This publication is the October 2024 issue of OJJDP News, published by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
This issue of OJJDP News, published by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), covers the following topics: OJJDP’s celebration of Youth Justice Action Month (YJAM) in Pittsburgh, PA; OJJDP Title II funding to support justice-involved youth in Ohio and Rhode Island; “OJJDP Administrators’ Forum: JJDPA Through the Decades,” a lively panel discussion about the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974—the JJDPA—and its impact on young people, at which eight former OJJDP administrators joined Administrator Liz Ryan in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 2024; a feature on Big Sky Youth Empowerment (BYEP) in Bozeman, MT, which provides 36 weeks of intensive group mentoring to vulnerable teens in grades 7 to 12; the Nez Perce Tribe’s Students for Success program in Lapwai, ID, which piloted a peer-to-peer mentoring program for members of the Tribe’s NAHOVA (Native America Hear Our Voices Arise) youth council. The issue also provides news in brief as well as information about new publications, upcoming events, and OJJDP funding.
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