Title IV Missing and Exploited Children's Program Long Range Plan and FY 95 Program Priorities; Notice DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is

publishing its Title IV Missing and Exploited Children's Program

proposed long range plan and program priorities for Fiscal Year 1995

for public comment. Based on the analysis of public comments, OJJDP

will issue its final Fiscal Year 1995 priorities and begin

implementation of the long range plan.

DATES: Comments must be received by mail or delivered to OJJDP on or

before 5:00 p.m. e.s.t. on December 9, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Public comments may be mailed to Darlene Brown, Office of

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 633 Indiana Avenue NW.,

Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald C. Laney, Director, Missing and

Exploited Children's Program (202) 307-5940.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Missing and Exploited Children's Program

is administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention (OJJDP). Pursuant to the provisions of Section 406 (a)(2)

the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended

(42 U.S.C. 5576), OJJDP is publishing for public comment both a

proposed long range plan and its Fiscal Year 1995 program priorities

for activities authorized under Title IV, the Missing Children's Act

(42 U.S.C. 5651-5665a), of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.). Taking

into consideration comments received on the proposed long range plan

and program priorities, OJJDP will develop and publish a Final long

range plan and its Fiscal Year 1995 Program Priorities. The long range

plan will describe the Office's goals and strategies for Title IV

activities over the next three years and specify particular program

activities OJJDP anticipates funding during Fiscal Year 1995 using

Title IV funds.

ELIGIBILITY: The applicants must be public agencies or nonprofit

private organizations, or combinations thereof to be eligible for

funding under Title IV the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.

5651-5665a), of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of

1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.).

The actual solicitation of grant applications to implement program

priorities for Fiscal Year 1995 will be published at a later date in

the Federal Register. No proposals, concept papers, or other

application materials should be submitted at this time.

Introduction

This Long Range Plan is designed to orchestrate the use of funds

allocated by Congress under Title IV for services to be provided to

missing and exploited children and their families. OJJDP will use the

Long Range Plan to establish a series of goals, strategies, and

programs. In total, the Plan will help OJJDP set annual priorities,

develop program goals and objectives, select applicants for award, and

deliver technical assistance and training to the field.

The Proposed Long Range Plan was developed by evaluating documents

such as research reports, program publications, and working papers

available from Title IV fund recipients that address issues related to

Title IV. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

(NCMEC) provided the results of two focus groups involving parents and

law enforcement personnel who have been involved in family abduction

cases reported to NCMEC.

Two work sessions were held involving a multi-disciplinary group of

attendees who were asked to identify critical issues that should be

addressed by a Title IV Long Range Plan. Those sessions included Title

IV grantees as well as representatives from other Federal agencies who

deal with programs and services related to missing and exploited

children. Input gathered through these work sessions was given great

weight in developing the plan.

Nature of the Problem

Much has been written by practitioners and researchers regarding

the three major problem areas addressed by Title IV: family abductions;

non-family abductions; and child exploitation. The Long Range Plan

takes into account current knowledge about these three major categories

of child victimization and the impact these events have on children and

families. The statistics and analysis on the following pages were

obtained from the 1990 National Incidence Study of Missing, Abducted,

Runaway and Thrownaway Children in America (NISMART).

Family Abduction

There are an estimated 354,100 family abductions a year. Forty-six

percent of these (an estimated 163,200 abductions) involve concealment

of the child, transporting the child out of state, or an intent by the

abductor to keep the child indefinitely or to permanently alter

custody. Of this more serious category of abductions, a little over

half are perpetrated by men, noncustodial fathers and father figures.

Most victims are children from ages 2 to 11. Half involve unauthorized

takings while half involve failures to return the child after an

authorized visit or stay. Fifteen percent of these abductions involve

the use of force or violence and 75 to 85 percent involve interstate

transportation of the child. About half of family abductions occur

before the marital relationship ends. Another 41 percent did not occur

until two or more years after a divorce or separation, usually after

parents develop new households, move away, develop new relationships,

or become disenchanted with the legal system. Over half occur in the

context of relationships with a history of domestic violence. An

estimated 49 percent of abductors have criminal records. A significant

number have a history of violent behavior, substance abuse, or

emotional disturbance.

