Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1999

SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is

publishing this notice of its Proposed Comprehensive Plan for fiscal

year (FY) 1999.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 18, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Shay Bilchik, Administrator,

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 800 K Street,

NW., Third Floor, Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen M. Garry, Director, Information

Dissemination Unit, at 202-307-5911. [This is not a toll-free number.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a component of the Office of Justice

Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. Pursuant to the provisions

of Section 204(b)(5)(A) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

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

the Administrator of OJJDP is publishing for public comment a Proposed

Comprehensive Plan describing the program activities that OJJDP

proposes to carry out during Fiscal Year (FY) 1999. The Proposed

Comprehensive Plan includes activities authorized in Parts C and D of

Title II of the JJDP Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 5651-5665a, 5667,

5667a. Taking into consideration comments received on this Proposed

Comprehensive Plan, the Administrator will develop and publish a Final

Comprehensive Plan describing the particular program activities that

OJJDP intends to fund during FY 1999, using in whole or in part funds

appropriated under Parts C and D of Title II of the JJDP Act.

Notice of the official solicitation of grant or cooperative

agreement applications for competitive programs to be funded under the

Final Comprehensive Plan will be published at a later date in the

Federal Register. No proposals, concept papers, or other forms of

application should be submitted at this time.

Overview

After a steady climb in the rates of juvenile violent crime

arrests, resulting in an increase of 60 percent between 1988 and 1994,

the Nation experienced a substantial, 23 percent, decline in the 3

years between 1994 and 1997. More notable were the trends in the

juvenile arrest rate for murder, which, after doubling between 1987 and

1993, dropped by more than 40 percent between 1993 and 1997. In

addition, in the discussion of trends, it is important to note that in

any given year less than \1/2\ of 1 percent of this country's juveniles

ages 10 to 17 are arrested for violent crime. Even though rates have

been dropping, however, they are still more than 20 percent higher than

the average rate of the years between 1980 and 1988.

The serious concerns engendered by the increase in violent juvenile

crime in the 1980's led many States to enact legislation to address the

changing nature of juvenile delinquency and to use a more

accountability-based approach in dealing with serious violent juvenile

offenders. At the same time, a national dialog began over how best to

reform the juvenile justice system to make it more effective in

preventing and intervening with juvenile delinquency and victimization

and in protecting the public. In order to see this become a reality,

the positive achievements of recent years should lead not to

complacency, but to a renewed commitment to continue to pursue the

research-based, comprehensive approach to problems of delinquency,

violence, and victimization that OJJDP inaugurated with the publication

in December 1993 of its Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent,

and Chronic Juvenile Offenders.

It is encouraging that in recent years communities have begun to

take on this work and make the commitment needed to make a

comprehensive strategy a reality. More and more communities are coming

to the understanding that a long-term, consistent commitment will be

required to reduce juvenile delinquency, violence, and victimization

and to ensure public safety.

This Proposed Comprehensive Plan describes OJJDP's plans for

funding activities authorized under Part C (National Programs) and Part

D (Gang-Free Schools and Communities; Community-Based Gang

Intervention) of Title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention (JJDP) Act. The activities authorized under Parts C and D

make up part of OJJDP's overall responsibilities under the JJDP Act.

These responsibilities are outlined briefly below.

In 1974, the JJDP Act established OJJDP as the Federal agency

responsible for providing national leadership, coordination, and

resources to develop and implement effective methods to prevent and

reduce juvenile delinquency and improve the quality of juvenile justice

in the United States. OJJDP administers State Formula Grants under Part

B of Title II, State Challenge Grants under Part E of Title II, and

Community Prevention Grants under Title V of the JJDP Act to assist

States and territories to fund a range of delinquency prevention,

control, and juvenile justice system improvement activities. OJJDP

provides support activities for these and other programs under

statutory set-asides that are used to provide related research,

evaluation, statistics, demonstration, and training and technical

assistance services. OJJDP also funds Special Emphasis programs

authorized under Part C; school and community-based gang prevention,

intervention, and suppression programs under Part D; and mentoring

programs under Part G of Title II of the JJDP Act; funds numerous

research, evaluation, statistics, demonstration, training and technical

assistance, and information dissemination activities through its

National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention;

administers the Drug Prevention Program, the Underage Drinking Program,

the Safe Schools Initiative, a Native American discretionary grants

program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, and

the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program. OJJDP also

coordinates Federal activities related to juvenile justice and

delinquency prevention.

OJJDP serves as the staff agency for the Coordinating Council on

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, coordinates the

Concentration of Federal Efforts Program, and administers both the

Title IV Missing and Exploited Children's Program and programs under

the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 13001 et

seq.

OJJDP focuses its assistance on the development and implementation

of programs with the greatest potential for reducing juvenile

delinquency and improving the juvenile justice system by establishing

partnerships with State and local governments, American Indian and

Alaska Native jurisdictions, and public and private agencies and

organizations. OJJDP performs its role of national leadership in

juvenile justice and delinquency prevention through a cycle of

activities. These include

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collecting data and statistics to determine the extent and nature of

issues affecting juveniles; funding research that can lead to

demonstrations funded by discretionary grants; evaluating demonstration

projects; sharing lessons learned from the field with practitioners

through a range of information dissemination vehicles; providing seed

money to States through formula and block grants to implement projects

or reform efforts; and providing training and technical assistance to

assist States and local governments to implement programs effectively

and to maintain the integrity of model programs as they are being

replicated.

It is important to note that OJJDP emphasizes coordination with

other Office of Justice Program (OJP) components and other Federal

agencies whenever possible to concentrate Federal resources to achieve

maximum results from its programs and initiatives. This coordination,

which is evidenced in many of the program descriptions that follow,

includes joint funding, interagency agreements, and partnerships to

develop, implement, and evaluate projects. More important, it is

critical that the reader become familiar with the program activities of

the other OJP Bureaus and Offices as reflected in the Office of Justice

Programs Fiscal Year 1999 Program Plan. The work undertaken in OJP in

many instances cuts across components and areas of practice; therefore,

the work undertaken by OJJDP should be viewed as part of a larger OJP

composite.

Considering all the factors discussed above, OJJDP has prepared

this Proposed Comprehensive Plan for FY 1999 for activities authorized

under Part C (National Programs) and Part D (Gang-Free Schools and

Communities; Community-Based Gang Intervention) of Title II of the JJDP

Act, as described in the following pages.

Fiscal Year 1999 Program Planning Activities

The OJJDP program planning process for FY 1999 is being coordinated

with the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP),

and all OJP components. The program planning process involves the

following steps:

Internal review of existing programs by OJJDP staff.

Internal review of proposed programs by OJP bureaus and

Department of Justice components.

Review of information and data from OJJDP grantees and

contractors.

Review of information contained in State comprehensive

plans.

Review of comments from youth service providers, juvenile

justice practitioners, and researchers who provide input in proposed

new program areas.

Consideration of suggestions made by juvenile justice

policymakers concerning State and local needs.

Consideration of all comments received during the period

of public comment on this Proposed Comprehensive Plan.

Discretionary Program Activities

Discretionary Grant Continuation Policy

OJJDP has listed on the following pages continuation projects

currently funded in whole or in part with Part C and Part D funds and

eligible for continuation funding in FY 1999, either within an existing

project period or through an extension for an additional project

period. A grantee's eligibility for continued funding for an additional

budget period within an existing project period depends on the

grantee's compliance with funding eligibility requirements and

achievement of the prior year's objectives. The amount of award is

based on prior projections, demonstrated need, and fund availability.

The only projects described in this Proposed Program Plan are those

that would receive Part C or Part D FY 1999 continuation funding under

project period or discretionary continuation assistance awards and

programs that OJJDP is considering for new awards in FY 1999. Readers

should note that they will not find descriptions of other OJJDP

programs, including mentoring programs under Part G of Title II of the

JJDP Act, the Drug Prevention Program, the Underage Drinking Program,

the Safe Schools Initiative, the Native American discretionary grants

program, the Safe Start: Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, and

the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program. When

appropriate, separate solicitations are issued for applications for

funding for programs that are not authorized under Parts C and D.

Consideration for continuation funding for an additional project

period for previously funded discretionary grant programs will be based

upon several factors, including the following:

The extent to which the project responds to the applicable

requirements of the JJDP Act.

Responsiveness to OJJDP and Department of Justice FY 1999

program priorities.

Compliance with performance requirements of prior grant

years.

Compliance with fiscal and regulatory requirements.

Compliance with any special conditions of the award.

Availability of funds (based on appropriations and program

priority determinations).

In accordance with section 262 (d)(1)(B) of the JJDP Act, as

amended, 42 U.S.C. 5665a, the competitive process for the award of Part

C funds is not required if the Administrator makes a written

determination waiving the competitive process:

1. With respect to programs to be carried out in areas in which the

President declares under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and

Emergency Assistance Act codified at 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. that a

major disaster or emergency exists, or

2. With respect to a particular program described in Part C that is

uniquely qualified.

Program Goals

The three goals listed below constitute the major elements of a

sound policy that ensures public safety and security while establishing

effective juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs.

Underlying each of the goals is the overarching premise that their

achievement is vital to protecting the long-term safety of the public

from juvenile delinquency and violence.

Delinquency Prevention and Early Intervention. OJJDP

promotes delinquency prevention and early intervention efforts that

reduce the flow of juvenile offenders into the juvenile justice system,

the numbers of serious and violent offenders, and the development of

chronic delinquent careers. While removing serious and violent juvenile

offenders from the street serves to protect the public, long-term

solutions lie primarily in taking aggressive steps to stop delinquency

before it starts or becomes a pattern of behavior.

