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 Date

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

NGI Webinar on Child Trafficking, Girls, and Detention

The National Girls Institute and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Training and Technical Assistance Center will host the webinar "Child Trafficking, Girls, and Detention: A Call to Reform" on September 10, 2013, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. EDT. Presenters Malika Saada Saar and Yasmin Vafa are staff at Rights4Girls, a human rights organization focused on gender-based violence and its impact on vulnerable young women and girls in the United States. This webinar will discuss how victims of domestic child sex trafficking are being detained for "prostitution" and how the victimization of exploited girls is hidden to law enforcement. It will also stress the importance of state juvenile justice facilities identifying and assessing for commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking within existing caseloads in order to connect these youth with services and therapeutic interventions.

Click here to register for the webinar.   

MacArthur Foundation To Fund Juvenile Justice Resource Center Partnership

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced their commitment of an additional $15 million to juvenile justice reform, part of which will establish the Models for Change Resource Center Partnership. The Partnership will fund four resource centers that will provide technical assistance, training, and resources to juvenile justice practitioners, policymakers, mental health and social service agencies, and advocates working to advance juvenile justice reform nationwide. The resource centers are scheduled to be operational by the end of 2013.

Resources:

Read about the MacArthur Foundation's "Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice" initiative.