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Research and Advocacy
Building Blocks for Youth
Building Blocks for Youth is an alliance of children's advocates, researchers, law enforcement professionals and community organizers that seeks to protect minority youth in the justice system. To achieve their goal of rational and effective justice policies, Building Blocks for Youth conducts research, analyzes decision-making in the system, advocates for minority youth, builds constituencies for change, and develops communication strategies. Their website features a newsletter that highlights recent juvenile justice research.
http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org
Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
The Children's Defense Fund's mission, "Leave No Child Behind," is to ensure every child a "Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start" in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF pays particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities, encouraging preventive investment before they get into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations.
http://www.childrensdefense.org
Children's Research Center (CRC)
The Children's Research Center (CRC), a division of NCCD, focuses on developing structured case management systems to help welfare agencies reduce child abuse and neglect, and conducts research that improves service delivery to children and families. On their website, CRC publications, the CRC newsletter and conference information is available.
http://www.nccd-crc.org/crcindex.htm
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist more than 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a range of services spanning adoption, adolescent pregnancy prevention and teen parenting, child day care, child protection, children affected by incarceration, family foster care, group residential care, housing and homelessness, kinship care, juvenile justice, mental health, positive youth development, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and a range of community services that strengthen and support parents and families.
http://www.cwla.org/
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
The mission of CECP is to support and promote a reoriented national preparedness to foster the development and the adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance. To achieve that goal, the Center is dedicated to a policy of collaboration at Federal, state, and local levels that contributes to and facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about innovative practices. Their website includes discussions on various issue areas related to youth with emotional and behavioral problems.
http://cecp.air.org/
Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ)
With the intention of maintaining public safety throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ) strives to improve the juvenile justice system through outlets such as advocacy and public education. Bringing together wide varieties of individuals and organizations, CfJJ operates with the philosophy that prevention, intervention, diversion and rehabilitation should be a major component of the juvenile justice system.
http://www.cfjj.org/index.html
Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ)
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) is a national nonprofit association that strives to build safe communities one child at a time. Nationwide, more than 1,500 CJJ volunteers from the public and private sectors—professionals, concerned citizens, and advocates for children and families, and youth themselves—participate as members of state advisory groups on juvenile justice.
http://www.juvjustice.org/
Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD)
The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) is an international organization concerned with issues related to students with learning disabilities. Their website includes the contents and ordering information for the journals Learning Disabilities Quarterly and Intervention in School and Clinic.
http://www.cldinternational.org
Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA)
CJCA is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of youth correctional services and practices by facilitating the exchange of ideas and philosophies of youth correctional service administrators. CJCA's website offers information on innovative practices, current issues, and recent research.
http://www.cjca.net/
Day, Residential, and Juvenile Correctional Schools Project (DRJC)
The Day, Residential, and Juvenile Correctional Schools Project, a part of the College of Education & Human Development at George Mason University,
is a collaborative research and dissemination project. The project investigates curriculum, assessment, and accountability practices and policies in correctional educational schools for committed youth as well as in secondary day treatment and residential schools for students with emotional/behavioral disorders.
http://drjc.gmu.edu/
IDEA Partnerships
The IDEA Partnerships inform professionals, families and the public about IDEA '97 and strategies to improve educational results for children and youth with disabilities. The IDEA Partnerships are four national projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to deliver a common message about the landmark 1997 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
http://www.ideapartnerships.org
Justice Policy Institute (JPI)
The mission of the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) is to promote effective solutions to social problems and to be dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration. Since 1997, the JPI has worked to enhance the public dialogue on incarceration through accessible research, public education, and communications advocacy.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/
Juvenile Justice Committee of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section
The Juvenile Justice Committee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section is an interdisciplinary forum of defenders, judges, prosecutors, corrections staff, law students, and others interested in improving the juvenile justice system for kids, parents, and the professionals who serve them. The Committee develops CLE programs for juvenile justice practitioners, develops policies to further national juvenile justice reform, and coordinates selection of the Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award.
http://www.abanet.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=CR200000
Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP)
The mission of JJEEP is to ensure that each student assigned to a juvenile justice program in Florida receives high-quality and comprehensive educational services that increase the student's potential for future success. The JJEEP website includes extensive information about JJEEP, as well as its annual report.