Abducted children suffer significant harm. It is not uncommon for

child victims of family abduction to have their names and appearance

altered, to experience medical or physical neglect, unstable schooling,

homelessness, or frequent moves. They are often told lies about the

abduction and the left-behind parent, even that the left-behind parent

is dead. Many child victims of family abduction experience substantial

psychological consequences and emotional distress. Trauma symptoms may

be evident for up to four or five years after recovery.

Non-Family Abduction

An estimated 3,200 to 4,600 short-term non-family abductions are

known to law enforcement each year. Of these, an estimated 200 to 300

are stereotypical kidnappings where a child is gone overnight, is

killed, is transported a distance of 50 miles or more, or where the

perpetrator intends to keep the child permanently. Young teenagers and

girls are the most common victims. Two-thirds of short-term abductions

involve a sexual assault. A majority of the victims are abducted from

the street. Over 85 percent involve force, and over 75 percent involve

use of a weapon. Most episodes last less than a day. The number of

short-term abductions is considered by most researchers and

practitioners to be underestimated due to police reporting methods and

lack of reporting on the part of victims. Based on FBI data, there were

an estimated 43 to 147 stranger abduction homicides of children

annually between 1976 and 1987. There are an estimated 114,600

attempted non-family (stranger) abductions each year, usually involving

an attempt to lure a child into a car. In a majority of these cases,

the police were not contacted.

Child Exploitation

Children are at risk of being victimized as the result of a wide

range of circumstances that fall into essentially three categories;

running away, being thrownaway by parents or guardians, or being

otherwise lost or missing.

There are an estimated 446,700 runaways from households each year.

In addition, an estimated 12,800 children run from juvenile facilities.

Many children who run from households also run from facilities. About

one third of these runaways left home or a juvenile facility more than

once. Of all runaways, 133,500 are without a secure and familiar place

to stay during their episode. More than a third of runaways run away

more than once during the year. One in 10 go a distance of more than

100 miles. Of runaways from juvenile facilities, almost one-half leave

the state. Runaways are mostly teenagers but almost 10 percent were

aged 11 and younger. They tend to come disproportionately from step-

parent households. Family conflict seems to be the heart of most

runaway episodes. Between 60 and 70 percent report being seriously

abused physically. Sexual abuse estimates range from 25 to 80 percent.

Runaways, particularly chronic runaways, are at higher risk for

physical and sexual victimization, substance abuse, sexually

transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, violence, and suicide.

There are an estimated 127,100 thrownaway children who are directly

told to leave the household, have been away from home and are not

allowed back by a caretaker, whose caretaker makes no effort to recover

a child who has run away, or who has been abandoned or deserted. By

comparison, there is 1 child who is a thrownaway for every 4 that are

runaways. An estimated 59,200 thrownaway children are without a secure

and familiar place to stay during the episode. Most thrownaways are

older teenagers, but abandoned children tend to be young (half under

the age of 4). Thrownaways are concentrated in low income families and

families without both natural parents. Compared to runaways,

thrownaways experience more violence and conflict within their families

and are less likely to return home.

There are an estimated 438,200 children who are lost, injured, or

otherwise missing each year. Of these, 139,100 cases are serious enough

that the police are called. Almost half involve children under 4. Most

of these episodes last less than a day. A fifth of the children

experienced physical harm. Fourteen percent of the children were abused

or assaulted during the episode.

Impact on Children and Families: The majority of families of

missing children experience substantial psychological consequences and

emotional distress. The level of emotional distress equals or exceeds

the emotional distress for other groups of individuals exposed to

trauma, such as combat veterans and victims of rape/assault/other

violent crime. Families where the missing child is subsequently

recovered deceased exhibit the highest level of emotional distress.

Once home, a third of the missing children live in constant fear of a

reabduction. Almost four-fifths of victims and families of missing

children do not receive mental health or counseling services.

System Needs

The Missing Children's Assistance Act of the Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended describes services that

the Administrator shall consider for funding. They are: establish and

operate a national 24 hour toll-free telephone line and operate a

national resource center and clearinghouse; coordinate public and

private programs which locate, recover, or reunite missing children

with their legal custodians; to disseminate nationally, information

about innovative and model missing children's programs, services, and

legislation; provide technical assistance and training to law

enforcement agencies, State and local governments, elements of the

criminal justice system, public and private nonprofit agencies, and

individuals in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and

treatment of the missing and exploited child case and in locating and

recovering missing children; periodically conduct national incidence

studies; provide information to lawful use of school records and birth

certificates to identify and locate missing children; and to educate

parents, children, and community agencies and organizations in ways to

prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children. The

following critical issues describe needs that should be addressed

through a Long Range Plan for Title IV. They were the result of two

work sessions held for the purpose of developing this plan.

