**PARTICIPANT PACKET**

## \"How Shall We Respond to the Dreams of Youth?\"

## A National Juvenile Justice Summit

### **June 7, 2000**

### ***A Live National Satellite Broadcast***

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######## Produced by the

**Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention**

**U.S. Department of Justice**

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**Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative**

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**Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project**

**Eastern Kentucky University -- Training Resource Center**

######## Sponsored by the

**U.S. Department of Justice:** **Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention**

**Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative**

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

**INTRODUCTION...................................................................3**

**BROADCAST
AGENDA..........................................................6**

**OVERVIEW..........................................................................8**

**CORE RESOLUTIONS AND COMMITMENTS...........................9**

**SUMMIT
AGENDA...............................................................11**

**JUVENILE COURT
GRADUATES...........................................15**

**RESOURCE
MATERIALS..................................................... 16**

**JUVENILE COURT CENTENNIAL INITIATIVE........................17**

**PREVIOUS OJJDP VIDEOCONFERENCES..............................18**

**EVALUATION.....................................................................19**

*This document was prepared by the Eastern Kentucky University Training
Resource Center under grant #98-MU-MU-0005 from the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Dept. of Justice. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are
those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
position or policies of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.*

**INTRODUCTION**

Throughout this year, youth-serving organizations have celebrated the
100 year anniversary of the creation of the juvenile court in the United
States. Although the court and the juvenile justice system have helped
change the lives of millions of young people over the last 100 years,
the system faces some daunting challenges at the start of the year 2000.
With increasingly punitive laws putting more youth\-- especially
minority youth\--behind bars, key challenges for the 21st Century court
include improving the conditions of confinement, reducing overcrowding,
guaranteeing fair treatment for children of color and those with mental
health issues, and securing resources for programs that work.

**[History of the Juvenile Court]{.underline}**

In 1882, John Altgeld, an aspiring young lawyer who would later become
governor of Illinois, toured the House of Corrections in Chicago and
discovered that hundreds of children, including children as young as
eight years of age, were jailed with adults. Appalled by the tragic
circumstances of these children, other Chicago reformers like Jane
Addams, Lucy Flower and Julia Lathrop pushed state lawmakers to create a
separate justice system for children. Their efforts led to the creation
of the first juvenile court in the world, which opened its doors on July
3, 1899, not far from Addams' Hull House on Chicago's West Side. The
court was just the first in a series of century-shaping reforms inspired
by the work of the Hull House women, including mandatory universal
education for children, child-labor laws and the development of parks
and recreation spaces for children.

Addams and the other Chicago reformers helped to redefine "childhood,"
creating a new vision of childhood as a sacred period in human life, a
period during which children and adolescents required the nurturance and
guidance of responsible adults. No longer were children viewed as
"mini-adults;" they were qualitatively and developmentally different
from adults. These differences made them both less culpable for their
actions and more amenable to intervention than their elders. In the
context of the court system, this meant that children should receive
individualized attention, under the watchful eyes of trained and
sensitive judges and probation officers, a system premised on
rehabilitation rather than on the crippling punishments of the adult
system.

In addition to delinquent children, the first juvenile court catered to
the needs of abused and neglected children as well. Court proceedings
were informal, non-adversarial and closed to the public. The
stigmatizing language of the criminal court was rejected, and court
records were eventually made confidential to protect children from
long-term damage to their future prospects.

**[Threats to the Juvenile Court System]{.underline}**

Ironically, as it celebrates its Centennial, the juvenile court has
never been more under attack. The 2000 annual report for the nationwide
Coalition for Juvenile Justice was entitled *A Celebration or Wake?* In
the *Juvenile Court After 100 Years,* Barry Krisberg, President of the
National Council on Crime and Delinquency, has dubbed recent federal
juvenile justice legislation "the death knell for the juvenile court."

Too often, when the public hears about the juvenile court, it is
following a hyper-violent act committed by a youth. Although less than
one half of one percent of all American youth are arrested for a violent
crime last year, the majority of times youth are portrayed on the
evening news, the stories are connected with acts of violence. The
result: although juvenile homicides have dropped by 45% since 1993,
two-thirds of Americans believe that crime by juvenile is on the
increase.

