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OJJDP News @ a Glance, November/December 2020

NCJ Number
255615
Date Published
December 2020
Length
20 pages
Annotation

This issue of OJJDP News @ a Glance reviews OJJDP's primary accomplishments from the past year and highlights OJJDP's $370 million in grant funding awards.

Abstract

The top story highlights the Office's nearly $370 million in fiscal year 2020 grants by program. Additional feature stories describe a youth member of Oklahoma's state advisory group, OJJDP's National Training Conference, the National Conference on Juvenile Justice, the Bishop Paiute Tribe's new Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court, research into measuring juvenile reentry outcomes, and the November meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice. The News in Brief section covers the annual National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, updates to the Statistical Briefing Book, the new issue of the AMBER Advocate, the 2021 National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest, and a new survey of abducted children.