Improvement of the Juvenile Justice System. OJJDP seeks to

improve the juvenile justice system and the response of the system to

juvenile delinquents, status offenders, and dependent, neglected, and

abused children.

Corrections, Detention, and Community-Based Alternatives.

OJJDP supports efforts to preserve the public safety through the

appropriate development and best use of secure detention and

corrections options, while at the same time fostering the use of

community-based programs for juvenile offenders.

In pursuing these broad goals, OJJDP divides its programs into four

categories: public safety and law enforcement; strengthening the

juvenile

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justice system; delinquency prevention and intervention; and child

abuse and neglect and dependency courts. A fifth category, overarching

programs, contains programs that have significant elements common to

more than one of the other four categories. Following the introductory

section below, the programs that OJJDP proposes to fund in FY 1999 are

listed and summarized within these five categories.

Introduction to Fiscal Year 1999 Program Plan

Since 1993, when it published the Comprehensive Strategy for

Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders, OJJDP has been

advocating that States, local governments, and communities adopt this

research-based comprehensive strategy approach to address the problems

of juvenile crime and victimization. OJJDP has synthesized decades of

research and practice from practitioners and established a framework

for implementing an effective juvenile justice system. Through support

of research, demonstration programs, and training and technical

assistance, OJJDP encourages States, local governments, and communities

to use the Comprehensive Strategy to develop coordinated, communitywide

approaches to preventing and intervening with juvenile delinquency and

victimization. OJJDP focuses its support on programs and initiatives

that further one or more of the basic principles of the Comprehensive

Strategy:

Strengthen families in their role of guiding,

disciplining, and instilling sound values in their children.

Support core social institutions and their role in

supporting families and helping children develop to their maximum

potential.

Promote prevention strategies and activities that reduce

the impact of negative (risk) factors and enhance the influence of

positive (protective) factors in the lives of youth at greatest risk of

delinquency.

Intervene immediately and appropriately at the first signs

of trouble in a child's life and establish a system of graduated

sanctions and a continuum of services to respond appropriately to the

needs of each juvenile offender.

Protect the public from the most serious, violent, and

chronic juvenile offenders by providing for their incapacitation while

at the same time addressing their treatment needs.

For the fourth consecutive year, OJJDP proposes a Program Plan

rooted in its Comprehensive Strategy. The Plan also supports the

Coordinating Council's National Juvenile Justice Action Plan released

in 1996. This Action Plan, which grew out of the Comprehensive

Strategy, provides eight objectives to reduce juvenile violence and

describes ways to meet these objectives. OJJDP proposes to continue to

support development and refinement of the Comprehensive Strategy and

training and technical assistance to help jurisdictions begin to

implement it by developing a continuum of care to deal with both

juvenile offenders and juveniles at risk of becoming offenders.

Development, dissemination, and support of the Comprehensive Strategy

and the Action Plan are prime examples of how OJJDP's national

leadership is instrumental in moving the field from innovation to

infrastructure.

OJJDP-funded programs that emphasize early prevention and family

involve a variety of approaches, including parent training, nurse-based

home visitation for at-risk first-time mothers, problem solving, parent

support groups led by parents themselves, multisystemic therapy, and

training and technical assistance for replicating exemplary programs.

Other prevention programs reach out to youth in the schools and the

community. They include youth development, conflict resolution,

mentoring, career preparation, truancy reduction, drug prevention,

violence prevention, and antigang outreach programs.

Efforts involving intervention, accountability, and sanctions

include dissemination of the principles of balanced and restorative

justice, emphasis on reducing overcrowding and disproportionate

minority confinement in secure facilities, gender-specific services

targeted to female juvenile offenders, intensive aftercare services,

services for chemically involved young people, and a communitywide

approach to preventing and suppressing gangs. Funds are also provided

for collaborations between police and health services agencies and for

appropriate training for legislators, prosecutors, and line staff in

secure facilities.

Research and evaluation can assure policymakers, practitioners, and

the public that juvenile justice is moving in the right direction and

that programs being supported do indeed work. OJJDP proposes to

continue supporting a range of research studies, including its landmark

study of the causes and correlates of delinquency; studies of very

young offenders and of the origins of and pathways to youth violence; a

cost-benefit analysis of juvenile justice programs; analyses of a range

of juvenile justice data; development of a juvenile sex offender

typology; studies of risk reduction for delinquency, substance abuse,

and school failure in school children and of delinquency and attention

deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and censuses and surveys related to

confinement and probation. Continued support would be provided for

evaluations of the SafeFutures initiative, Safe Kids/Safe Streets,

Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence, Intensive Community-Based

Aftercare, teen court training and technical assistance, and several

gang-related programs.

OJJDP is also considering support for new programs in several areas

related to emerging issues facing the juvenile justice system. This

Proposed Plan does not include descriptions of any specific new

programs. Ideas for possible programming are discussed generally below.

It must be emphasized that this wide range of possibilities exceeds

OJJDP's ability to provide new funding. OJJDP wants to consider

comments from policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and other

concerned citizens about the broad areas it is considering before

prioritizing those areas and identifying new programs to be supported

with the discretionary funding that is available.

Dissemination of information to the field is an important OJJDP

function. Information dissemination support under consideration would

focus on events, programs, and activities relating to the 1999

centennial of the juvenile court; on findings from summits, policy

forums, centers, and education campaigns devoted to preventing crime

and violence, including gun violence, whether deliberate or accidental;

on public outreach, especially to youth, via television programming,

public service announcements, videos, and CD-ROMS that encourage and

model development of life skills and decisionmaking abilities in regard

to key issues. Dissemination efforts would also be directed toward

supporting various critical partners with juvenile justice system

responsibilities, such as city and county officials, legislators, and

Governors, to inform them of effective strategies and approaches to

prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP is considering providing funding to increase existing

training and technical assistance capacity in the area of jobs and

vocational training for juveniles involved in the justice system. The

purpose would be to enable them to gain skills, knowledge, and

experience that would help them succeed in the workplace.

Effective use of information sharing and the design and

implementation of

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management information systems (MIS) are important issues for juvenile

justice practitioners. OJJDP proposes to support training and technical

assistance efforts to model information sharing and to replicate best

practices in MIS.

In the area of child abuse and neglect, OJJDP is considering

support for a program that helps older foster children make the

transition from foster care to independent adult living. Another

approach to reducing child abuse and neglect is to support the efforts

of community-based organizations to build their capacity to respond

appropriately to abused and neglected children. OJJDP also proposes to

evaluate the effectiveness of children's advocacy centers, which are

designed to prevent the inadvertent revictimization of an abused child

by the judicial and social service systems in their efforts to protect

the child.

Recognizing that school failure is a risk factor for delinquency

and a barrier to positive development, OJJDP proposes to join with the

U.S. Department of Education to sponsor a center for students with

learning disabilities in the juvenile justice system. Interagency

coordination between the Departments of Justice and Education would

enhance justice system knowledge and use of research-based strategies

and practices and the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities

Education Act. The center would provide guidance and assistance to

States, schools, justice programs, families, and communities to design,

implement, and evaluate comprehensive educational programs based on

research-validated practices, for students with disabilities within the

juvenile justice system.

As communities seek to adopt effective methods of dealing with

juvenile offenders, OJJDP proposes to continue to support efforts to

develop community justice and balanced and restorative justice

approaches to enhance the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system.

Mental health issues are an integral part of juvenile justice

concerns. OJJDP is considering funding research to systematically

review, summarize, and assess what is known about mentally disordered

youth in the juvenile justice system and programs that address general

and managed mental health care for juvenile justice system involved

juveniles.

OJJDP proposes to explore the critical operational issue of risk

and needs assessments. What instruments exist, how are they being used,

and what is their impact? What do communities need to do to promote the

use of valid risk and needs assessments?

In the broad area of prevention, OJJDP would focus on supporting

programs that offer positive growth experiences to youth. Examples

would include afterschool programs targeted at high-risk youth, model

recreation and parks programs, and other types of programs and services

that promote delinquency prevention and positive youth development.

Finally, in the area of research, OJJDP is interested in studies

that concentrate on the needs of at-risk female juveniles and girls

involved in the juvenile justice system. Demonstration programs

focusing on girls would also be considered for funding.

Together, the programs in this Proposed Plan constitute a

practical, multifaceted, and comprehensive approach to effectively

preventing juvenile delinquency and victimization.

Fiscal Year 1999 Programs

The following are brief summaries of each of the new and

continuation programs proposed to receive Part C and Part D funding in

FY 1999. As indicated above, the program categories are public safety

and law enforcement; strengthening the juvenile justice system;

delinquency prevention and intervention; and child abuse and neglect

and dependency courts. However, because many programs have significant

elements of more than one of these program categories or generally

support all of OJJDP's programs, they are listed in an initial program

category, called overarching programs. With regard to implementation

sites and other descriptive data and information, program priorities

within each category will be determined based on grantee performance,

application quality, fund availability, and other factors. Programs are

listed alphabetically within each category.

A number of OJJDP programs have been identified for funding

consideration by Congress with regard to the grantee(s), the amount of

funds, or both. These programs, which are listed below, are not

included in the program descriptions that follow.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Teens, Crime, and the Community

Parents Anonymous, Inc.

