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The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has released "America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010." The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is one of the 22 Federal agencies that constitute the Forum.

BJA Announces FY 2010 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the city’s Department of Juvenile Justice into its child welfare agency, signaling a more therapeutic approach toward delinquency that will send fewer of the city’s troubled teenagers to jail.

This story comes from a small town outside of Jefferson City, MO. It's a horrible story of murder involving a female teen. There is a lot of discussion as to the fate of this youth - with two possible roads/outcomes ahead - the juvenile justice system or prison. Whatever the decision - the mindset should be focused on how to prevent something like this from happening again. Rehab? With two previous incidents of attempted suicide - this story has the small community of St Martins, MO and the country paying attention.

The U.S. Department of Justice released a report finding that the routine use of force at four New York juvenile detention centers was a violation of the constitutional rights of the children imprisoned there.  Read the rest of the report here.

WASHINGTON –  The awards are made through the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) program, which supports law enforcement, public education, and coalition building activities to address underage access to and consumption of alcohol.

Part of our mission at GVT is to seek out and provide good, solid resource information that can help our clients and friends in their initiatives.