Based on misperceptions that serious juvenile crime was spiraling out of
control, federal and state legislatures began compromising some of the
basic tenets of the juvenile court system. Between 1992 and 1995 alone,
41 states changed their juvenile justice systems to make it easier to
try juveniles as adults, and just as many have eroded confidentially
protections. Last year, nearly 18, 000 youth spent time in adult
prisons, 3,500 in general population with adults. There are another
7,000 to 8,000 youth jailed with adults on any given day and several
times as many are processed through America's jails during the course of
the year.

**[Refocus on Basic Tenets of the Juvenile Court System]{.underline}**

During the National Juvenile Justice Summit in Washington, D.C. on June
6 and 7, delegates from more than 100 national organizations that share
a common commitment to help neglected, abused and delinquent children
and youth will focus on ways to strengthen and revitalize the juvenile
justice system. Videoconference participants will be brought into the
final plenary of the Summit for discussion and ratification of the
*Declaration for Juvenile Justice for the 21st Century.* The
*Declaration* will summarize effective interventions and identify
opportunities and challenges to strengthen the capacity of the juvenile
justice system to do the following:

-   Promote children's emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health
    and well being

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-   Nurture and unleash the full human potential of children through the
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-   Invest in community-based programs to care for neglected, abused and
    delinquent youth

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-   Give youth who are in trouble with the law a chance to make a better
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-   Provide humane confinement for serious juvenile offenders and only
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-   Ensure fair and equal justice for all children and youth

To reaffirm the basic tenets of the juvenile court system and its focus
on rehabilitation, the planners of the Summit Conference completed a
document entitled *Second Chances.* This document profiles 25
individuals who had gone through the juvenile court system when they
were younger, who had turned their lives around and made something of
themselves. During completion of this project, some themes emerged which
serve as reminders that the core tenets of the juvenile
court\--rehabilitation, confidentiality, giving youth a second chance
and keeping them separate from adults in prisons and jails\--are as
important now as they have ever been.

In sum, their stories are living, breathing testaments to the resiliency
of the vision of the Hull House women. They are also ring reaffirmation
of the need for a court system that continues to recognize that children
are not adults\--a court system that gives young people a chance to make
a better choice. While far from a perfect institution, the majority of
youth who get referred to juvenile court never come back again.

**BROADCAST AGENDA**

***"How Shall We Respond to the Dreams of Youth?"***

**A National Juvenile Justice Summit**

**June 7, 2000**

> \*All times listed are EDT and approximate

-   3:00PM Pre-conference Site Activities; Test Slate

-   **3:30 PM Video overview highlighting history of the Juvenile
    Court**

-   **3:33 PM Welcome and opening comments of Moderator**

-   **3:36 PM Review of Conference Goals by Bernardine Dohrn, Director,
    Children**

##### **and Family Justice Center, Northwest University School of Law** 

-   **3:39 PM Video overview of Resolution #1: *Promote children's
    emotional, ***

> ***physical , mental and spiritual well being.***

-   **3:40 PM Report by Jill Ward, Violence Prevention Director,
    Children's**

###### **Defense Fund & Co-Chair, Juvenile Justice Coalition**

-   **3:46 PM Questions and Answers concerning Resolution #1**

-   **3:56 PM Video Overview of Resolution #2: *Nurture and unleash the
    full human***

> ***potential of children through the arts, sports, recreation and
> education.***

-   **3:57 PM Report by Miriam Rollin, Public Policy Director, National
    Network**

> **for Youth**

-   **4:03 PM Questions and Answers concerning Resolution #2**

-   **4:13 PM Video Overview of Resolution #3: *Invest in
    community-based programs***

> ***to care for neglected, abused and delinquent youth.***

-   **4:14 PM Report by Nancy Gannon, Deputy Director, Coalition for
    Juvenile**

###### **Justice**

-   **4:20 PM Questions and Answers concerning Resolution #3**

-   **4:30 PM Video Overview of Resolution #4: *Give kids who are in
    trouble with the***

