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Professional Associations
Correctional Education Association (CEA)
CEA is a non-profit, professional association serving educators and administrators who provide services to students in correctional settings. The CEA is the largest affiliate of the American Correctional Association. The CEA website contains a variety of resources for correctional education.
http://www.ceanational.org
National Juvenile Detention Association (NJDA)
With offices based at Eastern Kentucky University and at Michigan State University, the NJDA exists exclusively to advance the science, processes, and art of juvenile detention services through the overall improvement of the juvenile justice profession. The NJDA provides resources, such as training videos, publications, and training curricula, that can supplement or replace face-to-face training opportunities or, at the very least, offer information that will expand an individual learner's knowledge base on critical issues.
http://www.njda.com
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights advocates for human rights by using medical and scientific methods. The website includes publications, information about projects and investigations, and news.
http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/juv_justice/index.html
Federal Government Websites
Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This council is an independent organization in the executive branch that coordinates all Federal juvenile delinquency prevention programs, Federal programs that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles, and Federal programs relating to missing and exploited children.
http://www.juvenilecouncil.gov/
Neglected and Delinquent State Agency and Local Educational Agency Program
http://www.ed.gov/programs/titleipartd/index.html
Office of Correctional Education (OCE)
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/OCE/
Office of Special Education Programs
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html
No Child Left Behind
http://www.nclb.gov/
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/
U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/
U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/
Foundations
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation started the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) in 1992. The JDAI works to reduce children detained inappropriately, to minimize the number of youth who fail to appear in court, to redirect public funds toward successful reform strategies, and to improve conditions of confinement. The Foundation also puts out a series of articles entitled, Pathways. These 13 publications provide practical information for understanding and implementing juvenile detention reform that have been developed through the JDAI. Each guide offers detailed descriptions of specific detention reform strategies, along with lessons learned and technical assistance resources.
www.aecf.org
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Mott Foundation focuses on four major programs: civil society, the environment, the Flint area, and pathway out of poverty. Under the heading civil society, the Foundation provides grants for issues relating to juvenile justice including the Youth Law Center and Building Blocks For Youth. Their efforts in the field advocate for the rights of juveniles that are entering the juvenile justice system, currently in the system, and those that have left the system.
http://www.mott.org/index.asp
Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation
The Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation emphasizes basic human services, particularly organizations and programs that benefit children and youth in metropolitan Atlanta. Recently the Foundation has sought ways in which it can help achieve improvement in public education and services that directly effect today's youth.
http://www.jbwhitehead.org
Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation investigates and researches all aspects that surround the issue of education in today's society. The Foundation commits its resources to the supports various research programs with the intention of strengthening and renewing the educational research community.
http://www.spencer.org
The Skillman Foundation
The Skillman Foundation focuses its resources on concerns about children's homes, schools, and neighborhoods. The objective is to make them safe for all individuals regardless of circumstance. The Foundation works primarily in metropolitan Detroit, defined as Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties in southeastern Michigan, with a concentration in the city of Detroit.
http://www.skillman.org