[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53692-53710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Proposed Plan for Fiscal Year 2002; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

[OJP (OJJDP)-1337]


Proposed Plan for Fiscal Year 2002

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

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Program Plan for fiscal year 2002.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is 
publishing this notice of its Proposed Plan for fiscal year (FY) 2002.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Terrence S. Donauhue, Acting 
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 
810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. In the lower left hand 
corner of the envelope clearly write, ``Proposed Program Plan 
Comments.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention 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 Acting Administrator of OJJDP is publishing for public 
comment a Proposed Plan describing the program activities that OJJDP 
proposes to carry out during fiscal year (FY) 2002 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 Plan, the Acting Administrator will develop and publish 
OJJDP's Final Plan describing the particular program activities that 
OJJDP intends to fund during FY 2002, 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 FY 2002 appropriation is 
not yet final. Depending on the final appropriation, OJJDP may alter 
how its programs are structured and will make any necessary 
modifications to this Proposed Program Plan when it is published in 
final form following the public comment period. The proposals presented 
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 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 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 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 performs its role of national leadership in 
juvenile justice and delinquency prevention through a cycle of 
activities. These include the following:
     Collecting data and statistics to determine the extent and 
nature of issues affecting juveniles.
     Supporting research studies that can lead to program 
demonstrations; testing and evaluating demonstration projects; and 
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.
     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.
    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 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 funds 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. Under Title IV, OJJDP administers the Missing and Exploited 
Children's Program.
    Other programs administered by OJJDP include the following:
     Drug Prevention Program.
     Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program.
     Safe Schools Initiative.
     Tribal Youth Program.
     Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative.
     Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program.
     Programs under the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as 
amended, 42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.
    In this Proposed Plan, OJJDP provides a brief overview of its FY 
2002 program priorities. The plan also describes projects that may 
receive funding under Part C (National Programs) and Part D (Gang-Free 
Schools and Communities; Community-Based Gang Intervention) of Title II 
of the JuvenileJustice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The described 
projects are those that may receive Part C or Part D FY 2002 
continuation funding under project period or discretionary continuation 
assistance awards. In addition to this plan, OJJDP intends to publish 
An Overview of OJJDP's FY 2002 Program Plan, which will summarize 
proposed activities to be supported under OJJDP's other funding 
streams. Readers can order a copy of the publication from OJJDP's 
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse via the Web (http://puborder.ncjrs.org/Content/search.asp) or by calling 800-638-8736 (choose option 2 to 
speak to a specialist or choose option 1 to have a copy faxed to you). 
OJJDP's Web site (www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org) lists all OJJDP grants and 
funding opportunities.

Fiscal Year 2002 Program Planning Activities

    The OJJDP program planning process for FY 2002 is being coordinated 
with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, and 
all OJP components. The program planning process involves the following 
steps:

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     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.

FY 2002 Program Priorities

    During FY 2002, OJJDP will focus its efforts on programs that help 
prevent or intervene in delinquent behavior by funding activities that 
provide youth with the skills and values necessary to make choices that 
lead to positive outcomes. OJJDP also will focus on programs that hold 
youth accountable for their delinquent actions and on initiatives that 
prepare serious and violent juvenile offenders to successfully return 
home to their communities after they leave correctional institutions 
and training schools.
    OJJDP program priorities in FY 2002 will encompass the following 
five broad areas:
     Capacity building in community- and faith-based 
organizations.
     Youth reentry programs.
     Juvenile drug use prevention programs.
     Juvenile gun violence prevention programs.
     School violence prevention programs.
    OJJDP will design a new discretionary Community Initiative to 
mobilize and maximize the resources of community- and faith-based 
organizations and build their capacity to address the needs of at-risk 
and delinquent youth through prevention, intervention, and treatment 
services. The initiative will support community-based organizations, 
including those that are faith-based, in applying for and implementing 
Federal, State, and local programs. These services could include 
mentoring at-risk youth and children of prisoners, providing shelter 
for abused and neglected children, and sponsoring afterschool programs. 
OJJDP also hopes to assist community- and faith-based organizations in 
establishing partnerships with Federal, State, and local justice and 
social service agencies and to encourage their cooperation, sharing of 
resources, and expansion of efforts within States. In addition, OJJDP 
encourages community- and faith-based organizations to apply for 
Juvenile Mentoring Program grants funded under Part G of Title II of 
the JJDP Act.
    A new Youth Reentry Initiative will address issues related to three 
target populations: Serious youthful offenders (ages 14-18), Native 
American youth, and juvenile sex offenders. OJJDP will develop and 
provide information resources and training and technical assistance to 
help communities design programs, based on promising and best 
practices, that will help serious juvenile offenders when they return 
home to their communities after leaving State training or correctional 
facilities. These reentry programs will direct resources at housing, 
substance abuse and mental health intervention and treatment, 
education, and employment, and will assist these youth in establishing 
support systems integral to their ultimate success in remaining crime- 
and drug-free.
    Recognizing the importance of breaking the cycle of juvenile drug 
abuse and the serious delinquent behavior which often results, OJJDP 
will develop a demonstration program to help communities select and 
replicate promising and model drug prevention programs. The initiative 
also will include a national evaluation.
    During FY 2002, OJJDP will consider developing or enhancing 
existing programs that address juvenile gun violence policies that 
deter juveniles from purchasing or carrying guns and encourage stricter 
enforcement of existing gun laws. OJJDP plans to fund programs that 
help prevent school violence by stressing zero tolerance of seriously 
disruptive students and tougher penalties for youth who bring guns to 
school.

Primary Program Goals

    In addition to the above priorities, the discretionary programs 
OJJDP administers under Parts C and D of Title II typically address one 
or more of the four goals that OJJDP has identified as necessary to 
ensure 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- and faith-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.

Fiscal Year 2002 Programs

    OJJDP has organized its proposed programs under four broad 
categories that reflect these four program goals. These categories are 
Public Safety and Law Enforcement, Delinquency Prevention and 
Intervention, Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System, and Child 
Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Cases. A fifth category (Overarching) 
contains programs with significant elements common to more than one of 
the other four categories. The programs that OJJDP may support in FY 
2002 with Parts C and D funds (based on funding availability, grantee 
performance, and other factors) are listed alphabetically and 
summarized below.
    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.

Continuation Discretionary Grants

    The continuation projects listed in this proposed program plan are 
those currently funded in whole or in part with Part C and Part D funds 
and eligible for continuation funding in FY 2002, either as part of an 
existing project period or through an extension for an additional 
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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 the availability of funds.
    OJJDP will base consideration for continuation funding for an 
additional project period for previously funded discretionary grant 
programs on several factors, including the following:
     The extent to which the project meets the applicable 
requirements of the JJDP Act.
     Responsiveness to OJJDP and Department of Justice FY 2002 
program priorities and goals.
     Compliance with performance requirements of prior grant 
years.
     Compliance with fiscal and regulatory requirements.
     Compliance with any special conditions of the award.
     Availability of funds (based on appropriations and program 
priority determinations).
    In accordance with section 262 (d)(1)(B) of the JJDP Act, as 
amended, 42 U.S.C. 5665a, the competitive process for the award of Part 
C funds is not required if the (Acting) Administrator makes a written 
determination waiving the competitive process:
    1. With respect to programs to be carried out in areas with respect 
to which the President declares under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act codified at 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. 
that a major disaster or emergency exists, or
    2. With respect to a particular program described in Part C that is 
uniquely qualified.

Fiscal Year 2002 Program Listing

Overarching

American Statistical Association Crime and Justice Committee Coalition 
for Juvenile Justice
Insular Area Support
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project
National Reporting System for Formula Grants Program
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
Technical Assistance for State Legislatures
Understanding and Monitoring the ``Whys'' Behind Juvenile Crime Trends

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang 
Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program
Evaluation of the Comprehensive Gang Model: An Enhanced School Approach
Evaluation of the Rural Gang Initiative
Gang-Free Schools and Communities Initiative
Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)
Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program
National Youth Gang Center
Rural Gang Initiative Demonstration Sites
Technical Assistance to the Gang-Free Schools and Communities 
Initiative

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders Among Juvenile Detainees
Comprehensive Children and Families Mental Health Training and 
Technical Assistance
Evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program
Integrated Information Sharing To Prevent Juvenile Delinquency: A 
Training and Technical Assistance Approach
Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior
Investing in Youth for a Safer Future
Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center
Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention 
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
National Center for Conflict Resolution Education
National Youth Court Center
Pathways to Desistance: A Prospective Study of Serious Adolescent 
Offenders
Race Against Drugs/Stay on Track Curriculum Evaluation
Technical Assistance for the Title V Community Prevention Programs
Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program
Violence Intervention and Prevention Protocol

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Accountability-Based Training for Staff in Juvenile Confinement 
Facilities
Balanced and Restorative Justice
Building Blocks for Youth
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement
Center for Students With Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System
Connecticut/Cook County (IL) Girls Collaborative
Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and 
Chronic Juvenile Offenders
Evaluation of Teen Courts
Girls Study Group Project
Improving Juvenile Sanctioning: An Intensive Training and Technical 
Assistance Delivery Program
Intensive Community-Based Juvenile Aftercare Dissemination and 
Technical Assistance Program
James E. Gould Memorial Program for Training and Technical Assistance 
for Juvenile Corrections and Detention
Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit
Juvenile Residential Facility Census
Longitudinal Study To Examine the Development of Conduct Disorder in 
Girls
Meta-Analysis Project
National Census and Survey of Juvenile Probation
National Evaluation of the Performance-based Standards Project
National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project
National Juvenile Justice Program Directory
National Juvenile Sex Offenders Training Project
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
National Training and Technical Assistance for Effective Juvenile 
Detention and Corrections Practices
Performance-based Standards Project
Survey of Youth in Residential Placement
Systems Improvement Training and Technical Assistance
Training Programs for Juvenile Justice Professionals in Corrections and 
Detention
Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce 
Disproportionate Minority Confinement

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

Evaluation of the Parents Anonymous Program
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

American Statistical Association Crime and Justice Committee

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Justice Statistics (BJS), began funding the American Statistical 
Association (ASA) Committee on Crime and Justice Statistics to support 
the committee's work and to sponsor a methodology and statistics grant 
program. ASA-sponsored grants and activities seek to improve the 
quality and utility of juvenile-related Federal Bureau of Investigation 
(FBI) data, in particular county-level arrest and homicide data. A 
specific research agenda for these funds will be developed jointly by 
OJJDP, BJS, the FBI, and the ASA Law and Justice Statistics Committee. 
This joint OJJDP and BJS activity should improve the processing of 
these files and make the two offices' public presentation of the final 
data more consistent. Funds in FY 2002 would support the further 
development of the research agenda and the continued improvement of the 
juvenile justice data.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Statistical Association. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

    This project supports the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, an 
organization composed of member representatives of State Advisory 
Groups appointed by State Governors under section 223(a)(3) of the JJDP 
Act to establish policies and priorities for the Formula Grants 
program. Pursuant to statutory requirements, the Coalition will conduct 
an annual conference of member representatives; disseminate information 
on data, standards, advanced techniques, and program models developed 
and funded by OJJDP; offer training on how to work with the media on 
juvenile justice issues; and review Federal policies regarding juvenile 
justice and delinquency prevention. The Coalition also advises the 
OJJDP Administrator with respect to the work of OJJDP and advises the 
President and Congress with regard to State perspectives on the 
operation of OJJDP and on Federal legislation pertaining to juvenile 
justice and delinquency prevention.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Coalition for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Insular Area Support

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

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 
information needs of the juvenile justice community, policymakers, 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 operates several electronic information 
resources, including OJJDP's Web site. NCJRS is administered by the 
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under a competitively awarded 
contract to Aspen Systems Corporation. FY 2002 is the fourth year of a 
4-year project period.
    This project will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen 
Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2002.

Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project

    The Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project (JJTAP) 
has been funded by OJJDP since 1995. The grantee, Eastern Kentucky 
University (EKU), provides OJJDP with the technical expertise and 
necessary equipment to conduct national satellite videoconferences and 
technical assistance for training and information dissemination 
purposes. Through the use of live videoconferences and Internet 
technology, OJJDP has reached thousands of juvenile justice 
professionals simultaneously to inform the field of the latest 
developments in research, best practices, and promising programs in an 
expeditious and relatively inexpensive manner. These videoconferences 
are designed to address specific issues and allow interaction between 
experts and the viewing audience during call-in segments.
    In addition to satellite technology, this project has used the 
Internet since 1999 to reach an even greater audience. Five of the 
videoconferences have been Webcast live on the Internet, and all past 
videoconferences are available for viewing, in their entirety, on the 
project's Web site archive. Written materials accompanying each 
broadcast are sent to each downlink site and are available to anyone to 
download from the Internet. Videotapes and associated written materials 
for all past videoconferences are available for purchase through the 
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse. JJTAP has provided technical assistance 
on satellite videoconferencing to a large number of organizations and 
has published the Satellite Teleconferencing Resource Manual, a 
resource document for agencies interested in delivering training via 
satellite.
    In FY 2002, all videoconferences will be available via satellite 
and the Internet. Four new videoconferences will be developed and 
marketed through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. EKU 
also will continue providing limited technical assistance in the use of 
telecommunications technology to other juvenile justice agencies.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, Eastern 
Kentucky University. No additional applications would be solicited in 
FY 2002.

National Reporting System for Formula Grants Program

    The National Reporting System will allow OJJDP to continue 
assisting States in reporting program information as required for 
participation in the Title II, Part B State Formula Grants Program. 
Under this project, States gain the capacity to efficiently submit 
program information to OJJDP. In this second year of the cooperative 
agreement, a new data collection tool will be piloted and subsequently 
refined. The data obtained using this new collection tool will be 
analyzed and disseminated to provide a national picture of juvenile 
justice programming.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Justice Research and Statistics Association. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2002.

National Resource Center for Safe Schools

    OJJDP established the National Resource Center for Safe Schools 
(NRCSS) in 1998 by funding, along with the U.S. Department of 
Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, the Northwest Regional 
Educational Laboratory (NWREL) to provide intensive training, technical 
assistance, and data collection to strengthen statewide and local safe 
school initiatives. The mission of NRCSS is to implement a training and 
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and communities create and maintain safe learning environments that are 
free of crime and violence. NRCSS's approach assumes that the 
development of a safe school environment cannot be isolated from an 
overall school improvement plan that includes community services 
agencies. This approach provides safe schools programs with a solid 
foundation that embraces diversity, builds resiliency, and provides 
educational programming, such as anger management, peer mediation, and 
conflict resolution (however, such programming is not appropriate in 
cases involving dating violence or sexual harassment).
    NRCSS's accomplishments to date include developing a database and 
services to support crisis response referrals; holding 3 advisory 
committee meetings; publishing 8 newsletters, 12 fact sheets, and 1 
case study; establishing a training and technical assistance calendar, 
a pool of providers, and a toll-free phone number; and developing a 
training curriculum protocol and a curriculum manual for the project.
    In FY 2002, NRCSS will identify and focus on the 10 areas of 
concern that are most important to creating safer schools. NRCSS will 
take a consolidated approach to these 10 areas of concern and will 
support schools in their efforts to implement other effective OJJDP 
initiatives such as mentoring, youth courts, bullying, and conflict 
resolution.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

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. In FY 2000, a 
competitive 1-year contract was awarded to Caliber Associates to 
continue implementation of the Center; a second contract was awarded to 
Caliber through a competitive process in FY 2001. Renewal of this 
contract for project implementation is anticipated annually over a 3-
year period, based on availability of funds and satisfactory 
performance.
    NTTAC serves as a national training and technical assistance 
repository, inventorying and coordinating the integrated delivery of 
juvenile justice training and technical assistance resources and 
establishing a database of these resources. Past NTTAC activities 
included convening the first in a series of annual OJJDP training and 
technical assistance grantee-contractor meetings, finalizing the 
jurisdictional team training and technical assistance packages on 
critical needs in the juvenile justice system, developing a bimonthly 
newsletter (NTTAC News), and responding to training and technical 
assistance requests from the field.
    NTTAC also brokered more than 500 training and technical assistance 
requests in FY 2001 and revamped its marketing and outreach strategy to 
include a redesign of its marketing materials, indicating ``a family-
of-products'' look. NTTAC expanded and enhanced its Web site, 
increasing its usership by approximately 40 percent. In addition, NTTAC 
developed the OJJDP Core Performance Standards, which serve as minimum 
expectations for training and technical assistance providers in the 
planning, delivery, and evaluation of their services.
    During FY 2002, NTTAC will disseminate the Core Performance 
Standards and a toolkit series of fact sheets and bulletins to 
facilitate the implementation of the Standards. The NTTAC will continue 
to develop an Information Resource Management System (IRMS). NTTAC will 
complete development of its training and technical assistance product 
and curriculum review process and will endeavor to complete the Office 
of Management and Budget clearance process for its User Feedback Form. 
The Center will also provide assistance to State juvenile corrections 
training academies in facilitating the reoccurring revisions and 
updates of basic job descriptions and will serve as a repository of 
training materials developed by juvenile corrections training 
academies.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Caliber 
Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

    This contract was competitively awarded in FY 1999 to Caliber 
Associates for a period of 4 years to provide OJJDP with an expert 
resource to perform independent program evaluations and assist in 
implementing evaluation activities. The contractor provides assistance 
to OJJDP staff in determining the evaluation needs of programs and 
develops evaluation designs that OJJDP can use in defining the 
requirements for a grant or contract to implement the evaluation. 
Caliber is currently conducting two full-scale program evaluations for 
OJJDP. One is a national evaluation to examine the viability and 
effectiveness of Title V-Community Prevention Grants for Local 
Delinquency Prevention Programs. The contractor also is completing a 
process evaluation of the implementation of OJJDP's Comprehensive 
Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. The 
contractor also may provide training to OJJDP program managers and 
other staff on evaluation-related topics.
    This contract will be implemented by the current contractor, 
Caliber Associates. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2002.

OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--Juvenile Justice Resource 
Center

    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. FY 2002 is the fourth year of a 4-
year project period.
    This project will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen 
Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2002. Since this is the final year of funding, a new solicitation will 
be issued and a contract awarded through a competitive contract action 
so there will not be a break in services.

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: The Institute of 
Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; the Western 
Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; and 
Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany, State 
University of New York. These projects are designed to improve the 
understanding of serious juvenile delinquency, violence, and drug use 
by examining how youth develop within the context of family, school, 
peers, and community. The three sites engage in both collaborative

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and site-specific research. The three research teams worked together to 
ensure that certain core measures were identical across the sites. This 
strengthens the findings from these projects by allowing for 
replications of findings in individual sites and enabling cross-site 
analyses.
    In the upcoming year, the Causes and Correlates projects will 
continue collaborative and site-specific analyses of the data. Future 
reports will address such topics as mental health problems and 
interventions, gangs, and the transition from school to work. In 
addition, researchers at the three sites will provide greater access to 
the study data. Confidentiality concerns prohibit the release of the 
data sets to the general public. However, OJJDP and the researchers 
have been exploring alternative methods of making the data more 
accessible to other researchers, the most promising being a remote 
access system. Plans for the next year include developing and testing a 
remote access system at one of the sites.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantees, The 
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; The 
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; and 
Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany, State 
University of New York. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

    The Technical Assistance for State Legislatures project was 
established in FY 1995, when OJJDP awarded funds to the National 
Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) to provide juvenile justice 
information on recent research, legislation, reform options, and 
innovative program models and provide customized technical assistance 
for State legislatures. NCSL also aids State legislators in the 
improvement of State juvenile justice systems by exploring causes and 
crafting comprehensive responses to youth crime and violence. The NCSL 
project provides State legislatures with extensive consultation and 
technical assistance on key juvenile justice reform issues.
    The project's accomplishments since FY 1995 include provision of 
onsite assistance by NCSL on 25 occasions to 14 State legislatures, 
with 4 occurring in FY 2001. Technical assistance is being planned in 
Louisiana and is ongoing in Vermont and Wyoming. The project has 
produced a 38-minute audiotape based on Comprehensive Juvenile Justice: 
A Legislator's Guide and distributed 600 copies of the tape to new 
lawmakers . Eleven lawmakers from five States (Hawaii, Kansas, 
Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas) participated in two juvenile justice 
study tours to learn how communities planned and implemented OJJDP's 
Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile 
Offenders.
    During FY 2001, NCSL information services responded to 1,500 
information requests. The grant has improved capacity for delivery of 
information services to State legislatures. The project also supports 
increased communication between State legislators and other State and 
local leaders who make decisions about juvenile justice issues.
    In FY 2002, the Technical Assistance for State Legislatures project 
will continue to provide technical assistance to State legislatures; 
hold an invitational ``Leadership Forum'' on comprehensive juvenile 
justice in January 2002; and develop, prepare, and distribute 
publications to highlight current trends, juvenile justice approaches, 
and issues in the States. Two topics will be researched, prepared, and 
distributed as part of the NCSL LegisBriefs (fact sheets) series. 
Research/information clearinghouse activities will continue to inform 
State legislatures on juvenile justice issues, enactments, and 
research.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Conference of State Legislators. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

