[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 131 (Friday, July 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

[OJP (OJJDP) Docket No. 1563]


Final Plan for Fiscal Year 2011

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

ACTION: Notice of Final Plan for Fiscal Year 2011.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is 
publishing this notice of its Final Plan for fiscal year (FY) 2011.

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 (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice. Provisions within 
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), direct 
the OJJDP Administrator to publish for public comment a Proposed Plan 
describing the program activities that OJJDP proposes to carry out 
during FY 2011 under Parts D and E of Title II of the JJDP Act, 
codified at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5651-5665a, 5667, 5667a. Because the 
Office's discretionary activities extend beyond Parts D and E, the 
Acting Administrator of OJJDP published a proposed plan outlining a 
more comprehensive listing of the Office's programs. OJJDP invited the 
public to comment on the Proposed Plan for FY 2011, which was published 
in the Federal Register on January 12, 2011 (76 FR 2135). The deadline 
for submitting comments on the Proposed Plan was February 28, 2011.
    The Acting Administrator reviewed and analyzed the public comments 
that OJJDP received, and a summary of OJJDP activities since the 
comment period ended appears later in this document. The Acting 
Administrator took these comments into consideration in developing this 
Final Plan, which describes the program activities that OJJDP intends 
to fund during FY 2011.
    Since early in FY 2011, OJJDP has posted on its Web site (http://www.ojjdp. gov) solicitations for competitive programs to be funded 
under the Final Plan for FY 2011. These funding opportunities are 
announced via OJJDP's JUVJUST listserv and other methods of electronic 
notification. To obtain information about OJJDP and other OJP funding 
opportunities, visit Grants.gov's ``Find Grant Opportunities'' Web page 
at http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp. No 
proposals, concept papers, or other forms of application should be 
submitted in response to this Final Plan.
    Department Priorities: OJJDP has structured this plan to reflect 
the high priority that the Administration and the Department have 
placed on addressing youth violence and victimization and improving 
protections for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. The 
programs presented here represent OJJDP's current thinking on how to 
advance the Department's priorities during this fiscal year. This Final 
Plan also incorporates feedback from OJJDP's ongoing outreach to the 
field seeking ideas on program areas and the most promising approaches 
for those types of areas.
    OJJDP's Purpose: Congress established OJJDP through the JJDP Act of 
1974 to help states and communities prevent and control delinquency and 
strengthen their juvenile justice systems and to coordinate and 
administer national policy in this area.
    Although states, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) 
communities,\1\ and other localities retain primary responsibility for 
administering juvenile justice and preventing juvenile delinquency, 
OJJDP supports and supplements the efforts of public and private 
organizations at all levels through program funding via formula, block, 
and discretionary grants; administration of congressional earmark 
programs; research; training and technical assistance; funding of 
demonstration projects; and dissemination of information. OJJDP also 
helps administer Federal policy related to juvenile justice and 
delinquency prevention through its leadership role in the Coordinating 
Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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    \1\ In this plan, the terms ``Tribes'' and ``Tribal 
jurisdictions'' refer to both American Indian and Alaska Native 
communities.
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    OJJDP's Vision: OJJDP strives to be the recognized authority and 
national leader dedicated to the future, safety, and well-being of 
children and youth in, or at risk of entering, the juvenile justice 
system and to serving children, families, and community organizations 
that protect children from harm and exploitation.
    OJJDP's Mission: OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, 
and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and 
victimization by supporting states, Tribal jurisdictions, and 
communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective 
coordinated prevention and intervention programs and improve the 
juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds 
offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitation 
services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families.
    Guiding Principles for OJJDP's National Leadership: OJJDP provides