> ***law a chance to make a better choice.***

-   **4:31 PM Report by Jeremy Estrada, Juvenile Court Graduate &
    Pre-Med**

> **Student, Pepperdine University**

-   **4:37 PM Questions and Answers concerning Resolution #4**

-   **4:47 PM Video Overview of Resolution #5: *Provide humane
    confinement for ***

> ***serious offenders, and only as a last resort.***

-   **4:48 PM Report by Marc Schindler, Staff Attorney, Youth Law
    Center**

> **& Co-Chair, Juvenile Justice Coalition**

-   **4:54 PM Questions and Answers concerning Resolution #5**

-   **5:04 PM Video Overview of Resolution #6: *Ensure fair and equal
    justice for all ***

> ***children and youth.***

-   **5:05 PM Report by Michael Finley, Soros Foundation Fellow,
    Building Blocks**

> **for Youth**

-   **5:11 PM Questions and Answers about Resolution #6**

-   **5:22 PM Closing Remarks**

-   **5:30 PM Adjournment**

### ***"How Shall We Respond to the Dreams of Youth?"***

***A National Juvenile Justice Summit***

###### **Summit Overview**

"How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" This question, first
asked by the founders of the Juvenile Court in 1897 will be addressed
yet again by participants at the National Juvenile Justice Summit in
Washington, D.C. on June 6 and 7. The Summit, hosted by the Juvenile
Court Centennial Initiative, will bring together delegates from more
than 100 national organizations that share a common commitment to help
neglected, abused and delinquent children and youth.

The National Juvenile Justice Summit is designed to:

1.  Build awareness of the challenges and opportunities to improve the
    juvenile justice system.

2.  Highlight effective strategies, model programs and interventions
    addressing the needs of troubled children and youth.

3.  Stimulate debate about ways to strengthen and revitalize the
    juvenile justice system.

4.  Expand the juvenile justice network and promote collaboration among
    those serving at risk children, youth and families.

###### **Declaration for Juvenile Justice for the 21^st^ Century**

Summit delegates will develop and ratify a *Declaration for Juvenile
Justice for the 21^st^ Century*. The *Declaration* will summarize
effective interventions and identify opportunities and challenges to
strengthen the capacity of the juvenile justice system to do the
following:

-   Promote children's emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health
    and well being.

-   Nurture and unleash the full human potential of children through the
    arts, sports, recreation and education.

-   Invest in community-based programs to care for neglected, abused and
    delinquent children.

-   Give kids who are trouble with the law a chance to make a better
    choice.

-   Provide humane confinement for serious juvenile offenders, and only
    as a last resort.

-   Ensure fair and equal justice for all children and youth.

### **National Juvenile Justice Awards Reception** 

The Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative will present awards to juvenile
justice programs that have developed exemplary models, innovative
approaches and enhanced community collaborations to serve troubled
children and youth on June 6 at the National Juvenile Justice Awards
Gala.

National Juvenile Justice Summit

Core Resolutions and Commitments to Children and Youth

Panel #1: Promoting children's emotional, physical, mental and spiritual
health and well being.

This panel will focus on those key supports that enable children to lead
healthy childhoods and keep children safe and out of trouble. These
supports can include:

-   Basics such as education, housing, nutrition, health care and social
    services

-   Access to quality, affordable child care & early childhood
    development programs (e.g. Head Start);

-   Prenatal care and preventive health care services (e.g. well baby
    care and immunizations);

-   Family supports (e.g. parenting classes; home visiting programs)

-   Safe play areas and after-school programs (especially during peak
    crime hours from 3-7 PM)

Panel #2: Nurturing and unleashing the full human potential of children
through the arts, sports, recreation and education.

This panel will focus on those key supports that promote youth's
successful transition into adulthood. Those "youth development" supports
can include:

-   Mentoring;

-   Leadership training;

-   Career development;

-   Job training;

-   Arts programs;

-   Sports programs;

-   Education programs that support success in school and prevent
    truancy and school drop-out

Panel #3: Investing in community-based programs to care for neglected,
abused and delinquent children.

