This report is full of various helpful and important facts regarding juvenile delinquency and how it affects society today. This report has many facts that are known, but it also includes many facts that I never knew. In 1984 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention began a missing and exploited children campaign in order to help families find their missing children and have support while doing so. This is helpful so parents cannot only call the police but they can also call the missing children’s hotline. Another new fact that I have learned while reading this report is the number of arrests due to online crimes, the number 1998 reaches 89,000 arrests. I believe with these numbers the amount of online bullying and identity theft may start to decline. Children Advocacy Centers are another thing I have never heard of, but to me they sound helpful. Kids facing troubles with child abuse are being noticed and society is working on ways of evaluating and recognizing it quicker. Also arrests involving girls have grown in the past two years, and the Vera Institute of Justice along with the PACE Center for girls, are getting donations and have developed a program to help at risk girls. Anything to decline all levels of juvenile crime, no matter the gender, is helpful to society. The National Gang control hosted a meeting in Texas to help diminish the number of youth gangs in the world, with the diminishment of youth gangs, the number of adult gangs in years to come should be at a lower number. Lastly, prison rape is a huge issue for juvenile inmates, along with inmates of any age, but now we are trying our best to eliminate that from prions all around the world. All of these programs and ideas that are taking off are here to benefit and change the way the criminal justice system works today for the better. Hopefully in future years crime rates will be at an all-time low and these programs will show success. -LW001
This article speaks upon various issues dealing with juveniles. One of the topics it speaks upon is Drug Courts. In this section it speaks on how they can help try to fix juveniles and families drug addiction. Opioid Abuse is one of the major drugs that causes this issue. It says “nearly 1 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 misused prescription opioids in the previous 12 months.” “The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was awarded seven million under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative.” Which they split 1 million a piece for the all six of the sites. Which I think is amazing because they are trying to help the kid. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention would be helping so many families deal with this issue. With that one million, they can improve public safety to the youth. Another huge issue is Bullying. Being bullied at a young age could have a big effect on a kid all the way until they are an adult. In the article it says “kids who are bullied may experience increased risks for academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and antisocial behavior. I don’t think we can fully stop bullying but i do think we could stop it before any trauma occurs. It’s hard to catch at the beginning because kids don’t tell what is happening to them until it was too late. If we pay closer attention to children then I believe we can help to change the issue. The OJJDP assisted with that also. They created a School Based Bullying Prevention Implementation Guide to help with bullying. The Guide helps schools with different methods on how to deal with bullying. It's a good thing that they researched different methods because the same one does not always work for each kid. Batman001
This OJJDP Annual Report for the year of 2018 covers just about every part of juvenile justice that you can. As I read through the report, there were a lot of things that were either new to me, interesting to me, or both! The first thing that caught my eye was the mentoring program. There was over $80 million provided to be put towards mentoring programs in 2018. With thanks to that money, more than 500 kids that were involved in the court system, or at risk of delinquency, were a part of wood working classes, lessons in entrepreneurship, and more in an after school, program known as, "Kids making it." Interestingly enough, the OJJDP conducted research surrounding children and their exposure to violence. This research indicated that a child exposed to violence may be at a higher risk fr mental health issues, failure in school, delinquency and antisocial behavior. In response to that research, the OJJDP put money towards turning a tool kit, made to help law enforcement to deal with children exposed to violence, into an online format. This toolkit basically gives law enforcement good resources to better their operational responses to children who have been exposed to violence. Reentry is something that can present itself as quite a challenge to many juveniles. in 2018, almost $13 million was distributed by the OJJDP to assist in the transitions a child may go through to go back into the community after confinement, or being removed from their homes. The last fact I found interesting was surrounding missing an exploited children. From tips that were called in, and submitted online, in 2018 16,323,876 reports of child exploitation and/or harm to children found online were made available to our law enforcement. I don't know about you, but those kind of numbers do give me a little bit of hope for our youth. Overall this report has a lot of very helpful, useful information surrounding juvenile delinquency in 2018. These are the kinds of things we should all be reading up on, and being aware of. -psych001