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targeted funding, sponsors research and demonstration programs, offers 
training and technical assistance, disseminates information, and uses 
technology to enhance programs and collaboration in exercising its 
national leadership role. In all of these efforts, the following four 
principles guide OJJDP:
    (1) Empower communities and engage youth and families.
    (2) Promote evidence-based practices.
    (3) Require accountability.
    (4) Enhance collaboration.
    1. Empower communities and engage youth and families. Families and 
communities play an essential role in any effort to prevent delinquency 
and protect children from victimization. Communities must reach beyond 
the formal systems of justice, social services, and law enforcement to 
tap into the wisdom and energies of many others--including business 
leaders, the media, neighborhood associations, block leaders, elected 
officials, Tribal leaders, clergy, faith-based organizations, and 
especially families and young people themselves--who have a stake in 
helping local youth become productive, law-abiding citizens. In 
particular, OJJDP must engage families and youth in developing 
solutions to delinquency and victimization. Their strengths, 
experiences, and aspirations provide an important perspective in 
developing those solutions.
    To be effective, collaboration among community stakeholders must be 
grounded in up-to-date information. With Federal assistance that OJJDP 
provides, community members can partner to gather data, assess local 
conditions, and make decisions to ensure resources are targeted for 
maximum impact.
    2. Promote evidence-based practices. To make the best use of public 
resources, OJJDP must identify ``what works'' in delinquency prevention 
and juvenile justice. OJJDP is the only Federal agency with a specific 
mission to develop and disseminate knowledge about what works in this 
field. Drawing on this knowledge, OJJDP helps communities replicate 
proven programs and improve their existing programs. OJJDP helps 
communities match program models to their specific needs and supports 
interventions that respond to the developmental, cultural, and gender 
needs of the youth and families they will serve.
    3. Require accountability. OJJDP requires the national, state, 
Tribal, and local entities whose programs OJJDP supports to explain how 
they use program resources, determine and report on how effective the 
programs are in alleviating the problems they are intended to address, 
and propose plans for remediation of performance that does not meet 
standards. OJJDP has established mandatory performance measures for all 
its programs and reports on those measures to the Office of Management 
and Budget. OJJDP requires its grantees and applicants to report on 
these performance measures, set up systems to gather the data necessary 
to monitor those performance measures, and use this information to 
continuously assess progress and fine-tune the programs.
    4. Enhance collaboration. Juvenile justice agencies and programs 
are just one part of a larger set of systems that encompasses the many 
agencies and programs that work with at-risk youth and their families. 
For delinquency prevention and child protection efforts to be 
effective, they must be coordinated at the local, Tribal, state, and 
Federal levels with law enforcement, social services, child welfare, 
public health, mental health, school, and other systems that address 
family strengthening and youth development. One way to achieve this 
coordination is to establish broad-based coalitions to create consensus 
on service priorities and to build support for a coordinated approach. 
With this consensus as a foundation, participating agencies and 
departments can then build mechanisms to link service providers at the 
program level--including procedures for sharing information across 
systems.
    OJJDP took its guidance in the development of this Final Plan from 
the priorities that the Attorney General has set forth for the 
Department. At the same time, OJJDP drew upon its Strategic Plan for 
2009-2011. The four primary goals at the heart of OJJDP's Strategic 
Plan echo the Attorney General's priorities. Those goals are: Prevent 
and respond to delinquency, strengthen the juvenile justice system, 
prevent and reduce the victimization of children, and prevent and 
reduce youth violence to create safer neighborhoods.