This panel will focus on the community's role in caring for children
with an emphasis on the critical supports that need to be in place to
allow children to grow and thrive in their own communities. Those
community-based supports can include:

-   Alternatives to incarceration (e.g. group homes for children and
    youth in the community; programs that allow children to live at home
    instead of in an institution such as a day or evening reporting
    program);

-   Independent Living programs (e.g. supervised group homes or
    apartments for children who can no longer live at home or with
    relatives);

-   Foster care placements (e.g. homes in the community where children
    live with relatives or caring adults)

Panel \# 4: Giving kids who are in trouble with the law a chance to make
a better choice.

This panel will focus on those key components that need to be in place
to support rehabilitation, rather than punishment, and provide viable
alternatives to delinquency. Those components include:

-   Maintaining a separate justice system for youth;

-   Individualized justice and adequate counsel;

-   Confidentiality (e.g. confidential proceedings and records);

-   Caring for children in the community, rather than incarceration;

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-   Programs that support positive youth development;

-   Keeping children out of adult jails

Panel #5: Providing humane confinement for serious juvenile offenders,
and only as a last resort.

This panel will focus on conditions of confinement and how children
should be cared for when they are in juvenile detention and corrections
institutions, such as:

-   Reducing overcrowding;

-   Improving substandard or unsafe facility conditions;

-   Eliminating inhumane practices (e.g. solitary confinement);

-   Providing health and mental health care services;

-   Providing appropriate and adequate educational services;

-   Providing youth development supports such as mentoring, sports,
    arts, and recreation programs

Panel #6: Ensuring fair and equal justice for all children and youth.

This panel will focus on how to ensure that all children and youth are
treated fairly in the juvenile justice system, especially concentrating
on the overrepresentation and disparate treatment of minority youth in
the juvenile justice system and assuring that the needs of girls in the
juvenile justice system are adequately met.

National Juvenile Justice Summit

**June 6-7, 2000**

######### [Agenda]{.underline}

# Tuesday, June 6, 2000

**2:00pm-3:30pm** **Opening Plenary**

> **Bernardine Dohrn**
>
> Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwest University
> School of Law
>
> **David Tanenhaus**
>
> Juvenile Court Historian, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
>
> **Adele Simmons**
>
> Vice-Chair, Chicago Metropolis 2020
>
> Granddaughter of Juvenile Court Founder Lucy Flowers
>
> **John J. Wilson**
>
> Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
> Prevention

**Prema Mathai-Davis**

> CEO, YWCA
>
> **The Honorable Nancy Salyers**
>
> Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois

**3:30pm-3:45pm** **Break**

**3:45pm-5:30pm** **Juvenile Justice Leadership Panels**

Panel #1: Promote children's emotional, physical, mental and spiritual
health and well being.

> Facilitator: **Jill Ward**
>
> Violence Prevention Director, Children's Defense Fund;Co-Chair,
> Juvenile Justice Coalition
>
> Presenters: **John Bess & Program Graduate**
>
> President, The Valley Youth Agency

#### Mark Klaas

> President, Klaas Kids Foundation
>
> **Sanford Newman**
>
> President, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

#### Chris Siegfried

> Senior Director, National Mental Health Association

Panel #2: Nurture and unleash the full human potential of children
through the arts, sports, recreation and education.

> Faciliator: **Miriam Rollin**
>
> Public Policy Director, National Network for Youth
>
> Presenters: **Bob Beamon**

Juvenile Court Graduate & Olympic Gold Medalist

Athletic Director, Florida Atlantic University

> **David Brown**
>
> Executive Director, National Youth Employment Coalition
>
> **Jaison Gardner**
>
> Board Member, National Council on Youth Policy
>
> **Karen Pittman**
>
> Public Policy Director, International Youth Foundation
>
> **Panel #3: Invest in community-based programs to care for neglected,
> abused and delinquent children.**
>
> Facilitator: **Nancy Gannon**
>
> Deputy Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice

