Families Mental Health Training and 
Technical Assistance
Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders
Development of Conduct Disorder in Girls
Evaluation of the Department of Labor's Education and Training for 
Youthful Offenders Initiative
Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program
Evaluation of Teen Courts
Helping Communities To Promote Youth Development
Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical 
Assistance Program
Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center
The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit
Juvenile Residential Facility Census
Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)
National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project
National Juvenile Justice Program Directory
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97
Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention 
Facilities
San Francisco Juvenile Justice Local Action Plan--Delancy Street 
Initiative
Survey of Juvenile Probation
Technical Assistance to Native American Tribes and Alaskan Native 
Communities
TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative
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
Research on Child Neglect
Safe Kids/Safe Streets: Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and 
Neglect and Preventing Delinquency

Overarching

Center for Students With Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System

    During FY 1999, OJJDP undertook 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 the 
improvement of juvenile justice system services for students with 
disabilities. Improvements in the areas of prevention, educational 
services, and reintegration based on a combination of research, 
training, and technical assistance will lead to improved results for 
children and youth with disabilities. 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 who are within the juvenile justice system.
    This program will be implemented by the University of Maryland 
through an award by the U.S. Department of Education. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

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 would 
be accomplished through a series of regional training and information 
workshops and a national conference designed to address the needs of 
the membership of the Coalition.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Coalition for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program

    In FY 1999, OJJDP awarded funds to eight sites around the country 
to implement truancy reduction projects. These sites included Athens, 
GA; Contra Costa, CA; Honolulu, HA; Houston, TX; Jacksonville, FL; King 
County, WA; Suffolk County, NY; and Tacoma, WA. Grantees represent a 
diversity of models and geographic locations. OJJDP also selected the 
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children (CFFC) to conduct the 
national evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program. As 
part of the evaluation, CFFC will (1) determine how community 
collaboration can impact truancy reduction and lead to systemic reform, 
and (2) assist OJJDP in the development of a community collaborative 
truancy reduction program model and identify the essential elements of 
that model. To this end, CFFC is helping project sites to further 
identify and document the nature of the truancy problem in their 
communities, enhance the process of effective truancy reduction 
planning and collaboration, and incorporate that process into the 
implementation of the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program at each 
site. In addition, CFFC is assisting sites in collecting information on 
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youth and documenting services. The project is scheduled to last 3\1/2\ 
years.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Colorado 
Foundation for Families and Children. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 2000.

Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence

    The Institute, with assistance from OJJDP, was founded in 1997 to 
serve as a national resource to test the effectiveness of school 
violence prevention methods and to develop more effective violence 
prevention strategies. The Institute's goal is to determine what works 
and what can be replicated to reduce violence in America's schools and 
their immediate communities. The Institute works with a consortium of 
seven universities whose key staff have expertise in adolescent 
violence, criminology, law enforcement, substance abuse, juvenile 
justice, gangs, public health, education, behavior disorders, social 
skills development and prevention programs. The George Washington 
University develops and tests violence prevention strategies in 
collaboration with the following universities: Eastern Kentucky 
University, Florida State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, 
Syracuse University, University of Oregon, and University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, George 
Washington University. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2000.

Insular Area Support

    The purpose of this statutorily required program is to provide 
support to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Funds are available to 
address the special needs and problems of juvenile delinquency in these 
insular areas, as specified by Section 261(e) of the JJDP Act of 1974, 
as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5665(e).

Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project

    The purpose of this project is to expand on the Rochester Youth 
Development Study by examining the development of antisocial behavior 
and delinquency in the children of the original Rochester, NY, 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 
2000.

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 
2000.

Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development Program

    The Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development (SSD) 
Program was competitively awarded in 1990 to the National Center for 
Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) to improve national, State, and local 
statistics on juveniles as victims and offenders. The SSD project has 
traditionally consisted of three tracks of work: National Statistics, 
Dissemination, and Systems Development. In FY 2000, NCJJ will continue 
many activities under the first two tracks, including maintaining an 
extensive library of data files, producing Easy Access software 
packages and the Web-based OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book, and 
continuing to service requests for juvenile justice information. In FY 
2000, additional funding from OJJDP will also enable NCJJ to enhance 
activities under the Systems Development track of the project.
    To meet the challenge of managing the cases of youth within their 
jurisdiction effectively and efficiently, juvenile court administrators 
and judges need ready access to information that will support the 
operation, management, and decisionmaking of the full-service juvenile 
court system. Knowledge and decisionmaking (which should be the 
hallmark of every juvenile justice system) requires not just the 
collection of data, but the collaboration of the community leaders who 
will give meaning to the data. This is the focus of the forthcoming 
book, Juvenile Justice With Eyes Open, which will be published in FY 
2000 as part of the Statistics and Systems Development Project (Systems 
Development Track). Also in FY 2000, NCJJ will use the principles 
outlined in this publication to develop and field-test an approach that 
local jurisdictions can employ to systematically identify and then 
fulfill their local information needs. This includes training local 
juvenile justice leaders in the rational decisionmaking model (RDM) as 
a design tool for management information systems; developing data 
specifications for an effective information system to meet operational, 
management, and research needs; identifying data needs from collateral 
service providers and data that would be of use to collaterals; and 
modeling agreements and protocols with collateral service providers to 
share case-level and/or aggregate data.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 2000.

National Resource Center for Safe Schools

    Since 1984, OJJDP and the U.S. Department of Education have 
provided joint funding to promote safe schools. This work has focused 
national attention on cooperative solutions to problems that disrupt 
the educational process. Because an estimated 3 million incidents of 
crime occur in America's schools each year, it is clear that this 
problem continues to plague many schools, threatening students' safety 
and undermining the learning environment. With FY 1998 funding, the 
U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program and 
OJJDP established the National Resource Center for Safe Schools under a 
3-year project period. This project expanded the scope and provision of 
previous training and technical assistance to communities and school 
districts across the country. The grantee is working to help schools 
develop and put in place comprehensive safe school plans. It does this 
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communities, by creating and distributing resource materials and tools, 
through Web-based information services, and by partnering with State-
level agencies to build State capacity to assist local education 
agencies. Through the inclusion on the project's Advisory Committee of 
representatives of Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and 
Community Violence and other school-related training and technical 
assistance providers, this project has developed training materials and 
information resources based on the latest research findings on 
effective programs and best practices.
    The project will continue to be implemented by the current grantee, 
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

National Training and Technical Assistance Center

    The National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Training 
and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) was established in FY 1995 
under a competitive 3-year project period award. NTTAC serves as a 
national training and technical assistance clearinghouse, inventorying 
and coordinating the integrated delivery of juvenile justice training 
and technical assistance resources and establishing a database of these 
resources.
    NTTAC's funding in FY 1996 provided services in the form of 
coordinated technical assistance support for OJJDP's SafeFutures and 
gang program initiatives, continued promotion of collaboration between 
OJJDP training and technical assistance providers, developed training/
technical assistance materials, and completed and disseminated the 
first OJJDP Training and Technical Assistance Resource Catalog.
    In FY 1997, NTTAC disseminated a second, updated Training and 
Technical Assistance Resource Catalog; created a Web site for the 
Center and a ListServe for the Children, Youth and Affinity Group; held 
three focus groups on needs assessments; and coordinated and provided 
38 instances of technical assistance in conjunction with OJJDP's 
training and technical assistance grantees and contractors.
    In FY 1998, NTTAC finalized the jurisdictional team training and 
technical assistance packages on critical needs in the juvenile justice 
system, updated the resource catalog, facilitated the annual OJJDP 
training and technical assistance grantee and contractor meeting, 
continued to update the repository of training and technical assistance 
materials and the electronic database of training and technical 
assistance materials, and continued to respond to training and 
technical assistance requests from the field.
    In FY 1999, NTTAC was operated by OJJDP staff with the support of 
the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, providing clearinghouse services 
and maintenance of the 800 number. The Fourth Grantee-Contractor 
meeting was conducted by OJJDP staff in Chicago and the training and 
technical protocols developed in 1998 were discussed for final issue. 
These are being finalized and will be disseminated in FY 2000. A 
contract was awarded to Caliber Associates to continue implementation 
of the Center.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Caliber 
Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

    This contract was competitively awarded in FY 1999 to Caliber 
Associates 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 program will be implemented by the current contractor, Caliber 
Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

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 
2000

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 2000.