OJJDP's Summary of Public Comments on the FY 2011 Proposed Plan

    OJJDP published its Proposed Plan for FY 2011 in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 2135) on January 12, 2011. During the subsequent 45-day 
public comment period, OJJDP received 29 submissions. Since the close 
of public comment, OJJDP has carefully reviewed and considered each of 
the submissions in its development of the Final Plan for FY 2011.
    Comments addressed many of the program areas and activities in 
which OJJDP is currently engaged. Improving conditions and services for 
youth with disabilities and mental health issues in the juvenile 
justice system was the single topic that elicited the most responses. 
More than a third of the comments dealt with some aspect of improving 
conditions in juvenile facilities for youth with disabilities and 
mental health issues. In keeping with U.S. Department of Justice 
priorities, many OJJDP programs, including the Defending Childhood 
Initiative, the Second Chance Act Juvenile Offender Reentry Project, 
the Tribal Youth Program, among other programs, allow grantees to 
provide mental health services to participating youth.
    Other areas that drew comments were mentoring, disproportionate 
minority contact, prevention and early intervention programs, and 
conditions of confinement for juvenile offenders.
    OJJDP looks to the field for guidance on emerging juvenile justice 
needs and issues of concern, and targets its allocation of funding and 
resources, based, in part, on the feedback the Office receives from 
policymakers and practitioners through such vehicles as the Proposed 
Plan. OJJDP wishes to note that in the interim period between 
publication of the Proposed Plan in January and this Final Plan, 
Congress identified the Office's funding streams for FY 2011, and OJJDP 
adjusted its funding priorities accordingly. As a result, OJJDP will 
not fund in 2011 some programs that appeared in the Proposed Plan, and 
OJJDP also has added new programs. Comments the Office received on the 
Proposed Plan, Administration priorities, and available funds informed 
these decisions.
    OJJDP is encouraged by the quality of the comments that the Office 
received for the 2011 Proposed Plan and looks forward to continued 
communication and collaboration with the juvenile justice field.

OJJDP Final Plan for Fiscal Year 2011

    Each year OJJDP receives formula and block grant funding as well as 
discretionary funds for certain program areas. Based on its proposed 
budget for FY 2011, OJJDP offers the following 2011 Final Plan for its 
discretionary funding. Programs are organized according to Department 
priorities and traditional OJJDP focus areas.

Department and OJJDP Priorities

    OJJDP administers grant programs authorized by the JJDP Act of 
1974, as amended. OJJDP also administers programs under other 
legislative authority and through partnerships with other Federal 
agencies. In keeping with OJJDP's mission, these programs are designed 
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justice system, prevent juvenile delinquency and violence, and protect 
and safeguard the nation's youth. The Obama Administration and the 
Attorney General have identified children's exposure to violence, gang 
violence, and community violence as focus areas for the Department. 
http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/jj.index.htm.

The Attorney General's Initiative on Children Exposed to Violence 
Program: Phase II

    On September 23, 2011, Attorney General Holder launched Defending 
Childhood, an initiative that harnesses resources from across the 
Department of Justice to prevent children's exposure to violence; 
mitigate the negative impact of that exposure; and develop knowledge 
and spread awareness about the issue. The Attorney General's Initiative 
on Children Exposed to Violence is the programmatic expression of 
Defending Childhood. Following an initial planning year, DOJ will award 
supplemental funds to the original eight sites to implement activities 
to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 
their homes, schools, and communities. Subsequently, DOJ will select 
four communities to receive substantial support through an invitation-
only competition. The remaining four sites will receive supplemental 
funding for specific program services under DOJ guidelines. OJJDP will 
conduct process and outcome evaluations of the initiative.

Community-Based Violence Prevention Program

    OJJDP will fund new sites to replicate intervention programs, such 
as the Boston Gun Project, the Richmond Comprehensive Homicide 
Initiative, the Chicago CeaseFire model, or other programs, to reduce 
violence in targeted communities. Applicants must focus their proposed 
programs on the high-risk activities and behaviors of a small number of 
carefully selected members of the community who are likely to be 
involved in gun violence in the immediate future. The intervention with 
this target population should include improved coordination of existing 
resources and activities that support multiple, complementary anti-
violence strategies. An additional evaluation grant (continuation) will 
be made to ensure data from the new sites are included in the national 
evaluation.

Continuations

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     Safe Start Promising Approaches Project.
     Children's Exposure to Violence Fellowship.
     National Survey of Children Exposed to Violence.
     Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) 
Program.

Tribal Youth

    Since 1998, Congress has appropriated funding to support programs 
addressing Tribal youth. OJJDP administers most of its Tribal 
initiatives through the Tribal Youth Program (TYP). These programs fund 
initiatives, training and technical assistance, and research and 
evaluation projects to improve juvenile justice systems and delinquency 
prevention efforts among Federally recognized American Indian and 
Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes.

