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The next JDCAP Training Committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday August 27, 10AM-2PM at the Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center. The training committee will be sent a proposed agenda in advance of this meeting.
The next JDCAP Standards Committee meeting is scheduled for Wed August 15 (10:00 AM) at the Abraxas Academy in Morgantown PA. During this meeting, we will review the Physical Plant standards.
Additional Information
Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ has made available a series of six final technical reports which describe findings from the National Institute of Justice Study Group on the Transitions between Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime.
These reports are the result of an NIJ-funded project but were not published by the U.S. Department of Justice. See below for additional details:
Title: Bulletin 1: From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending (pdf, 39 pages) Authors: Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, David Petechuk
Title: Bulletin 2: Criminal Career Patterns (pdf, 34 pages) Authors: Alex R. Piquero, J. David Hawkins, Lila Kazemian, David Petechuk
Title: Bulletin 3: Explanations for Offending (pdf, 43 pages) Authors: Terence P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri Matsuda, Ann S. Masten, Erik Bulten, Andrea G. Donker, David Petechuk
Title: Bulletin 4: Prediction and Risk/Needs Assessment (pdf, 45 pages) Authors: Robert D. Hoge, Gina Vincent, Laura Guy
Title: Bulletin 5: Young Offenders and an Effective Response in the Juvenile and Adult Justice Systems: What Happens, What Should Happen, and What We Need to Know (pdf, 51 pages) Authors: James C. Howell, Barry C. Feld, Daniel P. Mears, David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, David Petechuk
Title: Bulletin 6: Changing Lives: Prevention and Intervention to Reduce Serious Offending (pdf, 56 pages) Authors: Brandon C. Welsh, Mark W. Lipsey, Frederick P. Rivara, J. David Hawkins, Steve Aos, Meghan E. Peel, David Petechuk
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Webinar To Explore Trauma-Informed Model for Girls in Detention and Residential Programs
On August 7, 2013, at 2 p.m. ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP's) National Girls Institute will host the Webinar "A Trauma Informed Effective Reinforcement (TIER) System for Girls." This 90-minute Webinar will review this female-responsive, research-based model, which offers short-term detention and residential programs as effective alternatives to compliance-focused behavior management systems. Presenters will share examples of processes and techniques for establishing a gender-responsive, trauma-informed program culture.
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Register and learn more about this free Webinar.
Centers for Disease Control Reports 30-Year Low in Youth Homicide Rates
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new report finding that homicide rates for youth ages 10-24 in the United States reached a 30-year low in 2010. The findings were seen across all age, racial, and ethnic groups and mechanisms of injury.
The report focuses on the critical need for more violence prevention strategies in schools, families, and neighborhoods-particularly alternatives to violence that engage high-risk youth-and encouragement of age-appropriate activities and relationships.
Report Assesses Well-Being of America's Children
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, of which the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a participating agency, has released "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013." The report features statistics on children and families in the United States across 41 key indicators, including family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. The forum's mission is to collect enhanced data on children and youth, communicate it to the policy community and general public, and produce more complete data at the federal, state, and local levels.
Resources:
Read the full report online.