Safe Futures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency

    OJJDP is awarding grants of up to $1.4 million annually to each of 
six communities for a 5-year project period that began in FY 1995, to 
assist in implementing comprehensive community programs designed to 
reduce youth violence and delinquency. Boston, MA; Contra Costa County, 
CA; Fort Belknap, MT (tribal site); Imperial County, CA (rural site); 
St. Louis, MO; and Seattle, WA, were competitively selected to receive 
awards under the SafeFutures program on the basis of their substantial 
planning and progress in community assessment and strategic planning to 
address delinquency.
    SafeFutures seeks to prevent and control youth crime and 
victimization through the creation of a continuum of care in 
communities. This continuum enables communities to be responsive to the 
needs of youth at critical stages of their development by providing an 
appropriate range of prevention, intervention, treatment, and sanctions 
programs.
    Each of the six sites will continue to provide a set of services 
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existing continuum. These services include family strengthening; after 
school activities; mentoring; treatment alternatives for juvenile 
female offenders; mental health services; day treatment; graduated 
sanctions for serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders; and 
gang prevention, intervention, and suppression. During the fourth year 
of the project, specific attention will be given to care coordination 
and program sustainability.
    A national evaluation is being conducted by the Urban Institute to 
determine the success of the initiative and track lessons learned at 
each of the six sites. OJJDP has also committed a cadre of training and 
technical assistance (TTA) resources to SafeFutures through a full-time 
TTA coordinator for SafeFutures and a host of partner organizations 
committed to assisting SafeFutures sites.
    SafeFutures activities will be carried out by the six current 
grantees. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

    Since FY 1995, OJJDP has awarded annual grants to the National 
Conference of State Legislatures 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 would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Conference on State Legislatures. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

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. To date, EKU has produced 21 
telecasts. In FY 1999, OJJDP continued the cooperative agreement with 
EKU to provide program support and technical assistance for a variety 
of information technologies and to explore linkages with key 
constituent groups to advance mutual information goals and objectives. 
During the past year, EKU has experimented with cybercasting ``live'' 
satellite videoconferences on the Internet.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, Eastern 
Kentucky University. No additional applications would be solicited in 
FY 2000.

Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University-- 
Enhancing Personal Training and Understanding Minority 
Overrepresentation in the Juvenile Justice System

    This 3-year project was initially funded in FY 1998. The purpose of 
the program was to create the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at 
Prairie View A&M University (the Center) and to have the Center 
undertake three initial tasks. These tasks included the development of 
a master's degree in Forensic Psychology, the development of a training 
institute for the coordinators of 13 community youth development 
projects, and a study to investigate the factors contributing to the 
disproportionate representation of minority youth in the Texas juvenile 
justice system.
    The master's degree in Forensic Psychology includes a minimum of 30 
semester hours, exclusive of thesis. The development of the curriculum 
and an instrument to test its effectiveness will occur in the first 2 
years of the grant. The courses for the master's degree will be taught 
in the second and third years with the testing of the effectiveness of 
the curriculum being completed by the end of the third year. The 
objectives of this curriculum development are to increase the 
understanding, knowledge, and skills of in-service professionals 
regarding juvenile behaviors; to increase the number of qualified 
professionals working with juvenile offenders; and to decrease the 
number of juveniles who become repeat offenders.
    The training institute at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) will 
focus training on the coordinators of the Texas Department of 
Protective and Regulatory Services Community Youth Development Project. 
The 12 counties in Texas with the highest number of juvenile arrests 
were selected to design comprehensive approaches to support families 
and enhance the positive development of youth. PVAMU is offering the 
project coordinators program management and evaluation skills courses. 
Each year for 3 years an intensive 2-week course will be offered to the 
coordinators on managing and monitoring service delivery and basic 
research and evaluation skills development.
    Funding in FY 2000 will allow PVAMU to implement and test the 
curriculum that has been developed in the first 2 years, hold a third 
2-week seminar that develops skills in managing and monitoring services 
and basic research and evaluation skills of the youth development 
coordinators, and continue support for the study of the 
overrepresentation of minorities in the Waller County Juvenile Court.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Texas 
Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University). No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

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

    OJJDP would continue 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 chance 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 the administration of cross-site training.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, Patricia 
Donahue. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

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 as children witness 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, 
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clinicians with law enforcement in intervening onsite with children and 
families who witness violence. OJJDP, with first-year support from the 
Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance, funded a 3-
year replication of the model in Buffalo, NY; Charlotte, NC; Nashville, 
TN; and Portland, OR. 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 settings and would continue to do so in FY 2000.
    This project would be continued by the current grantee, the Yale 
University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the New Haven 
Department of Police Services. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Education on Gun Violence and Safety

    OJJDP proposes to continue partnering 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 2000, based upon critical communications research with 
gunowners, the communications campaign will disseminate appropriate 
educational materials.
    The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Crime Prevention Council and the Ad Council. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

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

    OJJDP will continue funding this evaluation in FY 2000. Under a 
competitive cooperative agreement awarded in FY 1995, the evaluation 
grantee assisted the five program sites (Bloomington, IL; Mesa, AZ; 
Riverside, CA; San Antonio, TX; and Tucson, AZ) 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 2000.

Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program

    This 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 three 
sites: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Oakland, California: and Syracuse, New 
York. The grantee, COSMOS Corporation, would complete data collection 
for the impact portion of this evaluation and submit a final report in 
the next year. In addition to working with the three Partnership sites, 
COSMOS Corporation completed work in FY 1998 on the Promising 
Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence Report. COSMOS would develop a 
training and technical assistance protocol based on its experience with 
the Partnership sites and the gun violence report. This training and 
technical assistance package would be used with additional communities 
across the country that are focused on reducing gun violence through a 
collaborative planning process.
    This evaluation and training development would be implemented by 
the current grantee, COSMOS Corporation. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

Evaluation of the Rural Gang Initiative

    This initiative is a continuation of ongoing efforts to test 
OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model. In FY 1999, four rural sites began 
conducting comprehensive assessments of their local gang problem and 
engaging in program design to implement the Comprehensive Gang Model. 
These sites are Elk City, OK; Glenn County, CA; Mt. Vernon, IL; and 
Longview, WA.. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) is 
conducting case studies to document and analyze the 1-year community 
assessment and program planning efforts in the four sites. These case 
studies will contribute to the development of a model approach to 
assessment of community gang problems in rural areas. NCCD will also be 
developing an outcome evaluation design for sites that are funded to 
implement the model in subsequent years. FY 2000 funding would support 
the first year of the outcome evaluation.
    The current grantee is the National Council on Crime and 
Delinquency. A decision regarding the funding mechanism to support an 
outcome evaluation would be made in FY 2000.