* Training at the community level for agency staffs. Not enough

training is available to inform professionals in a wide range of

agencies about the relationship between missing and exploited

children's issues and other community problems. This training should

promote the implementation of multi-disciplinary approaches and formal

inter-agency cooperation.

* Identifying the missing and exploited children problem in

communities. Too many communities do not recognize in measurable terms

the nature and scope of problems of missing children and various forms

of child exploitation. Many communities do not recognize that they have

a missing children problem. As a result, system-wide planning for the

allocation of resources does not address issues related to missing and

exploited children and their families.

* Developing executive level commitment. Executives of criminal and

juvenile justice agencies who have responsibility for missing and

exploited children cases have not been adequately targeted to receive

information and training related to missing and exploited children. As

a result, missing and exploited childrens' issues have not been given

the level of priority necessary to effect change. Insufficient emphasis

has been placed on distilling research and evaluation findings into

information that is relevant to policy makers.

* Availability of Missing and Exploited Children programs on

community and child safety. Community services for missing children

should be integrated into a larger community effort to promote child

protection and overall safety of neighborhoods. Community services

should do more to promote child safety through linkages among the wide

range of community agencies that come in contact with missing and

exploited children and their families.

* Training that provides communities with useful tools. Training

should be practical, be targeted to specific audiences, and provide

communities with tools that can be used immediately to assess needs and

reduce duplication in the utilization of resources.

* Developing a Missing and Exploited Children Training Plan. A

training plan using Title IV funds should be developed that aligns

training products and services to meet specific goals. Training should

be used as a tool to market services funded through Title IV.

* Developing methods for dealing with problems of chronic runaway

and thrownaway children. This is an extremely high risk population with

which many agencies have little success. Chronic runaway and thrownaway

children are very likely to become missing or exploited.

* Improving the enforcement and legal response to family abduction

cases. The enforcement and legal systems lack the knowledge and skill

to deal with these cases effectively. Legal reform is needed to further

define when a child is considered missing in a family abduction case.

* Creating stronger linkages between human service agencies, the

criminal justice system, and the juvenile justice system. Currently

there is a chasm between the justice system and human service agencies

in providing services to missing and exploited children and their

families. Too many cases are passed back and forth among these two

systems rather than being handled through a comprehensive case

management system.

* Developing a plan for marketing services available to communities

through Title IV. A coherent plan of action needs to be developed and

implemented to expand the understanding of the services that are

available to missing children and their families from Missing Children

grantees. Teleconferencing and other new technologies should be used to

promote more awareness of the dimensions of problems addressed by Title

IV. State Clearinghouses could play a more active role in disseminating

information regarding missing and exploited children.

* Disseminating useful information from research and evaluation

work funded by Title IV. Findings from research and evaluation projects

need to be translated into useful information that can be used in

communities by practitioners.

* Applying new information technologies in addressing the goals of

Title IV. With discussion of an ``information highway'' being built in

the United States, Title IV activities should be more directly tuned to

take advantage of the potential benefits of information system

technology.

* Further defining the role of non-profit organizations. The wide

range of services provided by non-profit organizations continues to

evolve. As a result, there is a need to continue to define the role of

these organizations in relationship to other community agencies. A set

of standards is needed for services provided by non-profit

organizations participating in Title IV related activities.

* Continuing the evolution of the role of State Clearinghouses. The

number of state clearinghouses has grown slowly but steadily. The roles

of these organizations vary from state to state. Title IV has funded

technical assistance and training for state clearinghouses. The nature

and scope of services to be provided to state clearinghouses should be

re-evaluated.

Long Range Plan for Future Title IV Funding

OJJDP funds need to be allocated to reach each of the three goals.

Strategies can be implemented through multiple program initiatives to

include the National Resource Center and Clearinghouse mandated in

Title IV. Overall, these goals and strategies are designed to help

communities to use existing community resources to improve the quality

of services provided to missing and exploited children and their

families through multi-disciplinary approaches.