Understanding and Monitoring the ``Whys'' Behind Juvenile Crime Trends

    The purpose of this research project is to identify and understand 
the principal reasons behind the trends in juvenile crime and violence. 
As national rates of youth violence have dropped substantially in 
recent years, a number of theories have been advanced to explain this 
trend. However, the lack of empirical evidence to fully support various 
theories enables proponents of vastly different policy orientations to 
claim victory for the recent declines and continue to assert their 
policy objectives. Not all localities experienced the same trends in 
juvenile violent crime during either the increases in the late 1980s or 
the subsequent declines that began in the early 1990s, and there is 
considerable variation in local juvenile crime rates across the 
country. In FY 2001, under a competitive award, the University of 
Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center on Criminology began a 5-year study to 
address these issues. The Center recruited six ``developmental sites'' 
and produced a report addressing the trends, theories discarded and 
remaining, feasibility of testing these theories, and limitations of 
various designs. In FY 2002, the University of Pennsylvania will begin 
testing these theories and will issue additional reports on the onsite 
testing process, experience, and feasibility.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Pennsylvania. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

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

    OJJDP proposes to continue funding this evaluation in FY 2002. 
Under a competitive cooperative agreement awarded in FY 1995, the 
evaluation grantee helped the five program sites (Bloomington, IL; 
Mesa, AZ; Riverside, CA; San Antonio, TX; and Tucson, AZ) establish 
realistic and measurable objectives, document program implementation, 
and measure the impact of this comprehensive approach. The grantee has 
trained the local site interviewers and also provided interim feedback 
to the program implementors. The grantee would continue to analyze data 
required to evaluate the program, monitor and oversee the quality 
control of data, and prepare final reports for the full evaluation.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Gang Model: An Enhanced School Approach

    This initiative is a continuation of ongoing efforts to test 
OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model. In FY 2000, four sites were 
competitively selected to conduct comprehensive assessments of their 
local gang problem and develop programs to implement the Comprehensive 
Gang Model. Program designs will be communitywide but will emphasize 
school-based responses. The four sites are Dade County, FL; East 
Cleveland, OH; Houston, TX; and Pittsburgh, PA. The evaluation grantee, 
COSMOS Inc., is conducting case studies to document and analyze the 
four sites' 1-year community assessment and program planning efforts. 
COSMOS is also developing an outcome evaluation design for the sites 
that would be funded to implement the model.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, COSMOS 
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additional applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

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 competitively 
selected rural sites (Elk City, OK; Glenn County, CA; Longview, WA; and 
Mt. Vernon, IL) conducted comprehensive assessments of their local gang 
problems and developed program designs to implement the Comprehensive 
Gang Model. The evaluation grantee, the National Council on Crime and 
Delinquency (NCCD), has conducted case studies to document and analyze 
the 1-year community assessment and program planning efforts in all 
four sites. NCCD has developed and is conducting an outcome evaluation 
design for the sites that are being funded to implement the model: 
Glenn County, CA, and Mt. Vernon, IL.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2002.

Gang-Free Schools and Communities Initiative

    In FY 2000, OJJDP launched a multisite effort to continue to 
demonstrate, test, and replicate the implementation of the OJJDP 
Comprehensive Gang Model in as many as 16 sites around the country. In 
response to a competitive solicitation, 10 new sites were selected to 
participate in this initiative, which consists of the two separate 
programs described below.
    The Comprehensive Gang Model: An Enhanced School/Community Approach 
to Reducing Youth Gang Crime program is designed to demonstrate and 
test the Model's ability to assist communities in addressing youth gang 
problems in both the school setting and in the community, through a 
tightly coordinated approach, including antiviolence efforts. The four 
participating communities are the City of East Cleveland, OH; the City 
of Houston, TX; the City of Pittsburgh, PA; and the City and County of 
Miami-Dade, FL. In FY 2001, these sites received initial training in 
conducting an assessment of the youth gang problem and began collecting 
data. In FY 2002, these sites will be eligible for funding to begin 
implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model to address the problems 
identified. An independent evaluation of this effort is being conducted 
by the COSMOS Corporation.
    The Gang-Free Communities program is designed to offer ``seed'' 
support to communities selected to replicate the OJJDP Comprehensive 
Gang Model. The communities selected to participate are Broward County, 
FL; East Los Angeles, CA; Jefferson County, KY; the City of Lakewood, 
WA; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, DC. The goal of this program is 
to reduce youth gang violence in the community. In FY 2001, these sites 
also received initial training in conducting an assessment of the youth 
gang problem and began collecting the necessary data. In FY 2002, these 
sites would be eligible for funding to begin implementing the OJJDP 
Comprehensive Gang Model to address the problems identified.
    The National Youth Gang Center is providing training and technical 
assistance for communities participating in both programs.
    These two programs would be implemented by the current grantees: 
East Cleveland, Houston, Miami-Dade, and Pittsburgh for the 
comprehensive Gang Model: An Enhanced School/Community Approach to 
Reducing Youth Gang Crime and Broward County, FL; East Los Angeles, CA; 
Jefferson County, KY; the City of Lakewood, WA; San Francisco, CA; and 
Washington, DC, for the Gang-Free Communities program. No new 
applications would be solicited in FY 2002 for these programs.

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. The Boys & Girls Clubs of 
America provides training and technical assistance to local gang 
prevention and intervention sites, including some at OJJDP's gang 
program demonstration sites, and to other clubs and organizations 
through regional trainings and national conferences. In FY 2000, the 
Boys & Girls Clubs added new gang prevention sites, gang intervention 
sites, and ``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. A 
national evaluation of the Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach 
Program was completed in FY 2001. The evaluation, conducted by Public/
Private Ventures, Inc., concluded in part that ``participants 
demonstrated positive change'' and that ``the clubs were successful in 
reaching an underserved, high-risk population through direct outreach 
and referral-network-building activities.'' In FY 2002, the Boys & 
Girls Clubs of America will identify and support up to 30 new gang 
prevention sites. Evaluation of the Targeted Reintegration program 
component may also begin in FY 2002. In addition, the Boys & Girls 
Clubs will jointly sponsor OJJDP's National Youth Gang Symposium in 
June 2002, in partnership with the National Youth Gang Center.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys 
& Girls Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program

    The Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Program was 
initially funded through a competitive award in 1999 to the 
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for a 3-year 
project period. The purpose of the program is to increase the capacity 
of law enforcement and allied professions to address juvenile crime, 
delinquency, and victimization, through multiagency system responses to 
school violence; juvenile gang, gun, and drug activity; and serious, 
violent, and chronic juvenile crime. Training workshops and technical 
assistance strengthen existing multiagency collaboration and facilitate 
creation of new partnerships.
    In FY 2001, program activities included 19 workshops for more than 
1,000 participants from 600 jurisdictions in 12 States. In addition, a 
marketing database was developed that allows the program to promote 
each individual product by State, via fax, directly to police, 
sheriffs, school administrators, school resource officers, juvenile 
probation and corrections agencies, juvenile mental health service 
officials, and other juvenile justice stakeholders. An OJJDP/IACP 
Training and Technical Assistance Web page was created for the IACP Web 
site. The page includes the training schedule and registration forms 
for specific training sessions and onsite technical assistance.
    In FY 2002, the following deliverables will be provided under this 
program: 18 workshops, 12 onsite technical assistance projects, and 8 
Chief Executive Officer Exchange Forums. Additionally, 1,500 CD-ROMs 
with relevant OJJDP literature and reference materials will be created 
and disseminated among training attendees; a Fact Sheet for OJJDP 
distribution and an article for a professional periodical will be 
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    The program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
International Association of Chiefs of Police. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

National Youth Gang Center

    The proliferation of gang problems over the past two decades led 
OJJDP to develop a comprehensive, coordinated response that involved 
five program components, one of which was implementation and operation 
of the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC). Competitively funded in 1994 
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 OJJDP's Gang-Free Communities Program, Gang-Free Schools 
Program, and Rural Gang Initiative. In FY 2001, NYGC (1) conducted 
indepth analyses of the National Youth Gang Survey results, which track 
changes in gang membership and activity, (2) developed and administered 
a survey of youth gangs in American Indian communities, (3) produced 
timely information on the nature and scope of the youth gang problem, 
(4) continued tracking gang-related legislation at both the State and 
Federal levels, and (5) continued to provide training and technical 
assistance for OJJDP's Gang-Free Communities Program, Gang-Free Schools 
Program, and Rural Gang Initiative.
    With FY 2002 funds, the Center would continue to collect, analyze, 
and disseminate current, comprehensive, and accurate national-level 
gang-related information. It would continue to assist State and local 
jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information 
on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and 
promising program strategies. The Center would also continue to provide 
indepth technical assistance to grantees of OJJDP gang programs.
    This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Institute for Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

Rural Gang Initiative Demonstration Sites

    During FY 2000, OJJDP competitively funded four rural communities 
(Elk City, OK; Glenn County, CA; Longview, WA; and Mount Vernon, IL) to 
conduct a comprehensive assessment of their local youth gang problems. 
Each site collected and analyzed comprehensive local data to determine 
the nature and scope of the existing local youth gang problem(s). A 
steering committee of community representatives in each site used the 
final assessment findings to develop a response to the problems 
identified. In FY 2001, two of these four communities, Glenn County, 
CA, and Mt. Vernon, IL, began implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang 
Model to address the most serious problems identified in their 
assessments. In each site, intervention teams of workers from police, 
probation, schools, community-based agencies, and others have begun 
working in gang violence hotspots to provide services and supports to 
gang-involved youth, with a goal of reducing and eventually eliminating 
youth gang violence in the community. In FY 2002, these sites will 
continue implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model. Ongoing 
assessment and data collection will be used to assist in selecting 
intervention targets.
    An independent evaluation of these two sites also will be conducted 
and technical assistance will be provided through the National Youth 
Gang Center.
    This initiative would be implemented by the current grantees, Glenn 
County, CA, and Mount Vernon, IL. No additional applications would be 
solicited for this initiative in FY 2002.