well first off the juvenile delinquent its all about how they are raised and if a paternal adult to delegate the issues withe parental control over the children's' actions. Maybe with stable stable structure and home and a rehabilitation structure at school to keep the individual busy. He would or she would keep there mind occupied . Opioid abuse is a big deal in this country and it seems kids are commonly getting more curious. Then you also have to look at how much damage has the criminal done to the victim as of damage and liability? But then you have to into context is the criminal homeless or intentional just to survive? Age is a big factor. I think if you do a big crime you need to do the time no matter what age your are. Look at Colton Harris, the barefoot bandit, for almost two years he was elusive stealing planes and crossing state by state ending up in the Dominican republic the judge only gave him like 8 years in jail. How is that fair? The process of moving children across country is just so dangerous. People known as coyotes will do whatever they want to get kids across the border no matter what the price. Either in semis or on boats. Lack of air conditioning or food or water. Its all about money. Girls in a youth gang obviously have no paternal involvement so they don't know what is right or wrong. So they succeed to what they know is prevalent tp the environment around them. For states to respond to the problem maybe they need to enact a state rehab program sponsored by local municipalities to intergret prisoners depending on their crime into programs so they can be good citizens in public. navy001
This report is full of informative information surrounding the programs, research, training, and technical assistance and information that support the juvenile justice system. The OJJDP 2018 funding is mostly discretionary grants. The first thing that caught my eye is that $80 million goes to Youth Mentoring program that helps around 270,000 young people nationwide. Such a program helps more than 500 at-risk youth or court-involved to stay in school, graduate high school, and become successful as an adult. OJJDP support and serve in StopBullying.gov program and sponsored research about children who exposed to violence. Around $7 million goes to support initiatives for American Indian and Alaska Native youth. There is also a program that promotes police and youth engagement that offers an interactive training program to build trust in the community and improve services. In 2018 around $13 million goes towards helping juvenile drug treatment courts programs that focus on helping youth who have substance abuse and existing family drug court. A 2016 report state that there are nearly a million American between the ages of 12 and 17 that misused opioids as a prescription. In 2018 around $9 million is the assistance that goes to states, local governments, and tribal jurisdictions to treat opioid abuse. In my opinion, this is low because opioid abuse is becoming a big deal in this country, and younger people are getting curious about it. Community supervision is another program that provides mentoring services. A program that determines if a juvenile poses a low risk to public safety, which is also known as probation. In 2018 about $13 million goes to help youth who are transitioning back to communities following out-of-home placement or confinement. In 2018 there are 16,323,876 reports regarding child sexual exploitation or online harm to children that are received and made available to law enforcement. Overall, all these programs and ideas are beneficial and useful information about Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, and hopefully, it will continue and improve soon. -Cancun001
In 2018 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded close to thirteen million to fifteen jurisdictions under the Drug Treatment Courts Program. These programs help juveniles and families find drug treatment. In the year 2016, almost one million American children ranging from twelve to seventeen years old misused opioids. This is a very sad statistic for America’s youth. Fortunately OJJDP awarded over seven million to help opioid affected youth and millions to sites and training. This data can help improve how we handle the youth opioid problem. Community supervision is a great alternative to the courts for our youth. Also known as probation it is used to straighten these children out before getting them in trouble through the courts system. Reentry can be a scary truth if we do not get these individuals straight. Thirteen million was donated to help youth transition back into communities after punishment. This is important to keep these kids on the right track, and to keep them from coming back. Amber Alert has become an incredible program to recover missing children. As of December 2018, 934 children had been successfully saved through this program. Gang violence conutes to have a large impact on families and children. OJJDP is funding programs to suppress gang violence, crime, and victimization. Children exposed to violence are more prone to mental health issues, delinquency, education failure, and social issues. OJJDP works to get these kids the hope they need. All together the OJJDP works for the good of our youth, which is so important. If we can fix to improve our young people they can continue to set an example for others and their children. I am glad to see we recognize young people need help in a different way from adults. If we can help our best we can hope for a safer community. -KF001