U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance

    In response to concerns that Tribes voiced during recent public 
listening sessions, DOJ developed the Coordinated Tribal Assistance 
Solicitation (CTAS) that combines all of its existing competitive 
Tribal solicitations into one document. The CTAS solicitation is posted 
on the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Web site (http://www.ojp.gov). 
The following are the OJJDP programs within the CTAS:
     Tribal Youth Program supports and enhances Tribal efforts 
to prevent and control delinquency and improve their juvenile justice 
systems. Grantees develop and implement delinquency prevention 
programs, interventions for court-involved youth, improvements to their 
juvenile justice systems, alcohol and substance abuse prevention 
programs, and emotional/behavioral program services.
     OJJDP will support Tribal Youth Demonstration Programs 
that address gaps in programs and services for Tribal youth. Services 
include risk and needs assessments, educational and vocational 
programs, mental health services, substance abuse programs, family 
strengthening, recreational activities, and extended reentry aftercare 
to help offenders successfully reintegrate into the Tribal community.

Tribal Youth Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Programs

    OJJDP will fund field-initiated studies to further what is 
understood regarding the experiences, strengths, and needs of Tribal 
youth, their families, and communities and what works to reduce their 
risks for delinquency and victimization. Accordingly, OJJDP will seek 
applications addressing a broad range of research topics, such as the 
identification of risk factors for delinquent behavior and substance 
abuse, pathways to delinquency and desistance, victimization 
experiences among Tribal youth and an assessment of gang problems in 
Tribal communities.

Tribal Youth National Mentoring Program

    OJJDP will support the development, maturation, and expansion of 
mentoring services for Tribal youth on Tribal reservations that are 
underserved due to location, shortage of mentors, emotional or 
behavioral challenges of the targeted population, or other situations. 
Grantees will assess Tribal needs, develop plans, and implement and 
monitor mentoring activities in multiple states that have Tribal 
reservations.

Continuation

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     Child Protection Programs in Tribal Communities.

Juvenile Justice System Reform

    OJJDP recognizes the need for states to have effective and 
efficient juvenile justice systems and for the Office to assist them in 
identifying and implementing promising and evidence-based practices. 
Reforming juvenile justice and improving systems across the country is 
a priority for OJJDP. In 2011, OJJDP will focus on youth transitioning 
back to their communities from a detention or corrections facility.

Second Chance Act Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Demonstration 
Projects

    OJJDP, in collaboration with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, will 
support additional demonstration projects under the Second Chance Act 
Youth Offender Reentry Initiative, a comprehensive response to the 
increasing number of people who are released from prison, jail, and 
juvenile facilities each year and are returning to their communities. 
The goal of this initiative is to reduce the rate of recidivism for 
offenders released from a juvenile residential facility and increase 
public safety. Demonstration projects provide necessary services to 
youth while in confinement and following their release into the 
community. The initiative will focus on addressing the unique needs of 
girls reentering their communities.

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Continuations

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support;
     Juvenile Indigent Defense National Clearinghouse.
     National Training and Technical Assistance Center for 
Youth in Custody.
     Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
     The National Girls Institute.

Research, Evaluation, and Data Collection

    OJJDP supports and promotes research, vigorous and informative 
evaluations of demonstration programs, and collection and analysis of 
statistical data. The goal of these activities is to generate credible 
and useful information to improve decisionmaking in the juvenile 
justice system. OJJDP sponsors research that has the greatest potential 
to improve the nation's understanding of juvenile delinquency and 
victimization and of ways to develop effective prevention and 
intervention programs to respond to it.

Child Protection Research Program

    OJJDP will fund field-initiated research and evaluation projects on 
crimes against children and juveniles, primarily on issues of 
exploitation and abuse. These projects will produce information that 
will assist Federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutors 
involved with crimes against children cases, policymakers, and 
professionals who care for and educate children and youth. OJJDP will 
consider applications proposing research in other areas that will fill 
a critical gap in the field's knowledge and practice.

Evaluation of Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative

    OJJDP will conduct a comprehensive process and rigorous impact 
evaluation of the Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative to 
determine the effectiveness of combining mentoring with other reentry 
services for participating juvenile offenders during their confinement, 
through their transition back to the community, and following release. 
OJJDP will select a national evaluator to assess the implementation of 
these programs and their impact on service delivery and key outcomes 
for participating youth, including recidivism.