Technical Assistance to the Gang-Free Schools and Communities 
Initiative

    In FY 2000, OJJDP launched a multisite replication of the OJJDP 
Comprehensive Gang Model and a four-site demonstration program to 
implement the Model and further enhance the Model's school component. 
In FY 2001, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) developed a manual to 
assist these communities in conducting the assessment, developed and 
provided these sites with tools and instruments for data collection, 
developed Web-based technical assistance resources for these 
communities, and provided initial gang problem assessment training to 
10 participating sites and followup technical assistance and training 
to five of these sites. NYGC also developed a web page to enable 
unsuccessful applicants to access technical assistance in conducting an 
assessment and the OJJDP Model. In FY 2002, OJJDP will fund NYGC to 
provide training and technical assistance during the implementation 
stages of this initiative 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 would provide a supplemental award to the National Youth Gang 
Center to provide the technical assistance. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders Among Juvenile Detainees

    This project, which was funded competitively in 1999, is a major 
longitudinal study assessing alcohol, drug, and mental disorders among 
juveniles in the Cook County Detention Center in Chicago, IL. 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 (whether they return to 
the community or are incarcerated), and (3) to study the development 
and interrelationship of dangerous and risky behaviors related to 
violence, substance use, and HIV/AIDS. This project is unique because 
the sample is so large: It includes 1,829 youth from Chicago who were 
arrested and originally interviewed between 1995 and 1998. The sample 
is stratified by gender, race (African American, Hispanic, non-Hispanic 
white), and age. Initial interviews have been completed, and extensive 
archival data (e.g., arrest and incarceration history, health and 
mental health treatment) have been collected on each subject. The 
investigators have been tracking the subjects, and they have completed 
several sets of followup interviews. A significant number of subject 
deaths, virtually all of them linked to violence (e.g., gunshot wounds) 
have already occurred. The large sample size has provided sufficient 
statistical power to study the prevalence of co-occurring disorders. 
Researchers are preparing an OJJDP Bulletin that compares subjects' 
self-reported substance use with the results of urine screens conducted 
shortly after arrest.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, 
Northwestern University. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Comprehensive Children and Families Mental Health Training and 
Technical Assistance

    OJJDP has entered into an interagency agreement with the Center for 
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to support 
the CMHS-funded Comprehensive Mental Health sites. CMHS currently funds 
45 sites, a technical assistance provider, and an evaluation. OJJDP 
funds are used to fund the juvenile justice specialist member of the 
technical assistance team, which also includes child welfare, mental 
health, education, and parent specialists. This team oversees technical 
assistance to the sites and coordinates technical assistance to meet 
their needs. The juvenile justice specialist responsibilities include 
efforts to assist with the development of increased coordination 
between the juvenile justice and mental health systems in the 45 sites.
    This initiative will be implemented through an interagency 
agreement with CMHS. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 
2002.

Evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program

    OJJDP currently funds seven sites that are implementing truancy 
reduction programs. Grantees include Contra Costa, CA; Honolulu, HI; 
Houston, TX; Jacksonville, FL; King County, WA; Suffolk County, NY; and 
Tacoma, WA. OJJDP also funds 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 is 
working with the sites to (1) determine how community collaboration can 
reduce truancy and lead to systemic reform and (2) assist OJJDP in 
developing a community collaborative truancy reduction program model 
and identifying the essential elements of that model. To that end, CFFC 
continues to assist project sites to identify and document the nature 
of the truancy problem in their communities, enhance 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 truant youth and documenting services.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Integrated Information Sharing To Prevent Juvenile Delinquency: A 
Training and Technical Assistance Approach

    The Integrated Information Sharing To Prevent Juvenile Delinquency: 
A Training and Technical Assistance Approach project was established in 
FY 2001 under a competitive 2-year cooperative agreement between OJJDP 
and the Center for Non-Profit Development/Center for Network 
Development (CND). The project is designed to launch OJJDP's integrated 
information-sharing (IIS) effort. CND works to increase the capacity of 
State and local collaboratives to establish and manage effective 
multidisciplinary, multiagency information-sharing systems; support 
proactive solutions to juvenile delinquency; and improve coordination, 
decisionmaking, and services to at-risk youth and their families.
    Under this cooperative agreement, CND has completed several key 
tasks to accomplish the project's goals. The results of a national 
training needs assessment survey and focus group meeting influenced the 
content of instructional materials for regional training workshops 
scheduled for FY 2001 and FY 2002. Similarly, a curriculum design team 
has outlined particular training modules and engaged practitioners at 
various levels of experience with IIS systems to critique the designs 
and discuss the challenges, barriers, and solutions to building 
effective partnerships and planning and implementing IIS systems.
    In FY 2001, CND collected lists of collaborative groups interested 
in enhancing IIS efforts from OJJDP program managers and added these 
lists to the IIS database. The national training needs assessment was 
developed and mailed to 953 youth-focused collaborative practitioners 
interested in developing and/or enhancing an IIS system.
    In FY 2002, the final year of this 2-year project, CND will 
continue developing, marketing, and piloting level 1 and level 2 
trainings, providing followup assistance, and evaluating the 
application of knowledge and skills gained in the trainings to improve 
IIS's collaborative performance.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Center 
for Non-Profit Development/Center for Network Development. No 
additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior

    The purpose of the Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial 
Behavior study is to examine the development of childhood antisocial 
behavior in a three-generation prospective panel study by making the 
children of the current participants in the OJJDP-sponsored Rochester 
(NY) Youth Development Study the focal subjects of a new long-term 
study. Forty percent of the original Rochester participants were 
parents by age 21. The Youth Development Study began in 1986. The new 
study is being funded under an FY 1998 interagency agreement with the 
National Institute of Mental Health. The grantee will combine data on 
the original study's participants and their parents with new data on 
the children of the original participants. The combined data will 
enable researchers to examine and track the development of delinquent 
behavior across three generations in a particularly high-risk sample. 
The results of the study should provide useful findings that will have 
policy implications for prevention programs. In FY 2002, the program 
will continue data collection.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University at Albany, State University of New York. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

Investing in Youth for a Safer Future

    This program supports the ``Investing in Youth for a Safer Future'' 
public service program and other advertising and media initiatives of 
the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign. The ``Investing in 
Youth for a Safer Future'' campaign educates the public about 
prevention programs and intervention strategies that reduce youth 
violence and delinquency. The campaign develops creative public service 
advertisements that aim to motivate adults to become positively 
involved in the lives of young people.
    The program would be implemented under an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of Justice Assistance by the current grantee, the 
National Crime Prevention Council. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center

    The Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource 
Center (Juvenile Defender Center), now in its third year of funding 
under a 5-year project period grant, was competitively awarded to the 
American Bar Association (ABA) in FY 1999. The Juvenile Defender Center 
fills a major gap in resources and support for juvenile defenders in 
the United States by providing training and technical assistance 
services. Nationally focused training and technical assistance for 
juvenile defenders did not exist before OJJDP funded the original Due 
Process Advocacy project from 1993 to 1999. Building on that project, 
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facilitate the development of a permanent training and technical 
assistance capability for juvenile defenders. Improving the 
capabilities and skills of juvenile defenders strengthens the juvenile 
justice system and provides greater assurance that juveniles charged 
with delinquency will receive the due process and adequate 
representation they are guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.
    The ABA has competitively selected eight regional centers to 
provide training and technical assistance in their regions. Each year 
the ABA organizes and holds a National Juvenile Defender Summit that 
brings together juvenile defenders and related practitioners to address 
key issues in juvenile defense work. The ABA operates under a unique 
incentive funding scheme that enables it to receive additional funds 
over a base amount if they raise money in the private sector or obtain 
in-kind services. The ABA has been very successful in raising private 
funds and obtaining donated resources.
    This project will be implemented in FY 2002 by the American Bar 
Association, the current grantee. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2002.

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

    In 1992, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National 
Institute of Mental Health (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 affected children continue to experience symptoms 
in adolescence and adulthood. Researchers at six primary study sites 
and three subcontractor sites are following children in the three 
treatment groups (medication management only, behavioral treatment, and 
a combination of medication and behavioral treatment) and a control 
group (community care).
    OJJDP's participation in the study, which began in FY 1998, 
supports continued investigation into the subjects' aggressive and 
delinquent behavior and contact with the legal system, including 
arrest, detention, and incarceration. In FY 2002, OJJDP will transfer 
funds to NIMH through an interagency agreement that will support the 
collection of data related to subjects' delinquent and criminal 
behavior and contact with the juvenile justice system.
    This program will be implemented through an interagency agreement 
with the National Institute of Mental Health. No additional 
applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

National Center for Conflict Resolution Education

    This project will assist communities in providing quality conflict 
resolution programs by providing training and technical assistance 
opportunities and developing products to expand the knowledge of 
conflict resolution skills, processes, implementation, and application. 
Program objectives include: (1) Increasing the number of conflict 
resolution programs that use effective design elements, (2) enhancing 
the skills of conflict resolution program volunteers and professional 
staff, and (3) facilitating the development and use of research-driven 
training and technical assistance materials. The major clients to be 
served are educational agencies and organizations, juvenile justice 
programs, and community youth service organizations.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Illinois 
State Bar Association, in FY 2002. It is anticipated that OJJDP will 
issue a solicitation in FY 2002 and the grantee selected in response to 
the solicitation will implement the program in FY 2002.

