Save the Dates

The JDCAP Training committee will hold our next meeting at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center on Thursday May 8. 

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Brief Explores Protective Factors To Address Child Abuse and Neglect

The Child Welfare Information Gateway, Administration for Children and Families, has released "Protective Factors Approaches in Child Welfare." This issue brief is designed to help policymakers, administrators, child welfare and related professionals, service providers, and advocates understand approaches to preventing and treating child abuse and neglect by addressing individual, relational, and community risk and protective factors.

Who gets Federal Juvenile Justice Dollars?

JJIE recently ran a piece that details which organizations are receiving federal JJ dollars and provides a searchable database at the end of the article as well.

OJJDP Announces Funding for Second Chance Act Juvenile Reentry Reforms

OJJDP has announced the fiscal year Second Chance Act Comprehensive Statewide Juvenile Reentry Systems Reform Planning Program funding opportunity. This program will provide funding for 12-month planning grants during which time state or local juvenile justice agencies will convene a reentry task force and develop and finalize a comprehensive statewide juvenile reentry systems reform strategic plan.

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on May 13, 2014.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Street Outreach Program (SOP). The purpose of the SOP is to conduct outreach services designed to build relationships between grantee staff and runaway, homeless, and street youth with the ultimate goal being to keep youth safe and help them leave the streets.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and other discretionary spending this fiscal year are designed to ensure that effective interventions are in place to build skills and capacities that contribute to the healthy, positive, and productive functioning of children and youth into adulthood.

SOP grantees provide support services that aim to move youth into stable housing and prepare them for independence. The program's ultimate goal is to prevent the sexual abuse or exploitation of young people living on the streets or in unstable housing.

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