Mentoring Research Best Practices Program

    OJJDP will fund a program of research that seeks to enhance the 
understanding of mentoring as a prevention strategy for youth at risk 
of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. 
While mentoring appears to be a promising intervention for youth, more 
evaluation work is needed to further highlight the components of a 
mentoring program that are most effective and how effective mentoring 
is as a delinquency prevention/intervention technique.

Youth Gang Research Initiative

    OJJDP will fund research on gangs that provides current information 
on the nature and scope of the gang problem in the United States, 
examines programs and strategies that communities have implemented to 
prevent and intervene in gang activity, and identifies emerging trends 
in gang prevention and intervention programs. Further research and 
examination is needed to develop a better understanding of the factors 
that lead to gang involvement, the nature and scope of different types 
of gangs, and the most effective strategies, programs, and practices to 
prevent and intervene with gang-involved youth. Also, OJJDP will fund 
an assessment of the nature and scope of youth gangs in juvenile 
detention and correctional facilities.

Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program

    OJJDP will support multiple grant awards for research and 
evaluations of programs and initiatives that focus on the juvenile 
justice system's response to delinquency and system improvement. The 
goal of the research questions posed will be to inform policy and lead 
to recommendations for juvenile justice system improvement.

National Juvenile Probation Census Project

    OJJDP will support the next round of its National Juvenile 
Probation Census, which describes youth under justice supervision and 
the services they receive. The census provides critical data on the 
characteristics of youth on probation, the nature of their offenses, 
and how they are served. The significance of such information is 
evident when one considers that the number of youth on probation is 
roughly five times that of the population of youth in custody.

Evaluations of Girls' Delinquency Programs

    OJJDP will support evaluations that will measure the effectiveness 
of delinquency prevention, intervention, and/or treatment programs to 
prevent and reduce girls' risk behavior and offending. Over the past 
two decades, the number of girls entering the juvenile justice system 
has dramatically increased. This trend raised a number of questions for 
OJJDP, including whether this reflected an increase in girls' 
delinquency or changes in society's responses to girls' behavior. 
OJJDP's Girls Study Group recently completed a review of evaluations of 
girls' delinquency programs and found that most programs have not been 
evaluated, thereby limiting knowledge about the most appropriate and 
effective programs for girls.

Continuations

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center.
     National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program.
     National Juvenile Justice Data Collection Program.

Substance Abuse and Treatment

    OJJDP, often in partnership with other Federal agencies and private 
organizations, develops programs, research, or other initiatives to 
address juvenile use and abuse of illegal, prescription, and 
nonprescription drugs and alcohol. OJJDP's substance abuse efforts 
include control, prevention, and treatment programs.

Best Practices for Juvenile Drug Courts and Adolescent Treatment

    OJJDP will fund an initiative in partnership with the Department of 
Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to 
identify best practices for merging juvenile drug courts and adolescent 
treatment. This initiative will also develop and implement training for 
juvenile drug courts on models of adolescent treatment that support the 
drug court.

Family Drug Court Programs

    OJJDP will implement and enhance family drug courts that serve 
substance-abusing adults who are involved in the family dependency 
court system as a result of child abuse and neglect issues. Grantees 
must provide services to the children of the parents in the program as 
well as to the parents. The Center for Children and Family Futures will 
provide training and technical assistance to family drug courts.

Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program

    The Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Program supports 
states' efforts to reduce drinking by juveniles through its four 
components: block grants to the 50 states, the 5 territories, and the 
District of Columbia;

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discretionary grants; technical assistance; and research and 
evaluation. Under the block grant component, each state, the District 
of Columbia, and the territories receive approximately $360,000 
annually to support law enforcement activities, media campaigns, and 
coalition building. The EUDL discretionary grant component supports 
several diverse initiatives to help communities develop promising 
approaches to address underage drinking. EUDL training and technical 
assistance supports communities and states in their efforts to enforce 
underage drinking laws. EUDL funds and Federal partnerships also 
support evaluations of community initiatives within the EUDL 
discretionary grant component.

Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Assessment, Strategic Planning, and 
Implementation Initiative

    OJJDP will support this discretionary component of the Enforcing 
Underage Drinking Laws program, in which states will implement an 
assessment and strategic planning process to develop targeted, 
effective activities to reduce underage access to and consumption of 
alcohol. Grantees will assess local conditions and design a long-term 
strategic plan; implement selected and approved actions of that plan; 
collect, analyze, and report data; and evaluate how the state responded 
to the recommendations, crafted its strategic plan, and implemented 
portions of the plan with the remaining funds.

Continuations

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     Juvenile Drug Court Programs.

Mentoring

    OJJDP supports mentoring programs for youth at risk of failing in 
school, dropping out of school, or becoming involved in delinquent 
behavior, including gang activity and substance abuse. The goals of the 
programs are to reduce juvenile delinquency and gang participation, 
improve academic performance, and reduce the school dropout rate. 
Mentoring funds support mentoring programs that provide general 
guidance and support; promote personal and social responsibility; 
increase participation in education; support juvenile offenders 
returning to their communities after confinement in a residential 
facility; discourage use of illegal drugs and firearms; discourage 
involvement in gangs, violence, and other delinquent activity; and 
encourage participation in community service activities. OJJDP will 
also sponsor several research projects that will evaluate mentoring 
programs or approaches and the effectiveness of specific mentoring 
practices.

Mentoring Commercial Child Sexual Exploitation Victim Service Agencies

    OJJDP proposes to support the development and enhancement of the 
mentoring capacity of community organizations that provide direct 
services to children who are sexually exploited for commercial 
purposes. Community service programs that build or enhance mentoring 
programs for these high-risk youth and provide other appropriate 
support services can empower girls and boys to exit the commercial sex 
industry and move past their involvement with the justice system and 
their experiences with victimization. Such programs should be led by a 
local community collaborative that is designed to address local needs 
and use local resources.

Mentoring for Youth With Disabilities

    OJJDP proposes to fund mentoring programs and strategies that 
support at-risk youth with disabilities to prevent them from engaging 
in risky behaviors such as substance abuse and criminal activity. OJJDP 
anticipates coordinating this initiative with the U.S. Departments of 
Education and Health and Human Services.

Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative

    OJJDP will provide grants for mentoring and other transitional 
services to reintegrate juvenile offenders into their communities. The 
grants will be used to mentor juvenile offenders during confinement, 
through transition back to the community, and following release; to 
provide transitional services to assist them in their reintegration 
into the community; and to support training in offender and victims 
issues. The initiative's goals are to reduce recidivism among juvenile 
ex-offenders, enhance community safety, and enhance the capacity of 
local partnerships to address the needs of juvenile ex-offenders 
returning to their communities.

National and Multi-State Mentoring Programs

    OJJDP will support national organizations and organizations with 
mentoring programs in at least five states to enhance or expand 
mentoring services to high-risk populations that are underserved due to 
location; shortage of mentors; special physical or mental challenges of 
the targeted population; youth with a parent in the military, including 
a deployed parent; or other analogous situations that the community in 
need of mentoring services identifies.

Missing Children

    These programs enhance the national response of state, local, and 
Federal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and nongovernmental 
organizations to missing and exploited children. They serve as the 
primary vehicles for building a national infrastructure to support 
efforts to prevent the abduction and exploitation of our nation's 
children.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

    OJJDP will fund the National Center for Missing & Exploited 
Children to serve as the national resource center and information 
clearinghouse for missing and exploited children; operate a national 
24-hour toll-free telephone line by which individuals may report 
information regarding the location of any missing child; operate a 
cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers 
a means to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation; and, 
provide training and technical assistance to individuals and law 
enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and 
treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children.