Juvenile Offender Transition Program

Suffolk University Center for Juvenile Justice

Center for Crimes and Violence Against Children

Metro Denver Gang Coalition

L.A. Best Youth

Intensive Services for Juveniles and Families

Delancy Street

Juvenile Justice Program in Alaska

National Association of State Fire Marshals

Syracuse-Onondaga County Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission

Law-Related Education

Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence

In addition, OJJDP has been directed to examine each of the

following, provide assistance if warranted, and report to the

Committees on Appropriations of both the House and the Senate on its

intention for each proposal:

Low Country Children's Center

Center for Prevention of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie View

University

Project O.A.S.I.S.

Consortium on Children, Families, and Law

Women of Vision Program for Youthful Female Offenders

Violence Institute of New Jersey

L.A. Bridges Youth Programs

Compton Youth Intervention Center for AfterSchool Programs

Kids With a Promise Program

Operation Quality Time

Achievable Dream Program

Secure School Pilot Program

Youth Advocates Program

Camden Urban Science Enrichment Program

Juvenile Crime Reduction Strategies Pilot Program

School Security Technology Center

New Mexico Cooperative Service Extension 4-H Youth Development Program

Adolescent Residential Treatment Program

Coalition for Drug-Free Lanai

Youth Courts in Alaska

Sioux Falls, South Dakota School District for Youth Programs

South Dakota Unified Judicial System

Nebraska Commission for Law Enforcement for Youth Programs

Chicago Public Schools Substance Abuse Program

Minnehaha, South Dakota, County Sheriff's Office for Youth Programs

Essex Teen Center and other Vermont Coalition for Teen Center's Members

Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Initiative in

Gainesville

Multistate Youth Violence Prevention Network

State of Hawaii to combat teen prostitution

Safe Places for Kids

The FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Conference agreement also urges

OJJDP to work with the Head

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Start Bureau and other Federal agencies to coordinate an effort to

increase public/private partnerships, such as Free to Grow, aimed at

strengthening families and communities in their efforts to reduce the

negative effect of substance abuse and use on the development of young

children.

Fiscal Year 1999 Program Listing

Overarching

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Juvenile Justice Programs

Evaluation of SafeFutures

Insular Area Support

Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project

Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse

Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--Juvenile Justice Resource

Center

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency

SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency

Study Group on Very Young Offenders

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

Telecommunications Assistance

Training and Technical Assistance Coordination for the SafeFutures and

Safe Kids/Safe Streets Initiatives

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention

Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention,

and Suppression Program

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang

Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program

Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program

Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)

National Youth Gang Center

Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence

Safe Start--Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)

Survey of School-Based Gang Prevention and Intervention Programs

Training and Technical Assistance for the Rural Gang Initiative

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders

The CETARY Project

Communities in Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership

Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse/

Violence Campaign (NADVC)

A Demonstration Afterschool Program

Diffusion of State Risk- and Protective-Factor Focused Prevention

Hate Crime

Home Visitation

Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention

Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

National Center for Conflict Resolution Education

No Hope in Dope Project

Partnerships for Preventing Violence

Proactive Youth Program

Risk Reduction Via Promotion of Youth Development

The SAGE Project and PRIDE Center Afterschool Program

Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and

Families

Technical Assistance to Title V

Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Programs

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ)

Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Training and Technical Assistance

Building Blocks for Youth

Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement

Circles of Care Program

Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and

Chronic Juvenile Offenders

Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program

Evaluation of Teen Courts

Gender-Specific Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders

Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical

Assistance Program

Intensive Treatment Family Programs (ITF)

The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

Juvenile Sex Offender Typology

Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies

Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)

National Academy of Sciences Study of Juvenile Justice

National Juvenile Justice Program Directory

The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97

Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention

Facilities

Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) Evaluation

Survey of Juvenile Probation

Technical Assistance to Juvenile Corrections and Detention (The James

E. Gould Memorial Program)

Technical Assistance to Native Americans

TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative

Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce

Disproportionate Minority Confinement (The Deborah Ann Wysinger

Memorial Program)

Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams

To Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

National Evaluation of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program

Safe Kids/Safe Streets: Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and

Neglect and Preventing Delinquency

Overarching

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

This project supports the Coalition in its efforts to meet the

statutory mandates through the development of a technical assistance

capability that provides training, technical assistance, and

information to the State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups. This will be

accomplished through a series of regional training and information

workshops and a national conference designed to address the needs of

the membership of the Coalition.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

Coalition for Juvenile Justice. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Juvenile Justice Programs

The University of Texas and the Dallas County Juvenile Department

are working together to perform a substantive cost-benefit analysis of

juvenile adjudications in the county to explore the extent to which the

method can provide better answers to increasingly urgent questions by

decisionmakers. The work, funded under an FY 1997 competitive grant, is

examining several important methodological and practical issues,

including methods of determining alternative measures for and the

extent of beneficial program effects and estimating and allocating unit

costs-

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benefit relationships of different programs. Through the process of

addressing these and related matters under the guidance of an advisory

board composed of individuals directly engaged in the juvenile justice

field at the local and State level, the project will also show how the

method can be made immediately useful to decisionmakers.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of Texas--Dallas. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of SafeFutures

A national evaluation competitively awarded with FY 1995 funds is

being conducted by the Urban Institute to determine the success of the

SafeFutures initiative in creating a comprehensive continuum of care

for youth in six participating sites (Boston, Massachusetts; Contra

Costa County and Imperial County, California; Fort Belknap, Montana;

Seattle, Washington; and St. Louis, Missouri). The evaluation addresses

the program implementation process and measures performance outcomes

and lessons learned about the challenges and accomplishments across the

six sites. A cross-site report will document the process of program

implementation and community outcomes for use by other funding agencies

or communities that want to develop and implement a comprehensive

community-based strategy to address serious, violent, and chronic

delinquency.

The evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, the

Urban Institute. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Insular Area Support

The purpose of this statutorily required program is to provide

support to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Funds are available to

address the special needs and problems of juvenile delinquency in these

insular areas, as specified by Section 261(e) of the JJDP Act of 1974,

as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5665(e).

Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior Project

The purpose of this project is to expand on the Rochester Youth

Development Study by examining the development of antisocial behavior

and delinquency in the children of the original Rochester, New York,

subjects of OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of

Delinquency. By age 21, 40 percent of the original Rochester subjects

were parents. This provides a unique opportunity to examine and track

the development of delinquent behavior across three generations in a

particularly high-risk sample. Results of the study should provide

useful findings with policy implications for prevention programs. The

program is being funded under an FY 1998 interagency agreement between

OJJDP and the National Institute of Mental Health.

The project will be implemented by the current grantee, SUNY

Research Foundation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse

A component of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service

(NCJRS), the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (JJC) collects,

synthesizes, and disseminates information on all aspects of juvenile

justice. OJJDP established the Clearinghouse in 1979 to serve the

juvenile justice community, legislators, the media, and the public. JJC

offers toll-free telephone access to information; prepares specialized

responses to information requests; produces, warehouses, and

distributes OJJDP publications; exhibits at national conferences;

maintains a comprehensive juvenile justice library and database; and

administers several electronic information resources. NCJRS is

administered by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under a

competitively awarded contract to Aspen Systems Corporation.

This program will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen

Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development

The Juvenile Justice Statistics and Systems Development (SSD)

program was competitively awarded in FY 1990 to the National Center for

Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) to improve national, State, and local

statistics on juveniles as victims and offenders. The project has

focused on three major tasks: (1) Assessing how current information

needs are being met with existing data collection efforts and

recommending options for improving national level statistics; (2)

analyzing data and disseminating information gathered from existing

Federal statistical series and national studies; and (3) providing

training and technical assistance tools for local agencies in

developing or enhancing management information systems.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, NCJJ. No

additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

OJJDP Management Evaluation Contract

This contract was competitively awarded in FY 1995 for a period of

3 years to provide OJJDP with an expert resource to perform independent

program evaluations and assist in implementing evaluation activities.

Evaluations may be conducted on OJJDP-funded programs and on other

programs designed to prevent and treat juvenile delinquency. The time

and cost of each evaluation depends on program complexity, availability

of data, and purpose of the evaluation. Because the purpose of many

evaluations is to inform management decisions, the completion of an

evaluation and submission of a report may be required in a specific

and, often, short time period.

This contract will be implemented by the current contractor,

Caliber Associates. However, a new competitive contract solicitation

will also be issued and a new contract awarded in FY 1999.

OJJDP Technical Assistance Support Contract--Juvenile Justice

Resource Center

This contract has been competitively awarded since the mid-1980's

when OJJDP identified the need for technical assistance support in

carrying out its mission. The Juvenile Justice Resource Center (JJRC)

provides technical assistance and support to OJJDP, its grantees, and

the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

in the areas of program development, evaluation, training, and

research. With assistance from expert consultants, JJRC coordinates the

peer review process for OJJDP grant applications and grantee reports,

conducts research and prepares reports on current juvenile justice

issues, plans meetings and conferences, and provides administrative

support to various Federal councils and boards.

This contract will be implemented by the current contractor, Aspen

Systems Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency

Since 1986, this longitudinal study has addressed a variety of

issues related to juvenile violence and delinquency and has produced a

massive amount of information on the causes and correlates of

delinquent behavior. Three project sites participate: Institute of

Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; Western

Psychiatric Institute

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and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; and Hindelang Criminal Justice

Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York.

The sites pursue both collaborative research efforts and site-specific

research. Results from the study have been used extensively in the

field of juvenile justice and contributed significantly to the

development of OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and

Chronic Juvenile Offenders and other program initiatives.

