Delinquency
Delinquency Spotlight
January 2024
President Biden proclaimed January as National Mentoring Month, a nationwide observance honoring today’s mentors and encouraging communities to engage in mentoring activities to ensure positive outcomes for youth.
“For most young people, a bond or even a conversation with someone who believes in them can make a tremendous difference in their lives, exposing them to new goals, new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Since day one, my Administration has been working to support those kinds of relationships—in schools, in communities, and in the workforce.”
— President Joseph R. Biden
OJJDP is committed to investing in youth mentoring initiatives nationwide. In fiscal year 2023, OJJDP awarded nearly $90 million to 42 organizations to support mentoring services to young people who are at risk for delinquency, victimization, and system involvement; youth impacted by opioids and other substances; and youth involved in the system. OJJDP also provided more than $2.6 million to the National Mentoring Resource Center to improve youth mentoring through resources, evidence-based practices, research, and technical assistance.
Join OJJDP at the National Mentoring Summit, hosted by MENTOR, on January 24-26, 2024.
See here for past spotlight posts.
Upcoming Events
Webinars
No upcoming webinars scheduled at this time.
Events
2024 National Conference on Juvenile Justice
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) will host the 2024 National Conference on Juvenile Justice taking place March 17 – 20, 2024, at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference will feature amazing presentations on current and cutting edge topics that will inspire you, broaden your knowledge, and provoke discussions about issues facing the juvenile and family court system.
For 86 years, the NCJFCJ has led systems to change by embracing the values of Compassion, Leadership, Education, and Community through our network of more than 30,000 juvenile and family court professionals who share in the mission of this organization.
There will be plenary and breakout sessions on juvenile justice, trafficking, child welfare, court best practices, and innovative solutions. These are just some of the educational offerings of the 2024 National Conference on Juvenile Justice.
Who Should Attend?
This conference is designed for a wide range of disciplines and is open to all those interested in the improvement of child welfare and the juvenile justice system. We offer two registration rates – one for current NCJFCJ members and one for non-members with a Pathway to Membership (may include a 1 year NCJFCJ membership with conference registration if applicable).
Click here to register for this event.
Judicial Regional Training on Juvenile Problem-Solving Courts and Specialty Dockets
The Office of Family Courts in the Office of the State Courts Administrator, in conjunction with the Juvenile Delinquency Advisory Group, is hosting an upcoming judicial regional training on the topic of juvenile problem-solving courts and specialty dockets. This training will cover the guiding principles of juvenile drug courts and juvenile mental health courts as well as explore some innovative, issue-specific specialty delinquency dockets. This training will be held on Friday, March 22, 2024 from 9am-12pm EST via Zoom. The training is open to all family court judges/magistrates but is geared to those that currently have a delinquency docket (or anticipate having one in the future). Please follow the link below to register for this regional training:
http://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W2h65XsGQ1WnHqMzaDVYxQ
Office of Family Court staff are in the process of applying for CJEs/CLEs for this training and will be sending out further information to registrants prior to the scheduled event.
Please contact Joshua Kuch (kuchj@cnitsw.com) in the Office of Family Courts for more information.