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Resource: Let's Talk Podcast - The Offical National Runaway Safeline Podcast

The Let’s Talk podcast elevates voices of young people as they share their stories and highlights the complexities and intersections that are witnessed by the 4.2 million young people experiencing homelessness across the United States each year. The podcast launched in November, National Runaway Prevention Month. Learn more. ...

Respect Youth Stories: A Toolkit for Advocates to Ethically Engage in Youth Justice Storytelling

This toolkit (PDF, 15 pages) assists advocacy organizations in establishing ethical and youth-informed practices for facilitating young people sharing their stories in public, including through the press, legislative testimony, digital media, publications, or panel discussions. The toolkit aims to help young people understand their right to establish boundaries while sharing ...

OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustments to OJJDP Previously Funded Awards (FY 2020 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative)

The purpose of this solicitation is to invite an entity to apply for funding in support of OJJDP’s Opioid Affected Youth Initiative. This solicitation is solely for an entity who received a letter from OJJDP to apply. Statutory Authority: 34 USC 11171-11172; Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2020, Pub. L. ...

OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded Award (OJJDP FY 2020 Family Drug Court Program)

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The OJJDP Family Drug Court Program seeks to build the capacity of local ...

Resource: The Fight Against Rampant Gun Violence: Data-Driven Scientific Research Will Light the Way

This article emphasizes the role that scientific research plays in reducing gun violence in the U.S., including how young people’s firearm involvement influences later criminal gun use and their own victimization in young adulthood. Learn more.

Resource: Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials

The new Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials website is designed to support children and youth during their involvement with the justice system as a victim or witness to a crime. These materials are intended to teach children about how the justice system works, what their rights are, the roles ...

Resource: Literature Review on Teen Dating Violence

This literature review discusses research surrounding teen dating violence, including definitions of different types of dating violence, the scope of the problem, risk and protective factors related to perpetration and victimization, short- and long-term consequences, and outcome evidence of programs that seek to prevent or reduce the occurrence of teen ...

Resource: Mentoring for Enhancing Career Interests and Exploration

This review (PDF, 83 pages) examines research on the role of mentoring in facilitating career interest and exploration for adolescents under 18 years old. The analysis addresses four issues: the effects of mentoring on a youth’s career interests and exploration (CIE), the factors involved in the influence of mentoring on CIE, ...

Resource: Mentoring for Enhancing School Attendance, Academic Performance, and Educational Attainment

This literature review (PDF, 58 pages) examines how youth mentoring influences school attendance, academic performance, and outcomes of educational attainment (APEA). Learn more.

Resource: Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2019

This fact sheet (PDF, 4 pages) presents national estimates of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts in 2019 and analyzes caseload trends since 2005. In 2019, U.S. juvenile courts handled 722,600 delinquency cases involving youth charged with criminal law violations, 2 percent fewer than in 2018. Learn more. ...
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