[Youth-list] CWLA position on JJ reauthorization

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The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) is scheduled to  
be reauthorized this year. CWLA participates in a coalition dedicated to 
making  improvements in the legislation, and we urge organizations to join in this  
effort and to sign on in support of a Statement of Principles to guide the  
reauthorization.

The Statement of Principles was developed through  surveys and consultations 
with juvenile justice organizations. To sign on,  please reply to 
_info at juvjustice.org_ (mailto:info at juvjustice.org) . You can view the  principles on our 
_website_ (http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/jjdpastateofpriciples.pdf)  
(_www.cwla.org_ (http://www.cwla.org) ).  The deadline to sign on is April 6.

JJDPA is based on a broad consensus  that children, youth, and families 
involved with the juvenile and criminal  courts should be guarded by federal 
standards for care and custody, while also  upholding the interests of community 
safety and the prevention of  victimization.

Established in 1974 and most recently re-authorized, with  bipartisan 
support, in 2002, JJDPA provides for 
    *   a juvenile justice planning and advisory system spanning all states,  
territories, and the District of Columbia;
    *   federal funding for delinquency prevention, and improvements in state 
and  local juvenile justice programs; and
    *   operation of a federal agency (OJJDP) dedicated to training, 
technical  assistance, model programs, and research and evaluation, to support state 
and  local efforts.
Under JJDPA, all states, territories, and the District of Columbia must  
comply with certain core requirements: 
    *   deinstitutionalization of status offenders,
    *   removal of youth from adult jails and lock-ups,
    *   sight and sound separation of juveniles and adults in lock-ups,
    *   reduction of disproportionate minority confinement.
 
 



Janice M. Gruendel, Ph.D.
Governor's Senior Advisor on Early  Childhood
Co-Chair, CT Early Childhood Education Cabinet
Senior Youth  Consultant
United Way of CT & Office for Workforce  Competitiveness
Home office: 203-481-9940
Blackberry: 203-824-4766
Mail  to: 28 Juniper Point
Branford, CT 06405

"In the  midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible 
summer."  Albert Camus



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