Goal 1: Increase Awareness

Title IV programs should focus on increasing awareness of problems

related to missing and exploited children on the part of professionals

and the general public. Linkages between child victimization and future

costs to society are not generally understood.

Strategies

Develop a series of clearly stated educational messages about

missing and exploited children.

These messages, delivered through media, teleconference,

publications and other sources should be designed to communicate the

human, economic and social costs of the victimization of missing and

exploited children and their families. These materials should explain

the need to prosecute offenders who commit crimes against children,

point to sources of human services, and promote prevention measures.

These messages should translate the latest available information about

the nature of the problem into themes that can be clearly communicated

in communities.

Develop information vehicles for dissemination to targeted

audiences.

These vehicles could be public service announcements and other

public education materials that are tailored to parents and different

professionals who see the evidence of the problem in communities. These

materials should be of a type that can be economically reproduced and

widely distributed.

Develop an approach for evaluating the effectiveness of these

materials.

Survey information or focus groups could be vehicles used to

evaluate the ability of public education materials to impart key facts

about prevention, intervention services, and the need to prosecute

crimes against children committed by adults.

Goal 2: Develop Effective Community Approaches

OJJDP will identify, design, and make available effective community

approaches for addressing the problems of missing and exploited

children and their families. These approaches will deal with specific

aspects of family abduction, non-family abduction, thrownaway children,

and otherwise missing children.

Strategies

Evaluate relevant information from Title IV funded activities to

identify gaps in existing knowledge and identify ways to fill those

needs.

Information needs to be developed to establish risk factors that

can be used to identify potential abductors in family and non-family

cases so that prevention and intervention tactics can be more sharply

focused. More also needs to be learned about relatively new categories

of missing children such as thrownaways and otherwise lost children.

Design multi-agency methods for dealing with specific types of

missing and exploited children to include chronic runaways,

thrownaways, and victims of family abductions.

Issues related to confidentiality and information sharing among the

range of agencies involved in missing and exploited children cases

should be addressed in order to promote inter-agency collaboration.

Comprehensive case management methods should be adapted to address the

needs of missing and exploited children and their families for each of

the categories of missing children cases.

Develop training and technical assistance materials and prepare

a Title IV Technical Assistance Catalogue.

A comprehensive Title IV training needs assessment for

professionals and non-profit organizations who deal with missing and

exploited children and their families is needed. The training needs

assessment should be updated regularly to assure that OJJDP is apprised

of emerging training needs in the field. OJJDP grantees should be asked

to develop training and technical assistance materials on effective

practices that are developed during the course of their projects. OJJDP

should hold periodic meetings of Title IV grantees to promote

information sharing and to assist OJJDP in developing new methods that

can be shared with other communities.

Goal 3: Provide Assistance to Communities

OJJDP should provide assistance to communities committed to

implementing effective approaches to address the problem of missing and

exploited children and their families. This assistance would take the

form of site visits, training, assessment reports, publications,

teleconferences, and other means of delivering technical assistance.

Strategies

Develop and implement a marketing plan for providing technical

assistance and training to specific audiences.

This marketing plan should first identify a pool of communities

interested in making use of services supported by Title IV. The

marketing plan would be based on an analysis of the location of various

types of child victimization related to Title IV as well as past

community interest in Title IV issues. OJJDP would then develop

materials and methods for marketing technical assistance and training

to these communities.

Fix responsibility within OJJDP for coordinating the delivery of

technical assistance under Title IV.

The Director of the Missing Children's Program should be

responsible for directly managing the delivery of technical assistance

and training funded through Title IV. This work will include keeping

central records of all requests for information, training, and

technical assistance as well as taking primary responsibility for

assuring that those services are of the highest possible quality.

Develop an ongoing process for evaluating technical assistance

and training provided through Title IV.

To complement training planning efforts and the assessment of

technical assistance needs, OJJDP will expand efforts to evaluate

technical assistance and training funded through Title IV. Grantees who

deliver these services will be required to provide OJJDP with names and

addresses of all individuals who request and received services through

Title IV. This information will be used by OJJDP to distribute

evaluation surveys designed to assess the quality and effectiveness of

services delivered.

