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Juvenile Court Prosecutors
Building Relationships Between Youth & Law Enforcement
Cross-Over Youth: Juvenile Justice & Child Welfare
Diversion
Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
Gangs & Gang Intervention
Juvenile Facilities
Law Enforcement & Youth
Prevention Resources / Re-Entry
Programs & Organizations
Raise the Age
Rural Jurisdictions
School Threat Assessment
Social Media & Youth
Statistics & Data
Teen Dating Violence
Truancy
Violence Reduction Strategies
JUVENILE COURT PROSECUTORS
NDAA’s Handbook for Juvenile Court Prosecutors
- Handbook for Juvenile Court Prosecutors
- Chapter 1 – NDAA National Prosecution Standards, Part V – Juvenile Justice
- Chapter 2 – NDAA Juvenile Prosecution Principles
- Chapter 3 – Intersection Between Adolescent Brain Science & Juvenile Justice
- Chapter 4 – Case Assessment
- Chapter 5 – Working with Victims
- Chapter 6 – Trial Preparation
- Chapter 7 – Risk Assessment Instruments
Quick Reference Documents
- Trial Preparation Overview
- Case Assessment Tips
- Case Assessment PowerPoint
- Adolescent Brain Science
- The Adolescent Brain
- How Prosecutors & Courts are Applying New Findings in Adolescent Brain Science
- Risk Assessment Instruments Overview
- What Juvenile Court Prosecutors Need to Know About Risk Assessment Instruments
- Top Common Mistakes or Misunderstandings in Juvenile Risk Assessment
- Cross-Examination of Juvenile Risk Assessment Administrators
- Resources for Common Challenges for Juvenile Court Prosecutors
- Handling an Assault/Battery Case in Juvenile Court
- Prosecuting Gangs in Juvenile Court Questionnaire
- Preparing for Cross-Examination of Adverse Witnesses
- Working with Victims During the Early Stages of a Case
- Get it Right the First Time: The Promise of the JJ System
- The Importance of Well-Trained and Experienced Prosecutors in Juvenile Court
- 15 Tips for Addressing Juvenile Court Prosecutor Attrition
- Statewide Juvenile Court Prosecution Standards: Guidance from Career Prosecutors
- Intro to the Juvenile Justice System PowerPoint Template
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Youth
Helpful Links
- Examining the Effects of Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis
- The Interstate Compact for Juveniles Fact Sheet
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN YOUTH & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Building Relationships Between Youth and Law Enforcement: A National Curriculum
- Building and Improving Relationships Between Youth and Law Enforcement: A Toolkit for Prosecutors, Police, Communities, Schools, Youth Organizations, Etc.
- Building Youth and Law Enforcement Relations – Are You Good? Trailer, Film and Video Interviews
- Building Youth and Law Enforcement Relations – Trailer for the film Are You Good? (download available via link)
- Building Youth and Law Enforcement Relations – Film for Are You Good? (Download available via link)
- Thirty Questions to Guide Discussion After Viewing Are You Good?
- Creating a Dialogue Between Youth and Police
- Classroom Exercise: Hypothetical Trial Scenario: Theft of a Cell Phone Before School
- Classroom Exercise: Hypothetical Juvenile Court Case Discussion and Mock Court Proceedings
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 7–8
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 9-13
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 14-17
- Classroom Exercise Survey: Evaluation Survey Template
- Youth Program for Law Enforcement Agencies
CROSS-OVER YOUTH: JUVENILE JUSTICE & CHILD WELFARE
Publications
- Family Doesn’t Have to be Mom and Dad’: An Exploration of the Meaning of Family for Care-experienced Young People
- Longitudinal Cohort Study: Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth Individual/Clinical Risk Factor on Recidivism Among Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth
- The Interstate Compact for Juveniles Fact Sheet
- Positioning Mentors as Social Capital Builders
- Psychological First Aid Guide for Children’s Advocacy Center Supervisors
- Sources and Types of Social Supports and Their Association with Mental Health Symptoms and Life Satisfaction among Young Adults with a History of Out-of-Home Care
- Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Childhood Maltreatment: Effects on Offspring Mental Health
- Relations Between Parental Attachment, Empathy, and Bystander Help-Seeking Preference Following Peer Aggression
- Out-of-home placement, sleep problems, and later mental health and crime: A prospective investigation.