National Youth Court Center

    OJJDP established the National Youth Court Center (NYCC) in 1999 to 
provide intensive training, technical assistance, data collection, and 
considerable programmatic resources to strengthen statewide and local 
youth court initiatives. NYCC supports the establishment of youth 
courts consistent with effective design elements for the purposes of 
preventing delinquency and holding young people accountable for their 
delinquent and criminal behavior within the context of constructive 
peer group community sanctions. Youth courts are programs where 
juvenile offenders are sentenced by their peers. These programs are 
rapidly becoming an integral component of the juvenile justice system 
in communities across America.
    OJJDP is the lead Federal agency responsible for supporting the 
national youth court movement, with the U.S. Department of 
Transportation providing a small amount of support through an annual 
interagency agreement. With more than 800 programs currently operating 
and hundreds of jurisdictions planning to develop programs, youth 
courts have experienced tremendous growth in the past few years.
    Accomplishments of the project to date include publication of 
National Youth Court Guidelines, which provides programmatic blueprints 
for operating effective youth court programs; National Youth Court 
Directory, which provides the largest and most accurate listing of 
youth court programs in the United States; and A Street Law Curriculum 
for Youth Courts. NYCC has also developed a comprehensive youth court 
Web site and a national youth court center newsletter that offer the 
most comprehensive and up-to-date information on youth courts, provided 
onsite technical assistance to jurisdictions in support of local or 
statewide youth court development efforts, launched a national lawyer/
law student recruitment campaign (a nationwide initiative linking 
lawyers and law students with local youth court programs), and 
published Youth Court and Balanced and Restorative Justice.
    In FY 2002, NYCC will produce three instructional videos about 
youth court benefits, responsibilities, and training for volunteer 
jurors. NYCC will also develop a training Web site to aid youth 
volunteers in preparing for their cases online. New documents will 
include a manual for a 10-week training program for youth volunteers; 
instructor's guides for adult volunteers who train volunteer youth; a 
daily operations handbook that will serve as a resource guide for 
coordinators of youth court programs; a ``road map to youth court,'' 
designed to teach those in the legal community about youth court; and a 
community service workbook that will teach program coordinators to set 
up task- and service-oriented community service projects for youthful 
offenders. Educational community service modules for youthful offenders 
will be designed around the most common victim issues and alcohol and 
marijuana offenses handled in youth court.
    Training events for FY 2002 include a national youth court 
conference and a ``train the trainers'' session that will prepare one 
person from each State as the key State trainer for both the community 
service education and student membership training programs. Public 
education campaigns also will be developed and launched in FY 2002.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Probation and Parole Association with a subgrant to the 
American Bar Association. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Pathways to Desistance: A Prospective Study of Serious Adolescent 
Offenders

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Prevention and several private foundations, provided funding for the 
first year of data collection for the Pathways to Desistance study. 
This multisite, longitudinal, collaborative research project follows 
approximately 1,200 serious juvenile offenders from adolescence to 
young adulthood. Interviews are conducted regularly with these youth 
and their family members and friends for several years following their 
involvement with the court for felony-level offenses. The aims of the 
investigation are to: (1) Identify initial patterns of desistance from 
antisocial activity in serious adolescent offenders, (2) describe the 
role of social context and developmental changes in promoting positive 
behavioral change, and (3) compare the effects of sanctions and 
interventions in promoting positive change and desistance from criminal 
behavior. The larger goals of the study are to improve decisionmaking 
by court and social services personnel and to clarify policy debate 
about dispositional alternatives for serious adolescent offenders. The 
project is anticipated to last at least 3 years. In FY 2002, OJJDP, in 
conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of 
Justice, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson 
Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will 
support the project's second year of data collection.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Pittsburgh. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Race Against Drugs/Stay on Track Curriculum Evaluation

    Since 1995, OJJDP has supported Race Against Drugs (RAD), a 
partnership in substance abuse prevention that includes the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the National Child Safety 
Council, and U.S. motor sports organizations. The primary goals of RAD 
are to educate youth about the dangers of substance abuse and provide 
them with the skills they need to resist drugs. RAD also empowers the 
motor sports industry, communities, schools, and local law enforcement 
agencies to play greater roles in keeping their neighborhoods and 
schools drug free. With OJJDP support, RAD has established a national 
network of dedicated volunteers who have implemented more than 5,000 
drug prevention/education programs at schools, shopping malls, trade 
shows, youth organizations, civic centers, and motor sports events. 
Drug prevention materials, including posters, public service 
announcements, decals, T-shirts, hats, coloring books, and education 
kits, are available to complement all activities.
    In FY 2000, with funding from OJJDP, RAD worked with prevention 
scientists at the University of Maryland's Center for Substance Abuse 
Research and a panel of experts to develop a new science-based drug 
prevention curriculum, Stay on Track, for use in middle schools (grades 
six through eight) and other structured environments. This curriculum 
capitalizes on the knowledge gained during RAD's 10 years of youth drug 
prevention experience. Stay on Track is currently being implemented in 
selected schools in Phoenix, AZ, and may expand to other communities. 
OJJDP is funding a comprehensive evaluation of the curriculum by 
researchers from Embry Riddle University.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Child Safety Council. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Technical Assistance for the Title V Community Prevention Programs

    The purpose of this project is to provide OJJDP with the capacity 
to provide communities with training and technical assistance support 
for implementation of the Title V Community Prevention Grants program. 
The contract was awarded in FY 2000 through a competitive process. The 
contractor will continue to provide nationwide training and technical 
assistance for State and local jurisdictions on developing and 
implementing comprehensive communitywide, data-based delinquency 
prevention strategies. Through training and technical assistance, 
community leaders develop the knowledge and skills necessary to assess 
local risk factors for and protective factors against delinquency and 
to address risk factors using community resources. To build training 
capacity within States and national regions, instruction on data-based, 
risk- and protection-focused prevention will be provided for trainers.
    This project will be implemented by the current contractor, 
Development Services Group, Inc. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program

    In FY 1998, OJJDP, the Executive Office for Weed and Seed and the 
U.S. Department of Education supported a grant program to reduce 
truancy. The Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program is a comprehensive 
program designed to combine education, justice and law enforcement, 
social services, and community resources to identify and track truant 
youth and cooperatively design and implement comprehensive systemwide 
programs to meet the needs of these youth. The four components of the 
Truancy Reduction Program are (1) system reform and accountability, (2) 
a service continuum to address the needs of truant children and 
adolescents, (3) data collection and evaluation, and (4) a community 
prevention education and awareness program for kindergarten through 
grade 12. OJJDP has awarded grants to seven sites to implement the 
comprehensive truancy program. Three were non-Weed and Seed (Honolulu, 
HI; Jacksonville, FL; and King County, WA), and four were Weed and Seed 
sites (Houston, TX; Martinez, CA; Tacoma, WA; and Yaphank, NY). 
Operation Weed and Seed is a two-pronged strategy within the Office of 
Justice Programs (OJP) that seeks to prevent, control, and reduce 
violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in targeted high-crime 
neighborhoods. All the sites are in the implementation phase of the 
program. Examples of the program strategies include the following: Case 
managers conducting home visits, attendance monitoring, tutoring, and 
case management referral of youth and families to community agencies 
for needed services. In FY 2001, the Truancy Reduction Program served 
approximately 2,085 students and 1,180 families. The Colorado 
Foundation for Families and Children (CFFC) is conducting a process 
evaluation that will help to identify key elements of an effective 
truancy program.
    The current grantees (Honolulu, HI; Houston, TX; Jacksonville, FL; 
King County, WA; Martinez, CA; Tacoma, WA; and Yaphank, NY) would 
continue to carry out the truancy activities. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Violence Intervention and Prevention Protocol

    In 2001, OJJDP began a project with the American Academy of 
Pediatrics (AAP) to develop a Violence Intervention and Prevention 
Program (VIPP). The Academy has a long history of educating 
pediatricians and families about unintentional injuries and those 
caused by child abuse.
    The overall goal of this project is to develop a theory-based 
comprehensive program for the primary prevention of violence-related 
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adolescents that will be incorporated into the primary care of all 
American children seen by pediatricians. This research project will be 
conducted in three phases: Design decisions, development of materials 
and protocols, and small-scale pilot testing.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Academy of Pediatrics. No additional applications will be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Accountability-Based Training for Staff in Juvenile Confinement 
Facilities

    The Accountability-Based Training for Staff in Juvenile Confinement 
Facilities program, provided through the National Juvenile Detention 
Association's (NJDA's) Center for Research and Professional Development 
(CRPD), offers extensive training that enhances the ability of staff in 
juvenile confinement facilities around the country to handle and care 
for confined youth. OJJDP has funded this program for 6 years to enable 
staff working in secure facilities to avail themselves of state-of-the-
art training. With OJJDP's support, CRPD has provided more than 101,600 
training hours to line staff in juvenile justice facilities and 
programs in 33 States. In addition to training through CRPD, NJDA 
provides comprehensive technical assistance to State and local juvenile 
detention centers that are experiencing problems with their operations.
    During FY 2002, CRPD will continue to provide onsite training and 
technical assistance to direct care staff in juvenile confinement and 
custody facilities with the existing materials and curriculums. CRPD 
also will develop and pilot a new 40-hour curriculum, ``BARJ-ing into 
Juvenile Confinement: Practical Application of BARJ [Balanced And 
Restorative Justice] Principles for Line Staff''; develop advanced 
training curriculums in the areas of suicide prevention and management 
of mentally ill residents; and revise the curriculum for juvenile 
detention careworkers.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Juvenile Detention Association, Center for Research and 
Professional Development. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Balanced and Restorative Justice

    OJJDP established the Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) 
training and technical assistance project in FY 1992 by awarding funds 
to Florida Atlantic University to provide training, technical 
assistance, and guidelines on implementing the BARJ model, which 
encourages the juvenile justice system to address three goals equally: 
(1) Ensuring community safety, (2) holding offenders accountable to 
victims, and (3) promoting competency development for offenders in the 
juvenile justice system so they are equipped to pursue noncriminal 
lines of work after release. The project is national in scope. However, 
to use limited resources efficiently, BARJ technical assistance works 
with seven ``special emphasis'' States--California, Florida, Illinois, 
Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas--and with several local 
jurisdictions across the Nation to help them plan and implement BARJ. 
The project also works with key justice system and community leaders to 
clarify BARJ concepts and to seek their help in advancing BARJ goals 
and activities.
    In FY 2001, the BARJ project developed, helped organize, or 
participated in more than 40 major training and technical assistance 
events on restorative justice. BARJ roundtables provided training and 
technical assistance to teams of juvenile justice managers and 
practitioners from the seven special emphasis States. In addition, the 
project has updated its instructional materials for the BARJ courses 
and produced new reference publications on restorative justice. The 
project also publishes a quarterly BARJ newsletter, Kaleidoscope of 
Justice.
    In FY 2002, the BARJ project will conduct the BARJ Academy 
workshops, the introduction to restorative justice and training for 
trainers courses, and a graduate BARJ trainers conference. The project 
will develop new training courses on restorative justice in schools, 
training of trainers for group conferencing, and strategic BARJ 
management. One or more specialized workshops on selected BARJ topics 
are also planned. The project plans to present workshops at national 
and regional conferences sponsored by groups representing judges, 
prosecutors, probation and corrections personnel, law enforcement, 
victims advocates, child welfare practitioners, and others. Resource 
documents will be developed, and the program's existing training 
materials and Web site will be updated.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Florida Atlantic University. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Building Blocks for Youth