Evaluation of the Transfer of Responsibility for Child Protective 
Investigations to Law Enforcement Agencies

    In response to concerns about the increasing demands on public 
child welfare agencies, the safety of children, and the effectiveness 
of law enforcement and social service agencies to deliver critical 
services, the State of Florida has passed legislation that allows for 
the transfer of the entire responsibility for child protective 
investigations to a law enforcement agency. Currently, three counties 
in Florida are in various stages of implementing this transfer of 
responsibility. This new project for FY 2000 will compare the outcomes 
in the three counties where responsibility is being transferred to the 
Sheriff's Office with three comparison counties in the State of 
Florida. The project will primarily be concerned with whether children 
are safer, whether perpetrators of severe child abuse are more likely 
to face criminal sanctions, and whether there are impacts on other 
parts of the child welfare system. Also, a thorough process evaluation 
will be conducted to describe and compare the implementation process 
across the three counties.
    This project will be conducted by the School of Social Work at the 
University of Pennsylvania. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Gang-Free Communities Initiative

    In FY 2000, OJJDP will continue to explore the possibility of 
supporting up to 15 communities in assessing the youth gang problem and 
replicating the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model. Although funding levels 
for these projects have not yet been determined, these communities will 
most likely receive ``challenge'' grants or ``seed'' money to establish 
these programs and to conduct a self-evaluation of their efforts. 
Technical assistance and support will be provided to these communities 
through OJJDP's National Youth Gang Center.
    A separate program announcement for this initiative is tentatively 
planned in FY 2000.

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Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)

    The purpose of this program is to enable local Boys & Girls Clubs 
to prevent youth from entering gangs, intervene with gang members in 
the early stages of gang involvement, and divert youth from gang 
activities into more constructive programs. This program reflects the 
ongoing collaboration 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, and other clubs and organizations 
through regional trainings and national conferences. In FY 1999, the 
Boys & Girls Clubs added as many as 30 new gang prevention sites, 5 new 
gang intervention sites, and at least 2 ``Targeted Reintegration'' 
sites where clubs work to provide services to youth returning to the 
community from juvenile correctional facilities to prevent them from 
returning to gangs and violence. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America will 
also hold a Delinquency and Gang Prevention Symposium in March 2000. A 
national evaluation of this program is being implemented by Public/
Private Ventures.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys 
& Girls Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2000.

Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance 
Program

    Over the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have 
appeared with increasing frequency in publications and the news media. 
Law enforcement agencies across the Nation are responding to this sense 
of national emergency by changing many of their policies and practices 
to cope with juvenile crime and victimization.
    The Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Training and Technical 
Assistance Program examines adolescent violence in the United States 
both as a social phenomenon and a policy issue. The program covers the 
range of youth violence issues from crime statistics to new 
legislation. The program also sets forth comprehensive analysis of key 
areas of youth violence policy and practice: youth firearm possession 
and use, school violence and safety, youth-oriented community policing, 
gang and drug involvement, serious habitual offenders, 
multidisciplinary communitywide youth violence reduction strategies, 
police management of youth programs, tribal juvenile crime, and Chief 
Executive Officer responses to delinquency and violence.
    Throughout the program, the core issues of youth violence are 
examined through an appropriate set of responses to youth violence that 
are consistent with effective police practice and a positive future for 
America's youth. In addition, key leaders from law enforcement, 
prosecution services, the courts, corrections, probation, and other 
juvenile justice agencies are offered information, materials, solutions 
to management issues, and technical assistance in the prevention and 
control of youth crime.
    FY 1998 and 1999 funds supported the continuation of eight State, 
local, and tribal program workshops: The Chief Executive Officer Youth 
Violence Forum (CEO Forum); Managing Juvenile Operations (MJO); Gang, 
Gun, and Drug Policy; School Administrators for Effective Operations 
Leading to Improved Children and Youth Services (SAFE POLICY); Youth-
Oriented Community Policing; Tribal Justice Training and Technical 
Assistance; the Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program 
(SHOCAP); and the Youth Violence Reduction Comprehensive Action 
Program.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
International Association of Chiefs of Police under a cooperative 
agreement with OJJDP. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2000.

National Youth Gang Center

    The proliferation of gang problems over the past two decades led 
OJJDP to develop a comprehensive, coordinated response to America's 
gang problem. This response involved five program components, one of 
which was implementation and operation of the National Youth Gang 
Center (NYGC). Competitively funded with FY 1994 funds to expand and 
maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective 
responses to them, NYGC provides support services to the National Youth 
Gang Consortium, composed of Federal agencies with responsibilities in 
this area. NYGC is also providing technical assistance for the Rural 
Gang Initiative planning and assessment phase. OJJDP proposes to extend 
the NYGC project an additional year and provide FY 2000 funds to NYGC 
to (1) conduct more indepth analyses of the National Youth Gang Survey 
results that track changes in gang membership and gang-related crime, 
(2) produce timely information on the nature and scope of the youth 
gang problem, and (3) continue efforts to foster integration of gang-
related items into other relevant surveys and national data collection 
efforts.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Institute for Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

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 among community 
residents, law enforcement, and the juvenile justice system. Baton 
Rouge, LA; Oakland, CA; and Syracuse, NY, 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 under way 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, Baton Rouge, LA; Oakland, 
CA; and Syracuse, NY. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2000.

Rural Gang Initiative Demonstration Sites

    In FY 1999, OJJDP supported four rural communities (Elk City, OK; 
Glenn County, CA; Longview, WA; and Mount Vernon, IL) to conduct a 
comprehensive assessment of the local youth gang problem in these 
communities. Each site has collected relevant data from multiple 
sources, including police, schools, courts, and community residents, 
and has gathered various types of data, including gang crime data, data 
on the presence of risk factors for gang membership, community 
demographics, and community surveys and focus groups. Once data 
collection is complete, the communities will use these data in a 
comprehensive program planning process to adapt and implement the OJJDP 
Comprehensive Gang Model. In FY 2000, OJJDP will consider supporting 
these communities in the implementation of the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang 
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independent evaluation of this effort will also be conducted, along 
with technical assistance through the National Youth Gang Center.
    This initiative would be implemented by the four current grantees: 
Elk City, OK; Glenn County, CA; Longview, WA; and Mount Vernon, IL. No 
additional applications will be solicited for this initiative in FY 
2000.

Technical Assistance to Gang-Free Schools and Communities Initiatives

    In FY 1999, OJJDP began planning for a potential school-centered 
gang initiative and a multisite replication of the OJJDP Comprehensive 
Gang Model. In FY 2000, OJJDP will consider supporting the National 
Youth Gang Center with funds to provide technical assistance during the 
developmental stages of this initiative and during the implementation 
of these efforts in selected communities across the country. The 
National Youth Gang Center is currently providing technical assistance 
on OJJDP's model to communities involved in OJJDP's Rural Gang 
Initiative and to other OJJDP grantees.
    OJJDP will consider a supplemental award to the National Youth Gang 
Center to provide the technical assistance. No new applications will be 
solicited in FY 2000.

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 2000, 
training and technical assistance would continue to be provided to 
those sites chosen to implement the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang model. 
Training and technical assistance would focus on adapting the OJJDP 
model to rural jurisdictions and on implementing the model in a 
theoretically sound manner. Assistance would be delivered through 
onsite visits, conferences, meetings, and other means such as telephone 
and electronic media.
    This initiative would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Youth Gang Center. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future

    OJJDP would continue its support, which began in FY 1997, of the 
National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) advertising campaign Investing 
in Youth for A Safer Future through the transfer of funds to the Bureau 
of Justice Assistance (BJA) under an intra-agency agreement. OJJDP and 
BJA are working with the NCPC Media Unit to produce, disseminate, and 
support effective public service advertising and related media to 
inform the public of effective solutions to juvenile crime and to 
motivate young people and adults to get involved and support these 
solutions. The featured solutions include effective prevention programs 
and intervention strategies.
    The program would be administered by the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance through its existing grant to the National Crime Prevention 
Council. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

