Resources

Youth MOVE National, under the OJJDP-funded Center for Coordinated Assistance to States at American Institutes for Research (AIR), offers the Toolkit for Implementing Authentic Youth Engagement Strategies Within State Advisory Groups, to aid SAGs in engaging youth members and understanding some of the youth justice issues most pressing to young adults. The toolkit includes an assessment for State Advisory Groups to evaluate current efforts, as well as strategies for enhancing youth engagement. Topics include Promoting Youth Recruitment and Retention on State Advisory Groups, Increasing Engagement with Unique Populations, Youth-Adult Partnership, and Youth Engagement Readiness.  Captured in graphic organizers and interactive tools, the resource provides inclusive and trauma-aware strategies for engaging young adult partners and what young people see as core youth justice issues. Youth MOVE National’s Justice for the Community Council (J4CC) led the writing of content. J4CC is an advisory council of 6 young leaders with lived experience, committed to seeing change within the juvenile justice system. These leaders leveraged the Deliberate Discussion series to shape content. The Deliberate Discussion Series created space for key audiences (SAG youth and non-youth members and young adult justice advocates) to share struggles and strategies for generating sustainable pathways for youth and young adults’ involvement in SAGs.

The Federal Cross-System Briefs were developed by CCAS to help Title II grantees foster collaborative efforts between various government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, and leverage federal funding to meet the intersectional needs of youth and families. These materials are intended to support cross-system collaboration that maximizes funding and resources to provide safer systems for youth and deliver more desirable outcomes for all agencies involved. They cover three priority content areas, identified in collaboration with OJJDP: youth homelessness, child welfare, and education and employment.  Key Federal Funding Related to Homeless Youth Youth Homelessness and Juvenile Justice System Involvement Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System Involvement Department of Labor Key Youth Employment Resources Non-Federal Organizations and Resources That Focus on Youth Homelessness

In collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ),  CCAS is pleased to share a new resource entitled “State Advisory Groups (SAGs) Capacity Building Toolkit.”   This valuable resource provides a foundation for SAGs to become change agents related to improving juvenile justice policies and practices and outlines the five (5) principles for long-term SAG effectiveness.  The toolkit also includes a blueprint for meaningful engagement of young people in the important work undertaken by SAGs.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

Goal of This Checklist To help service providers determine whether they are on track with adopting each hallmark of the Developmental Approach, which strives to focus on helping youth avoid formal legal involvement unless necessary to ensure accountability or protect public safety. This initiative includes striving to keep youth in their communities and providing the services and interventions needed to support prosocial development of adolescents.

On behalf of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), we are excited to share with you the release of the Developmental Approach Checklist Series. These resources are based upon the findings of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach, an extensive OJJDP-funded report that explores recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research on adolescent development, and the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform. They are designed to help the field explore ways to apply the seven hallmarks of the Developmental Approach in their localities, to effectively align youth justice services with adolescent development. Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 1: Accountability Without Criminalization Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 2: Alternatives to Justice System Involvement Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 3: Individualized Response Based on Assessment Needs and Risks Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 4: Confinement Only When Necessary for Public Safety Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 5: A Genuine Commitment to Fairness Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 6: Sensitivity to Disparate Treatment Checklist Adolescent Developmental Approach Hallmark 7: Family Engagement Checklist

There are six foundational roles created to ensure Entity Users have the authority and ability to carry out specific requirements and tasks within JustGrants. 

CrimeSolutions is a central resource to help practitioners and policymakers understand what works in justice-related programs and practices. Its purpose is to assist in practical decision making and program implementation by gathering information on justice-related programs and practices and reviewing evaluation and meta-analysis research against standard criteria.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Model Programs Guide (MPG) contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs.

The official website of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 

Guidance for state juvenile detention and correctional facilities related to COVID-19.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention created the Redline Version of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act as Amended by the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018 to allow readers to quickly track the amendments to the statute. The Redline Version is divided into key sections pertinent to the work of Designated State Agencies (DSAs) and State Advisory Groups (SAGs) in their work to administer the Title II Formula Grants Program. 

This fact sheet describes the major components of the JJRA, including the effective application dates, definition of terms, annual reporting requirements, state allocations, state plan requirements, and the distribution of funds not allocated due to state noncompliance.

The purpose of this document is to assist states in monitoring and achieving compliance with the core requirements specified in the Formula Grants Program authorized under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) (34 U.S.C. §§ 11131-11133). Should anything within this document conflict with any provision of the JJDPA or its implementing regulation at 28 C.F. R. Part 31, Subpart A, the statutory and/or regulatory provision will prevail. Please note that this document describes the requirements applicable to awards made for fiscal year (FY) 2019 and previous years. This document does not apply to awards made for FY 2020 and subsequent years, as it does not incorporate amendments to the JJDPA made by the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018 (Pub. L. No. 115-385), most of which take effect on October 1, 2019.

The toolkit provides examples, templates, and tools that may be used to improve current practices and, ultimately, to select and retain qualified staff. This toolkit was prepared by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) with support from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) through the Center for Coordinated Assistance to the States (CCAS). 

The Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities is the first comprehensive planning guide to address the specific needs of children, youth, and families involved in the justice system during an emergency. By utilizing the information in this resource, facilities are encouraged to develop comprehensive emergency plans that will make a difference in the safety and well-being of children and youth in our nation’s justice system. This planning resource provides juvenile justice facilities with the tools to begin the planning process and strategies to effectively address key components of a comprehensive emergency plan including communications procedures, preparing to shelter in place and to evacuate, providing mental health services and medical care, evaluating the facility’s staffing needs, offering support to youth and their families, and many more.

On September 10, 2018, OJJDP presented "FY 2019 Title II Formula Program Solicitation." OJJDP’s State Relations and Assistance Division provided an overview of changes and requirements for the FY 2019 Title II Formula Program Solicitation. OJJDP provided an opportunity for state applicants, responsible for submitting their Title II State Plan, to ask questions about the new solicitation requirements.   Materials Solicitation - https://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2019/TitleII.pdf FAQ - https://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2019/FAQ/TitleII.pdf

This resource is designed to help agencies, organizations, and stakeholders improve services, programs, and outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This toolkit was prepared by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and was based on recommendations shared at the 2015 CJCA Leadership Institute that included OJJDP’s address on positive youth development.