Fiscal Year 1995 Programs

The following are brief summaries of each of the proposed

competitive and continuation programs for Fiscal Year 1995. The

estimated amounts, sites for implementation, and other descriptive

information presented here are subject to change based on the public

comment process, grantee performance, application quality, fund

availability, and other factors. OJJDP has a limited amount of funds

for competitive programs in FY 1995. Competitive programs are therefore

being proposed with funding levels subject to change based upon public

comment. Competitive programs may be added to the plan based on the

review and comment process.

Fiscal Year 1995 Programs

Competitive Programs

National Missing Children's Resource Center and Clearinghouse,

$3,050,000

This three year cooperative agreement will fund the operation of a

national resource center and clearinghouse as mandated in Section

404(b) (42 U.S.C. 5773). The clearinghouse is responsible for

establishing and operating a 24 hour toll-free telephone line by which

individuals may report information regarding the location of any

missing child, or other child 13 years of age or younger, whose

whereabouts are unknown to such child's legal custodian, and request

information pertaining to procedures necessary to reunite the child and

legal custodian. In addition, the clearinghouse will be responsible for

providing a wide range of assistance to State and local governments,

public and private non-profit agencies, and individuals. Specific

assistance includes coordinating public and private programs which

locate, recover, or reunite missing children with their legal

guardians, provide training and technical assistance, disseminate

information about innovative and model missing childrens' programs, and

facilitate the lawful use of school records to identify and locate

missing children.

Title IV Training and Technical Assistance $750,000

OJJDP, through its Missing Children's Program, is committed to

support the agencies and organizations that deliver services related to

the prevention of missing and exploited children cases, the location of

missing children, the recovery of those children, and the successful

reunification of missing children to their legal guardian(s). Through

funding of relevant research and program demonstration projects, OJJDP

produces information and work products of use to agencies,

organizations, victims, and families. OJJDP seeks to disseminate such

information and work products through the delivery of training and

technical assistance to law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, schools,

human service agencies, medical service providers, non-profit

organizations, and any other appropriate entity that provides services

to missing and exploited children and their families.

To coordinate the delivery of information, work products, training,

and technical assistance, OJJDP will issue a Request for Proposals

(RFP) for the development and management of an efficient and effective

technical assistance and training program for Title IV funded

activities. The RFP will include services related to the design,

development and delivery of all new Title IV training and technical

assistance based on work products and other results generated by the

experience of other Title IV grantees. The successful contractor will

be responsible for incorporating existing Title IV funded training into

new programs where appropriate.

OJJDP believes that this approach will standardize the training

being delivered through Title IV, more efficiently make use of Title IV

funding, and strengthen quality control for the delivery of training

and technical assistance.

Effective Community-Based Approaches for Dealing With Missing and

Exploited Children $250,000

Private non-profit organizations (NPOs) in communities provide a

vital service to the families of missing and exploited children. These

organizations were formed to play a role that is best fulfilled by

community members who provide support to each other during the ordeal

many parents and children experience in missing and exploited children

cases. Over the last two years, private non-profit organizations have

taken steps to further develop the quality and level services to

include forming a national organization.

This three year program, to be awarded in two 18 month budget

periods, is designed to provide training and technical assistance that

will support the continuing development of NPOs as a resource for

providing services in communities that other agencies may not be best

suited to provide. This training and technical assistance would focus

on assisting NPOs in developing protocols that can be used to tailor

their mission, goals, and services to the needs of communities.

The project will support up to five demonstration sites that have

active missing and exploited children programs in place and seek to

strengthen the role of NPOs in providing services. Technical assistance

will also be provided on a request basis to individual NPO's. The

applicant should consider missing and exploited children programs in

local community organizations as possible sites as well.

Products that would be generated as a result of this project would

include, but not be limited to, standardized intake forms, procedures

for communication with other agencies, guidelines for establishing a

multi-disciplinary board of directors, and an overall handbook for the

operation of an NPO that is tailored to the delivery of services to

missing and exploited children and their families.