This program would be implemented by the current grantees. No

additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency

Since FY 1995, this 5-year project has awarded grants of up to $1.4

million annually to each of six communities (Boston, Massachusetts;

Contra Costa County and Imperial County, California; Fort Belknap,

Montana; Seattle, Washington; and St. Louis, Missouri) to assist in

implementing comprehensive community programs designed to reduce youth

violence, delinquency, and victimization through the creation of a

continuum of care in communities. This continuum enables communities to

respond to the needs of youth at critical stages of their development

through a range of prevention, intervention, treatment, and sanctions

programs.

SafeFutures activities will be carried out by the current grantees.

No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Study Group on Very Young Offenders

Modeled after the OJJDP Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile

Offenders, this program is exploring what is known about the prevalence

and frequency of very young (under the age of 13) offending. In FY

1998, OJJDP supplemented a grant to the University of Pittsburgh, the

grantee for the Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders.

The Study Group on Very Young Offenders is examining whether such

offending predicts future delinquent or criminal careers, how these

youth are handled by various systems including juvenile justice, mental

health, and social services; and what methods are best for preventing

very young offending and persistence of offending. This project will

disseminate the results of its research to the public, policymakers,

and practitioners. The Study Group is also assisting OJJDP in

formulating a 5-year research agenda for OJJDP and the juvenile justice

field.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of

Pittsburgh. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance for State Legislatures

Since FY 1995, OJJDP has awarded annual grants to the National

Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to provide relevant, timely

information on comprehensive approaches in juvenile justice to aid

State legislators in improving State juvenile justice systems. Nearly

every State has enacted, or is considering, statutory changes affecting

the juvenile justice system. This project has helped policymakers

understand the ramifications and nuances of juvenile justice reform.

The grant has improved capacity for the delivery of information

services to legislatures. The project also supports increased

communication between State legislators and State and local leaders who

influence decisionmaking regarding juvenile justice issues.

The project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCSL. No

additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Telecommunications Assistance

OJJDP uses information technology and distance training to

facilitate access to information and training for juvenile justice

professionals. This cost-effective medium enhances OJJDP's ability to

share with the field salient elements of the most effective or

promising approaches to various juvenile justice issues. In FY 1995,

OJJDP awarded a competitive grant to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU)

to produce live satellite teleconferences. In FY 1998, OJJDP continued

the cooperative agreement with EKU to provide program support and

technical assistance for a variety of information technologies. The

grantee also explored linkages with key constituent groups to advance

mutual information goals and objectives. During the past year, EKU has

experimented with cybercasting ``live'' satellite videoconferences on

the Internet.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, EKU. No

additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance Coordination for the SafeFutures

and Safe Kids/Safe Streets Initiatives

OJJDP proposes to continue to provide funding for long-term

training and technical assistance to the SafeFutures and Safe Kids/Safe

Streets initiatives. This coordination effort builds local capacity for

implementing and sustaining effective continuum of care and systems

change approaches in six SafeFutures and five Safe Kids/Safe Streets

sites. Project activities include assessment, identification, and

coordination of the implementation of training and technical assistance

needs at each of the sites and administration of cross-site training.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, Patricia

Donahue. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Public Safety and Law Enforcement

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention is a citywide, long-

term effort to reduce violence. Objectives include reductions in

homicide, physical injury, disability and emotional harm from assault,

domestic abuse, sexual abuse and rape, and child abuse and neglect. A

partnership among the Chicago Department of Public Health, the Illinois

Council for the Prevention of Violence, the University of Illinois, and

Chicago communities, the project began in 1995 with joint funding from

OJJDP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National

Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the Bureau of Justice

Assistance, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The project provides technical assistance to a variety of community-

based and citywide organizations involved in violence prevention

planning.

The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention would be implemented by

the current grantee, the University of Illinois, School of Public

Health. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention,

and Suppression Program

This program supports implementation of a comprehensive gang

program model in five jurisdictions (Bloomington, Illinois; Mesa,

Arizona; Riverside, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Tucson,

Arizona). OJJDP proposes to continue funding for the program, which was

competitively awarded with FY 1994 funds. The demonstration sites are

implementing a model developed by the University of Chicago with OJJDP

funding support. Implementation requires the mobilization of the

community to address gang-related violence by making available and

coordinating social interventions, providing social/academic/vocational

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opportunities, and supporting gang suppression through law enforcement,

probation, and other community control mechanisms. Each site has

established a multidisciplinary team to coordinate the services that

project youth receive. Included in the service mix is accountability or

social control. Demonstration sites also receive training and technical

assistance.

This project would be implemented by the current demonstration

sites. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang

Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program

OJJDP proposes to continue funding this evaluation. Under a 4-year

competitive cooperative agreement awarded in FY 1995, the evaluation

grantee assisted the five program sites (Bloomington, Illinois; Mesa,

Arizona; Riverside, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Tucson,

Arizona) in establishing realistic and measurable objectives,

documenting program implementation, and measuring the impact of this

comprehensive approach. It has also provided interim feedback to the

program implementors and trained the local site interviewers. The

grantee will continue to gather and analyze data required to evaluate

the program; monitor and oversee the quality control of data; provide

assistance for completion of interviews; and provide ongoing feedback

to project sites.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. No

additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of the Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program

This 3-year project began with a competitive award in FY 1997 to

document and evaluate the process of community mobilization, planning,

and collaboration needed to develop a comprehensive, collaborative

approach to reducing gun violence involving juveniles. The Partnerships

to Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Program is being implemented in four

sites: Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana; Oakland, California: and

Syracuse, New York. In addition to working with these sites, the

grantee will also identify additional promising or effective programs

underway in communities across the country and evaluate a select number

of these programs. An expanded base of youth gun violence programs

offers greater opportunity to identify sites that are employing similar

strategies with different populations.

This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, COSMOS

Corporation. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (Boys & Girls Clubs)

The purpose of this program is to enable local Boys & Girls Clubs

to prevent youth from entering gangs, intervene with gang members in

the early stages of gang involvement, and divert youth from gang

activities into more constructive programs. This program reflects the

ongoing pattern of cooperation between OJJDP and the Boys & Girls Clubs

to reduce problems of juvenile delinquency and violence. The Boys &

Girls Clubs of America provides training and technical assistance to

local gang prevention and intervention sites, including some at

SafeFutures and OJJDP Comprehensive Gang sites. The project includes

funds for local clubs to implement the Targeted Outreach program. A

national evaluation of this program is being implemented by Public/

Private Ventures.

This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the Boys

& Girls Clubs of America. No additional applications would be solicited

in FY 1999.

National Youth Gang Center

The proliferation of gang problems over the past two decades led

OJJDP to develop a comprehensive, coordinated response to America's

gang problem. This response involved five program components, one of

which was implementation and operation of the National Youth Gang

Center (NYGC), competitively funded with FY 1994 funds, to expand and

maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective

responses to them. NYGC provides support services to the National Youth

Gang Consortium, composed of Federal agencies with responsibilities in

this area. NYGC is also providing technical assistance for the Rural

Gang Initiative planning and assessment phase. OJJDP proposes to extend

the NYGC project an additional year and provide FY 1999 funds to NYGC

to conduct more indepth analyses of the National Youth Gang Survey

results that track changes in gang membership and gang-related crime,

produce timely information on the nature and scope of the youth gang

problem, and continue its efforts to foster integration of gang-related

items into other relevant surveys and national data collection efforts.

This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the

Institute for Intergovernmental Research. No additional applications

would be solicited in FY 1999.

Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence

OJJDP will award continuation grants to each of three competitively

selected communities that initially received funds in FY 1997 to

increase the effectiveness of existing youth gun violence reduction

strategies by enhancing and coordinating prevention, intervention, and

suppression strategies and strengthening linkages between community

residents, law enforcement, and the juvenile justice system. Baton

Rouge, Louisiana; Oakland, California: and Syracuse, New York, were

selected to receive 3-year awards. The goals of this initiative are to

reduce juveniles' illegal access to guns and address the reasons they

carry and use guns in violent exchanges. A national evaluation

currently underway will document the process of community mobilization,

planning, and collaboration needed to develop a comprehensive,

collaborative approach to reducing juvenile gun violence.

The Partnerships To Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence program will be

carried out by the three current grantees. No additional applications

will be solicited in FY 1999.

Safe Start--Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP)

The Child Development-Community-Oriented Policing (CD-CP) program

is an innovative partnership between the New Haven Department of Police

Services and the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of

Medicine that addresses the psychological burdens on children,

families, and the broader community of children witnessing increasing

levels of community violence. In FY 1993, OJJDP provided support to

document Yale--New Haven's child-centered, community-oriented policing

model. The model consists of interrelated training of police officers,

consultation, and teaming mental health clinicians with law enforcement

in intervening onsite with children and families who witness violence.

OJJDP, with first-year support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance,

funded a 3-year replication of the model in Buffalo, New York;

Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon.

Other OJP components joined OJJDP in funding an expansion of CD-CP in

FY 1998 under the Safe Start Initiative. This expansion moved the

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school-based activities and the area of addressing exposure to violence

in domestic violence settings and will continue to do so in FY 1999.

