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May 2010
Highlight of the Month: Juvenile Life Without Possibility of Parole
- David Schmidt, CJJ National Chair, Discusses the CJJ Formal Position to Oppose Juvenile Life Without Possibility of Parole
CJJ Leadership News from Nancy Gannon Hornberger, CJJ Executive Director
- OJJDP’s Final Plan for FY 2010 Discretionary Programs
CJJ Government Relations Alert
- CALL TO ACTION: Help Put Juvenile Justice Reform on the Senate Floor!
- CJJ Leaders Testify at Congressional Hearing on Reauthorization of the JJDPA
- House Congressional Members Voice Support for Reauthorization of the JJDPA
- CJJ Submits Comments on Recommended Standards to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Abuse of Court-Involved Youth
- Justice Department Releases Supplemental Guidelines for Implementation of the Walsh Act
- National Celebrities Release Viral Video in Support of the Youth PROMISE Act
CJJ Conference News
- Room Block Now Open for the CJJ Midwest Region Conference
- Save the Date for the CJJ National DMC Conference
National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) News
- NJJN's New Publications
- NJJN Members' Advances in Reform
Resources and Information of Note
- Summary of recent OJJDP FY 2010 Funding Opportunity Announcements
- Promise Neighborhoods Funding
- Shakespeare for At-Risk Youth
- Getting Beyond Failure: Promising Approaches for Reducing DMC
- Newsletters of Note
- New Website - Just Beginning
- Federal Government Shows Modest Progress in Disaster Planning for Children
- New Report on the Unmet Educational Needs of Children in the Juvenile Justice and Foster Systems
In the News
- Contra Costa Times: Your Turn: Locking Up Kids is not the Answer
- The Birmingham News: The Killing Years
- USA Today: For D.C., Hope in Treating Young Offenders
- Christian Science Monitor: Supreme Court Moves In the Right Direction on Juvenile Sentence
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