- Child Safety Forward Michigan
- Child maltreatment
Helpful Links
- Recognizing When a Child’s Injury or Illness Is Caused by Abuse
- About Child Abuse and Neglect
- National Children’s Alliance (NCA)
- National Children’s Advocacy Center
- Child Forensic Interviewing: Best Practices
- Resources for Suicide Prevention
DIVERSION
Publications
- Reducing agency and social costs by keeping kids in school and out of the justice system: A cost-benefit analysis of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program
- Best Practices in Youth Diversion
Recorded Webinars
Helpful Links
- NDAA Prosecutor-Led Diversion Map (Adult and Juvenile)
- Diversion Programs
- Diversion Programs, Explained
- San Diego County District Attorney’s Office Juvenile Justice Initiative
EVIDENCE-BASED PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES
Helpful Links
- Evidence-Based Programs & Promising Practices to Address Youth Violence
- CrimeSolutions: Reliable Research, Real Results
- Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center
- Registry of Experimentally Proven Programs
GANGS & GANG INTERVENTION
Publications
- Voices From the Field: Multigenerational Gang Intervention
- What’s in a Name? The Framing of Gang Interventions in a City with No “Gangs”
- Prosecuting Gangs in Juvenile Court Questionnaire
Helpful Links
- National Gang Center Webinars
- Little Village Gang Reduction Program – Promising Program
- Chicago Expands Anti-Gang Youth Program
JUVENILE FACILITIES
Publications / News Coverage
- Juvenile justice staffing crisis: Time to reimagine our approach
- From ‘mission accomplished’ to riot: Inside the chaotic first month at Los Padrinos
- Judge orders Louisiana to remove incarcerated youths from the state’s maximum-security adult prison
- Year after 16-year-old Alexis Sluder’s death at Georgia juvenile detention facility, 5 former employees are indicted
LAW ENFORCEMENT & YOUTH
Publications
- Building Relationships Between Youth and Law Enforcement: A National Curriculum
- Building and Improving Relationships Between Youth and Law Enforcement: A Toolkit for Prosecutors, Police, Communities, Schools, Youth Organizations, Etc.
- Building Youth and Law Enforcement Relations – Trailer for the film Are You Good? (download available via link)
- Building Youth and Law Enforcement Relations – Film for Are You Good? (Download available via link)
- Thirty Questions to Guide Discussion After Viewing Are You Good?
- Creating a Dialogue Between Youth and Police
- Classroom Exercise: Hypothetical Trial Scenario: Theft of a Cell Phone Before School
- Classroom Exercise: Hypothetical Juvenile Court Case Discussion and Mock Court Proceedings
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 7–8
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 9-13
- Classroom Exercises: Ages 14-17
- Classroom Exercise Survey: Evaluation Survey Template
- Youth Program for Law Enforcement Agencies
- Breaking the School-To-Prison Pipeline: Implications of Removing Police from Schools for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
- Report on School Resource Officers | Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Improving Learning Outcomes in Police Academy Training
- Enhancing Law Enforcement Efforts and Engagement with Youth
- A Place-Based Approach to Address Youth-Police Officer Interactions In Crime Hot Spots: A Randomized Control Trial
Helpful Links
- Enhancing Law Enforcement Efforts and Engagement with Youth
- Stoneleigh Foundation: Improving Interactions Between Youth and Police in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Police Turning to Youth to Address Community Relations
- Police Youth Programs: Much More than Fun and Games
- LAPD Cadets Program
- Chicago Police Department Youth Programs
- NYPD Youth Programs
- NYPD Youth Leadership Council Video
- NYC PAL – Police and Community
- PAL Cops and Kids Chorus
- Allstars – Operation Conversation – Cops and Kids
- School Resource Office Video Series – National Center for School Safety
PREVENTION RESOURCES / RE-ENTRY
Publications
- Recidivism Risk Factors among Mississippi Justice-involved Youth: Latent Class Analysis of the SAVRY
- New Medicaid Opportunities to Support Youth Leaving Incarceration: Building Community Well-Being and Advancing Prevention Efforts
- University of Chicago Crime Lab Study Finds Youth Program Reduces Violent Crime, Results Persist for Three Years
- Teacher and Administrator Guide for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime
- Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks
- Snitching versus reporting: A qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to addressing safety concerns among high school students
- Relations Between Parental Attachment, Empathy, and Bystander Help-Seeking Preference Following Peer Aggression
- Immigration and School Threat: Exploring the Significance of the Border
- Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims’ credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes
- Examining the Effects of Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Building a Career After Incarceration
- Resources for Suicide Prevention
- Higher Education after Incarceration
- Probation and Youth Justice Reform
Recorded Webinars
Helpful Links
PROGRAMS & ORGANIZATIONS
Publications
Recorded Webinars
Helpful Links
- LA Program (EIDP) rated “Promising”
- Join NDAA as a Member
- New York Prosecutors Training Institute
- National Institute of Justice
- National Center for Juvenile Justice
- National Center for State Courts
- National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO)
- Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse
- National Gang Center
- The Gault Center
- National Children’s Advocacy Center
RAISE THE AGE
Publications
- Juvenile Age of Jurisdiction and Transfer to Adult Court Laws