This project would be continued by the current grantee, the Yale

University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the New Haven

Department of Police Services. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Survey of School-Based Gang Prevention and Intervention Programs

Under a competitively awarded FY 1997 grant, this project is

classifying and describing approaches used by schools to prevent or

reduce gang involvement among students in a large sample of urban,

suburban, and rural schools. In addition, a search and review of

activities undertaken by States to identify and evaluate school-based

gang prevention and intervention programs will be completed. Based on a

review of programs identified in a national survey currently under way,

a small number of promising programs will be examined more closely and

described. Technical reports will describe the full range of gang

prevention and intervention currently being implemented in the United

States, and they will compare program types and quality of

implementation across different school levels and locations. A report

will highlight promising programs and practices and include guidelines

on program development.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee,

Gottfredson Associates, Inc. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance for the Rural Gang Initiative

In FY 1998, OJJDP provided supplemental funding support to the

National Youth Gang Center to provide training and technical assistance

to demonstration sites under OJJDP's Rural Gang Initiative. In FY 1999,

training and technical assistance will continue to be provided to those

sites chosen to implement the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang model. Training

and technical assistance will focus on adapting the OJJDP model to

rural jurisdictions and on implementing the model in a theoretically

sound manner. Assistance will be delivered through onsite visits,

conferences, meetings, and other means such as telephone and electronic

media.

This initiative will be implemented by the current grantee, the

National Youth Gang Center. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

Delinquency Prevention and Intervention

Advertising Campaign--Investing in Youth for a Safer Future

OJJDP proposes to continue its support, which began in FY 1997, of

the National Crime Prevention Council's (NCPC's) ad campaign,

``Investing in Youth for A Safer Future,'' through the transfer of

funds to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under an Intra-agency

Agreement. OJJDP and BJA are working with the NCPC Media Unit to

produce, disseminate, and support effective public service advertising

and related media to inform the public of effective solutions to

juvenile crime and to motivate young people and adults to get involved

and support these solutions. The featured solutions include effective

prevention programs and intervention strategies.

The program would be administered by BJA through its existing grant

to NCPC. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders

This project supplements an ongoing National Institute of Mental

Health study assessing alcohol, drug, and mental health disorders among

juveniles in detention in Cook County, Illinois. The project has three

primary goals: (1) To determine how alcohol, drug, and mental disorders

develop over time among juvenile detainees; (2) to investigate whether

juvenile detainees receive needed psychiatric services after their

cases reach disposition (and they are back in the community or serving

sentences); and (3) to study the development of dangerous and risky

behaviors. The study will investigate how violence, drug use, and HIV/

AIDS risk behaviors develop over time, what the antecedents of these

behaviors are, and how these behaviors are interrelated. This project

is unique because the sample is so large: it includes 1,833 youth from

Chicago who were arrested and interviewed between 1996 and 1998. The

sample is stratified by gender, race (African American, non-Hispanic

white, Hispanic), age (10-13, 14-17), and severity of charge. The

investigators will reinterview subjects whether they are back in the

community or incarcerated. Because the sample is so large, there will

be sufficient statistical power to study rarer disorders (especially

comorbidity), patterns of drug use, and risky, life-threatening

behaviors. OJJDP funding for this project began in FY 1998.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee,

Northwestern University. No additional applications would be solicited

in FY 1999.

The CETARY Project

The goals of this project are to provide 20 second-time juvenile

offenders, up to age 18, an opportunity to enroll in an intense and

structured culinary arts training program; develop and maintain linkage

and employment opportunities for the youth; and place a minimum of 18

youth in an accredited continuing education program and/or in the

workplace with full-time employment. Funded in FY 1998, the project

also provides a counseling specialist who helps the youth establish job

readiness and who coordinates placement between career development and

employment. General educational development (GED) classes are also

offered. Continuous progress evaluations and needs assessments are

implemented and enforced for each youth.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Johnson &

Wales University. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Communities In Schools--Federal Interagency Partnership

This program would continue an ongoing national school dropout

prevention model developed and implemented by Communities In Schools,

Inc. (CIS). CIS, Inc., provides training and technical assistance in

adapting and implementing the CIS model in States and local

communities. The model brings social, employment, mental health, drug

prevention, entrepreneurship, and other resources to high-risk youth

and their families in the school setting. Where they exist, CIS State

organizations assume primary responsibility for local program

replication during the Federal Interagency Partnership. The Partnership

is based on enhancing (1) CIS, Inc., training and technical assistance

capabilities; (2) its capability to introduce selected initiatives to

youth at the local level; (3) its information dissemination capability;

and (4) its capability to network with Federal agencies on behalf of

State and local CIS programs.

The program would be implemented by the current grantee,

Communities In Schools, Inc. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

Through the Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher

Project, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) has

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been awarding vouchers for several years to grassroots organizations to

purchase technical assistance and training to effectively address the

problem of juvenile drug abuse. NCNE has established a clearinghouse

featuring more than 1,200 promising and proven anti-drug programs. The

impact of technical assistance vouchers includes enhanced

organizational visibility, larger grant awards for indigenous groups,

and expanded and increased services resulting from technical assistance

in program development and staff training. In addition to awarding

vouchers for technical assistance, NCNE provides technical assistance

to applicants regarding the development of their mission, goals, and

objectives.

The Community Anti-Drug Abuse Technical Assistance Voucher Project

would be implemented by the current grantee, the National Center for

Neighborhood Enterprise. No additional applications would be solicited

in FY 1999.

The Congress of National Black Churches: National Anti-Drug Abuse/

Violence Campaign (NADVC)

The Congress of National Black Churches (CNBC) addresses the

problems of juvenile drug abuse, violence, and hate crime through its

national public awareness and mobilization strategy. The strategy

coordinates the black religious leadership, in cooperation with the

U.S. Department of Justice and other Federal agencies and

organizations, to mobilize community residents to combat juvenile drug

abuse and drug-related violence. The CNBC National Anti-Drug Abuse/

Violence Campaign (NADVC) is a partner in the Education Development

Center's (EDC) Juvenile Hate Crime Initiative. NADVC's training and

technical assistance have helped sites leverage funds from public and

private sources. The NADVC model for the development of prevention

programs is easily tailored to the local community's assessment of its

drug, delinquency, violence, and hate crime problems.

The program would be implemented by the current grantee, the

Congress of National Black Churches. No additional applications would

be solicited in FY 1999.

A Demonstration Afterschool Program

This project, known as Estrella, is using FY 1998 funds to design

and evaluate a pilot afterschool program to reduce juvenile delinquency

and increase educational retention at Gadsden Independent School

District in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Through a curriculum of hands-

on science and reading projects and supervised recreation, Estrella is

providing a constructive alternative to afternoons of unsupervised free

time. New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (NM

MESA) will provide the academic component of the program. Middle school

students will mentor elementary students in a highly interactive

learning environment developed through the use of the nationally

recognized MESA curriculums. The New Mexico Police Athletic League

(PAL) will provide a sports component to round out the program. The

University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research will evaluate

the program using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of New Mexico--Regents. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

Diffusion of State Risk- and Protective-Factor Focused Prevention

Since FY 1997, OJJDP has provided funds to the National Institute

on Drug Abuse, through an interagency agreement, to support this 5-year

study of the public health approach to prevention, focusing on risk and

protective factors for substance abuse at the State and community

levels. The study will identify factors that influence the adoption of

the public health approach and assess the association between this

approach and the levels of risk and protective factors and substance

abuse among adolescents. The study will also examine State substance

abuse data gathered from 1988 through 2001 and use interviews to

describe the process of implementing the epidemiological risk- and

protective-factor approach in Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Maine,

Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the Social

Development Research Group at the University of Washington School of

Social Work. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Hate Crime

Under an OJJDP grant competitively awarded in FY 1993, the

Education Development Center (EDC) developed Healing the Hate, a

multipurpose curriculum for hate crime prevention in middle schools and

other classroom settings. OJJDP expanded this grant to allow EDC to

provide training and technical assistance to youth, educators, juvenile

justice and law enforcement professionals, and representatives of local

public/private community agencies and organizations and the faith

community. In FY 1999, EDC would expand its training and technical

assistance to new sites and further disseminate the products through

the education and juvenile justice networks. In addition, EDC would

provide onsite, short-term technical assistance to practitioners

interested in hate crime issues. EDC would also assist State juvenile

justice agencies to formulate hate crime prevention components for

their juvenile delinquency prevention plans.

The project would be implemented, in partnership with the U.S.

Department of Education, by the current grantee, Education Development

Center. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Home Visitation

This program integrates prenatal and early childhood nurse home

visitation into five sites of Operation Weed and Seed (Clearwater,

Florida; Fresno, Los Angeles, and Oakland, CA; and Oklahoma City, OK)

and one SafeFutures site (St. Louis, MO). Operation Weed and Seed is a

national initiative to make communities safe through law enforcement

activities and to rebuild the community through social services and

economic redevelopment in crime-ridden communities across the country.

SafeFutures is an initiative to assist in implementing comprehensive

community programs designed to reduce youth violence, delinquency, and

victimization through the creation of a continuum of care in

communities. The nurse home visitation program addresses three major

goals: (1) preparation of clear, comprehensive home visitation

materials to facilitate dissemination and accurate replication of the

program; (2) dissemination of the program to the six sites and

provision of technical support and training to local staff; and (3) an

evaluation of the program with a significant research focus on the

dissemination process.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of Colorado Health Services Center. No additional

applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Multisite, Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention

Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

OJJDP will transfer funds under an interagency agreement with the

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to support this research,

funded principally by NIMH. In 1992, NIMH began a study of the long-

term efficacy of stimulant medication and intensive

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behavioral and educational treatment for children with attention

deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Although ADHD is classified as a

childhood disorder, up to 70 percent of afflicted children continue to

experience symptoms in adolescence and adulthood. The study will

continue through 2000 and will follow the original families and a

comparison group. OJJDP's participation, which began in FY 1998, will

allow for investigation into the subjects' delinquent behavior and

contact with the legal system, including arrests and court referrals.