This pdf holds a beautiful amount of materials for juvenile delinquency. This article goes over the grants given for different programs and solutions. The first one that caught my eye was the Youth Gangs $8,000,000 - National Gang Center: 4,800,000 went to gang supression: a law enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach to Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien Children. 2,400,000 to Gang Suppression Planning Grants Program. $800,000 to National Gang Center. Within the Youth Gang Category listed, “Gang Suppression: A Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach to Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien Children” Caught my eye the most. For whatever reason, when I think of Juvenile deliquency in the US, I think of OUR children and not those left unaccompanied due to immigration. Now that I think about it, they are equally able to get scouted out by gangs just like those in “darker” neighborhoods are. It is easy to bend a child to a gang’s will, especially if they have already gone through a rough lifestyle at a young age. The second thing that grabbed my attention combined are Bullying and Children Exposed to Violence. Bullying hits home to me because I was an easy target. I had a good role model growing up so I never retaliated physically and got out okay. The downside? Depression and Anxiety...A lot of it. This connects to the article because bullying can be easy AND hard to spot at the same time, especially when the kid being bullied always puts on a strong face. There are also kids or bystanders that don’t step in to help when it is needed the most. This can lead to several things in the child being bullied: Depression, Anxiety, Substance abuse, violence, etc. For the child that is the aggressor, if not stopped,might think their behavior is okay and do more dangerous acts in the future OR if the aggressor is using bullying as a negative coping mechanism, they might continue their harmful actions if not stopped and spoken to. To connect, “OJJDP - sponsored research indicates that when young people are exposed to violence, they may experience increased risks for academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and antisocial behavior.” OJJDP funded a study by Child Treats that showed the benefits of programs that focus on protective factors to help reduce the likelihood of delinquency. In other words, a child’s environment (family, neighborhood, school, friends, strangers, etc.) can lead to delinquency if their environment holds a lot of risk factors - Like violence and bullying. Overall, this article provides a lot of hopeful information. The OJJDP is putting an effort toward making the world “better” for children. What I mean by that is, they are making a good effort in research to help understand delinquent behavior and try to prevent it in their early stages. -TanLionNala001
One of the first few pages in this file was a funding page. In the fiscal year 2018, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded approximately $300 million in grants. OJJDP awards discretionary grants through a competitive process to states, units of local government, tribal jurisdictions, and organizations to administer a variety of juvenile justice and child protection programs. The Office’s formula grants support state, local, and tribal efforts to reduce and prevent delinquency, improve the juvenile justice system, and protect children from violence and abuse. I thought that this was pretty cool to see, some much money is going towards these systems to help the young an people. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics reported that in 2016, nearly 1 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 misused prescription opioids in the previous 12 months. In FY 2018, OJJDP awarded more than $7 million under the Opioid Affected Youth initiative, including just over $1 million each to six sites and approximately $1 million to a training and technical assistance provider to support the sites’ efforts. Funding through this initiative will provide assistance to states, local governments, and tribal jurisdictions as they develop data-driven responses to opioid abuse to improve public safety and outcomes for youth. OJJDP provided more than $1.7 million to four jurisdictions in FY 2018 to improve the quality of their juvenile indigent defense services. In FY 2018, the Office awarded approximately $13 million to improve outcomes for youth who are transitioning back to their communities following out-of-home placement or confinement. Community supervision, also known as probation, is a mechanism used by juvenile justice agencies at many different points in the system. It serves as a disposition for juveniles adjudicated in court and can also play a role in diverting status offenders and other youth from formal court processing. In FY 2018, OJJDP provided nearly $4.5 million to nine mentoring organizations throughout the country that have a demonstrated partnership with a juvenile justice agency. The focus of this program is to provide mentoring services—as part of an overall diversion approach—to youth determined by a juvenile justice agency to pose a low risk to public safety. OJJDP also provided $1 million to support training and technical assistance to improve community supervision of youth with co-occurring substance abuse problems and mental health disorders who are placed on probation. This document was very knowledgeable and would definitely come in handy when writing any sort of paper. There are people out there willing to help and just need to decide, do you want the help. -PB001
In the annual report for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, they talk about mentoring in the first chapter and how many different programs they have to help juveniles. The office awards 36 organizations about $77 million in grants for their new initiative to help mentoring youths. The organizations are there to help young people who are at high risk for juvenile delinquency. Some of the programs are Practitioner-Researcher Partnership in Cognitive Behavioral Mentoring and Mentoring Research Partners program. Another part of the chapter that involves helping children before they are out into the system. This section is about bullying and how the OJJDP prevents and responds to bullying. The office developed a guide for bully prevention to help schools find the specific bullying problem in the school. Then the report goes on to talk about how kids are exposed to violence. The OJJDP funded a study to show the benefit of programs that focused on protective factors like a connection to school, a high-quality relationship with a parent or guardian, and a