AMBER Alert

    OJJDP will fund the AMBER Alert network, which is a voluntary 
partnership of state and local media, law enforcement, and 
transportation agencies that work together to notify the public about 
an abducted child and to request their assistance in the recovery of 
the child. The AMBER Alert program increases and improves law 
enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; 
increases the recovery rate of abducted children; strengthens child 
alert systems in the nation's northern and southern borders to better 
protect American children abducted to or through foreign countries; 
creates greater community capacity to understand broader issues related 
to exploitation and abuse of children; and enhances public 
participation in the recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted 
children.

Child Victimization

    Since its inception, OJJDP has consistently strived to safeguard 
children from victimization by supporting research, training, and 
community programs that emphasize prevention and early intervention. A

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commitment to children's safety is written into the Office's 
legislative mandate, which includes the JJDP Act of 1974, the Missing 
Children's Assistance Act of 1984, and the Victims of Child Abuse Act 
of 1990. OJJDP continues to improve the responses of the justice system 
and related systems, increase public awareness, and promote model 
programs for addressing child victimization in states and communities 
across the country.

Children's Advocacy Centers

    OJJDP will continue funding for programs that improve the 
coordinated investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases. These 
programs include a national subgrant program for local children's 
advocacy centers, a membership and accreditation program, regional 
children's advocacy centers, and specialized technical assistance and 
training programs for child abuse professionals and prosecutors. Local 
children's advocacy centers bring together multidisciplinary teams of 
professionals to coordinate the investigation, treatment, and 
prosecution of child abuse cases.

Court Appointed Special Advocates Programs

    OJJDP will continue funding for Court Appointed Special Advocates 
(CASA) programs that provide children in the foster care system or at 
risk of entering the dependency system with high-quality, timely, 
effective, and sensitive representation before the court. CASA programs 
train and support volunteers who advocate for the best interests of the 
child in dependency proceedings. OJJDP funds a national CASA training 
and technical assistance provider and a national membership and 
accreditation organization to support state and local CASA 
organizations' efforts to recruit volunteer advocates, including 
minority volunteers, and to provide training and technical assistance 
to these organizations and to stakeholders in the child welfare system.

Child Exploitation

    The increasing number of children and teens using the Internet, the 
proliferation of child pornography, and the increasing number of sexual 
predators who use the Internet and other electronic media to prey on 
children present both a significant threat to the health and safety of 
young people and a formidable challenge for law enforcement. OJJDP took 
the lead early on in addressing this problem. More than a decade ago, 
the Office established the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force 
program.

Internet Crimes Against Children Program

    OJJDP will continue funding to support the operations of the 61 
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The ICAC Task 
Force program helps state and local law enforcement agencies develop an 
effective response to sexual predators who prey upon juveniles via the 
Internet and other electronic devices and child pornography cases. This 
program encompasses forensic and investigative components, training and 
technical assistance, victim services, and community education.

ICAC Commercial Child Sexual Exploitation

    OJJDP will support select law enforcement agencies in their 
development of strategies to protect children from commercial sexual 
exploitation. Grantees will improve training and coordination 
activities, develop policies and procedures to identify child victims 
of commercial sexual exploitation, investigate and prosecute cases 
against adults who sexually exploit children for commercial purposes, 
and provide essential services to victims, including cases where 
technology is used to facilitate the exploitation of the victim.

ICAC Deconfliction System

    OJJDP will fund an ICAC Deconfliction System (IDS) to allow OJJDP-
credentialed users, including Federal, state, local, and Tribal 
agencies and ICAC task forces investigating and prosecuting child 
exploitation to contribute and access data for use in resolving case 
conflicts. A governmental agency or a credentialed law enforcement 
agency will host the system. Also, IDS will permit the real-time 
analysis of data to facilitate identification of targets and to 
estimate the size of the law enforcement effort to address these 
crimes.
    In addition, OJJDP will support related ICAC activities and 
programs, including:
     Designing and implementing the 2011 ICAC-Project Safe 
Childhood National Training Conference.
     Research on Internet and other technology-facilitated 
crimes against children.
     Training for ICAC officers, prosecutors, judges, and other 
stakeholders.
     Technical assistance to support implementation of the ICAC 
program.

Continuation

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical 
Assistance Program.