OJJDP will support this study through an interagency agreement with

NIMH. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

National Center for Conflict Resolution Education

Funded under a competitively awarded cooperative agreement in FY

1995, the National Center for Conflict Resolution Education works to

integrate conflict resolution education (CRE) programming into all

levels of education in schools, juvenile facilities, and youth-serving

organizations. In FY 1998, OJJDP entered into a partnership with the

U.S. Department of Education to expand and enhance this project. The

grantee provides training and technical assistance through onsite

training and consultation for teams from schools, communities, and

juvenile facilities; by providing resource materials including the

guide to implementing conflict resolution programs; and by partnering

with State-level agencies to establish State training institutes and

otherwise build local capacity to implement successful CRE programs for

youth. The Center also facilitates peer-to-peer mentoring.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee, Illinois

Institute for Dispute Resolution. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

No Hope in Dope Project

The goal of the No Hope in Dope (NHID) program, funded under an FY

1998 OJJDP grant, is to prevent, reduce, or delay the onset of

substance abuse in elementary, intermediate, and high school students

in Hawaii's Windward Oaho area. This goal will be accomplished by using

a community-based approach that makes antidrug norms clear, salient,

and useful as guides for behavior. The program uses opinion-leading

student athletes, the No Hope in Dope seminar, and the Officer Honolulu

Safety Program. NHID is a program of Project Hope in coordination with

the Kahuku and Castle School complexes of the Windward Oahu School

District and the Honolulu Police Department. The program will be

evaluated with a pre/post intervention design that will allow

conclusions about the effectiveness of this community- and school-level

intervention.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Operation

Hope. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Partnerships for Preventing Violence

This program would continue for a second year in a multiple funding

agreement among OJJDP, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services to provide support for distance

training using satellite video conferencing as the medium. The project,

funded under a 3-year grant, consists of a series of six live,

interactive satellite training broadcasts that focus on violence

prevention programs and strategies that have proven promising or

effective. The training is targeted to school and community violence

prevention personnel, health care providers, law enforcement officials,

and other service providers representing a variety of community-based

and youth-serving organizations. To date, two events have been held;

the third telecast is scheduled for April 16, 1999.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee, Harvard

University School of Public Health. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Proactive Youth Program

The New Mexico Police Activities League (PAL) is implementing a

statewide prevention project consisting of recreational, educational,

and cultural activities for families and youth between the ages of 5

and 18, but focused on at-risk youth and their families. The

Albuquerque PAL will provide the initial model for the organization and

implementation of the New Mexico PAL project. Local PAL programs will

be initiated in at least 12 other New Mexico communities. Schedules for

core programs will be coordinated, and a system of regional and

statewide activities will be established. The overall goal of the

project, which received an FY 1998 OJJDP grant, is to reduce negative

behavior and promote healthy behavioral patterns among New Mexico's

youth by providing activities that unite youth with law enforcement

officers, educators, and other positive adult role models.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of New Mexico--Regents. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

Risk Reduction Via Promotion of Youth Development

This program, also known as Early Alliance, is a large-scale

prevention study involving hundreds of African-American and Caucasian

children in several elementary schools in lower socioeconomic

neighborhoods of Columbia, SC. This project is designed to promote

coping-competence and reduce risk for conduct problems, aggression,

substance use, delinquency and violence, and school failure beginning

in early elementary school. Children are being followed longitudinally

throughout the 5 years of the project. The program is funded through an

interagency agreement with the National Institute of Mental Health

(NIMH). NIMH's grantee is the University of South Carolina. Funding has

also been provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Funded initially in FY 1997 through a fund transfer to NIMH under

an interagency agreement, support will be continued for an additional 3

years. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

The SAGE Project and PRIDE Center Afterschool Program

The SAGE project is continuing development of a project to prevent

and reduce juvenile delinquency and school violence. The long-term goal

of the PRIDE Center is to provide a comprehensive, year-round juvenile

delinquency prevention and intervention program that supports the youth

objectives of the SAGE Secondary School and the youth and community

objectives of the SAGE project as a whole. Under an FY 1998 grant, the

project is providing the collaborating organizations with the means to

(1) expand and enhance adult-mentored and supervised, structured

educational opportunities to court-involved and high-risk youth; (2)

involve additional city agencies and community-based organizations

through the PRIDE Center; and (3) continue to evaluate and disseminate

findings on the project's success for replication in other urban areas.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee,

Springfield College. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

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Strengthening Services for Chemically Involved Children, Youth, and

Families

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services and

the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) provide services to

children affected by parental substance use or abuse. OJJDP administers

this training and technical assistance program, which began in FY 1998,

with funds transferred to OJJDP by the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration, through a cooperative agreement to the Child Welfare

League of America (CWLA), a nonprofit organization. CWLA is assisting

child welfare personnel to provide appropriate intervention services

for children impacted by the abuse of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and

for their caregivers. CWLA is producing a comprehensive assessment tool

and decisionmaking guidelines for child welfare workers and

supervisors. CWLA training and technical assistance will help to

develop innovative and effective approaches to meeting the needs of

children in the child welfare system whose parents are AOD abusers.

ONDCP is considering transferring funds for this project in FY 1999.

This jointly funded project would be implemented by CWLA. No

additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance to Title V

The purpose of this continuation contract is to provide OJJDP with

training support for the Title V program. This training, which the

grantee has developed and refined over several years, will continue to

introduce key community leaders to data-based risk-and resiliency-

focused delinquency prevention strategies and provide localities with

the knowledge and skills to assess risk factors and resources in their

communities. This contract will also increase the capacity of States to

conduct data-based risk and resiliency focused training without Federal

support.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee,

Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. No additional applications

will be solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance for Family Strengthening Programs

OJJDP proposes to continue funding a cooperative agreement

competitively awarded in FY 1995 to the University of Utah's Department

of Health Education (DHE) to provide training and technical assistance

to communities interested in establishing or enhancing a continuum of

family strengthening efforts. After a literature review, the grantee

convened regional training conferences to showcase selected exemplary

and promising family strengthening programs; developed a process for

sites to receive followup training on specific program models;

conducted program-specific workshops; produced and then updated user

and training-of-trainers guides; and distributed videos of several

family strengthening workshops. The grantee's technical assistance

delivery system and the overall impact of the project are being

assessed. In FY 1999, this program would expand its surveys and

research on effective practices and assist in replication of identified

programs.

This program would be implemented by the current grantee, the

University of Utah's DHE. No additional applications would be solicited

in FY 1999.

Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System

Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ)

OJJDP has supported development and improvement of juvenile

restitution programs since 1977. The purpose of the BARJ project is to

enhance the development of restitution programs as part of systemwide

juvenile justice improvement using balanced approach concepts and

restorative justice principles. The BARJ program model was first

described in a 1994 OJJDP Program Summary, Balanced and Restorative

Justice, which became a reference source for BARJ training. The BARJ

project has provided intensive training, technical assistance, and

guideline materials to three selected sites (Allegheny County,

Pennsylvania; Dakota County, Minnesota; and West Palm Beach County,

Florida), which have been implementing major systemic change in

accordance with the BARJ model. The BARJ Project also offers technical

assistance and training to other jurisdictions nationwide.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, Florida

Atlantic University. No additional applications would be solicited in

FY 1999.

Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Training and Technical Assistance

OJJDP will continue to fund an FY 1998 cooperative agreement with

the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the

University of Colorado. Under this grant, CSPV provides intensive

training and technical assistance to community organizations and units

of local government to replicate 10 ``Blueprint'' model programs. These

are programs that CSPV identified as meeting a rigorous scientific

standard of proven program effectiveness and replicability for reducing

adolescent violence, crime, and substance abuse. CSPV will help

communities determine the feasibility of program development and also

monitor and assist in the replication of these Blueprint programs for 2

years.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, CSPV. No

additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Building Blocks for Youth

The goals of this initiative are to protect minority youth in the

justice system and promote rational and effective juvenile justice

policies. These goals are accomplished by the following components: (1)

Conducting research on issues such as the impact on minority youth of

new State laws and the implications of privatization of juvenile

facilities by profit-making corporations; (2) undertaking an analysis

of decisionmaking in the justice system and development of model

decisionmaking criteria that reduce or eliminate disproportionate

impact of the system on minority youth; (3) building a constituency for

change at the national, State, and local levels; and (4) developing

communication strategies for dissemination of information. A fifth

component, direct advocacy for minority youth is funded by other

sources, not by OJJDP. Funding by OJJDP began in FY 1998.

This initiative will be implemented by the current grantee, the

Youth Law Center. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement

In FY 1998, the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP)

replaced the biennial Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention,

Correctional, and Shelter Facilities, known as the Children in Custody

census. CJRP collects detailed information on the population of

juveniles who are in juvenile residential placement facilities as a

result of contact with the juvenile justice system. New methods

developed for CJRP are expected to produce more accurate, timely, and

useful data on the juvenile population, with less reporting burden for

facility respondents.

This program would be implemented through an existing interagency

agreement with the Bureau of the Census. No additional applications

would be solicited in FY 1999.

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Circles of Care Program

In FY 1998, OJJDP and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

entered into an interagency agreement to have OJJDP provide support to

the Circles of Care Program, which CMHS had developed. OJJDP

transferred funds to CMHS to support the funding of an additional site.

The Circles of Care Program is designed to facilitate the planning and

implementation of a continuum of care for Native American youth at risk

of mental health, substance abuse, and delinquency problems. CMHS

funded nine sites in FY 1998 and will continue these sites in FY 1999,

based on availability of funds and project performance. OJJDP will

transfer additional funds in FY 1999 to continue support for this

program.