positive community. I think that this next project done by OJJDP and the International Association of Chiefs of Police is interesting because it helps law enforcement identify children being exposed to violence. The next section of the report talks about is Tribal Youth which is about taking initiatives to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities to reduce delinquency. Tribes are allowed to submit an application to some of the departments tribal grant programs. In chapter 2 of the report they talk about Intervention which leads to the first topic about Drug Courts. The juvenile drug treatment court is about the substance abuse and mental health challenges of children. The OJJDP funds different programs for drug treatment courts to help children steer clear from those substances with treatment-oriented approaches. The annual report helps families, law enforcement, and children find different programs to approach a better lifestyle. -HL001
The annual report for the OJJDP has loads of helpful and interesting information for readers. Almost every aspect of the juvenile Justice system is covered. One of the main topics I really liked were the mentoring programs that are made available. With 80 million dollars granted kids now have access to an extensive amount of activities and classes to keep them busy and to show and teach them new things that will help them succeed in life. Mentors are so important for kids to have especially if the child is at a critical age. Having someone who is a good influence who spends time with the kid and shows them a little bit how life can work especially if you stay out of trouble. Some of the kids who do find themselves in trouble can be lacking a father figure and now have a mentor to ask questions to and have the right a person to look up to and aspire to be like. At a younger age kids can be so easily targeted and swayed into doing things that can alter their life forever. I also found it interesting when it comes to the surrounding environment and the risk factors that the child encounters and how it can affect the said child. The focus on the youth will greatly help with the future. Todays youth offenders are tomorrows adult offenders. Helping with youth gangs can help lower the amount of adult gangs in the future. Hopefully with the help of the OJJDP we will see an a positive trend in the youth and a negative trend in juvenile delinquency. The OJJDP is a great tool for the future and we all need to stay informed on the what is going on with Americas youth. --Purdue001
The first thing of interest that caught my eye was the amount of funding for mentoring programs. It was 83 million to provide mentoring services and programs for 270,000 young people nationwide. This seems like a lot but I am not familiar with how much something of that nature cost. Perhaps this can account for some of the decline in crime that was shown on the Juvenile Justice Report from a previous blog; although that was 2017. This funding also showed 9.7 million that was given in order to tackle the opioid epidemic. This is a sad reality that many young people are going up against this problem. Its nice to see that there is money being provided to these programs that act as buffers for the youth of America. Something that caught my attention was the programs set up to end bullying, Stopbullying.gov, which is a federal program aimed at preventing and responding to bullying. Its interesting to see that bullying is being addressed rather than shucked off as a natural occurrence that happens when people are young. I know opinions vary on this issue but I have always found it interesting to see what is going on in a bully’s life that make them want to bully someone. It was also interesting to read that OJJDP had sponsored research that indicated that when young people are exposed to violence, they may experience increased risk of academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and anti-social behavior. Although this seems like common sense being in this class and learning some of things, we already have its interesting to see that research is going into tackling these issues and how law enforcement is getting further information on how to handle and identify these situations. The tribal youth programs caught my attention as well because in previous classes I had learned about some of the problems that Native Americans face. ~PJWB001
One of the first pieces of information that caught my eye in this article was how much money is granted out from the OJJDP. 83 million dollars being awarded out to help reach juveniles who have the risk of becoming heavily involved in the juvenile justice system is fantastic. Through that money they were able to reach out to roughly 270,000 juveniles at risk. One of the more intriguing facts with how they dispersed the money was that they placed 9.3 million toward the opioid epidemic. Placing that large of a number toward the drug that is tearing apart out country and our families is great to see, especially for juveniles. The juveniles are the upcoming society and if we do not properly address the issues facing our juveniles today, that could spell disaster for our country and its citizens. The issues that many of our at risk juveniles face is that they are without a father figure or a parental figure and with the OJJDP reaching out to our youth can intercept the habitual behavior that many juveniles exhibit when a lack of guidance is present. Another great bit of information is that the OJJDP set aside 13 million for the Drug Treatment Court Program. This program is crucial in the reduction of drug abuse among our juveniles and it focuses on family engagement as well as the youths substance abuse. The treatment orientation of the program is very important because rather than letting a juvenile face drug charges, they are trying to correct the behavior at an early age. One of the best diversions of funding is the 13 million dollars directed towards reentry. Reentry, especially for a juvenile, can be very hard because of how much time they spent locked away, and this money is designated to help with programs to ensure that the juveniles turn their life around and avoid a habitual behavior towards crime. -Blues001
