| Programs |
Children’s Advocacy Centers
Stress the coordination of investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases. |
Community Prevention Grants Program
Funds collaborative, community-based delinquency prevention efforts. |
Federal Youth Court Program
Promotes the activities of youth courts, which offer communities a program in which youth are judged by their peers for minor delinquency, status offenses, and problem behaviors. |
Gang Reduction Program
Designed to reduce gang activity in targeted neighborhoods. |
Girls Study Group
The Girls Study Group assists OJJDP in understanding risk and protective factors associated with female juvenile offending and the consequences for youth involved in such offending. |
Information Sharing to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency: A Training and Technical Assistance Project
Juvenile Information Sharing (JIS) aims to increase the capacity of youth-serving agencies to build multiagency partnerships in which information is exchanged in a timely and secure way. |
Juvenile Mentoring Grants Program
Geared toward supporting national and community organizations that directly serve youth through mentoring. |
Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency
Improves the understanding of serious delinquency, violence, and drug use by examining how youth develop within the context of family, school, peers, and community. |
Safe Start
Prevents and reduces the impact of family and community violence on young children and their families. |
Shared Youth Vision
Strengthens coordination, communication, and collaboration among youth serving agencies to support the neediest youth and their healthy transition to successful adulthood. |
Tribal Juvenile Accountability Discretionary Grants
Tribal JADG provides awards to federally recognized tribes to develop and implement programs that hold tribal youth accountable for delinquent behavior and strengthen tribal juvenile justice systems. |
Tribal Youth Program
Helps tribal communities prevent juvenile delinquency, reduce violent crime, and improve tribal juvenile justice systems. |