America's Promise: Enhanced Collaboration

    The Presidents' Summit for America's Future held in April 1997 in 
Philadelphia represented the first-ever call to action by all living 
Presidents on a social initiative to encourage concerned citizens, 
communities, and the business, nonprofit, and government sectors to 
work together to improve the lives of children in the United States. 
The goals of America's Promise, the 501.c.3 established by General 
Colin Powell in response to this summit, state that young people should 
have access to five fundamental resources that are necessary to 
maximize their potential: (1) An ongoing relationship with a caring 
adult (mentor, tutor, coach); (2) safe places and structured activities 
during nonschool hours to learn and grow; (3) a healthy start; (4) 
marketable skills through effective education; and (5) an opportunity 
to give back through community service. Hundreds of communities and 
organizations have made commitments to reaching these goals. OJJDP has 
been supporting those commitments through its various programs and 
initiatives over the past 2 years but now proposes to commit funding 
support to America's Promise, to enhance the program's focus on 
volunteerism, and to support further coordination and expansion of 
existing community resources, service programs, and initiatives that 
address the needs of the Nation's children and youth.
    The program will be implemented by America's Promise. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Arts and At-Risk Youth

    OJJDP is considering continuation funding for an afterschool and 
summer arts program that combines the arts with job training and 
conflict resolution skills. This project includes summer jobs or paid 
internships to enable youth to put into practice the job and conflict 
resolution skills they are learning. By combining the arts with 
practical life experiences, at-risk youth gain valuable insights into 
their own abilities and the possibilities that await them in the world 
of work if they continue to attend school, study, and graduate. The 
goal of this program is to prevent and reduce the incidence of juvenile 
delinquency, crime, and other problem behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, 
teen pregnancy, truancy, and dropping out of school) in at-risk youth 
14 to 17 years old by providing a multicomponent arts program that 
includes life skills training, the link between art and employment, and 
practical experiences in the workforce. In FY 1999, in collaboration 
with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Safe and Drug-Free Schools 
Program of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for 
the Arts, and the U.S. Department of Labor, OJJDP awarded grants to 
three competitively selected communities (Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, 
PA; and Tulsa, OK) to develop and implement this pilot demonstration 
program in the arts. The grantees are receiving training and technical 
assistance support through a provider selected by the National 
Endowment for the Arts and OJJDP
    This program would be implemented by the current grantees, Chicago, 
Philadelphia, and Tulsa. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2000.

Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections

    OJJDP would provide continuation support for arts programs for 
youth in juvenile detention centers and corrections facilities. This 
initiative is designed to increase opportunities to establish visual, 
performing, media, and literacy artist-in-residence programs in 
juvenile detention centers and corrections facilities. The corrections 
and detention sites are encouraging the development of these programs 
by convening interested arts organizations and juvenile justice 
agencies to provide training in arts program development to three 
competitively selected demonstration sites (Gainesville, TX; Riviera 
Beach, FL; and Rochester, NY) and three competitively selected 
enhancement sites (Bronx, NY; Seattle, WA; and Whittier, CA). The 
demonstration sites will develop and implement new arts-based programs 
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enhancement sites will demonstrate practices that have achieved 
sustainable programs. In addition to being required to provide juvenile 
offenders in detention and corrections facilities with arts 
programming, sites also are required to develop collaborative arts 
programs for youth returning to their communities. The grantees are 
receiving training and technical assistance support through a provider 
selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and OJJDP
    This program would be implemented by the six current grantees. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders Among Juvenile 
Detainees

    This project would supplement an ongoing National Institute of 
Mental Health longitudinal 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 related to violence, 
substance use, and HIV/AIDS. The study is investigating 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), and age (10-13, 14-
17). Initial interviews have been completed, and extensive archival 
data (arrest and incarceration history, health and mental health 
treatment, etc.) collected on each subject. The investigators have been 
tracking the subjects, and are now beginning to reinterview the 
adolescents. Because of their extensive and thorough tracking 
procedures, the investigators will be able to reinterview subjects 
regardless of whether they are back in the community, incarcerated, or 
have left the immediate area. The large sample size will provide 
sufficient statistical power to study rarer disorders (especially 
comorbidity), patterns of drug use, and risky, life-threatening 
behaviors. OJJDP funding for this project began in FY 1998.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, 
Northwestern University. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2000.

Communities In Schools, Inc.--Federal Interagency Partnership

    This program would continue an ongoing national school dropout 
prevention model developed and implemented by Communities In Schools, 
Inc. (CIS). CIS, Inc., provides training and technical assistance in 
adapting and implementing the CIS model in States and local 
communities. The model brings social, employment, mental health, drug 
prevention, entrepreneurship, and other resources to high-risk youth 
and their families in the school setting. Where they exist, CIS State 
organizations assume primary responsibility for local program 
replication during the Federal Interagency Partnership. The Partnership 
is based on enhancing (1) CIS, Inc., training and technical assistance 
capabilities; (2) CIS capability to introduce selected initiatives for 
youth at the local level; (3) the information dissemination capability 
of CIS; and (4) the capability of CIS to network with Federal agencies 
on behalf of State and local CIS programs. With OJJDP's support, CIS, 
Inc. would place a special focus within the CIS Network on family 
strengthening initiatives that benefit both youth and their families.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantee, 
Communities In Schools, Inc. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2000.

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 black religious leadership, in cooperation with the U.S. 
Department of Justice and other Federal agencies and organizations, to 
mobilize community residents to combat juvenile drug abuse and drug-
related violence. The CNBC National Anti-Drug Abuse/Violence Campaign 
(NADVC) is a partner in the Education Development Center's (EDC's) 
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 a local community's assessment of its drug, 
delinquency, violence, and hate crime problems.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Congress of National Black Churches. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 2000.

A Demonstration Afterschool Program

    The Demonstration Afterschool Program was funded in FY 1998 as a 
pilot afterschool program to reduce juvenile delinquency and increase 
school retention. This program, known as Estrella, offers the basic 
building blocks that are critical for preventing juvenile delinquency 
and provides youth with a chance to succeed academically and physically 
in an environment that is conducive to learning. 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. Elementary students are the target population 
for this effort. New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science 
Achievement (NM MESA) provides the academic component of the program, 
and middle and high school students act as mentors to the elementary 
students in a highly interactive learning environment. The Regents of 
the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research designed 
this program and is evaluating it, using both qualitative and 
quantitative methods. This project is at two sites, Loma Linda and 
Desert Trail Schools in the Gadsden Independent School District, in Don 
Ana County, New Mexico, and serves approximately 50 middle school 
students and 100 elementary school students from the six Gadsden High 
School feeder schools.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Regents of the University of New Mexico. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

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 is identifying factors that influence the adoption of 
the public health approach and assessing 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 
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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 2000.

Hate Crime

    Under an OJJDP grant competitively awarded in FY 1993, the 
Education Development Center (EDC) developed Healing the Hate: A 
National Bias Crime Prevention Curriculum for Middle Schools, a 
multipurpose curriculum for hate crime prevention in middle schools and 
other educational settings. In FY 1996, through an interagency 
agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, OJJDP expanded this 
grant to provide training and technical assistance to youth, educators, 
juvenile justice and law enforcement professionals, representatives of 
local public/private community agencies and organizations, and the 
faith community. In FY 1999, EDC provided training and technical 
assistance to new sites and further disseminated a training manual 
through education and juvenile justice networks. In the training area, 
EDC conducted a regional, multidisciplinary training for practitioners. 
This training presented current knowledge and best practices in the 
areas of hate crime prevention and response. EDC also conducted two 
trainings designed according to a train-the-trainers model, to create a 
cadre of trainers across the Nation to teach the importance of 
innovative, effective hate crime prevention and response strategies. 
Finally, EDC conducted hate crime prevention training sessions for 
policymakers at 15 national/State trainings targeted to reach juvenile 
justice, criminal justice, education, youth-serving programs, and 
youth. EDC also developed a hate crime prevention World Wide Web site 
(www.edc.org/hatecrime/html). During FY 1999, EDC produced a Spanish 
language version of Healing the Hate: A National Bias Crime Prevention 
Curriculum for Middle Schools. In addition, EDC established 
partnerships with other national organizations involved in hate crime 
prevention to maximize services, provide outreach opportunities, avoid 
duplication of efforts, and promote interdependent relationships in 
which referrals, information, and training are routinely exchanged.
    With continuation funding in FY 2000, EDC would continue to conduct 
hate crime prevention training sessions for policymakers at four 
national/State trainings targeted to reach juvenile justice, criminal 
justice, education, youth-serving programs and youth; develop a civil 
rights and hate crime prevention guide for youth in English and Spanish 
for hate crime response and prevention; and develop a training/resource 
guide to assist juvenile justice, criminal justice educators, and other 
professionals who may or may not attend the OJJDP policymaker training. 
EDC would produce an English and Spanish version of the National Center 
for Hate Crime Prevention brochure and continue to build partnerships 
with other national organizations involved in hate crime prevention.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, Education 
Development Center. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 
2000.