one of the very first parts of this article that caught my eye and made me sit back and think about was the 83 million dollars being award out to help all of the juveniles. this made me think why or who was helping out all of the juveniles with all this process and where is the money going to help out the juveniles. another very interesting part that caught my eye was all of the aliens in the neighborhoods beretta001
This report is full of various helpful and important facts regarding juvenile delinquency and how it affects society today. This report has many facts that are known, but it also includes many facts that I never knew. In 1984 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention began a missing and exploited children campaign in order to help families find their missing children and have support while doing so. This is helpful so parents cannot only call the police but they can also call the missing children’s hotline. Another new fact that I have learned while reading this report is the number of arrests due to online crimes, the number 1998 reaches 89,000 arrests. I believe with these numbers the amount of online bullying and identity theft may start to decline. Children Advocacy Centers are another thing I have never heard of, but to me they sound helpful. Kids facing troubles with child abuse are being noticed and society is working on ways of evaluating and recognizing it quicker. Also arrests involving girls have grown in the past two years, and the Vera Institute of Justice along with the PACE Center for girls, are getting donations and have developed a program to help at risk girls. Anything to decline all levels of juvenile crime, no matter the gender, is helpful to society. The National Gang control hosted a meeting in Texas to help diminish the number of youth gangs in the world, with the diminishment of youth gangs, the number of adult gangs in years to come should be at a lower number. Lastly, prison rape is a huge issue for juvenile inmates, along with inmates of any age, but now we are trying our best to eliminate that from prions all around the world. All of these programs and ideas that are taking off are here to benefit and change the way the criminal justice system works today for the better. Hopefully in future years crime rates will be at an all-time low and these programs will show success. -LW001
ReplyDeleteThis article speaks upon various issues dealing with juveniles. One of the topics it speaks upon is Drug Courts. In this section it speaks on how they can help try to fix juveniles and families drug addiction. Opioid Abuse is one of the major drugs that causes this issue. It says “nearly 1 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 misused prescription opioids in the previous 12 months.” “The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was awarded seven million under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative.” Which they split 1 million a piece for the all six of the sites. Which I think is amazing because they are trying to help the kid. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention would be helping so many families deal with this issue. With that one million, they can improve public safety to the youth. Another huge issue is Bullying. Being bullied at a young age could have a big effect on a kid all the way until they are an adult. In the article it says “kids who are bullied may experience increased risks for academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and antisocial behavior. I don’t think we can fully stop bullying but i do think we could stop it before any trauma occurs. It’s hard to catch at the beginning because kids don’t tell what is happening to them until it was too late. If we pay closer attention to children then I believe we can help to change the issue. The OJJDP assisted with that also. They created a School Based Bullying Prevention Implementation Guide to help with bullying. The Guide helps schools with different methods on how to deal with bullying. It's a good thing that they researched different methods because the same one does not always work for each kid. Batman001
ReplyDeleteThis OJJDP Annual Report for the year of 2018 covers just about every part of juvenile justice that you can. As I read through the report, there were a lot of things that were either new to me, interesting to me, or both! The first thing that caught my eye was the mentoring program. There was over $80 million provided to be put towards mentoring programs in 2018. With thanks to that money, more than 500 kids that were involved in the court system, or at risk of delinquency, were a part of wood working classes, lessons in entrepreneurship, and more in an after school, program known as, "Kids making it." Interestingly enough, the OJJDP conducted research surrounding children and their exposure to violence. This research indicated that a child exposed to violence may be at a higher risk fr mental health issues, failure in school, delinquency and antisocial behavior. In response to that research, the OJJDP put money towards turning a tool kit, made to help law enforcement to deal with children exposed to violence, into an online format. This toolkit basically gives law enforcement good resources to better their operational responses to children who have been exposed to violence. Reentry is something that can present itself as quite a challenge to many juveniles. in 2018, almost $13 million was distributed by the OJJDP to assist in the transitions a child may go through to go back into the community after confinement, or being removed from their homes. The last fact I found interesting was surrounding missing an exploited children. From tips that were called in, and submitted online, in 2018 16,323,876 reports of child exploitation and/or harm to children found online were made available to our law enforcement. I don't know about you, but those kind of numbers do give me a little bit of hope for our youth. Overall this report has a lot of very helpful, useful information surrounding juvenile delinquency in 2018. These are the kinds of things we should all be reading up on, and being aware of. -psych001
