June is Internet Safety Month. Internet Safety Month seeks to raise awareness about internet safety and provide resources to keep young people safe online. Learn more.

Resource: When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide

This guide (PDF, 95 pages) is designed to help families take necessary steps, contact the right people, and know how to move forward when their child is missing. This fifth edition contains checklists with critical information to help parents and caretakers work with law enforcement, the media, search and rescue ...

Report: Substantiated Incidents of Sexual Victimization Reported by Juvenile Justice Authorities, 2013–2018

This report (PDF, 33 pages) describes substantiated incidents of youth sexual victimization perpetrated by youth or by staff in juvenile facilities. The report presents data on the incidents of sexual victimization, such as location and time of day. It also provides characteristics of the victims and perpetrators of the victimization ...

Resource: Youth Reentry and Family Engagement

This fact sheet (PDF, 1 page) summarizes the grant programs available from the OJJDP under the federal Second Chance Act. These programs fund comprehensive reentry planning, direct pre- and post-release services, and sustainable justice system improvements that promote positive youth and family outcomes, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety. Learn ...

Resource: Reentry Matters: Voices of Experience

This video shares firsthand accounts of why reentry matters from individuals living and working in Second Chance Act grantee communities. Learn more.

Second Chance Month: April 2023

April is Second Chance Month. Second Chance Month seeks to help individuals, communities, and agencies recognize the importance of reentry programs and their role in building second chances. Second Chance Month will feature live learning events, videos, and publications to support the justice field and Second Chance Act grantees with ...

Resource: Federal Justice Statistics Program 2020-2021 Datasets

The BJA released 35 datasets from the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) for 2020 and 2021 through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. The FJSP covers the following seven stages of federal criminal case processing: Arrest: the arrest of a suspect by a federal law enforcement agency. Prosecution: the investigation of ...

Resource: Take It Down

This tool aims to combat child sexual exploitation and help young people remove sexually explicit photos and videos taken of them while under 18 years old from the internet. The initiative includes a public service announcement, produced by NCMEC, that will appear on television and online platforms that youth frequently ...

Resource: Common Problems, Common Solutions: Looking Across Sectors at Strategies for Supporting Rural Youth and Families Tool-Kit

This tool kit (PDF, 45 pages) provides an overview of barriers that rural communities face in preventing youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. It also provides examples of innovative practices serving justice-involved youth and their families in rural communities that can be adapted by other juvenile justice practitioners. Learn ...

Resource: We Meet Them Where They Are: The Importance of Mentoring as a Component of Youth Gang Violence Intervention

This webpage discusses the importance of mentoring as a component of youth gang violence intervention. Learn more.  

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