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 
the National Institute of Mental Health. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

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 Conflict 
Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, 
Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice 
Settings and an enhanced, interactive CD-ROM that teaches conflict 
resolution skills through the presentation of real-life situations that 
confront young people; and by partnering with State-level agencies to 
establish State training institutes and otherwise build local capacity 
to implement successful CRE programs for youth. The Center also 
facilitates peer-to-peer mentoring.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Illinois State Bar Association--Illinois LEARN. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Nurse Home Visitation

    In FY 2000, OJJDP would continue the integration of Prenatal and 
Early Childhood Nurse Home Visitation into five Operation Weed and Seed 
sites (Clearwater, FL; Fresno, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Oakland, CA; and 
Oklahoma City, OK) and one combined Weed and Seed/Safe Futures site 
(St. Louis, MO). Operation Weed and Seed is a national initiative to 
make communities safe through law enforcement activities and to rebuild 
crime-ridden communities across the country through social services and 
economic redevelopment. SafeFutures is an OJJDP 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 integration of the Prenatal and 
Early Childhood Nurse Home Visitation Program is co-funded by OJJDP, 
OJP's Executive Office for Weed and Seed, and the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services.
    Several rigorous studies of the Prenatal and Early Childhood Nurse 
Home Visitation Program model indicate that it reduces the risks for 
early antisocial behavior and prevents problems associated with youth 
crime and delinquency, such as child abuse, maternal substance abuse, 
and maternal criminal involvement. A 15-year followup of the original 
Nurse Home Visitation program found that adolescents whose mothers 
received home visitation services over a decade earlier were less 
likely to have run away, been arrested, and been convicted of a crime 
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had not received a nurse home visitor. They also had lower levels of 
cigarette and alcohol use.
    The current program being implemented in the six sites targets low 
income, first-time mothers and their infants to accomplish three goals: 
(1) Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women alter their health-
related behaviors, including use of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs; 
improve their nutrition; and reduce risk factors for premature 
delivery; (2) improve child health and development by helping parents 
provide more responsible and competent care for their children; and (3) 
improve families' economic self-sufficiency by helping parents develop 
a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their 
education, and find work.
    The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Colorado Health Services Center. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

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 videoconferencing 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, three events have been held 
with a fourth planned by October 15, 1999.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, Harvard 
University School of Public Health. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Proactive Youth Program

    In FY 1998, OJJDP funded the New Mexico Proactive Youth Program. 
The New Mexico Police Activities League (PAL) has implemented a 
statewide prevention project consisting of recreational, educational, 
and cultural activities for at-risk youth and their families. The goal 
of this effort 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. PAL programs and activities are open to all 
youth between the ages of 5 and 18 and their families. Special outreach 
efforts are made to target at-risk youth, including children from 
persistently low-income families, children with incarcerated family 
members, Native American youth living on reservations, and juveniles 
involved in gang activities. Local PAL programs have been initiated in 
the following New Mexico communities: Bloomfield, Cochiti, Gallup, Las 
Cruces, Lordsburg, Roswell, Santa Fe, and Tohatchi. During FY 2000, 
additional programs will be developed in Clovis, Grants, and Silver 
City and in Dona Ana County. This program is being evaluated by the 
Regents of the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social 
Research. The research design includes a process and outcome evaluation 
that will document and assess the implementation, effectiveness, and 
impact of this program.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Regents of the University of New Mexico. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

Professional Development in Effective Classroom and Conflict Management

    This North Carolina pilot initiative was designed to improve 
classroom management and to assist in the creation of safe learning 
environments. Funds will be awarded in FY 2000 to the current grantee, 
the Center for the Study of School Violence, to complete the initial 
phase of its pilot in partnership with the University of North Carolina 
and the North Carolina State Board of Education. 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.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Center 
for the Study of School Violence. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2000.

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), whose 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.
    This program will be implemented under the interagency agreement 
with the National Institute of Mental Health by the current grantee, 
the University of South Carolina. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2000.

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 with the Child Welfare League of 
America (CWLA), a nonprofit organization. CWLA recognizes that children 
and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems are among 
the most at risk for developing an alcohol or other drug problem (AOD). 
Typically these children have more risk factors than other children and 
fewer protective factors. This is especially true of youth in 
residential placement who have often witnessed or committed violent 
acts, have been physically or psychologically abused, have experienced 
failure and truancy in school, and have mental health and substance 
abuse problems.
    Staff members in the residential child care system often have 
little or no substance abuse training. CWLA's 1997 AOD survey 
documented that less than 25 percent of State child welfare agencies 
provide training to group residential staffs on recognizing and dealing 
with AOD problems. What further complicates this matter is that 
partnerships between AOD programs and child welfare facilities rarely 
exist, creating a lack of coordinated services for children of 
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for substance abusing youth in residential care.
    As a 2-year project, CWLA proposes to identify five residential 
child welfare sites, one in each of the CWLA's five regions, to 
demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating AOD prevention/treatment 
strategies into existing child welfare and juvenile justice programs 
and services, in order to educate staff and improve outcomes for 
adolescents participating in the programs. CWLA would also provide 
technical assistance to other member agencies replicating the various 
program models identified through their evaluations of the programs.
    This jointly funded project would be implemented by CWLA. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Training and Technical Assistance Program for the Arts Programs for 
Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections Initiative

    OJJDP is collaborating with the National Endowment for the Arts in 
providing the technical assistance program for the Arts Programs for 
Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections Initiative. Grady 
Hillman has been awarded a grant to provide technical assistance in the 
area of art-based programming for juvenile offenders to support program 
development and implementation; provide ongoing technical assistance, 
and publish a document on the implementation of arts programming in 
juvenile corrections and detention. The technical assistance will be 
for the purpose of ensuring focused, professional technical support for 
program development and implementation, including program design, 
artist selection and training, and interaction between the arts 
organizations and the juvenile justice system. The technical assistance 
materials that will be developed through this national initiative will 
provide a blueprint for communities that seek to undertake similar 
programs. The nature of the Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in 
Detention and Corrections affords a unique opportunity to develop new 
programs and enhance existing programs while creating documentation 
instrumentations for the juvenile justice system. The sites provided 
technical assistance are Bronx, NY; Gainesville, TX; Riviera Beach, FL; 
Rochester, NY; Seattle, WA; and Whittier, California.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, Grady 
Hillman. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program

