This page highlights Web sites and organizations that offer resources to help coalitions understand and work with the juvenile justice system, including the juvenile courts and probation. Many have a variety of useful publications on juvenile justice issues and feature search engines that can be used to find additional information on specific topics.
Resource Pages and Center Publications related to this topic include
- Violence Prevention for Schools
- Bullying and Bullying Prevention
- Preparing for and Responding to Crises in Schools
- Gangs
- Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice [pdf]
- Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice and Mental Health [pdf]
Web Sites and Organizations
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice (http://www.cjcj.org/)
The Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice (CJCJ) provides direct services, technical assistance, and policy research. CJCJ provides technical assistance services to state and local juvenile justice jurisdictions on such issues as alternatives to detention, disproportionate minority confinement, reentry, girl-specific services, and blended funding strategies. CJCJ offers a number of policy and research publications on its Web site, including Detention Diversion Advocacy: An Evaluation and Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders. The Web site also offers a number of case studies, including “Reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement: The Multnomah County Oregon Success Story.”
Federal Youth Court Program (http://www.youthcourt.net/)
The Federal Youth Court Program provides information, training, technical assistance, and other resources on creating and enhancing youth court programs. The YouthCourt Web site includes online training lessons, audio and video teleconferences, information on obtaining youth court training from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and publications on such topics as program development, volunteer training, evaluation, and research.
Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Online (http://www.jrsa.org/jjec/index.html)
The Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Online is a project of the Justice Research & Statistics Association, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice. This Web site includes the following resources:
• Publications about evaluating juvenile justice projects, including Evaluability Assessment: Examining the Readiness of a Program for Evaluation, Incorporating Evaluation Into the Request for Proposal (RFP) Process, and Strategies for Evaluating Small Juvenile Justice Programs
• Instruments and scales to measure psychological issues, substance abuse, and other issues
• JJEC Logic Model, for designing evaluations
• Glossary of evaluation terms
• Links to Web sites relating to evaluation and juvenile justice
National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (http://www.edjj.org/training/index.html)
The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) provides technical assistance and training to agencies, organizations, professionals, and parents to assist in the design and delivery of programs and services for youth whose needs cross the boundaries of traditional child-serving agencies, to help agencies serve youth with educational disabilities and deficits, and to improve educational outcomes and opportunities for court-involved youth. Publications offered on its Web site include A Summary of Best Practices in School Reentry for Incarcerated Youth Returning Home, Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: Prevention and Intervention Strategies, and Promoting Family Involvement.
National Center for Juvenile Justice (http://ncjj.servehttp.com/NCJJWebsite/main.html)
The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) offers technical assistance and conducts research on juvenile justice. The NCJJ Web site features publications on such topics as aftercare, best practices, intervention services, information sharing/confidentiality, status offenders, schools, and prevention.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (http://www.ncjrs.gov/ )
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is funded and administered by the U.S. Department of Justice. The NCJRS Web site offers resources, grants and funding, juvenile justice events, and a substantial number of publications on juvenile justice, which can be found in the Juvenile Justice section of the site.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (http://www.safeyouth.org/)
The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center provides information on youth violence and related issues. The Center’s SafeYouth Web site includes resources on training, technical assistance, and funding. Materials available on the Web site include publications on after-school programs, bullying, juvenile courts, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, juvenile mentoring, mental health, school programs, school safety, and violence in schools.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Center
(http://www.nttac.org/main/index.cfm?event=about)
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) supports OJJDP programs and initiatives, including the SS/HS Initiative. The Web site features a database of training and technical assistance providers funded by OJJDP that may be available to assist your initiative. The Web site also features a calendar of upcoming conferences and training events and resources on locating funding. The Web site also offers curricula in a variety of topic areas, including aftercare, justice-involved female youth, drug prevention, and evaluation. Topics of the publications available on this Web site include juvenile delinquency and delinquency prevention, juvenile courts, mental health and substance abuse, and school safety.
Publications Available Online from ERIC
These publications are available online at no cost from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
National Implications in Education and Juvenile Justice: Bridging the Gap between Court Ordered Juvenile Mentoring Programs and Secondary Educators (ED493124) by Scott Belshaw and William Kritsonis.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/
ERICServlet?accno=ED493124
Youth With Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: Prevention and Intervention Strategies by Pam Stenhiem in Examining Current Challenges in Secondary Education and Transition. Issue Brief. Volume 4, Issue 1. (ED484281) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/
servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED484281
Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention (ED485683) by Jay Smink and Mary Reimer. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/
ERICServlet?accno=ED485683
