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Tribal Youth Program

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) administers the Tribal Youth Program (TYP), which supports tribal efforts to prevent and control delinquency and improve tribal juvenile justice systems for American Indian/Alaska Native youth.

Since FY 1999, approximately $10 million annually has been appropriated for TYP, which is part of the Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative, a joint initiative of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Interior to improve law enforcement and juvenile justice in Indian Country.

TYP provides resources to federally recognized tribes and Alaska Native villages. The funding distribution is based on service population on or near reservations. Program funding is for 48 months. Since 1999, 10 percent of the TYP appropriation has been used for research and evaluation activities and 2 percent has been used for training and technical assistance.

What's New

With $8 million in FY 2006 funds, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency funded 26 cooperative agreements with federally recognized tribes in 13 states under its FY 2007 Tribal Youth Program.

OJJDP has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Education Development Center, Inc. to respond to technical assistance requests for its Tribal Youth Program.

Types of training and technical assistance available to TYP grantees and other federally recognized tribes include:

youth issues including gangs and youth leadership
access to a professional staff with expertise in developing cultural based approaches to prevention and intervention
capacity building
strategic planning
program implementation
evaluation
sustainability
enhancement of tribal court systems
consultation on opportunities, challenges, and progress through e-mails, phone calls, and site visits
peer-to-peer interface and training, including teleconferences and Web-based discussions

Resources:

To request training or technical assistance, visit the OJJDP Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center or contact Stephanie Autumn, the Center's Project Director, at sautumn@edc.org or 507-697-6395.