# Proposed Comprehensive Plan for Fiscal Year 1999

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** February 1, 1999
- **Citation:** 64 FR 4940

## Text

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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
[FR Doc. 99-2326 Filed 1-29-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-18-P

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A99-2326. Public record. Not legal advice.