    In FY 1998, OJJDP, the Executive Office for Weed and Seed within 
the Office of Justice Programs, and the U.S. Department of Education 
jointly engaged in a grant program to address truancy. This program 
specifically outlines four major comprehensive components: (1) System 
reform and accountability, (2) a service continuum to address the needs 
of children and adolescents who are truant, (3) data collection and 
evaluation, and (4) a community education and awareness program from 
kindergarten through grade 12 that addresses the need to prevent 
truancy and to intervene with youth who are truant. The goals of this 
program are to develop and implement or expand and strengthen 
comprehensive truancy programs that pool education, justice system, law 
enforcement, social services and community resources; identify truant 
youth; cooperatively design and implement comprehensive, systemwide 
programs to meet the needs of truants; and design and maintain systems 
for tracking truant youth. OJJDP has awarded funds for this program to 
eight sites: three non-Weed-and-Seed sites received up to $100,000 each 
(Honolulu, HI; Jacksonville, FL; and King County, WA), and five Weed 
and Seed sites received up to $50,000 each (Athens, GA; Houston, TX; 
Martinez, CA; Tacoma, WA; and Yaphank, NY). All sites are currently 
involved in a 6-month planning phase.
    It is anticipated that during the next 2 years, this program would 
focus on the development of implementation and evaluation plans that 
link youth and adolescents who are truant with community-based services 
and programs, as well as on a full implementation of the community's 
comprehensive systemwide plan to prevent and intervene with the problem 
of truancy. This program would be evaluated by the Colorado Foundation 
for Families and Children who would conduct a process evaluation that 
would identify factors contributing or impeding the successful 
implementation of a truancy program.
    Truancy activities would be carried out by the current grantees. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) Training Project

    The BARJ project's goal is to control juvenile delinquency through 
increased use of restitution, community service, and other innovative 
programs as part of a jurisdictionwide juvenile justice change from 
traditional retributive or rehabilitative system models to balanced and 
restorative justice orientation and procedures. The specific steps for 
achieving this goal involve preparation of materials and training of 
personnel interested in restorative justice and the ``balanced 
approach.'' The steps also include providing onsite technical 
assistance to selected State and local jurisdictions committed to 
implementing the balanced approach. Materials development in FY 2000 
will include documents containing information on restorative justice 
programs, practices, and policy directions. The materials will be 
useful for training juvenile justice system practitioners and managers 
on the BARJ model and for onsite technical assistance. The training and 
technical assistance will be delivered at regional and national 
roundtables, juvenile justice conferences, and specialized workshops. 
``Training of trainers'' programs will also be offered. There will be 
some concentration of BARJ technical assistance at the State level and 
on advancing judges' and prosecutors' leadership in the area of 
restorative justice. Further, there will be an effort to involve 
corporations and foundations in supporting BARJ and initial exploration 
of introducing BARJ in higher education.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Florida 
Atlantic University. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2000.

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 sources 
other than OJJDP. Funding by OJJDP began in FY 1998. Youth Law Center 
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initiative forward and will require additional time and funding to 
complete the initial identified goals.
    This continuation will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Youth Law Center. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2000.

Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement

    In FY 1997, 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. The CJRP was conducted for the second time in 
October 1999. Data collection efforts will continue into 2000. OJJDP 
anticipates delivery of the final data file by the end of FY 2000.
    This program would be implemented through an existing interagency 
agreement with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

Circles of Care Program

    In FY 1998, the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) initiated 
a program entitled ``Circles of Care'' to build the capacity of 
selected Native American Tribes to develop a continuum of care for 
Native American youth at risk of mental health, substance abuse, and 
delinquency problems. As part of multiyear joint efforts with CMHS, 
OJJDP entered into a 3-year interagency agreement to provide funding 
support to the Circles of Care Program. OJJDP transferred funds in FY's 
1998 and 1999 to CMHS to support the funding of one of nine sites. The 
Circles of Care Program is designed to facilitate the planning and 
development of a continuum of care.
    The currently funded projects will continue in FY 2000 through an 
interagency agreement with the Center for Mental Health Services. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Community Assessment Center

    The Community Assessment Center (CAC) program is a multicomponent 
demonstration initiative designed to test the efficacy of the CAC 
concept. CAC's provide a 24-hour centralized point of intake and 
assessment for juveniles who have or are likely to come into contact 
with the juvenile justice system. The main purpose of a CAC is to 
facilitate earlier and more efficient prevention and intervention 
service delivery at the ``front end'' of the juvenile justice system. 
In FY 1997, OJJDP funded two planning grants and two enhancement grants 
to existing assessment centers for a 1-year project period, a CAC 
evaluation, and a technical assistance component.
    Based on a limited competition among the four sites, in FY 1998, 
OJJDP provided additional funding for 12 months to one of the initial 
planning sites (Lee County Sheriff's Office in Lee County, FL) and to 
one of the initial enhancement sites (Jefferson Center for Mental 
Health in Jefferson County, CO). The two other sites (Human Service 
Associates, Inc. (HSA) in Orlando, FL, and the Denver Juvenile Court in 
Denver, CO) received increased funding from Juvenile Accountability 
Incentive Block Grant funds to develop a fully operational CAC, 
including all four CAC conceptual elements. Increased funding was also 
provided to the national evaluator, the National Council on Crime and 
Delinquency.
    During year 2, the Lee County Sheriff's Office worked to design and 
implement a comprehensive management information system that will serve 
as the backbone of the future assessment center. The Jefferson Center 
for Mental Health further enhanced its assessment center by conducting 
an intensive review of existing assessment tools and enhancing the case 
management process. In addition, both Denver and Orlando (HSA) began 
developing fully operational CAC's.
    In FY 2000, OJJDP will provide additional funding to support the 
full implementation of OJJDP's CAC concept to the current grantees in 
Denver and Orlando. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2000.

Comprehensive Children and Families Mental Health Training and 
Technical Assistance

    Under an FY 1999 interagency agreement, OJJDP transferred funds to 
the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) to support the new 
contract for training and technical assistance for the CMHS-funded 
Comprehensive Mental Health sites. These funds will be used to enhance 
the involvement of the juvenile justice system in the systems of care 
that are being developed in each of the CMHS-funded sites. Funds will 
again be transferred to CMHS in FY 2000 to support the training and 
technical assistance and to meet the terms of the 3-year interagency 
agreement.
    OJJDP will support this initiative through an interagency agreement 
with the Center for Mental Health Services. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

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

    OJJDP has been providing support for development of its 
Comprehensive Strategy for several years. This project will complete 
ongoing strategic planning efforts in two States, Oregon and Wisconsin, 
and provide implementation support in six States that have completed 
the strategic planning process. OJJDP will also explore the addition of 
two or more Comprehensive Strategy States in FY 2000. As in the 
original eight States, up to six local jurisdictions would be 
identified to receive Comprehensive Strategy planning training and 
technical assistance. OJJDP will continue to provide technical 
assistance to further assist States and local jurisdictions, through 
training and technical assistance, in developing and implementing the 
Comprehensive Strategy. Further development and update of the Guide for 
Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders will be completed in FY 2000.
    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 
2000.

Development of Conduct Disorder in Girls

    The purpose of this project is to examine the development of 
conduct disorder in a sample of 2,500 inner-city girls who are ages 6 
to 8 at the beginning of the study. The study will follow the girls 
annually for 5 years and will provide information that is critical to 
the understanding of the etiology, comorbidity, and prognosis of 
conduct disorder in girls. This project is important because 
delinquency in girls has been steadily increasing over the past decade 
and a better understanding of the developmental processes in girls will 
help in identifying effective means of prevention and provide direction 
for juvenile justice responses to delinquent girls. The program is 
being funded under an FY 1999 interagency agreement between OJJDP and 
the National Institute of Mental Health.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
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Pittsburgh. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Evaluation of the Department of Labor's Education and Training for 
Youthful Offenders Initiative

    This evaluation will document the activities undertaken by two 
States awarded grants under the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) 
Education and Training for Youthful Offenders Initiative. Each DOL 
grantee will provide comprehensive school-to-work education and 
training within a juvenile correctional facility and followup and job 
placement services as youth return to the community. It is intended 
that the comprehensive services developed under these grants will serve 
as models for other juvenile correctional facilities across the 
country.
    The OJJDP-sponsored evaluation of these projects will be conducted 
in two phases. During Phase I, a process evaluation will be conducted 
at each site to document the extent to which educational, job training, 
and aftercare services were enhanced with DOL funding. Also, the 
feasibility of conducting an impact evaluation at each site will be 
determined during Phase I. Phase II will entail conducting an impact 
evaluation at one or both sites. For those sites where a rigorous 
impact evaluation can be conducted, the effects of the program on job-
related skills, employment, earnings, academic performance, and 
recidivism will be measured.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program

    In FY 1995, OJJDP competitively awarded a grant to the National 
Council on Crime and Delinquency 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, which 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 
searching 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, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

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 and changes in teens' perceptions of justice and 
their ability to make more mature judgments. 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 
2000.