    OJJDP established the Building Blocks for Youth project in FY 1998 
by funding the Youth Law Center to: (1) Conduct research on issues such 
as the impact on minority youth of new State laws and the implications 
of privatization of juvenile facilities by profitmaking corporations; 
(2) undertake an analysis of decisionmaking in the justice system and 
develop model decisionmaking criteria that reduce or eliminate the 
disproportionate impact of the system on minority youth; (3) build a 
constituency for change at the national, State, and local levels; and 
(4) develop communication strategies for disseminating information. The 
goals of this initiative are to protect minority youth in the juvenile 
justice system and promote rational and effective juvenile justice 
policies.
    FY 2001 activities include developing and implementing a strategy 
to support the analysis of decisionmaking and a significant increase in 
the number of partner organizations to create constituencies for 
change; site-based work in Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; and 
Watsonville, CA, and conducting research and developing resources on 
the disparate numbers of minority youth in the juvenile justice system 
and the effects of State laws and zero-tolerance polices on these 
populations.
    In FY 2002, the fifth year of the initiative, Building Blocks for 
Youth will focus on following up its research projects and using a 
number of its project studies and reports as tools for change. Site-
based work will continue and associated analyses and findings will be 
completed; results will be shared to assist others in reducing the 
number of minority youth in the juvenile justice system. The initiative 
will continue its work in establishing and maintaining relationships 
with other national and State organizations through its extensive 
information and dissemination activities, including the monthly 
newsletter, bulletins, and comprehensive Web site.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the Youth 
Law Center. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement

    The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) collects 
individual-level data on all juveniles in residential placement on a 
specific reference day (the fourth Wednesday in October). The data 
elements collected include each offender's age, sex, race, placing 
agency, legal status, and most serious offense. Because this project is 
a census, it allows for State-level reporting of juveniles in 
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census is mailed to all facilities that can and do hold juvenile 
offenders for reasons of the offense. Personnel report on all offenders 
younger than 21 years old residing in their facilities on the reference 
day. The facilities also provide some basic information on any other 
persons who do not fit these criteria. The CJRP was first conducted in 
October 1997 and again in October 1999. In 2002, the Census Bureau 
would continue to conduct the 2001 CJRP including data collection, data 
editing, data inputting, and data file preparation.
    This program would be implemented through an existing interagency 
agreement with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

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. This project is expected to improve the 
juvenile justice system's services for students with disabilities in 
the areas of prevention, educational services, and reintegration based 
on a combination of research, training, and technical assistance. The 
Center guides and assists States, schools, juvenile justice programs, 
families, and communities in designing, implementing, and evaluating 
comprehensive educational programs, based on research-validated 
practices, for students with disabilities in the juvenile justice 
system.
    This program will be implemented under an existing 5-year 
interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Education by the 
current grantee, the University of Maryland. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2002.

Connecticut/Cook County (IL) Girls Collaborative

    A national collaboration between the State of Connecticut and Cook 
County, IL, has been forged around the needs of court-involved girls. 
The primary goal of this collaboration is the creation of a replicable 
model of systems change for court-involved girls, including girls who 
are pregnant and/or young mothers. Since this project began in FY 1997, 
the sites have shared lessons learned and have taken action to improve 
services to court-involved girls. Specific accomplishments include 
developing a profile of the juvenile female offender and conducting a 
technical mapping of the juvenile justice system in Cook County, 
completing an evaluation of a pilot gender-specific case management 
system for girls, developing a Web site to identify and link service 
providers in metropolitan Cook County and surrounding counties in 
Illinois, training mentors to work with girls on probation and girls 
detained in the detention center, completing a study of Connecticut 
court-involved girls age 18 and under, and creating a gender-specific 
team of juvenile probation officers in Connecticut. OJJDP would support 
this national collaboration in FY 2002 in order to continue to develop 
innovative responses to the female offender population and girls at-
risk of entering the juvenile justice system.
    The program would be implemented by the current grantees, Cook 
County Board of Commissioners and Connecticut Judicial Branch. No 
additional applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

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

    This continuation grant would enable OJJDP's grantees to continue 
providing State and local jurisdictions with training and technical 
assistance in developing and implementing strategic plans for reducing 
juvenile delinquency based on research included in the Comprehensive 
Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. Through 
training and technical assistance, communities will develop the 
knowledge and skills necessary to assess risk and protective factors, 
develop and implement research-based programs and prevention and 
graduated sanctions services, and more effectively address juvenile 
crime in their communities.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantees, 
Developmental Research and Programs, Inc., and the National Council on 
Crime and Delinquency. No additional applications would be solicited in 
FY 2002.

Evaluation of Teen Courts

    OJJDP initiated the Evaluation of Teen Courts project to assess the 
impact of teen courts (or youth courts) on nonserious juvenile 
offenders. The project is the first national, multisite evaluation of 
this emerging diversion strategy for at-risk youth.
    The Evaluation of Teen Courts was structured to determine the 
impact of teen courts on subsequent delinquency or recidivism, 
perceptions of justice among youth referred to teen courts, and their 
commitment to prosocial norms and normative institutions (e.g., 
school). The evaluation includes three components--an impact 
evaluation, a process evaluation, and a new enhancement that will 
employ a random assignment design in new teen court sites. The impact 
evaluation will examine what effect teen court programs have on youth, 
what happens to youth as a result of a teen court experience, and 
whether the results differ from those observed in youth handled in a 
traditional juvenile justice system. The process evaluation will 
determine what happens in teen court programs, what they do, and how 
well they do it.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the Urban 
Institute. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Girls Study Group Project

    The purpose of the Girls Study Group project, which OJJDP 
competitively awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan in 
FY 2001, is to develop the research foundation that will help 
communities make sound decisions on how best to prevent and reduce 
delinquency and violence by girls. The University of Michigan will 
bring together a multidisciplinary group of 15 scholars to examine the 
nature of offending by adolescent females and to identify effective 
prevention and intervention strategies and programs for this 
population. In the first year of this 2-year project, the entire Girls 
Study Group will convene twice for 2- to 3-day meetings to identify 
research needs and questions. The Girls Study Group will also be 
divided into approximately six working groups based on broad areas of 
concern. Products from the first year will include a comprehensive 
annotated bibliography of relevant research and preliminary reports 
from the working groups.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Michigan. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2002.

Improving Juvenile Sanctioning: An Intensive Training and Technical 
Assistance Delivery Program

    The purpose of this program is to improve the capacity of the 
juvenile justice system by providing intensive training and technical 
assistance to at least 10 selected jurisdictions to strengthen and 
enhance existing juvenile accountability-based sanctioning programs and 
to support development of new ones, within the context of community-
based programs that support competency development in youth. The 
primary target population for this program is youthful offenders who 
could be referred by law enforcement, schools, or juvenile courts

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to community-managed alternatives to detention and secure confinement. 
The program's goal is to create or improve juvenile accountability-
based programs at the front end of the continuum, while enhancing the 
competencies and skills of youth, in order to strengthen the juvenile 
justice system's capability to respond appropriately to delinquent 
behavior.
    This project, initially funded in FY 2001 through a competitive 
solicitation, is designed as a 5-year project, with funding of up to $1 
million each year, given the availability of funds and satisfactory 
grantee performance.
    This program will be implemented by the grantee selected through 
the FY 2001 competition. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Intensive Community-Based Juvenile Aftercare Dissemination and 
Technical Assistance Program

    This initiative supports replication of, training and technical 
assistance for, and information dissemination about the Intensive 
Aftercare Program (IAP) model, which was implemented in three 
competitively selected demonstration sites. The overall goal of the IAP 
model is to identify and assist adjudicated juvenile offenders who are 
in secure confinement to make a successful transition to the community 
upon release. An independent evaluation of the IAP demonstration is 
currently underway, with a final report due in the winter of 2002.
    As the demonstration period for the three pilot sites has ended, 
the focus of this initiative has shifted to six distinct areas: (1) 
Replication of the model with emphasis on specialized youth 
populations; (2) linkage with select Performance-Based Standards 
correctional sites; (3) provision of technical assistance to DOL's 
Youth Offender Demonstration sites; (4) provision of technical 
assistance to select Boys & Girls Clubs sites participating in OJJDP's 
Targeted Outreach initiative; (5) creation of a national juvenile 
reintegration and aftercare center; and (6) creation of a new Web site.
    This initiative would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Johns Hopkins University. No additional applications would be solicited 
in FY 2002.

James E. Gould Memorial Program for Training and Technical Assistance 
for Juvenile Corrections and Detention

    OJJDP established the Training and Technical Assistance Program for 
Juvenile Corrections and Detention staff 16 years ago by funding the 
American Correctional Association (ACA) to provide leadership to the 
juvenile justice field through training and technical assistance to 
staff working in juvenile corrections, detention, community 
residential, and nonresidential facilities. ACA conducts an annual 
National Juvenile Corrections and Detention Forum on behalf of OJJDP. 
In addition to the forums, ACA developed a curriculum addressing 
increased privatization in the field of juvenile justice and conducted 
three regional privatization workshops on writing requests for 
proposals, writing good contracts, and monitoring contracts. ACA 
publishes articles on juvenile justice issues in each issue of its 
Corrections Today magazine and recently published a monograph and a 
curriculum on privatization. ACA also provides technical assistance to 
juvenile justice professionals concerning detention and corrections 
issues.
    In FY 2002, the project will continue to coordinate with other 
national juvenile justice organizations to provide technical assistance 
to juvenile justice agencies and will hold the 17th annual National 
Juvenile Corrections and Detention Forum. ACA will update mailing lists 
of both public and private juvenile facilities and develop a listserv 
and Internet service to enhance knowledge and facilitate sharing of 
information among juvenile justice detention and corrections 
professionals. Texts, papers, monographs, and related juvenile 
corrections and detention resource materials will be developed and 
disseminated to the juvenile justice community. Three 3-day regional 
workshops on issues related to privatization and two 1-day national 
workshops that address needs and trends in juvenile corrections and 
detention will be held.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Correctional Association. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

    OJJDP supports the Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit's (JJPU's) 
training and technical assistance program for prosecutors under a grant 
to the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), which was first 
awarded in FY 1995. JJPU develops and presents training workshops to 
chief prosecutors, juvenile unit chiefs, and deputy district attorneys 
assigned to juvenile courts. The training deals with leadership roles 
of prosecutors in the juvenile justice system, handling of juvenile 
delinquency cases, and significant juvenile justice issues that are of 
concern to prosecutors. Approximately six training workshops are held 
annually, and curriculums and appropriate reference materials are 
developed for each training event.
    In FY 2001, APRI developed and presented two workshops on 
disproportionate minority confinement (DMC); conducted five JUMPSTART 
courses for newly assigned juvenile prosecutors, several short 
workshops at the National Juvenile Justice Conference, a course on 
juvenile justice prosecution for prosecutor coordinators, and a serious 
and violent offender workshop; and created two new workshops for 
prosecutors on balanced and restorative justice and interdisciplinary 
issues. The training and technical assistance materials developed by 
APRI include curriculums and topical resource guides for the courses 
offered. In addition, APRI developed a Web page, continued updating the 
Compendium of Juvenile Programs for Prosecutors, and produced four In 
Re newsletters.
    In FY 2002, APRI will provide training (including two new courses) 
and technical assistance to new groups of prosecutors. APRI will 
provide a Webcast for prosecutors, conduct five JUMPSTART courses, and 
present a juvenile justice prosecution track at the National Juvenile 
Justice Conference. The project will continue updating its training 
curriculums and materials, including its Web page, and preparing new 
training and resource documents. The project also will keep prosecutors 
informed on developments in restorative justice and expand the 
Compendium of Juvenile Programs for Prosecutors as new programs are 
reported from the field.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
American Prosecutors Research Institute. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