ReplyDeletewell first off the juvenile delinquent its all about how they are raised and if a paternal adult to delegate the issues withe parental control over the children's' actions. Maybe with stable stable structure and home and a rehabilitation structure at school to keep the individual busy. He would or she would keep there mind occupied . Opioid abuse is a big deal in this country and it seems kids are commonly getting more curious. Then you also have to look at how much damage has the criminal done to the victim as of damage and liability? But then you have to into context is the criminal homeless or intentional just to survive? Age is a big factor. I think if you do a big crime you need to do the time no matter what age your are. Look at Colton Harris, the barefoot bandit, for almost two years he was elusive stealing planes and crossing state by state ending up in the Dominican republic the judge only gave him like 8 years in jail. How is that fair? The process of moving children across country is just so dangerous. People known as coyotes will do whatever they want to get kids across the border no matter what the price. Either in semis or on boats. Lack of air conditioning or food or water. Its all about money. Girls in a youth gang obviously have no paternal involvement so they don't know what is right or wrong. So they succeed to what they know is prevalent tp the environment around them. For states to respond to the problem maybe they need to enact a state rehab program sponsored by local municipalities to intergret prisoners depending on their crime into programs so they can be good citizens in public. navy001
ReplyDeleteThis report is full of informative information surrounding the programs, research, training, and technical assistance and information that support the juvenile justice system. The OJJDP 2018 funding is mostly discretionary grants. The first thing that caught my eye is that $80 million goes to Youth Mentoring program that helps around 270,000 young people nationwide. Such a program helps more than 500 at-risk youth or court-involved to stay in school, graduate high school, and become successful as an adult. OJJDP support and serve in StopBullying.gov program and sponsored research about children who exposed to violence. Around $7 million goes to support initiatives for American Indian and Alaska Native youth. There is also a program that promotes police and youth engagement that offers an interactive training program to build trust in the community and improve services. In 2018 around $13 million goes towards helping juvenile drug treatment courts programs that focus on helping youth who have substance abuse and existing family drug court. A 2016 report state that there are nearly a million American between the ages of 12 and 17 that misused opioids as a prescription. In 2018 around $9 million is the assistance that goes to states, local governments, and tribal jurisdictions to treat opioid abuse. In my opinion, this is low because opioid abuse is becoming a big deal in this country, and younger people are getting curious about it. Community supervision is another program that provides mentoring services. A program that determines if a juvenile poses a low risk to public safety, which is also known as probation. In 2018 about $13 million goes to help youth who are transitioning back to communities following out-of-home placement or confinement. In 2018 there are 16,323,876 reports regarding child sexual exploitation or online harm to children that are received and made available to law enforcement. Overall, all these programs and ideas are beneficial and useful information about Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, and hopefully, it will continue and improve soon. -Cancun001
ReplyDeleteIn 2018 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded close to thirteen million to fifteen jurisdictions under the Drug Treatment Courts Program. These programs help juveniles and families find drug treatment. In the year 2016, almost one million American children ranging from twelve to seventeen years old misused opioids. This is a very sad statistic for America’s youth. Fortunately OJJDP awarded over seven million to help opioid affected youth and millions to sites and training. This data can help improve how we handle the youth opioid problem. Community supervision is a great alternative to the courts for our youth. Also known as probation it is used to straighten these children out before getting them in trouble through the courts system. Reentry can be a scary truth if we do not get these individuals straight. Thirteen million was donated to help youth transition back into communities after punishment. This is important to keep these kids on the right track, and to keep them from coming back. Amber Alert has become an incredible program to recover missing children. As of December 2018, 934 children had been successfully saved through this program. Gang violence conutes to have a large impact on families and children. OJJDP is funding programs to suppress gang violence, crime, and victimization. Children exposed to violence are more prone to mental health issues, delinquency, education failure, and social issues. OJJDP works to get these kids the hope they need. All together the OJJDP works for the good of our youth, which is so important. If we can fix to improve our young people they can continue to set an example for others and their children. I am glad to see we recognize young people need help in a different way from adults. If we can help our best we can hope for a safer community.