Helping Communities To Promote Youth Development

    OJJDP would continue to provide support to the Institute of 
Medicine/National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences for a 
review and synthesis of existing evidence regarding the effectiveness 
of community-level interventions and service programs designed to 
promote positive youth development. The strengths and limitations of 
measurement and methodologies used to evaluate these interventions will 
be assessed, as well as policy and programmatic implications of this 
research. 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.
    OJJDP would implement this program through an interagency agreement 
with the National Academy of Sciences. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 2000.

Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Dissemination 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 
three sites would complete 5 years of program development and 
implementation in FY 2000. Followup data collection would continue into 
FY 2000 to capture information on youth who transitioned back into the 
community. In late FY 1999, Johns Hopkins University, the current 
grantee, would shift its focus from primarily providing training and 
technical assistance to grantees to developing a comprehensive 
dissemination, training, and technical assistance effort to State 
juvenile justice systems throughout the United States.
    The IAP project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Johns Hopkins University. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 1999.

Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center

    In FY 1999, OJJDP competitively funded the American Bar Association 
(ABA) to develop and implement the Juvenile Defender Training, 
Technical Assistance, and Resource Center (Juvenile Defender Center) to 
support training and technical assistance and to serve as a 
clearinghouse and resource center for juvenile defenders in this 
country. Recognizing that a lack of training, technical assistance, and 
resources for juvenile defenders weakens the juvenile justice system 
and results in a lack of due process for juvenile offenders, OJJDP 
provided seed money in FY 1999 to fund the initial planning and 
implementation of a Juvenile Defender Center. The grantee is expected 
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will provide or help develop financial resources to assist in 
sustaining a permanent Center. The Center will be designed to provide 
both general and specialized training and technical assistance to 
juvenile defenders in the United States. The design will also 
incorporate a resource center for purposes such as serving as a 
repository for the most recent litigation on key issues, a collection 
of sample briefs, and information on expert witnesses.
    This project will be carried out by the current grantee, the 
American Bar Association. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2000.

Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

    This American Prosecutors Research Institute project's goal is to 
increase and improve prosecutor involvement in juvenile justice. The 
project will pursue continuing needs assessment by a working group of 
experienced prosecutors regarding district attorney requirements in the 
juvenile area. The project will design and present specialized training 
events for elected and appointed district attorneys and for juvenile 
unit chiefs. The training will deal with prosecutor leadership roles in 
the juvenile justice system and with the clarification or resolution of 
important juvenile justice issues. Such issues are expected to include 
juvenile policy, code revisions, resource allocation, charging, 
transfer to criminal courts, alternative juvenile programs, 
confinement, record confidentiality, and collaboration with other 
agencies. Training will also address certain evolving juvenile justice 
areas, such as community prosecution, community justice, restorative 
justice, community assessment centers, and mental health concerns, 
among others. In addition, the project will continue to develop 
training and reference materials pertaining to significant juvenile 
justice topics.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Prosecutors Research Institute. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

    As part of a long-term relationship with the Bureau of the Census, 
OJJDP proposes to continue to fund the development and testing of a new 
census of juvenile residential facilities. This census would focus on 
those facilities that are authorized to hold juveniles based on contact 
with the juvenile justice system. From interviews with facility 
administrators and staff at 20 locations, project staff have produced a 
detailed report discussing how best to capture information on 
education, mental health and substance abuse treatment, health 
services, conditions of custody, staffing, and facility capacity. 
Project staff have also drafted and tested a questionnaire based on the 
interview results. The census was tested in October 1998. Census Bureau 
staff will prepare a report on the results of this test and make 
specific recommendations concerning changes and census implementation. 
In 2000, OJJDP and Census will work together to finalize the census 
format and data collection methods. The census will be administered for 
the first time in October 2000.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division and Statistical 
Research Division. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 
2000.

Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)

    This project addresses effective interventions with the at-risk and 
delinquent youthful population of Vermont, combined with Vermont's 
determination to raise, support, teach, and nurture youth in their 
communities. As a rural state, Vermont faces many of the same issues 
plaguing larger, urban States, including underage drinking, drug abuse, 
education failure, and mental health issues. 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 for their actions 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. Based on the Balanced and Restorative Justice 
(BARJ) philosophy of reparation, rather than retribution, the LIBRA 
project has created a network of Juvenile Reparative Boards, which hold 
youth immediately accountable for their actions and provide direct 
services to youth, parents, victims, and community members. The project 
will also continue to pilot Community Justice Centers, which 
demonstrate that the community is the core of the justice process and 
recognize youth as a vital part of the community. Also, a curriculum of 
Competency Training Classes for youthful offenders and youth at risk of 
delinquency will be maintained and will focus on conflict resolution, 
social skills, problem solving, and decisionmaking.
    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 2000.

National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project

    In 1998, OJJDP established the National Juvenile Justice Data 
Analysis Project (NJJDAP) to serve the critical information needs of 
the juvenile justice community and OJJDP. The NJJDAP produces analyses 
and disseminates statistical information to the public and to State and 
local policymakers. The project serves as a principal resource to 
accentuate and enhance OJJDP's ability to provide quality information 
to the field of juvenile justice. The project uses many national data 
sources to examine issues critical to the juvenile justice system. The 
data sources used are not limited to criminal justice or juvenile 
justice data. In 1999, the NJJDAP has produced analyses based on the 
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), operated by the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics. The NLSY is a national self-report survey of youth 
that includes several measures of juvenile offending. Also, the NJJDAP 
has produced analyses of the Census of Juveniles in Residential 
Placement.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 2000.

National Juvenile Justice 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 consists of 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. During 2000, the Census Bureau would continue to maintain the 
currently available portions of the directory and would explore 
expansions needed to monitor other areas of juvenile justice such as 
nonresidential correctional programs and juvenile court staff.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97

    OJJDP proposes continuing to support the third round of data 
collection, begun

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in FY 1997, by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 (NLSY97) 
through an interagency agreement with the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
(BLS). The 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. The 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 to a nationally representative population of 
youth.
    The program would be implemented by the BLS under an interagency 
agreement. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention 
Facilities

    Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention 
Facilities Program, which began with a competitive OJJDP cooperative 
agreement awarded to the Council of Juvenile Correctional 
Administrators (CJCA) in FY 1995, has developed a performance 
management system for the management of juvenile correctional 
facilities. The system provides tools for monitoring and improving 
outcomes in six critical facility functions: providing security, 
safety, order, health care, educational, and mental health programming 
within a context that protects individual rights. Currently, 32 
facilities, including 2 State systems, have begun the implementation 
process, which consists of the data collection and analysis of baseline 
data; the development of an initial facility improvement plan, which 
may include financial support to make improvements; and reassessment 
and revision of the facility improvement plan. During FY 2000, the 
program itself is undergoing refinements to improve management of the 
process for the facilities. In addition, approximately 15 new sites 
will begin the process, using streamlined data collection and new 
diagnostic tools. In addition to working with the participating 
facilities during this funding period, the project will finalize the 
implementation model; revise instruments, as needed; and develop 
criteria for determining full implementation, including the testing of 
community release measures. Where appropriate, the project will 
establish performance benchmarks and develop analytical reports 
regarding facility and system change that has occurred in the test 
sites.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2000.