    OJJDP designed the Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) to 
collect important information on facility characteristics, services 
provided to residents in the facility, and the conditions within the 
facility. Similar to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 
JRFC is a biennial census of residential facilities used by the 
juvenile justice system to hold youth accused of or adjudicated for an 
offense. The data collection forms are mailed to each facility for 
personnel to complete. The JRFC collects information on health care 
services, mental health counseling or treatment, substance abuse 
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and education and whether youth in the facility have access to the 
particular services they need. The methods used in the census cannot 
make evaluative statements on the quality of those services; rather the 
JRFC indicates the availability of such services. The JRFC also asks 
specific questions about the nature of the facility itself, 
specifically about the conditions of confinement, the number of beds 
used (including makeshift beds), and the use of isolation or 
restraints. Finally, the JRFC collects information on any deaths in 
custody, a subject on which OJJDP must report annually. The first full 
JRFC was conducted in October 2000. In FY 2002, the Census Bureau would 
prepare for the second full implementation of the JRFC, mail out the 
necessary forms, and begin full data collection.
    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 
2002.

Longitudinal Study To Examine the Development of Conduct Disorder in 
Girls

    The purpose of this project, which is being funded under an FY 1999 
interagency agreement between OJJDP and the National Institute of 
Mental Health, is to examine the development of conduct disorder in a 
sample of 2,500 inner-city girls who are ages 6-8 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. 
Delinquency in girls has been steadily increasing over the past decade, 
and a better understanding of developmental processes in girls will 
help identify effective means of prevention and provide direction for 
juvenile justice responses to delinquent girls. In FY 2002, the program 
will continue data collection.
    The project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Pittsburgh. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Meta-Analysis Project

    In FY 2001, Vanderbilt University began a program to update a 
significant existing database of juvenile justice program evaluations 
and to provide various meta-analyses of the data for OJJDP. Meta-
analysis is defined as ``a statistical analysis that combines or 
integrates the results of several independent clinical trials 
considered by the analyst to be combinable.'' \1\ This technique 
creates a larger research framework to make broad generalizations 
about, for example, the impact of specific types of interventions on 
different types of outcomes. Meta-analysis allows for the results of 
small, weak, and/or methodologically flawed studies to be combined and 
reanalyzed. Vanderbilt University has created a database that contains 
data from more than 500 published and unpublished studies of programs 
involving a wide range of treatments and services. Each study is 
codified using 156 variables, including characteristics of the study, 
types of interventions, and measures of outcomes.
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submissions. Proceedings of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the 
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    In FY 2001, the project was updated to include approximately 100 
new studies that were completed in the past several years. In FY 2002, 
the study will expand the analysis to include different measures of 
outcomes and recidivism. The resulting series of reports will be made 
available to juvenile justice practitioners and policymakers.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, Vanderbilt 
University. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

National Census and Survey of Juvenile Probation

    In FY 2001, OJJDP entered into an interagency agreement with George 
Mason University (GMU) to develop and test a new survey and census of 
juvenile probation. OJJDP worked with the U.S. Bureau of the Census's 
Center for Survey Methods Research to develop this project; the GMU 
team would complete the work. The project consists of developing 
questionnaires for both a census and a survey of juvenile probation. 
GMU would also fully test the questionnaires in cooperation with the 
data collection agency, the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with George Mason University. No additional applications would be 
solicited in FY 2002.

National Evaluation of the Performance-based Standards Project

    OJJDP funded the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) 
to conduct an independent evaluation of OJJDP's Performance-based 
Standards (PbS) Project. This formative evaluation provides feedback to 
the PbS project development team on how to improve the program design 
and implementation supports to the sites. The evaluation is collecting 
both quantitative and qualitative data describing the processes used to 
implement the PbS model in 80 juvenile detention and correctional 
facilities across the country. To date, the evaluator has completed a 
chronicle that tracks major program decisions and improvements. In 
addition to conducting two all-site surveys, the evaluator also has 
contributed to the conceptualization and design of key program 
elements, including the Program Monitoring System, the expansion of the 
program to reintegration outcomes, and the migration of the project to 
integrate with agencies' management information systems (MIS) and has 
developed materials for meeting privacy and human subjects issues. A 
new focus of the evaluation is to develop six case studies to capture 
in depth the process of a facility's journey from initiation to 
institutionalization of PbS in its day-to-day operations.
    As the PbS project expands in FY 2002 to include community-based 
correctional functions and deals with the launching of an MIS 
integrated system, it will be necessary to continue to independently 
review the work, both to chronicle its development and to capture, 
through the case studies and surveys, how the innovations are being 
carried out in the field.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Academy of Public Administration. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project

    First funded in FY 1999 under a competitive process, the National 
Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project (NJJDAP) provides research and 
analysis into a wide variety of juvenile justice issues including 
juvenile placement, custody, arrests, victimization, and juvenile 
offending. However, the topics of interest to juvenile professionals 
are not limited to these typical justice topics. As research expands, 
the field learns more about the intersections of delinquency and other 
problems, such as mental health disorders, education needs, and 
physical injury. Attention to these problems can help the field design 
effective prevention or intervention measures and identify what 
problems the juvenile justice system will face in dealing with 
delinquent youth. NJJDAP will examine such issues of concern through 
cooperation with experts in the fields of interest and with data 
collected in those fields. This project produces

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quick, unique analyses of these issues for publication by OJJDP.
    In FY 2002, NJJDAP will expand its roster of available consultants 
who can provide either expertise in data analysis or knowledge of 
particular aspects of adolescent development, juvenile delinquency, or 
the juvenile justice system. NJJDAP will also investigate innovative 
data sets at the State and local levels.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Center for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications will 
be solicited in FY 2002.

National Juvenile Justice Program Directory

    To conduct statistical projects, OJJDP and the Census Bureau 
require a support infrastructure that enables both to perform the 
necessary survey tasks efficiently and effectively. This infrastructure 
includes as a basic component the maintenance of a list or frame of all 
survey or sampling units. For example, the surveying of residential 
facilities could not take place without a list of such facilities. 
Indeed, as OJJDP moves toward surveying these facilities once a year, 
this list must be maintained continuously. Also, as the Office moves 
toward surveying juvenile probation offices, OJJDP and the Census 
Bureau will need a current list of all such offices in the United 
States. Other areas of interest might include juvenile courts, police 
departments, State agencies, etc. Maintenance of the lists includes 
contacting various key State and local officials or practitioners, who 
can provide the names of agencies or facilities associated with their 
respective agencies. It also requires maintaining current contact 
information for these agencies or facilities. Finally, it requires 
developing and updating a database of these facilities that contains 
information necessary for sampling or stratification purposes. This 
project fills the needs for lists of juvenile agencies, programs, and 
facilities.
    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 2002.

National Juvenile Sex Offenders Training Project

    The purpose of this program is to develop and deliver training to 
police, intake workers, school counselors, detention line staff, 
judges, prosecutors, and other juvenile justice personnel to increase 
the accuracy of information in the field about juvenile sex offending. 
The availability of accurate information will lead to improved 
prevention, intervention, and treatment services for the youth 
population. The dissemination of knowledge that specifically deals with 
juvenile sex offender issues will help ensure that the drafting and 
implementation of any policy or legislation on this issue are based on 
accurate and timely information, focus on juvenile offenders, and use 
juvenile-based research versus adult research that is often applied to 
young people.
    Project staff and other subject matter experts within the Office of 
Justice Programs will collaborate to develop a matrix that identifies 
and categorizes the major portals of entry (e.g., youth-serving 
agencies and organizations, schools) for children with sexual behavior 
problems and juvenile sex offenders. In the first year of this project, 
training goals and objectives will be developed, and curriculums will 
be written in collaboration with juvenile justice personnel. The next 
step will establish the priority for testing and delivering training to 
the range of personnel working with sex offending youth. In the final 
year of the project, it is anticipated that curriculums will have been 
developed for all identified portals of entry that work with juvenile 
sex offenders and current knowledge will have been disseminated that 
impacts the ongoing treatment and handling of these youth.
    This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
University of Oklahoma. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2002.

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

    Since 1997, OJJDP has supported the U.S. Department of Labor's 
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as it conducts the National 
Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Using a nationally representative 
sample, youth who were in the eighth grade in 1997 are surveyed about 
their school experiences, family background, and employment. The NLSY 
will provide critical information on these young peoples' transition 
from school to work. With OJJDP support, BLS includes a wide battery of 
questions on delinquency such as theft and assault and problem 
behaviors such as alcohol and tobacco use. Because the NLSY follows the 
same youth each year, the data from this effort will provide important 
national information on the onset of delinquency, trends in offending, 
and correlation with other factors such as family, school, health, etc. 
So far, the NLSY project has collected four waves of data (one each 
year). The fourth wave will be released in 2002. OJJDP expects to 
continue contributing to this effort until the sampled youth have 
reached young adulthood.
    This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement 
with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 2002.

National Training and Technical Assistance for Effective Juvenile 
Detention and Corrections Practices

    Since FY 1996, OJJDP has funded the National Juvenile Detention 
Association's (NJDA's) National Training and Technical Assistance for 
Effective Juvenile Detention and Corrections Practices project 
(Overcrowding Project) to combat overcrowding in the Nation's juvenile 
detention facilities. The Overcrowding Project is an intensive, onsite 
training and technical assistance program that assists selected 
jurisdictions in reducing overcrowding in their juvenile detention 
facilities. NJDA and the Youth Law Center, a partner in the project, 
have considerable experience with juvenile facility overcrowding. The 
original Overcrowding Project is being broadened significantly to 
include a greater emphasis on capacity building to achieve meaningful 
systemic reform and to incorporate nationally recognized operational 
``best practices'' within juvenile confinement facilities.
    Accomplishments during previous grant years included providing 
intensive technical assistance to Camden County, NJ; Oklahoma County, 
OK; Santa Cruz County, CA; and the States of Rhode Island and South 
Carolina and technical assistance to juvenile detention or corrections 
systems in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, 
and Ohio. The project also developed and delivered a jurisdictional 
team training curriculum on overcrowding to five jurisdictions. It also 
helped develop and produce OJJDP's national videoconference on 
overcrowding in juvenile detention and eight major training and 
technical assistance documents.
    During FY 2002, the Overcrowding Project will expand its focus to 
address broader systemic issues through delivery of intensive technical 
assistance to six to eight new jurisdictions. This effort will be 
supported by a partnership with OJJDP and the Annie E. Casey 
Foundation, which will focus on development of a strategy for 
initiating a national juvenile detention reform movement. The project 
also will coordinate and complete intensive technical assistance to the 
West Virginia Division of Juvenile Justice.