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This pdf holds a beautiful amount of materials for juvenile delinquency. This article goes over the grants given for different programs and solutions. The first one that caught my eye was the Youth Gangs $8,000,000 - National Gang Center: 4,800,000 went to gang supression: a law enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach to Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien Children. 2,400,000 to Gang Suppression Planning Grants Program. $800,000 to National Gang Center. Within the Youth Gang Category listed, “Gang Suppression: A Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach to Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien Children” Caught my eye the most. For whatever reason, when I think of Juvenile deliquency in the US, I think of OUR children and not those left unaccompanied due to immigration. Now that I think about it, they are equally able to get scouted out by gangs just like those in “darker” neighborhoods are. It is easy to bend a child to a gang’s will, especially if they have already gone through a rough lifestyle at a young age. The second thing that grabbed my attention combined are Bullying and Children Exposed to Violence. Bullying hits home to me because I was an easy target. I had a good role model growing up so I never retaliated physically and got out okay. The downside? Depression and Anxiety...A lot of it. This connects to the article because bullying can be easy AND hard to spot at the same time, especially when the kid being bullied always puts on a strong face. There are also kids or bystanders that don’t step in to help when it is needed the most. This can lead to several things in the child being bullied: Depression, Anxiety, Substance abuse, violence, etc. For the child that is the aggressor, if not stopped,might think their behavior is okay and do more dangerous acts in the future OR if the aggressor is using bullying as a negative coping mechanism, they might continue their harmful actions if not stopped and spoken to. To connect, “OJJDP - sponsored research indicates that when young people are exposed to violence, they may experience increased risks for academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and antisocial behavior.” OJJDP funded a study by Child Treats that showed the benefits of programs that focus on protective factors to help reduce the likelihood of delinquency. In other words, a child’s environment (family, neighborhood, school, friends, strangers, etc.) can lead to delinquency if their environment holds a lot of risk factors - Like violence and bullying. Overall, this article provides a lot of hopeful information. The OJJDP is putting an effort toward making the world “better” for children. What I mean by that is, they are making a good effort in research to help understand delinquent behavior and try to prevent it in their early stages.
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One of the first few pages in this file was a funding page. In the fiscal year 2018, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded approximately $300 million in grants. OJJDP awards discretionary grants through a competitive process to states, units of local government, tribal jurisdictions, and organizations to administer a variety of juvenile justice and child protection programs. The Office’s formula grants support state, local, and tribal efforts to reduce and prevent delinquency, improve the juvenile justice system, and protect children from violence and abuse. I thought that this was pretty cool to see, some much money is going towards these systems to help the young an people. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics reported that in 2016, nearly 1 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 misused prescription opioids in the previous 12 months. In FY 2018, OJJDP awarded more than $7 million under the Opioid Affected Youth initiative, including just over $1 million each to six sites and approximately $1 million to a training and technical assistance provider to support the sites’ efforts. Funding through this initiative will provide assistance to states, local governments, and tribal jurisdictions as they develop data-driven responses to opioid abuse to improve public safety and outcomes for youth. OJJDP provided more than $1.7 million to four jurisdictions in FY 2018 to improve the quality of their juvenile indigent defense services. In FY 2018, the Office awarded approximately $13 million to improve outcomes for youth who are transitioning back to their communities following out-of-home placement or confinement. Community supervision, also known as probation, is a mechanism used by juvenile justice agencies at many different points in the system. It serves as a disposition for juveniles adjudicated in court and can also play a role in diverting status offenders and other youth from formal court processing. In FY 2018, OJJDP provided nearly $4.5 million to nine mentoring organizations throughout the country that have a demonstrated partnership with a juvenile justice agency. The focus of this program is to provide mentoring services—as part of an overall diversion approach—to youth determined by a juvenile justice agency to pose a low risk to public safety. OJJDP also provided $1 million to support training and technical assistance to improve community supervision of youth with co-occurring substance abuse problems and mental health disorders who are placed on probation. This document was very knowledgeable and would definitely come in handy when writing any sort of paper. There are people out there willing to help and just need to decide, do you want the help. -PB001
ReplyDeleteIn the annual report for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, they talk about mentoring in the first chapter and how many different programs they have to help juveniles. The office awards 36 organizations about $77 million in grants for their new initiative to help mentoring youths. The organizations are there to help young people who are at high risk for juvenile delinquency. Some of the programs are Practitioner-Researcher Partnership in Cognitive Behavioral Mentoring and Mentoring Research Partners program. Another part of the chapter that involves helping children before they are out into the system. This section is about bullying and how the OJJDP prevents and responds to bullying. The office developed a guide for bully prevention to help schools find the specific bullying problem in the school. Then the report goes on to talk about how kids are exposed to violence. The OJJDP funded a study to show the benefit of programs that focused on protective factors like a connection to school, a high-quality relationship with a parent or guardian, and a positive community. I think that this next project done by OJJDP and the International Association of Chiefs of Police is interesting because it helps law enforcement identify children being exposed to violence. The next section of the report talks about is Tribal Youth which is about taking initiatives to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities to reduce delinquency. Tribes are allowed to submit an application to some of the departments tribal grant programs. In chapter 2 of the report they talk about Intervention which leads to the first topic about Drug Courts. The juvenile drug treatment court is about the substance abuse and mental health challenges of children. The OJJDP funds different programs for drug treatment courts to help children steer clear from those substances with treatment-oriented approaches. The annual report helps families, law enforcement, and children find different programs to approach a better lifestyle. -HL001