San Francisco Juvenile Justice Local Action Plan--Delancy Street 
Initiative

    In FY 1998, OJJDP provided funding to the City and County of San 
Francisco, CA, to support the implementation of a comprehensive effort 
to reform the city's juvenile justice system. San Francisco's 
Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Local Action Plan, facilitated by the 
Delancy Street Foundation CIRCLE (Coalition to Revitalize Communities, 
Lives and Environments), represents the culmination of a unique, 
collaborative needs assessment of the existing juvenile justice system. 
Based on this assessment, San Francisco identified six of the most 
critical gaps in the juvenile justice system and proposed programs to 
fill those gaps: Community Assessment and Referral Center, Early Risk 
and Resiliency, Safe Haven, Safe Corridor, the Life Learning Academy, 
and the Life Learning Residential Center for Girls. These six programs 
originated from the needs assessment and are a product of teams 
composed of representatives from San Francisco and its diverse 
communities.
    In FY 1999, OJJDP provided funding to enhance services offered at 
the Life Learning Residential Center (Academy), an intensive life-
changing, day treatment program designed to turn around the lives of 
youth with multiple problems that include multigenerational poverty, 
gang involvement, drug abuse, disciplinary problems, and school 
dropouts and failure. The Academy aims to strengthen a youth's bond 
with his family and extended family and the community, while providing 
complete ``life learning'' instruction and education. Funding will also 
be used for program replication throughout the country.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the City 
and County of San Francisco, in FY 2000. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2000.

Survey of Juvenile Probation

    OJJDP proposes to continue to support the development of a survey 
of juvenile probation offices. This survey will lead directly to 
national estimates of the numbers of juveniles on probation at a given 
time. OJJDP began this effort in 1996 with assessments of current 
knowledge of probation and the need for information on this aspect of 
juvenile justice. The development efforts have so far included site 
visits to three State probation departments and local probation 
departments in those States. An additional seven States will be visited 
in the coming year. Based on this information, the Center for Survey 
Methods Research (CSMR) at the Bureau of the Census will develop a 
survey methodology and a survey questionnaire. The plans for this 
survey have expanded by necessity to include efforts (already under way 
under a separate agreement with the Bureau of the Census) to list and 
categorize juvenile probation offices nationally. Working with OJJDP, 
the Census Bureau will develop a list of probation offices and several 
categorizations of these offices to facilitate the development of a 
sampling scheme. In the coming year, OJJDP and the Census Bureau will 
continue working on the specifications for this list and continue 
efforts to develop the list. Also, working with the Governments 
Division of the Bureau of the Census, OJJDP will take the necessary 
preliminary steps needed to implement the survey. OJJDP anticipates the 
first Survey of Juvenile Probation will take place in calendar year 
2002.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2000.

Technical Assistance to Native American Tribes and Alaskan Native 
Communities

    The Technical Assistance to Native American Tribes and Alaskan 
Native Communities Program is designed to equip tribal governments with 
the necessary information and tools to enhance or develop 
comprehensive, systemwide approaches to reduce juvenile delinquency, 
violence, and victimization and increase the safety of their 
communities. In FY 1997, OJJDP awarded a 3-year cooperative agreement 
to the American Indian Development Associates (AIDA) to provide 
training and technical assistance to Indian nations seeking to improve 
juvenile justice services to children, youth, and families.
    Throughout FY's 1998 and 1999, AIDA continued to provide technical 
assistance to Indian nations and developed information materials for 
Indian juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and 
policymakers. Topic areas covered Indian youth gangs; personnel 
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conducting effective preadjudication investigations and preparing 
reports; developing protocols to implement State Children's Code 
provisions that affect Native American children; establishing 
sustainable, comprehensive community-based planning processes that 
focus on the needs of tribal youth; and developing and implementing 
culturally relevant policies, programs, and practices. The technical 
assistance and materials also addressed the overlapping roles and 
jurisdiction of Federal, State, and tribal justice systems, 
particularly in understanding the laws and public policies applicable 
to or effective in Indian communities.
    In FY 2000, OJJDP would continue to promote and provide technical 
assistance to tribes seeking to develop and enhance their juvenile 
justice systems. AIDA would provide training and technical assistance 
in the following emphasis areas: developing a community-based secondary 
prevention program; developing a tribal justice probation system; 
developing multidisciplinary approaches to youth gang violence 
prevention; establishing risk assessment and classification systems; 
developing comprehensive strategies to handle offenders; expanding 
referral and service delivery systems; developing cooperative 
interagency and intergovernmental relationships; and developing 
technology to improve systems and increased access to juvenile justice 
information.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Indian Development Associates. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative

    In FY 1998, OJJDP, in partnership with the U.S. Department of 
Labor's (DOL's) Employment and Training Administration, provided 
funding support to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to demonstrate and 
evaluate 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, and in 1999, the number of sites was expanded to 
45. These 45 clubs are provided funding support to hire an employment 
specialist to work with the youth. Boys & Girls Clubs of America 
provides intensive training and technical assistance to each site and 
administrative and staffing support to the program from the national 
office. OJJDP funds support the evaluation component of the program, 
which is being implemented by an independent evaluator.
    This jointly funded Department of Labor and OJJDP initiative will 
be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys & Girls Clubs of 
America. 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, NJ; Oklahoma City, OK; and the Rhode Island Juvenile 
Corrections System) for onsite development, implementation, and testing 
of procedures to reduce crowding. All three original sites have 
completed their work. The grantee is exploring additional sites for 
comprehensive training and technical assistance in FY 2000. NJDA would 
also be initiating its Jurisdictional Team Training Course in FY 2000 
at three sites that are experiencing overcrowding in their juvenile 
facilities.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Juvenile Detention Association. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2000.

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 an assessment 
of the feasibility of an impact evaluation. Westat will continue the 
process evaluation, which will now focus on tracking the implementation 
efforts at each of the sites; continue developing the national impact 
evaluation; and continue working with local evaluators to develop their 
capacity to evaluate programs. Also, Westat will add a fifth site to 
the evaluation.
    This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, Westat, 
Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2000.

Research on Child Neglect

    In FY 2000, OJJDP will join several other Federal agencies, 
including the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of 
Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Department of Health 
and Human Services' National Institutes of Health and Administration on 
Children, Youth, and Families (the Neglect Consortium), in funding 
research projects that will enhance understanding of the etiology, 
extent, services, treatment, management, and prevention of child 
neglect. This multiagency effort addresses the lack of research 
focusing specifically on the issue of child neglect. Child neglect may 
relate to profound health consequences, place children at higher risk 
for a variety of diseases and conditions, and interfere with normal 
social, cognitive, and affective development. Thus, child neglect is a 
serious public health, justice, social services, and education problem, 
not only compromising the immediate health of the Nation's children, 
but also threatening their growth and intellectual development, their 
long-term physical and mental health outcomes, their propensity for 
prosocial behavior, their future parenting practices, and their 
economic productivity.
    The research studies funded by this initiative can focus on a range 
of issues, including, but not limited to, the following: the 
antecedents of neglect; the consequences of neglect; the processes and 
mediators accounting for or influencing the effects of neglect; and 
treatment, preventive intervention, and service delivery.
    This program will be implemented through an interagency agreement 
with the National Institutes of Health. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 2000.

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 
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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 (Chittenden County, VT; 
Huntsville, AL; Kansas City, MO; the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians, MI; and Toledo, OH). Funds were provided by OJJDP, the 
Executive Office for Weed and Seed, and the Violence Against Women 
Office.
    In FY 2000, continuation awards will be made to each of the current 
demonstration sites. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2000.
    The programs described above will further OJJDP's goals and help to 
consolidate and continue the gains made in the past few years in 
combating juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP welcomes 
comments on this Proposed Program Plan.

    Dated: October 8, 1999.
Shay Bilchik,
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-26797 Filed 10-14-99; 8:45 am]
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