######  Presenters: **Hilda Crespo**

######  Vice-President, ASPIRA

**Andre Dawkins**

> Juvenile Court Graduate & Financial Consultant

######  **Mai Fernandez**

> Deputy Director, Latin American Youth Center
>
> **Dan MacAllair**
>
> Vice President, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
>
> **The Honorable Nancy Salyers**
>
> Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
>
> **Panel \# 4: Give kids who are in trouble with the law a chance to
> make a better choice.**
>
> Facilitator: **Jeremy Estrada**
>
> Juvenile Court Graduate & Student, Pepperdine University
>
> Presenters: **John Artis**
>
> Co-Defendant of "Hurricane" Rubin Carter
>
> Youth Counselor, Norfolk Juvenile Detention Facility
>
> **Jeffrey Butts**
>
> Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute
>
> **The Honorable William Gladstone**
>
> Senior Circuit Judge, Florida

#### Terence Hallinan

> District Attorney, San Francisco
>
> **Sonja Okun & Program Graduate**
>
> Director, Career Exploration Program

##### Center for Alternative Sentencing

> **Panel #5: Provide humane confinement for serious juvenile offenders,
> and only as a last resort.**
>
> Facilitator: **Marc Schindler**
>
> Staff Attorney, Youth Law Center
>
> Co-Chair, Juvenile Justice Coalition
>
> Presenters: **Jo Becker**
>
> Director of Advocacy, Human Rights Watch
>
> **Ned Loughran**
>
> Director, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

#### Rasheed Newson

##### Communications Assistant, Coalition for Juvenile Justice

> **Mark Steward & Program Graduate**
>
> Director, Missouri Division of Youth Services
>
> **Dave Utter**
>
> Director, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
>
> **Panel #6: Ensure fair and equal justice for all children and
> youth.**
>
> Facilitator: **Michael Finley**

Soros Justice Fellow, Building Blocks for Youth

> Presenters: **Margaret Rose Henry**
>
> Executive Director, Girls Incorporated of Delaware
>
> **The Honorable Cindy Lederman**
>
> Administrative Judge, 11^th^ Judicial Circuit - Florida
>
> **David Miller**, Education Consultant

####### **Hilary Shelton**, Director

> NAACP Washington Bureau
>
> **Mark Soler**, President

##### Youth Law Center

**Mildred Wurf**

> Director of Public Policy, Girls Incorporated

**6:30pm-8:30pm** **National Juvenile Justice Awards Reception**

*B-339 Rayburn, U.S. House of Representatives*

**Wednesday, June 7, 2000**

**9:00am-10:30am** **Media Plenary**

Facilitator: **Vincent Schiraldi**

Director, Justice Policy Institute

Panelists: **Joe Davidson** -- *Emerge* & National Public Radio

**Dianne Donovan** -- *Chicago Tribune*

**Gary Fields** -- *USA Today*

**Ted Gest** -- *U.S. News & World Report*

**Elizabeth Lewis --** National Public Radio

**Ben Wittes** *-- Washington Post*

**10:30am-10:45am** **Break**

**10:45am-12:15pm** **Juvenile Justice Working Groups #1-6**

**12:15pm-1:30pm** **Luncheon**

**1:30pm-3:15pm** **Juvenile Justice Working Groups #1-6**

**3:15pm-3:30pm** **Break**

**3:30pm-5:30pm** **Closing Plenary and Working Group Presentations**

**Juvenile Court Graduates Scheduled**

**To Speak at the National Juvenile Justice Summit**

*The full text of these stories can be found in [Second
Chances]{.underline} a book by the Justice Policy Institute and the
Children and Family Justice Center, and Second Chances: Giving Kids A
Chance To Make A Better Choice, a bulletin published by the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.*