- Interstate Commission for Juveniles: Age Matrix
- Age Boundaries in Juvenile Justice Systems
- Raising the Lower Age of Juvenile Delinquency – A Differential Response for Children 7 through 11 Years of Age
- The Adolescent Brain
- How Prosecutors & Courts are Applying New Findings in Adolescent Brain Science
Helpful Links
RURAL JURISDICTIONS
Publications
- Rural Victim Assistance Guide
- Census: Defining “Rural” Areas
- Evidence-Based Practices in Rural Communities
- Fact Sheet: Access to Justice is Rural Access
- Violence and Abuse in Rural America
- Rural America has the Highest Incarceration Rates in the U.S. Despite Low Crime Rates
Recorded Webinars
- Successful Pretrial Strategies in Rural Communities: Small-Town Solutions to Solve Big-Time Problems
Helpful Links
- Preventing Legal Deserts in Our Rural Communities
- Successful Pretrial Strategies in Rural Communities: Small-Town Solutions to Solve Big-Time Problems
SCHOOL THREAT ASSESSMENT
Publications
- Student Attempts of Violence Following a School Threat Assessment
- School Threat Assessment Toolkit
- Basic IR Assessment
- The Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines
- School Threat Assessment Toolkit
- Behavior Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) Best Practice Considerations for K-12 Schools
- CDC: Threat Assessment and Management Teams
- Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
- Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence
- Snitching versus reporting: A qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to addressing safety concerns among high school students
- Relations Between Parental Attachment, Empathy, and Bystander Help-Seeking Preference Following Peer Aggression
- Immigration and School Threat: Exploring the Significance of the Border
Helpful Links
SOCIAL MEDIA & YOUTH
Publications
- Technology-Facilitated Violence
- The Adolescent Brain
- How Prosecutors & Courts are Applying New Findings in Adolescent Brain Science
- Using Gang Activity on Social Media to Drive Intelligence-Led Policing
- Does Social Media Perpetuate Youth Violence?
Helpful Links
- Organization for Social Media Safety
- Digital Wellness Lab
- Just How Harmful Is Social Media? Our Experts Weigh-In
- Teens and social media use: What’s the impact?
- Teen Social Media Use May Increase Risk of Mental Health Problems
- Parenting Children in the Age of Screens
- S.M.A.R.T. Parenting Tips for Online Safety
STATISTICS & DATA
Publications
- Five Things About Youth & Delinquency
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) Summary & Trends Report
- NCJA: Youth Arrests, Imprisonments Have Dropped Sharply This Century
- Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety & Wellbeing
- Quick Reference Guide for Interstate Compact for Juveniles (IJC) Cases
- Crimes Involving Juveniles, 1993 – 2022
- Analysis of AMBER Alert Activations in 2022
- Sheriffs’ Offices, Procedures, Policies, and Technology, 2020 – Statistical Tables | Bureau of Justice Statistics
- School Resource Officers, 2019–2020 | Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020 | Bureau of Justice Statistics
Recorded Webinars
Helpful Links
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Statistical Briefing Book
- Department of Justice Statistics
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE
Publications
- Parent Attitudes, Comfort, and Perceptions About Dating Violence: The Moderating Effect on Son Report of Parent Openness to Communicate
- “Micro-cultures” of conflict: Couple-level perspectives on reasons for and causes of intimate partner violence in young adulthood
- Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Action Guide
- Handling an Assault/Battery Case in Juvenile Court
- Preparing for Cross-Examination of Adverse Witnesses
- Working with Victims During the Early Stages of a Case
Helpful Links
TRUANCY
Publications
- What are the Factors that Affect Learning at Your School?
- Why School Absences Have “Exploded” Almost Everywhere
- A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes
- Chronic Absence – Root Causes
- Chronic Absence – 3 Tiers of Intervention
- Using Chronic Absence Data to Improve Conditions for Learning
- Rising Tide of Chronic Absence Challenges Schools
- What’s the Difference Between Chronic Absence and Truancy?
VIOLENCE REDUCTION STRATEGIES
Publications/ Articles
- Get it Right the First Time: The Promise of the JJ System
- The Importance of Well-Trained and Experienced Prosecutors in Juvenile Court
- Office of Justice Programs: Community Violence Intervention
- Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Glossary
- Investigating Root Causes of School Violence: A Case-Control Study
- Literature Review: Gun Violence and Youth/Young Adults
Credible Messengers
- CM3 Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement
- Credible Messenger Uses Experiences to Prevent Violence
- Reporting for Work Where You Once Reported for Probation – Credible Messengers
- Credible Messenger Mentoring for Justice-Involved Youth
- We are the Alternative: A Growing Movement Aims to Disrupt Violence by Connecting Incarcerated Youth w/ Mentors
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Program
- Department of Juvenile Justice Launches New Credible Messenger Mentoring Initiative
- Strong Arms of JXN: Credible Messenger Use Experiences To Prevent Violence
- Southeast Credible Messengers (Georgia)
Recorded Webinars/ Videos
- Remarks of Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon at the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy Graduation Ceremony
- Using Community-Based Strategies to Drive Down Violent Crime: DOJ Roadmap and Receiving Free TTA
Helpful Links
- Office of Justice Programs: Youth Violence
- “I Got You:” The Work of a Violence Interrupter
- Community Violence Intervention at the Roots (CVI-R)