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    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Juvenile Detention Association. No additional applications 
would be solicited in FY 2002.

Performance-Based Standards Project

    To date, the Performance-based Standards (PbS) project has 
developed an integrated set of goals, performance standards, outcome 
measures, and implementation tools to help facilities improve in six 
key areas of operations: safety, order, security, programming, health/
mental health, and justice of facility operations. Participating sites 
submit data on 96 outcome measures at 6-month intervals via a secure 
Internet Web site (www.performance-standards.org), and the results are 
fed back to the PbS sites within a month of data closeout. The Council 
of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) has worked very closely 
with the juvenile corrections field in developing and testing a program 
that focuses on accountability, performance, and the attainment of 
measurable goals. Currently more than 80 juvenile detention and 
correctional facilities from 23 States are participating in the PbS 
project. Five State youth corrections agencies are implementing PbS 
agencywide.
    FY 2002 funding would support implementation of significant 
innovations in the program that have been under design, development, 
and testing during the past 2 years. Full implementation would include 
revisions of the data collection instruments for youth and staff, 
specifically the incorporation of survey items that track the national 
Survey of Youth in Residential Placement; implementation of the 
reintegration standards, outcome measures currently being tested in 
three States; testing and implementation of an MIS-integrated system 
that would allow facilities to track performance on a daily basis, 
rather than at 6-month intervals, as is currently the case. In 
addition, the scope of the project would expand to include community-
based correctional functions as an extension of the work on 
reintegration standards and also would enable the project to increase 
the number of participating sites.
    This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

Survey of Youth in Residential Placement

    The first national Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) 
will interview a sample of 10,000 youth in residential placement. It 
will be conducted in March and April 2003 and will use audio-assisted 
computerized interviews. The survey will collect critical research 
information on youth history with the justice system, family life, 
education, and current treatment needs.
    SYRP will follow up on the FY 1998 Planning for the Survey of Youth 
in Residential Placement cooperative agreement with Westat, Inc. That 
project developed the data collection instrument, the sampling scheme, 
and an analysis plan. The planning project also extensively tested the 
questions used in the instrument, the computer-assisted interviewing 
method, and the complete instrument and survey methodology in a sample 
of 40 facilities in a specific geographic region of the country. The 
new project will implement the finalized Audio-Computer Assisted Survey 
Instrument (A-CASI) and produce a report based on the data collected.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee Westat, 
Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

Systems Improvement Training and Technical Assistance

    In FY 2000, OJJDP continued funding to the Institute for 
Educational Leadership (IEL) for training and technical assistance 
programs that strengthen and sustain the capacity of SafeFutures and 
Safe Kids/Safe Streets demonstration sites and selected other 
communities to assist them with changing their systems. The project 
seeks to help sites (1) address their system goals and effectively 
address challenges, (2) educate and inform other communities and the 
juvenile justice field about how they can more effectively pursue 
community-based systems reform, (3) enhance the skills of community and 
staff leadership so they can better sort through the complexities of 
systems reform, and (4) build the overall capacity of the selected 
sites to engage in strategic planning, develop policies and programs, 
and build community collaboratives to address specific substantive 
challenges and achieve measurable results.
    Since the project was awarded, IEL has established a pool of 
consultants with expertise in systems improvement; developed useful 
resources for communities addressing issues critical to systems 
improvement, including using data effectively, achieving 
sustainability, and building consumer capacity and cultural competence; 
and provided assistance to several OJJDP comprehensive initiatives.
    In FY 2002, OJJDP will continue to fund the project to further 
assist selected OJJDP grantee communities interested in systems reform 
and change and to continue disseminating ``lessons learned'' to other 
communities.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
Institute for Educational Leadership. No additional applications would 
be solicited in FY 2002.

Training Programs for Juvenile Justice Professionals in Corrections and 
Detention

    The Training Programs for Juvenile Justice Professionals in 
Corrections and Detention, provided by the National Institute of 
Corrections (NIC) through an interagency agreement funded by OJJDP, was 
established in 1990. NIC provides a variety of training and technical 
assistance, primarily geared toward supervisors and administrators who 
work in the juvenile justice system. NIC offers comprehensive training 
courses at its academy in Longmont, CO, and at various sites around the 
country. The training program is designed to enhance professional 
development and leadership skills of juvenile justice corrections and 
detention administrators and supervisors. Through this interagency 
agreement, training is also offered on critical elements of aftercare, 
services and programs for juvenile female offenders, restorative 
justice, curriculum design and development, and training for juvenile 
justice agency training coordinators and directors. NIC also provides 
training for newly appointed chief executive officers of juvenile 
justice corrections agencies and new facility directors.
    In FY 2002, NIC will continue to support standards for training 
juvenile justice professionals through its Juvenile Justice Training 
Academy project. This project will also provide technical assistance to 
enhance existing academies and training programs. NIC will conduct 
several regional training sessions and will provide national training 
and workshops at their academy during FY 2002.
    This project would be implemented through an interagency agreement 
between OJJDP and the National Institute of Corrections. No additional 
applications would be solicited in FY 2002.

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Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce 
Disproportionate Minority Confinement

    The goal of this project is to assist States and local 
jurisdictions in their efforts to reduce the overrepresentation of 
minority youth in secure facilities. States participating in the 
Formula Grants Program are required to determine whether the proportion 
of minorities in confinement exceeds their proportion in the population 
and, if so, demonstrate efforts to reduce it. Research and Evaluation 
Associates (REA) is one of several Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) grantees with responsibility for support 
of the Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) requirement. This 
project, funded in FY 2001, follows a 3-year grant that supported 
development of a curriculum for policymakers and practitioners on DMC 
issues.
    In FY 2001, REA developed a set of strategic tools and materials to 
assist jurisdictions to address this issue and managed delivery of 
intensive technical assistance to five selected States. In working with 
the five States, project staff established a protocol for the delivery 
of technical assistance in response to DMC issues, which will help 
States identify and prioritize interventions that provide both an 
immediate and a long-term impact on DMC.
    In FY 2002, the grantee's activities will include identifying and 
training consultants to support the expansion of the intensive 
technical assistance, evaluating the use of the protocol in technical 
assistance delivery, conducting a DMC training of trainers, updating 
the DMC Web site, and continuing to develop strategies and approaches 
that will aid in implementing and monitoring the DMC effort.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Research 
and Evaluation Associates. No additional applications will be solicited 
in FY 2002.

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

Evaluation of the Parents Anonymous Program

    In FY 2001, OJJDP began this project through a competitive process 
to evaluate the Parents Anonymous program. Parents Anonymous, 
Inc., is a national child abuse prevention program dedicated to family 
strengthening in partnership with local communities. The purpose of the 
evaluation is to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the 
Parents Anonymous program in preventing and treating child 
abuse and neglect. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency is 
conducting this evaluation in two phases. Phase I is an ongoing process 
evaluation that is investigating how the theoretical premises, 
principles, best practices, and model of Parents Anonymous 
are operationalized in a sample of programs selected by the evaluator. 
Phase II will present a preliminary approach to conducting the outcome 
evaluation of the selected programs. This will include a detailed 
discussion of the overall design of the outcome evaluation and methods 
for selecting programs and comparison groups, designing and testing 
data collection instruments, and collecting and analyzing data.
    This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the 
National Council on Crime and Delinquency. No additional applications 
will be solicited in FY 2002.

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 the National Evaluation of the 
Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program. The evaluation has three main goals: to 
document and explicate the process of community mobilization, planning, 
and collaboration taking place before and during the Safe Kids/Safe 
Streets award; 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 a feasibility 
study for a future impact evaluation. With FY 2001 funding, Westat 
continued the process evaluation, which focuses on tracking the 
implementation efforts at each of the sites, and continued working with 
local evaluators to develop their skills and capacity for program 
evaluation. With funding in FY 2002, Westat will continue the impact 
evaluation, which includes a pilot study of its proposed case tracking 
procedure.
    This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, Westat, 
Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.

Research on Child Neglect

    This project is a collaborative effort of several Federal agencies 
concerned with research in the area of child abuse and neglect. The 
National Institutes of Health Child Abuse and Neglect Working Group 
(CANWG) is a consortium of Federal agencies that was formed in 1997. 
CANWG's goals are to assess the state of the science in child abuse and 
neglect, make recommendations for a research agenda, and develop plans 
for future coordination efforts across Federal agencies and institutes. 
In 1998, OJJDP joined CANWG to participate in funding a research 
program focused specifically on child neglect. OJJDP funds are 
supporting two research projects within the overall CANWG research 
program.
    This project will be implemented through the current interagency 
agreement with the National Institutes of Health Child Abuse and 
Neglect Working Group. No additional applications will be solicited in 
FY 2002.

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

    This 5\1/2\-year demonstration is designed to break the cycle of 
early childhood victimization and later delinquency and criminality by 
reducing child and adolescent maltreatment and fatalities. Several 
components of the Office of Justice Programs joined in FY 1996 to 
develop this coordinated community response program. These components 
provide fiscal and technical support for local efforts to restructure 
and strengthen the justice system and the child welfare, family 
services, education, health, and related systems to be more 
comprehensive and proactive in helping children, adolescents, and their 
families. Safe Kids requires the five funded sites to develop, 
implement, and/or expand cross-agency strategies and to partner with 
natural networks in their communities. OJJDP awarded competitive 
cooperative agreements in FY 1997 to 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. FY 2002 is 
the fifth year of the demonstration project period.
    This demonstration will continue to be implemented in FY 2002 by 
the current grantees: Chittenden County, VT; Huntsville, AL; Kansas 
City, MO; the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, MI; and 
Toledo, OH. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 2002.


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    Dated: October 17, 2001.
Terrence S. Donahue,
Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention.
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