SAVE THE DATES - PREA TRAINING

September 24-27, 2013

Penn Stater, State College PA

JDCAP is hosting our annual Juvenile Justice Conference Sept 24-27 at the Penn Stater, State College PA with special sessions available for 3800 licensed facilities providing services for juvenile justice referrals.

Please share this announcement with all impacted juvenile justice facilities.

In response to the Bureau of Human Service Licensing recent announcement regarding the implementation of PREA Standards for Juvenile Justice Facilities, JDCAP is shifting the focus of our annual conference to offer an agenda focused on PREA implementation in PA. JDCAP is working with the Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services, the PREA Resource Center and DPW to offer sessions designed to address PA specific issues for PREA implementation.

WATCH FORM MORE INFORMATION AT www.jdcap.org

Click here for the conference registration information.

If anyone has any questions about PREA Compliance, please feel free to contact WBear@pacounties.org

Additionally, a rather extensive list of resources are available at the PREA Resource Center

Questions or comments about the BHSL announcement can be directed to the Operator Support Hotline at 1-866-503-3926.

If you know an organization that is interested in sponsoring the conference, please pass on the below sponsor and vendor information.

Sponsor and Vendor Information 

Save the Dates

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 date and location will be announced shortly. During this upcoming meeting, we will review the Physical Plant standards.

Additional Information

National Center for Youth in Custody Webinar To Discuss Improving Conditions for Youth in Confinement

On September 4, 2013, at 2 p.m. ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention-sponsored National Center for Youth in Custody will present "Putting It All Together: How Juvenile Facilities Can Create and Sustain Improved Conditions for Youth." During the 90-minute Webinar, presenters will discuss how to provide more consistently safe, secure, humane, and therapeutic environments for confined youth.

Resources:

Register for this free Webinar, the last in a series on improving conditions for youth in confinement.

American Bar Association Endorses Task Force Recommendations To Address Children's Exposure to Violence, Urges Immediate Implementation

On August 12, 2013, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution supporting the implementation of the 56 policy recommendations set forth in the "Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence." The report-commissioned as part of Attorney General Eric Holder's Defending Childhood Initiative-is a blueprint for reducing the impact of trauma on children who witness or experience violence. Describing the recommendations as timely and significant, the ABA stated that the "comprehensive implementation of these recommendations will ensure that federal, state, and local governments are held responsible for the care and well-being of violence-exposed young people, provide a fair legal process and meaningful access to justice, and offer services to improve the lives, rehabilitation, and future of court-involved youth."

Online Brief Provides Resources for Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Community

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP's) Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC) has released the August issue of "Resource Alert," an online brief which provides current information and research findings on underage drinking. The current issue includes-

• Highlights of OJJDP Administrator Robert L. Listenbee's remarks during a Webinar promoted by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking.
• An overview of successful strategies in Iowa, adapted from OJJDP's Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws program, that address underage drinking by U.S. military personnel.
• A summary of a recent UDETC podcast about Youth Empowered Solutions, a youth-led movement to address underage drinking.