> **Bob Beamon, Miami, FL - Olympic Long Jumper**
>
> At the age of 16, Bob Beamon turned away from a life of petty crime
>
> and gang activity and set his sights higher - much higher. In 1968 he
>
> shattered the world-record in the long jump at the Mexico City
>
> Olympics. Beamon, who was recently named one of ESPN\'s top
>
> 100 athletes of the 20th Century, attributes the change in his life to
>
> two people: a grandmother who vowed to take care of him and a
>
> juvenile court judge who gave him a second chance.
>
> **Jeremy Estrada, Los Angeles, CA - Pre-med Student**
>
> By the age of 12, Jeremy Estrada was embroiled in the gang wars of
>
> inner-city LA. When his best friend bled to death in his arms after a
>
> shoot-out with a rival gang, Estrada turned himself in to the police.
>
> Soon afterwards, a Wilderness Challenge Program in Nevada
>
> awoke a new passion in the youth - fractions. Today, the 23-year-old
>
> is a devoted father and a pre-med student at Pepperdine University,
>
> CA.
>
> **Terence Hallinan, San Francisco, CA - District Attorney of San
> Francisco**
>
> Hallinan learned to fight to defend himself as a boy growing up in the
>
> San Francisco area. Fighting soon landed the bellicose teen in
>
> juvenile hall and got him expelled from high school. Hallinan\'s
> record
>
> stayed with him during his adult life and almost prevented him from
>
> practicing law. But today, Hallinan has just been elected for a
>
> second term as District Attorney of San Francisco.
>
> **Ronald Laney, Washington, DC - Director, Child Protection Division,
> Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department
> of Justice**
>
> The system was set to write young Ronald Laney off. At 17, a long
>
> history of delinquency threatened to land Laney in an adult prison.
>
> But when a juvenile court judge gave the youth a second chance,
>
> Laney left his home in Jacksonville Beach, FL to join the Marines. He
>
> went on to have a decorated career after two tours of duty in
>
> Vietnam. Today the 52-year-old works for the U.S. Justice
>
> Department where he directs the federal Division of Child Protection.
>
> **Capt. James N. Short, Jr., Washington, DC - Fire Captain**
>
> Although his arrests as a youth landed him in the juvenile justice
>
> system, Short credits that same system with helping him pull
>
> himself together to go on to a career in the Washington, DC Fire
>
> Department. Dogged by his troubled past, Short was eventually able
>
> to get his juvenile record expunged.

***Resource Materials***

Additional resource materials are available for videoconference
participants at no cost, and are available on the World Wide Web:

**Giving Kids A Chance to Make A Better Choice: Community Guide for
Youth Advocates"**

This user-friendly guide offers ideas for centennial events and
activities, action steps to organize these activities at the local and
state level, and helpful tips on how to involve the community. The
activities and materials will promote public understanding of the ways
children and youth are served by the juvenile justice system, while
offering hands-on opportunities to see the juvenile justice system at
work and to meet successful juvenile court graduates. (Available at:
[http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jcci/resources.html]{.underline})

**Juvenile Justice Fact Sheets**

Fact sheets on juvenile court graduates; juvenile court's rehabilitative
approach; juvenile court bibliography; juvenile crime myths and facts;
juvenile crime prevention; juvenile justice system basic process;
challenges in the juvenile justice system; girls; Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Act; minority youth; mental health; and children
in adult jails. (Available at:
[http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jcci/resources.html]{.underline})

**Juvenile Justice Reading List**

This reading list includes some of the key books, publications and
reports on juvenile justice. (Available at:
[http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jcci/resources.html]{.underline})

**Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 Report**

Published by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
this report is a comprehensive source of information about juvenile
crime, violence, and victimization and about the response of the
juvenile justice system to these problems. (Available at:
[http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org]{.underline})

**Media Guide for Youth Advocates**

This handy guide offers tips on how to work with the media; talking
points on juvenile justice issues; and sample press releases,
opinion-editorials and newsletter articles on juvenile justice.
(Available at: [http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jcci/resources.html]{.underline})

**National Resource List**

This list includes federal, state and local government contacts, and
national organizations that provide information on juvenile justice
issues. (Available at:
http[://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jcci/resources.html]{.underline})

**Second Chances: Giving Kids A Chance to Make A Better Choice**

Published by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ,
this bulletin profiles 12 successful juvenile court graduates, such as
former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, DC Superior Court Judge Reggie Walton,
San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan and Olympic gold
medallist Bob Beamon. (Available at:
[http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org]{.underline})

**Second Chances: 100 Years of the Children\'s Court**

This publication profiles twenty-five successful juvenile court
graduates, including former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, Olympic gold
medallist Bob Beamon, former Deputy Drug Czar Reggie Walton, the U.S.
Department of Justice's Director of Child Protection, Ron Laney; race
car driver Ron Ashley; and San Francisco District Attorney Terence
Hallinan. (Available at: [www.cjcj.org/centennial]{.underline})

***The Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative**:*

## 

**The Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative (JCCI ) is a national
campaign led by a coalition of national organizations and funded by the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention designed to:**

-   Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the juvenile
    court in the U.S.

