LINKS TO NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Amnesty International Childrens' Rights Executive Summary http://www.amnestyusa.org/children/document.do?id=ENGUSA2005101205002
Disproportionate Confinement of Juveniles
     http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/Publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=11816 OJJDP Report

      http://www.justicepolicy.org/article.php?id=271 (8 Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform) JUSTICE POLICY INSTITUTE
      CENTER ON JUVENILE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Contains iinformation about California with lots of readable charts and graphs)

      ANNIE E CASEY FOUNDATION  (Links to studies from 1988 - 2002 documenting disproportionate confinement.)

ABA JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER (Represents the views and policies of the American Bar Assiciation re juvenile justice issues)

CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEENAGE PREGNANCY (Contains results of a national survey on the sexual habits and mores of children under 14)

CECIL GREEK'S JUVENILE DELINQUENCY LINKS (Cecil Greek and the good folks at Florida State University have created one of the most comprehensive listing of juvenile delinquency resources to be found on the web.)

CENTER FOR THE STUDY AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (Located at the University of Colorado, the Center is arguable the best source for research anout prevention programs that work. There are two extremely valuable sources: Blueprints for Violence Prevention and Safe Schools.)

CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND (A powerful and well-respected children's advocacy group. The CDF generally advocates on behalf of minority children, but the site contains a wealth of national data pertaining to all children. CDF produces an annual comprehensive "State of the Nation's Children" report. Data for comparison of states is also available from this site.)

CHILDREN'S HEALTH (From Blue Cross comes a wealth of information useful to parents and helpers alike concerning major health issues. Of particular interest is a page devoted to teen depression and violence.)

COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION  (The Federal Agency Resp0nsible for co-ordinating all federal programs.)

GET YOUR ANGRIES OUT (A valuable site for teachers, parents and children. The site contains much useful information about anger management. There is a fairly comprehensive list of links to related sites.)

KIDS COUNT (a project of the Annin E Casey Foundation is a national and state-by state effort to track the status of chuldren in the U S. By providing policy-makers and citizens with benchmarks of Child Well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.)

NATIONAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER (Based within the University of California, San Francisco's Division of Adolescent Medecine, Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Health Policy Studies, the overall goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research and to insure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health information.)

NCJRS (Operated by the U S Department of Justice, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service has a section devoted to juvenile justice issues. The site contains national data and numerous downloadable articles about juveniles in the justice system.)

The Office of Child Development, Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health is an independent non-partisan, non-profit affiliate of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. It was established by David Arredondo M.D. to provide consultation, technical assistance and trainings to juvenile and family court judicial officers and other professionals working with high risk children and their families.

OJJDP (The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a federal agancy provides grants to state, local, and private entities. The site contains numerous "fact sheets" and reports on the latest research on juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. It also contains evaluations of programs OJJDP has funded. An extremely useful site.)

OTHER LINKS (From the CDF Home Page)

Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care (Dedicated to providing information about children in foster care and recommending improvements in federal policy)

PROMISING PRACTICES NETWORK on children, families and communities (This is a product of the RAND Corporation. It prodives research based information about practices and policies proven beneficial to children from before birth till 18 years of age. An excellent source for ideas based on objective, evidence-based research.)

YOUTH ON BOARD (Materials, data and strategies for incorporating youth into the decision-making process of private non-profit corporations.)

A WORLD OF PREVENTION (A directory of research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of child and adolescent problems and the promotion of youth development in families, schoold and communities. A project of the Texas Youth Commission.)