The currently funded projects will continue in FY 1999. No new

applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Development of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and

Chronic Juvenile Offenders

OJJDP has been providing support for development of its

Comprehensive Strategy for several years. This project will complete

ongoing strategic planning efforts in six States and expand to two

additional States, Oregon and Wisconsin. In each State, up to six

jurisdictions have been identified to receive Comprehensive Strategy

planning training and technical assistance. OJJDP internal technical

assistance capacity will be developed during this time to further

assist States through training and technical assistance, including

States planning on developing a Comprehensive Strategy planning

framework. Implementation support will be developed and provided to the

six States and one pilot site scheduled to complete Comprehensive

Strategy plans in 1999. Further development and updates of the Guide

for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and

Chronic Juvenile Offenders will also occur in FY 1999.

This project will be implemented by the current grantees, the

National Council on Crime and Delinquency and Developmental Research

and Programs, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program

In FY 1995, OJJDP competitively awarded a grant to the National

Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) to perform a process evaluation

and design an outcome evaluation of the Intensive Community-Based

Aftercare Demonstration and Technical Assistance program. In FY 1998,

the project was supplemented and extended for an additional 2 years to

continue the outcome evaluation. The outcome evaluation seeks to

determine the extent of the differences between the Intensive

Community-Based Aftercare Program (IAP) participants and the

``regular'' parolees, the supervision and services provided to both

groups, and the cost-effectiveness of IAP. Data collection is being

accomplished using several methods including searches of State police

records to measure recidivism and analyzing State agency and juvenile

court data to estimate costs.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, NCCD. No

additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Evaluation of Teen Courts

This project, which OJJDP began in FY 1997, is measuring the effect

of handling young, relatively nonserious law violators in teen courts

rather than in traditional juvenile or family courts. Researchers are

collecting data on several dimensions of program outcomes, including

postprogram recidivism, changes in teens' perceptions of justice, and

their ability to make more mature judgements. Analyses of these

dimensions will be used to compare youth handled in at least three

separate teen court programs with those processed by the traditional

juvenile justice system. In addition, the study will conduct a process

evaluation of the teen court programs, exploring legal, administrative,

and case processing factors that affect the ability of the programs to

achieve their goals.

This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, the

Urban Institute. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Gender-Specific Programming for Female Juvenile Offenders

Using a FY 1995 competitive OJJDP grant, Cook County has built a

network of support for juvenile female offenders. The county has

developed gender-specific needs, strengths, and risk assessments for

juvenile female offenders; provided training in implementing gender-

appropriate programming; and designed a pilot program with a community-

based continuum of care and a unique case management system. In FY

1998, OJJDP provided continuation funding to the Cook County gender-

specific program and began providing funding to the State of

Connecticut to develop specialized programs for girls from prevention

to detention. Connecticut's objectives and activities also include

planning, implementing, and demonstrating a program that will develop a

hierarchy of sanctions with specific emphasis on females up to age 18

and incorporating systemic changes. The primary emphasis of the

Connecticut program is on the needs of pregnant girls and those who are

mothers. Technical assistance is being provided to both Cook County and

the State of Connecticut by Greene, Peters, and Associates, OJJDP's

gender-specific training and technical assistance grantee.

The project will be implemented, in partnership with the Bureau of

Justice Assistance, by the current grantee, the Cook County Bureau of

Public Safety and Judicial Coordination, and by the State of

Connecticut's Office of Alternative Sanctions. No additional

applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration and Technical

Assistance Program

This initiative supports implementation, training and technical

assistance, and an independent evaluation of an intensive community-

based aftercare model in three competitively selected demonstration

sites. The overall goal of the intensive aftercare model is to identify

and assist high-risk juvenile offenders to make a gradual transition

from secure confinement back into the community. The Intensive

Aftercare Program (IAP) model has three distinct, yet overlapping

segments: (1) Prerelease and preparatory planning activities during

incarceration; (2) structured transitioning involving the participation

of institutional and aftercare staffs both prior to and following

community reentry; and (3) long-term reintegrative activities to ensure

adequate service delivery and the required level of social control. The

grantee provides continuing training and technical assistance to

administrators, managers, and line staff at the intensive community-

based aftercare sites. The grant was competitively awarded in FY 1995

The IAP project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

Johns Hopkins University. No additional applications would be solicited

in FY 1999.

Intensive Treatment Family Programs (ITF)

The purpose of KidsPeace is to provide individualized foster care

(IFC) to seriously disturbed children and

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adolescents in a therapeutic family setting. KidsPeace proposes to

expand their program to additional sites, with the assistance of

OJJDP's funding, first provided in FY 1997. KidsPeace has established

four sites (Union, New Jersey; Orchard Park and Albany, New York; and

Muncie, Indiana). A fifth site is currently under development.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, KidsPeace

National Centers for Kids in Crisis of North America. No additional

applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

The Juvenile Justice Prosecution Unit

Under an FY 1996 OJJDP grant, the American Prosecutors Research

Institute, the research and technical assistance affiliate of the

National District Attorneys Association, established the Juvenile

Justice Prosecution Unit (JJPU) to promote prosecutor training. JJPU

holds workshops on juvenile-related policy, leadership, and management

for chief prosecutors and juvenile unit chiefs and also provides

prosecutors with background information on juvenile justice issues,

programs, training, and technical assistance. The project solicits

planning and other advisory input from prosecutors familiar with

juvenile justice system and prosecutor needs. It draws on the expertise

of working groups of elected or appointed prosecutors and juvenile unit

chiefs to support project staff in providing technical assistance,

juvenile justice-related research, program information, and training to

practitioners nationwide.

This project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

American Prosecutors Research Institute. No additional applications

would be solicited in FY 1999.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census

As part of a long-term relationship with the Bureau of the Census,

OJJDP proposes to continue to fund the development and testing of a new

census of juvenile residential facilities. This census would focus on

those facilities that are authorized to hold juveniles based on contact

with the juvenile justice system. From interviews with facility

administrators and staff at 20 locations, project staff have produced a

detailed report discussing how best to capture information on

education, mental health and substance abuse treatment, health

services, conditions of custody, staffing, and facility capacity.

Project staff have also drafted and tested a questionnaire based on the

interview results. The questionnaire will be finalized in 1999. The

first full implementaiton will take place in October 2000.

This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement

with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division and Statistical

Research Division. No new applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Juvenile Sex Offender Typology

In FY 1998, OJJDP competitively funded two feasibility studies in

an effort to develop a juvenile sex offender typology. One study is

being conducted by the University of Illinois-Springfield, the other by

Health Related Research. Efforts to effectively address issues related

to juvenile sex offenders' dangerousness, the most appropriate level of

placement restrictiveness, the potential for rehabilitation, assessment

requirements, and intervention needs have been hampered by the lack of

an empirically based system for classifying this heterogeneous

population into meaningful subgroups. These initial studies will

determine specific methodologies best suited to generate an empirically

validated typology of the juvenile sex offender. Based on the results

of these initial studies, OJJDP will determine the feasibility of

developing a juvenile sex offender typology or the desirability of

continuing in the specific directions suggested by Phase I of this

work.

An expansion of this work would be implemented by one or both of

the current grantees, University of Illinois-Springfield and Health

Related Research. No additional applications would be solicited in FY

1999.

Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court Studies

This study explores the impact of the 1994 changes in Florida law

by contrasting transfer policies and practices and sentences received

for 1993 with those for 1995. Postsentencing recidivism of the 400

transferred youth in 1993 will be examined. Detailed data on the role

of the offender in the commission of the offense; the involvement of

gangs, guns, and drugs; and prior offense histories will be used in

analyzing sentencing outcomes and postrelease offending. Predictions

will be made on rearrest and time to failure in multivariate models

with variables reflecting characteristics of offenses, offenders, and

offense histories. Cross-group recidivism analyses are planned to

compare the recidivism of youth transferred to adult court with that of

those retained in the juvenile justice system.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

Florida Juvenile Justice Accountability Board. No additional

applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Linking Balanced and Restorative Justice and Adolescents (LIBRA)

The goal of this program is to continue development of a

comprehensive, integrated, balanced and restorative system of justice

for youthful offenders that holds them accountable to victims, protects

the community, builds offender skills and competencies, and offers

opportunities for positive connections to community members. OJJDP

funding for the program began in FY 1998. To hold youth accountable,

the project will establish a network of accountability boards. The

project will also pilot Community Justice Centers, which will

demonstrate that the community is the core of the justice process and

recognizes youth as a vital part of the community.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the

Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. No additional

applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

National Academy of Sciences Study of Juvenile Justice

In FY 1997, OJJDP initiated support for a 2-year study by the

National Academy of Sciences to draw upon expertise from relevant

disciplines in the scientific and practitioner communities to develop a

synthesis of the relevant scientific research and expert opinion

regarding the prevention, treatment, and control of juvenile crime.

Following an examination of empirical and clinical research relevant to

the origin of and pathways to youth violence and justice system

treatment of juveniles, the review will be supplemented by two

workshops and site visits to selected programs. These activities will

help to identify (1) the elements of settings, with a particular

emphasis on family and school, that inhibit or contribute to the ways

in which serious delinquency develops; (2) juvenile and criminal

justice system concerns regarding the shifts in youth crime prevention

and control policies; and (3) juvenile violence and policing practices

in public and federally assisted housing. The study will identify key

elements of current efforts and policies that appear to either

contribute to or inhibit the development of effective interventions and

control mechanisms for youth violence and delinquency. The project is

also being supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

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This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the

National Academy of Sciences. No additional applications will be

solicited in FY 1999.