Juvenile Justice System Improvement

    OJJDP works to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the 
juvenile justice system. A major component of these efforts is the 
provision of training and technical assistance (TTA) resources that 
address the needs of juvenile justice practitioners and support state 
and local efforts to build capacity and expand the use of evidence-
based practices.
    Training and technical assistance is the planning, development, 
delivery, and evaluation of activities to achieve specific learning 
objectives, resolve problems, and foster the application of innovative 
approaches to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP has 
developed a network of providers to deliver targeted training and 
technical assistance to policymakers and practitioners.

National Gang Center

    OJJDP will fund, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, a National Gang Center to provide training and technical 
assistance to law enforcement agencies and communities on gang 
prevention and intervention programs and strategies. The National Gang 
Center will also administer the annual National Youth Gang Survey and 
disseminate current research and practice on gang prevention, 
intervention, and suppression strategies and programs.

Model Programs Guide

    OJJDP will fund a program to maintain and expand the databases that 
make up OJJDP's Model Programs Guide. The award recipient will actively 
identify, review, and assess new programs; add new programs that meet 
the evaluation criteria, their descriptions, and performance 
indicators; and develop, maintain, and expand subject-specific 
databases including, but not limited to, the disproportionate minority 
contact and deinstitutionalization of status offenders best practices 
databases. Moreover, OJJDP is looking to improve technical capacity, 
expand and refine the database, and, generally, assure ease, speed, and 
precision in searching the database.

National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Truancy 
Prevention and Intervention

    OJJDP will fund a National Training and Technical Assistance Center 
for Truancy Prevention and Intervention.

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The center will disseminate information regarding what works to prevent 
and intervene with school truancy and dropout problems and promote the 
use of evidence-based practices through training, technical assistance, 
and resources.

State Juvenile Justice Formula and Block Grants Training and Technical 
Assistance Program

    OJJDP will award a cooperative agreement to an organization that 
will provide training and technical assistance to national, state, and 
local-level grantees and non-grantees that will assist them in 
planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating 
delinquency prevention and juvenile justice systems improvement 
projects. Training and technical assistance topic areas will fall under 
the Title II Formula Grants and Juvenile Accountability Block Grants 
(JABG) program areas. The successful applicant shall develop, enhance, 
and refine OJJDP program-specific training, on, but not limited to, 
state and local level disproportionate minority contact reduction 
strategies, state-level compliance monitoring, graduated sanctions, and 
juvenile justice systems improvement efforts. Additionally, the 
selected organization will coordinate the State Relations and 
Assistance Division's national training conferences.

Continuations

    In FY 2011, OJJDP will continue to support:
     Child Abuse Training for Judicial and Court Personnel.
     Engaging Law Enforcement To Reduce Juvenile Crime, 
Victimization, and Delinquency.
     State Advisory Group Training and Technical Assistance 
Project.

Fellowships

    OJJDP's fellowship program is designed to enhance the Office's 
efforts to develop and improve innovative programs that serve children, 
youth, and families. A secondary goal is to provide practitioners an 
opportunity to work closely with career and political Federal staff, 
contractors, grantees, and other public and private organizations in 
Washington, DC, and across the country. The fellow will provide direct 
operational assistance to OJJDP staff through assessment and capacity 
building, design and development of innovative initiatives and training 
programs, resource development, research and evaluation, policy 
development, and outreach and awareness. The fellow will also develop 
articles for publication and other products on specific topics.

Concentration of Federal Efforts Fellowship

    OJJDP will fund a fellow in the Concentration of Federal Efforts 
program for 2 years to strengthen the Office's cross-agency partnership 
efforts. Currently, OJJDP staff and leadership participate in dozens of 
interagency efforts. The fellow will build on related ongoing work of 
other Federal agencies, develop new cross-agency partnerships and 
initiatives, identify and assess opportunities for cross-agency 
partnerships, and track the impact of existing partnership efforts.

    Dated: July 1, 2011.
Jeff Slowikowski,
Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-17186 Filed 7-7-11; 8:45 am]
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