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Juvenile Justice and Department of Public Safety leadership requested more funding from Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly, Debnam, the division spokesman, wrote in an email.
As of November 2024, the Department of Public Safety’s Juvenile Justice division has a 26% vacancy rate.
Oct. 18—WILKES-BARRE — Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed into law Senate Bills 169 and 170 — now Act 107 and Act 108 of 2024 — to implement reforms needed to improve outcomes for youth ...
The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...
The Gault Center, formerly the National Juvenile Defender Center or NJDC, [2] is a nonprofit organization located in the United States that advocates for juvenile justice reform. [3] NJDC changed names to The Gault Center in 2022.
OJJDP sponsors research, program, and training initiatives; develops priorities and goals and sets policies to guide federal juvenile justice issues. OJJDP also disseminates information about juvenile justice issues and awards funds to states to support local programming nationwide through the office's five organizational components.
In some cases – like truancy – the issue should not be a juvenile justice issue at all but instead must be addressed through innovative strategies drawing families, schools, and community ...
The Juvenile and Family Court Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering juvenile and family justice. It was established in 1949 as Juvenile Court Judges Journal, and was later renamed Juvenile Justice, and later renamed again to Journal of Juvenile & Family Courts. The journal obtained its current name in 1978.