National Juvenile Justice Program Directory

In FY 1995, OJJDP initiated development of this program directory.

To conduct its statistical functions, OJJDP must maintain a current and

accurate list of all entities surveyed either in the various censuses

or in surveys. This list currently entails a complete list of juvenile

residential facilities and a list of juvenile probation offices. As

OJJDP expands its statistical work, it will need to expand this listing

as well. The list needs to contain contact information for the various

facilities or agencies and appropriate information for sampling.

This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement

with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No additional

applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97

OJJDP proposes to continue supporting the second round of data

collection under the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 (NLSY97)

through an interagency agreement with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

(BLS). OJJDP funding began in FY 1997. NLSY97 is studying school-to-

work transition in a nationally representative sample of 8,700 youth

ages 12 to 16 years old. BLS is also collecting data on the involvement

of these youth in antisocial and other behavior that may affect their

transition to productive work careers. This survey provides information

about risk and protective factors related to the initiation,

persistence, and desistance of delinquent and criminal behavior and

provides an opportunity to determine the generalizability of findings

from OJJDP's Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of

Delinquency and other longitudinal studies across a nationally

representative population of youth.

The program would be implemented by the BLS under an interagency

agreement. No additional applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Performance-Based Standards for Juvenile Correction and Detention

Facilities

This program, which began with a competitive OJJDP cooperative

agreement awarded in FY 1995, is in its third phase. Goals for this

phase are to (1) introduce concepts, tools, and principles of

performance-based standards and accountability in 25 to 30 facilities

nationwide; (2) complete the collection of baseline measures of

performance on 22 standards covering six critical areas of facility

operations in all participating facilities using uniform data

collection instruments and protocols; (3) assist the management team in

developing appropriate strategies to respond to problem areas based on

the performance data; (4) facilitate access to OJJDP/OJP resources for

training and technical assistance and related support services needed

to carry out the facility improvement plan; (5) monitor results of

interventions through reassessment and analysis of progress; and (6)

refine the measurement processes and build database performance

benchmarks.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, Council of

Juvenile Correctional Administrators. No additional applications will

be solicited in FY 1999.

Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) Evaluation

OJJDP proposes to continue funding an impact evaluation of the

Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) through an interagency fund

transfer to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). OJJDP began funding

this evaluation in FY 1997. QOP, designed by the Ford Foundation and

Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, is a career

enrichment program using a model providing basic education, personal

and cultural development, community service, and mentoring. The

evaluation will determine whether QOP reduces the likelihood that

inner-city youth at educational risk will enter the criminal or

juvenile justice system. Outcomes to be examined include academic

achievement in high school; misbehavior in school; self-esteem and

sense of control over one's life; educational and career goals; and

personal decisions such as teenage parenthood, substance abuse, and

criminal activity. Data on criminal activity are being collected from

individual student interviews.

This program would be implemented through an interagency agreement

with the U.S. Department of Labor. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Survey of Juvenile Probation

OJJDP proposes to continue to support development of a survey of

juvenile probation offices in an effort to determine the number of

juveniles under some form of community supervision. The exact nature

and extent of this survey depends greatly on the results of various

development efforts OJJDP is pursuing currently. This project would

fund the Bureau of the Census to establish standard procedures for the

implementation of this survey. Funding for this project began in FY

1996.

This project would be conducted through an interagency agreement

with the Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. No new

applications would be solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance to Juvenile Corrections and Detention (The James

E. Gould Memorial Program)

The primary purpose of this program is to provide specialized

technical assistance to juvenile corrections, detention, and community

residential service providers. The grantee also plans and convenes an

annual Juvenile Corrections and Detention Forum, which provides an

opportunity for juvenile corrections and detention leaders to meet and

discuss issues, problems, and solutions to emerging corrections and

detention problems. The grantee also provides workshops and conferences

on current and emerging national issues in the field of juvenile

corrections and detention, conducts surveys, and offers technical

assistance through document dissemination. OJJDP proposes to continue

this program, which began in FY 1995 under competitive grant for a 3-

year period.

The project would be implemented by the current grantee, the

American Correctional Association. No additional applications would be

solicited in FY 1999.

Technical Assistance to Native Americans

The goal of this program is to build the capacity of the Gila River

Indian community, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Navajo Nation, the Red Band

of Chippewa Indians, other Native American and Alaskan Native

communities, and urban jurisdictions where tribal people reside to

address Indian youth crime, delinquency, violence and victimization.

Project funds support the development of comprehensive, systemwide

responses to these problems in tribal communities. In FY 1999, OJJDP

will continue to provide technical assistance to Native Americans to

enable tribes to further develop alternatives to detention,

specifically targeting juveniles who are first or nonviolent offenders;

design guidebooks for the tribal peacemaking process to be used in

addressing juvenile delinquency issues that are

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reported to Family District Court systems; design and implement

juvenile justice needs assessments to assist tribes in responding to

juvenile detention and alternatives to detention needs; develop

protocols to implement State Children's Code provisions that affect

Native American Children; and establish sustainable, comprehensive

community-based planning processes that focus on the needs of tribal

youth. In FY 1997, American Indian Development Associates (AIDA) was

selected to implement OJJDP's national technical assistance program for

tribes and urban tribal programs across the country for a 3-year

period.

This program will be implemented by the current grantee, the

American Indian Development Associates. No additional applications will

be solicited in FY 1999.

TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative

In FY 1998, OJJDP, in partnership with the U.S. Department of

Labor's (DOL's) Employment and Training Administration, provided

funding support to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for demonstration

and evaluation of the TeenSupreme Career Preparation Initiative. This

initiative provides employment training and other related services to

at-risk youth through local Boys & Girls Clubs with TeenSupreme

Centers. In FY 1998, DOL funds supported program staffing in the

existing 41 TeenSupreme Centers, provided intensive training and

technical assistance to each site, and provided administrative and

staffing support to this program from the national office. OJJDP funds

supported the evaluation component of the program, which is to be

implemented by an independent evaluator.

This jointly funded Department of Labor and OJJDP initiative will

be implemented by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. No additional

applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations To Reduce

Disproportionate Minority Confinement (The Deborah Ann Wysinger

Memorial Program)

In FY 1997, recognizing the continued need to improve the ability

of States and local jurisdictions to address disproportionate

confinement of minority juveniles, OJJDP awarded a competitive grant to

Cygnus Corporation to implement a 3-year national training, technical

assistance, and information dissemination initiative. Since the 1988

reauthorization of the JJDP Act, State Formula Grants program plans

have addressed disproportionate minority confinement (DMC). OJJDP's DMC

funding efforts have included a competitive award to demonstrate model

approaches in five State pilot sites (Arizona, Florida, Iowa, North

Carolina, and Oregon) and an award to a national contractor to provide

technical assistance to the pilot sites and other States. In addition,

OJJDP made funds available to nonpilot States that had completed data

gathering and assessment to use for innovative DMC projects.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, Cygnus

Corporation, Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Training and Technical Support for State and Local Jurisdictional Teams

To Focus on Juvenile Corrections and Detention Overcrowding

Through systemic change within local juvenile detention systems or

statewide juvenile corrections systems, this project seeks to reduce

overcrowding in facilities where juveniles are held. Competitively

awarded in FY 1994 to the National Juvenile Detention Association

(NJDA), in partnership with the San Francisco Youth Law Center, the

project provides training and technical assistance materials for use by

State and local jurisdictional teams. NJDA selected three jurisdictions

(Camden, New Jersey; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Rhode Island

Juvenile Corrections System) for onsite development, implementation,

and testing of procedures to reduce crowding. Of the original sites

selected, Oklahoma City has completed its work. The grantee is

exploring additional sites for comprehensive training and technical

assistance in FY 1999.

This project will be implemented by the current grantee, the

National Juvenile Detention Association. No additional applications

will be solicited in FY 1999.

Child Abuse and Neglect and Dependency Courts

National Evaluation of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program

OJJDP will continue funding the grant competitively awarded in FY

1997 to Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD, for a national evaluation to

document and explicate the process of community mobilization, planning,

and collaboration that has taken place before and during the Safe Kids/

Safe Streets awards; to inform program staff of performance levels on

an ongoing basis; and to determine the effectiveness of the implemented

programs in achieving the goals of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets program.

The initial 18-month grant began a process evaluation and determined

the feasibility of an impact evaluation.

This evaluation will be implemented by the current grantee, Westat,

Inc. No additional applications will be solicited in FY 1999.

Safe Kids/Safe Streets: Community Approaches to Reducing Abuse and

Neglect and Preventing Delinquency

This 5\1/2\ year demonstration program is designed to foster

coordinated community responses to child abuse and neglect. Several

components of the Office of Justice Programs joined in FY 1996 to

develop this coordinated program response to break the cycle of early

childhood victimization and later criminality and to reduce child abuse

and neglect and resulting child fatalities. OJJDP awarded competitive

cooperative agreements in FY 1997 to five sites (National Children's

Advocacy Center, Huntsville, Alabama; the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of

Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Heart of America United

Way, Kansas City, Missouri; Toledo Hospital Children's Medical Center,

Toledo, Ohio; and the Community Network for Children, Youth and Family

Services, Chittenden County, Vermont). Funds were provided by OJJDP,

the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, and the Violence Against Women

Grants Office.

In FY 1999, continuation awards will be made to each of the current

demonstration sites. No additional applications will be solicited in FY

1999.

Dated: January 27, 1999.

Shay Bilchik,

Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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