ReplyDeleteThe annual report for the OJJDP has loads of helpful and interesting information for readers. Almost every aspect of the juvenile Justice system is covered. One of the main topics I really liked were the mentoring programs that are made available. With 80 million dollars granted kids now have access to an extensive amount of activities and classes to keep them busy and to show and teach them new things that will help them succeed in life. Mentors are so important for kids to have especially if the child is at a critical age. Having someone who is a good influence who spends time with the kid and shows them a little bit how life can work especially if you stay out of trouble. Some of the kids who do find themselves in trouble can be lacking a father figure and now have a mentor to ask questions to and have the right a person to look up to and aspire to be like. At a younger age kids can be so easily targeted and swayed into doing things that can alter their life forever. I also found it interesting when it comes to the surrounding environment and the risk factors that the child encounters and how it can affect the said child. The focus on the youth will greatly help with the future. Todays youth offenders are tomorrows adult offenders. Helping with youth gangs can help lower the amount of adult gangs in the future. Hopefully with the help of the OJJDP we will see an a positive trend in the youth and a negative trend in juvenile delinquency. The OJJDP is a great tool for the future and we all need to stay informed on the what is going on with Americas youth. --Purdue001
ReplyDeleteThe first thing of interest that caught my eye was the amount of funding for mentoring programs. It was 83 million to provide mentoring services and programs for 270,000 young people nationwide. This seems like a lot but I am not familiar with how much something of that nature cost. Perhaps this can account for some of the decline in crime that was shown on the Juvenile Justice Report from a previous blog; although that was 2017. This funding also showed 9.7 million that was given in order to tackle the opioid epidemic. This is a sad reality that many young people are going up against this problem. Its nice to see that there is money being provided to these programs that act as buffers for the youth of America. Something that caught my attention was the programs set up to end bullying, Stopbullying.gov, which is a federal program aimed at preventing and responding to bullying. Its interesting to see that bullying is being addressed rather than shucked off as a natural occurrence that happens when people are young. I know opinions vary on this issue but I have always found it interesting to see what is going on in a bully’s life that make them want to bully someone. It was also interesting to read that OJJDP had sponsored research that indicated that when young people are exposed to violence, they may experience increased risk of academic failure, mental health issues, delinquency, and anti-social behavior. Although this seems like common sense being in this class and learning some of things, we already have its interesting to see that research is going into tackling these issues and how law enforcement is getting further information on how to handle and identify these situations. The tribal youth programs caught my attention as well because in previous classes I had learned about some of the problems that Native Americans face. ~PJWB001
ReplyDeleteOne of the first pieces of information that caught my eye in this article was how much money is granted out from the OJJDP. 83 million dollars being awarded out to help reach juveniles who have the risk of becoming heavily involved in the juvenile justice system is fantastic. Through that money they were able to reach out to roughly 270,000 juveniles at risk. One of the more intriguing facts with how they dispersed the money was that they placed 9.3 million toward the opioid epidemic. Placing that large of a number toward the drug that is tearing apart out country and our families is great to see, especially for juveniles. The juveniles are the upcoming society and if we do not properly address the issues facing our juveniles today, that could spell disaster for our country and its citizens. The issues that many of our at risk juveniles face is that they are without a father figure or a parental figure and with the OJJDP reaching out to our youth can intercept the habitual behavior that many juveniles exhibit when a lack of guidance is present. Another great bit of information is that the OJJDP set aside 13 million for the Drug Treatment Court Program. This program is crucial in the reduction of drug abuse among our juveniles and it focuses on family engagement as well as the youths substance abuse. The treatment orientation of the program is very important because rather than letting a juvenile face drug charges, they are trying to correct the behavior at an early age. One of the best diversions of funding is the 13 million dollars directed towards reentry. Reentry, especially for a juvenile, can be very hard because of how much time they spent locked away, and this money is designated to help with programs to ensure that the juveniles turn their life around and avoid a habitual behavior towards crime. -Blues001
ReplyDeleteone of the very first parts of this article that caught my eye and made me sit back and think about was the 83 million dollars being award out to help all of the juveniles. this made me think why or who was helping out all of the juveniles with all this process and where is the money going to help out the juveniles. another very interesting part that caught my eye was all of the aliens in the neighborhoods beretta001
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