http://www.jjeep.org
Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project (JJTAP)
The Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project (JJTAP) has been using satellite videoconferences as a means to provide training and information to juvenile justice constituencies since 1993. JJTAP videoconferences highlight promising programs, and include a call-in section where questions on specific issues are answered by a panel of experts. Videoconferences available for online viewing are summarized on the webpage.
http://www.juvenilenet.org/jjtap/
Juvenile Law Center (JLC)
The Juvenile Law Center (JLC) works to protect and advance the rights of children. The JLC believes that justice can be promoted throughout America by implementing procedural safeguards. Consequently, the JLC believes that these safeguards can help to ensure that decisions about children are better informed, more accurate and most appropriate. The JLC particularly concerns itself with guaranteeing that children in the juvenile justice system receive basic needs and rights by reforming the current system.
http://www.jlc.org/
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice (NCMHJJ)
The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice promotes awareness of the mental health needs of youth within the juvenile justice system by developing improved policies and programs based on the best available research and practice. Their website includes online training and resources, as well as information about evidence-based practices.
http://www.ncmhjj.com/
National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ)
EDJJ is a collaborative research, training, technical assistance and dissemination program designed to develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system or those at-risk for involvement with the juvenile justice system. Their website contains extensive links for issues related to disability and juvenile justice, as well as training resources and a conference calendar.
http://www.edjj.org
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
NCSET coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportunities for youth to achieve successful futures. Their website contains information about upcoming institutes, videoconferences, and NCSET publications.
http://www.ncset.org
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan civil rights and advocacy organization, works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations (CBOs), NCLR reaches millions of Hispanics each year in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. To achieve its mission, NCLR conducts applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy in five key areas – assets/investments, civil rights/immigration, education, employment and economic status, and health.
http://www.nclr.org/
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development. This includes extensive reference and referral services to answer questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice.
http://www.ncjrs.org
National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)
The mission of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) is to promote effective, humane, fair and economically sound solutions to family, community and justice problems. As a non-profit organization, NCCD conducts research, promotes reform initiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private organizations and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency.
http://www.nccd-crc.org
National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC)
The mission of the NDPC is to serve as a research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school.
http://www.dropoutprevention.org
National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
The National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) was created in 1999 to respond to the critical need to build the capacity of the juvenile defense bar and to improve access to counsel and quality of representation for children in the justice system. In 2005, the National Juvenile Defender Center separated from the American Bar Association to become an independent organization. NJDC provides support to public defenders, appointed counsel, law school clinical programs and non-profit law centers to ensure quality representation in urban, suburban, rural and tribal areas. The Center offers a wide range of integrated services to juvenile defenders, including training, technical assistance, advocacy, networking, collaboration, capacity building and coordination.
http://www.njdc.info/
National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN)
The National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) is a new initiative of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ). With funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, NJJN enhances the capacity of statewide juvenile justice coalitions to advocate for fair, equitable and developmentally appropriate adjudication and treatment for all children, youth and families involved in the juvenile justice system. NJJN achieves its mission by working collaboratively with local, state and national advocates for children and through the creation and development of a state network that is an effective and respected force for juvenile justice reform.
http://www.njjn.org/
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
The mission of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is to provide national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families.
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
Southern Juvenile Defender Center (SJDC)
The SJDC strives to improve interactions between the youth of today and the juvenile justice system in America's southern regions. The Center feels that this can be done through increasing the quality of legal representation, the capacity of the juvenile defense bar, and by educating society on the issues and processes affecting children with research and policy analysis. On a practical level, the SJDC provides assistance to attorneys representing juveniles through the dissemination of research based information and policy analysis. SJDC also provides training and technical assistance for juvenile defenders, defender offices, legal clinics, and advocacy groups to bring about juvenile defense reform.
http://childwelfare.net/SJDC/index.html
Southwest Key Program
Southwest Key is a not-for-profit agency providing a continuum of services to troubled youth and their families throughout Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Wisconsin, California, New Mexico and New York. These services, among others, include education, clinical services, life skills and vocational training, and crisis administration.
http://www.swkey.org
Youth Law Center
The Youth Law Center is a national nonprofit public interest law program that has worked to protect the rights of children in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems since 1978. Currently YLC is working on a project to expand educational opportunities for vulnerable youth, particularly those from the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Work is proceeding in two locations with the goal of sharing lessons learned with a national audience.
http://www.ylc.org