-   Recognizes the critical role of the juvenile court in the positive
    development of our nation's children and youth.

-   Emphasizes the court's role in the rehabilitation of children in
    trouble with the law.

**JCCI seeks to strengthen and revitalize the juvenile court and to
educate the public about its effectiveness in contributing to a
reduction in youth violence and crime by working at the national level
and in local jurisdictions to:**

-   Highlight the lessons of the juvenile court through a national media
    campaign using print, radio and TV ads and articles in the news,
    professional and advocacy media to promote the unique role of a
    separate court for children and the achievements of juvenile court
    graduates.

-   Engage the leadership of juvenile justice and youth-serving
    organizations through conferences, meetings, conference calls, email
    list serve, web sites, and dissemination of materials to promote
    effective interventions and to encourage replication of model
    programs.

-   Increase investments to support troubled children and youth through
    outreach and education to strengthen existing and build new
    community partnerships focusing on crime prevention and offender
    rehabilitation.

**JCCI supports the ongoing work of juvenile justice practitioners and
youth-serving organizations through a series of coordinated activities
including:**

-   Community events in local jurisdictions with juvenile court
    graduates and citizen visits to juvenile courts, juvenile detention
    facilities and alternative-to-detention programs.

-   National Juvenile Justice Awards Program recognizing model programs
    with awards to be announced in June at the National Juvenile Justice
    Summit.

-   National Juvenile Justice Summit and ratification of a *Declaration
    on Juvenile Justice for the* *21^st^ Century* in Washington, DC on
    June 6-7.

Previous Satellite Videoconferences

Produced by

**Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention**

***Conditions of Confinement in Juvenile Corrections and Detention
Facilities***

September 1993

***Community Collaboration***

June 1995

***Effective Programs for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile
Offenders***

October 1995

***Youth-Oriented Community Policing***

December 1995

***Juvenile Boot Camps***

February 1996

***Conflict Resolution for Youth***

May 1996

***Reducing Youth Gun Violence***

August 1996

***Youth Out of the Education Mainstream***

October 1996

***Has the Juvenile Court Outlived Its Usefulness?***

December 1996

***Youth Gangs in America***

March 1997

***Preventing Drug Abuse Among Youth***

June 1997

***Mentoring for Youth in Schools and Communities***

September 1997

***Juvenile Offenders and Drug Treatment:***

***Promising Approaches***

December 1997

***Protecting Children Online***

March 1998

***Youth Courts: A National Movement***

February 1998

***Comprehensive Juvenile Justice in State Legislatures***

May 1998

***Risk Factors and Successful Interventions for***

***Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders***

September 1998

***White House Conference on School Safety:***

***Causes and Prevention of Youth Violence***

October 1998

######## **Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System**

December 1998

***Females and the Juvenile Justice System***

May 1999

***Promising Practices for Safe and Effective Schools***

September 1999

######## **Online Safety for Children: A Primer for Parents and Teachers**

*November 1999*

***Model Court Practices in Abuse and Neglect Cases***

*February, 2000*

***Crowding in Juvenile Detention: A Problem Solving Approach***

*April, 2000*

**[For Further Information]{.underline}**

For videos of previous OJJDP videoconferences, please contact the
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, PO Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20849-6000;
call 800-638-8736; fax 301-251-5212; or e-mail askncjrs@ncjrs.org.For
information on future OJJDP programs, contact Jenny McWilliams, Juvenile
Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project, Eastern Kentucky
University, 301 Perkins Building, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond, KY
40475-3102; call 859-622-6671; fax 859-622-4397; or e-mail
[ekujjtap@aol.com](mailto:beckytrc@iclub.org)