Continuation Programs

National Alzheimer's Patient Alert Program $750,000

This project supports a national program to facilitate the

identification and safe return of missing persons afflicted with

Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. During its third year of

operation, this project will expand its central registry of

computerized information on memory impaired persons and a national

toll-free telephone line to access the registry; produce new

informational materials including a promotional poster for use in the

training of law enforcement personnel and public education; and

coordinate and enhance the case management efforts of existing

community based organizations including local chapters. No additional

applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/CAP)

$700,000

The Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/

CAP) is a national demonstration project designed to promote the

implementation of multi-agency community approaches for dealing with

missing and exploited children cases. The grantee for the final year of

this project is Public Administration Services of McLean, Virginia.

During this final year of funding, assistance will be provided to

project sites that are in the process of developing their long range

implementation plan. Training and technical assistance will also be

provided to sites that have adopted long range implementation plans. In

addition, training and technical assistance materials will be developed

that can be incorporated into the Title IV Training and Technical

Assistance Program. Existing M/CAP sites will be encouraged to serve as

regional technical assistance sites which will provide OJJDP with a

mechanism to support the delivery of services through the Title IV

Training and Technical Assistance Program. No additional applications

will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Child Abuse Training and Technical Assistance Program for Law

Enforcement $500,000

These funds are committed to a contract between OJJDP's Training

and Technical Assistance Division and Fox Valley Technical College of

Appleton, Wisconsin. The funds will be used to support the delivery of

child abuse investigation courses, including information on the

investigation of missing and exploited children cases. No additional

applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Investigation and Prosecution of Parental Abduction Cases $250,000

Through this project, Title IV funds are used to provide assistance

to local prosecutors that will allow them to more effectively prosecute

non-custodial parents who abduct their children. The project will

identify legal and social issues in these cases that should be

addressed, summarize and analyze current research in this area,

identify experts who have successfully prosecuted these cases, and

produce legal analyses and guidelines that can be disseminated to

prosecutors and law enforcement agencies.

The grantee for this program is the American Prosecutors Research

Institute (APRI). No additional applications will be solicited in

Fiscal Year 1995.

Model Treatment & Services Approaches for Mental Health Professions

Working With Families of Missing Children $195,000

This project is designed to provide mental health professionals

with effective treatment approaches for the rehabilitation of families

traumatized by child abduction so that a state of normalcy can be

established in the aftermath of such events. During Fiscal Year 1995,

training manuals and support materials will be developed that can be

used during the implementation of treatment models defined during the

project.

The grantee for the final year of this multi-year project is the

Western Center for Child Protection. No additional applications will be

solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Investigative Case Management for Missing Children Homicides

$150,000

This project is designed to improve investigative procedures for

investigating murders of missing, abducted, or runaway children as well

as to improve the rate of apprehension and prosecution of serial

murderers of children. The project addresses evidence gathering,

forensic evidence techniques, methods for determining linkages among

child murder cases, and enhancing coordination of child homicide cases

among law enforcement agencies nationwide.

The project will develop a resource management guide which will

contain methods, procedures, and a checklist for investigation of a

missing child homicide. The project also calls for the delivery of

technical assistance and training for state and local law enforcement

agencies.

The grantee for this project is the Criminal Investigation Division

of the State of Washington Attorney General's Office. The program is

supported by America's Law Enforcement Retiree Team (ALERT) volunteers

from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. No

additional applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Multi-jurisdictional, Interagency Model for Investigating and

Prosecuting Cases of Child Sexual Abuse $100,000

This is a program that is jointly funded with $50,000 of Title IV

funds and $50,000 from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). In Fiscal

Year 1995 this program will develop and implement prototype multi-

jurisdictional task forces for the investigation and prosecution of

cases involving sexual exploitation of children. These tasks forces are

to be formed in up to five communities throughout the United States

that include Federal, state, and local authorities.

Funds for this project cannot be used for law enforcement efforts,

but must be targeted to assist child and youth victims in crisis, to

provide staff training, and promote public awareness.

This is the second year of a cooperative agreement between OJJDP,

OVC and the Education Development Center, Inc. No additional

applications will be solicited in Fiscal Year 1995.

Missing Children Data Archive $25,000

Through this program, OJJDP makes available all data sets produced

as the result of funded research addressing missing and exploited

children and their families in a readily understandable, documented

data archive. OJJDP provides this service through a cooperative

agreement with the University of Michigan whose staff prepare missing

and exploited children data and documentation to conform to generally

accepted standards. No additional applications will be solicited in

Fiscal Year 1995.

John J. Wilson,

Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention.

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