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Juvenile Delinquency: Are We Doing the Right Things To Make a Difference?

by Dr. Neil C. Headman

        With all of the individual, family, community, and societal costs of juvenile delinquency, it is fair to ask if we are doing the right things to facilitate its reduction. It is so easy to stay in the same old mind set, while simply changing our outward appearance. To this day, many programs continue to emphasize services to individual youth who have demonstrated delinquent or pre-delinquent behaviors, without giving sufficient focus to family, neighborhood, and community factors that facilitate or support negative youth behavior. If we look at youth as the rising plants in the garden of society, we are sure to pay more attention to these facilitative factors. Here are some principles that can help... Read more

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International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention

Truancy and Dropout Prevention Conference

October 12-16, 2008

Las Vegas, Nevada

The Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology: Translating Research into Practice
October 16-18, 2008

 Lawrence, KS

National Organization for Human Services

2008 NOHS Annual Conference
October 22 – 25, 2008

Tucson, Arizona

5th Annual Conference: New Horizons - The latest in Bullying Prevention and Research
November 6-7, 2008

 Indianapolis, IN

Vulnerable Populations in the Juvenile Justice System: A Research and Policy Conference
November 14, 2008

Princeton, NJ

23rd Annual San Diego International Conference on Child & Family Maltreatment
January 26-30, 2009

San Diego, CA

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Justice Department 2007 Memo Says RFRA Trumps Non-Discrimination Law
By Howard Friedman 
The memo concludes that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) trumps the religious anti-discrimination provisions of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA). The memo concludes that a Christian organization, ...
Religion Clause - http://religionclause.blogspot.com/

 

Bullies more likely to be convicted of crimes as adults
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA
Information from the US Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shows that 60 percent of boys characterized as bullies ...

 

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children opens office in ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA ... the 24-year-old national center, which works in cooperation with the US Department of Justice’s office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. ...

 

Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model

This report was written to provide communities that are considering implementing OJJDP's comprehensive gang model with critical information to inform and direct their efforts. Read more on NCJRS.gov


 

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To Prevent Delinquency You Need to Know the Risk Factors!

If the goal of services is to prevent delinquency, or to keep youth from engaging in delinquent activities, it is important to know what factors tend to influence youth to engage in delinquent activities. When we understand these risk factors, we can work to reduce them in the life of those we serve, and can help them develop protective factors. To prevent delinquency, we must support resiliency. Read more...

Don't Re-invent the Fundraising Wheel

In trying to prevent delinquency, those of us working in non-profit agencies often try to do everything on our own.  Because we are so used to operating with limited resources, when resources are available we may fail to utilize them.  Rather than "re-inventing the wheel" of grant writing, for example, program administrators should utilize the compiled expertise of other successful grant writers.  Read more...

What Does It Take to Save a Youth

Of all the theories, beliefs, and opinions on how to save youth from delinquency none have been clearly established as supreme. So, what does it take to prevent youth from going down the road to delinquency? [...]

 

 

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Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002

As state and non-profit agencies work to prevent delinquency, it is important for them to understand federal guidelines.  The Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 provides such guidelines.  In brief, states must: 1) deinstitutionalize status offenders; 2) keep sight and sound separation between adult and juvenile detainees/inmates; 3) remove juveniles from adult facilities; and 3) reduce disproportionate minority contact. Click for official information

 

Where Did All the Money Go?

As anyone working to prevent delinquency, or to provide youth services in general, knows it is a struggle to find adequate operating funds.   So, where do you get the funds? Where can others get the funds? [...]

 

 

 

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