# Presentation: 495959

## Highlights of Coordinating Council Activities and Accomplishments, 2001-2008 

## Overview

- Council goals
- Framework for Council actions
- Overview of Council activities, 2001-08
- Council achievements

## Council Goals

- Strengthen the practice of inter- and intra-agency youth-focused collaboration
- Increase knowledge, dissemination, and use of evidence-based programs
- Elevate the importance of comprehensive JJ agenda at the Federal level and increase alignment of goals between JJ and other systems at all levels of government

**Notes:**
To support its mission and ultimately to improve the well-being of at-risk children and youth, the Council adopted these goals.

## Framework for Council Actions

- Juvenile Justice Action Plan
- Final Report of White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth

**Notes:**
Over the last 10 years, two important documents have guided the Coordinating Council, OJJDP, and their Federal partners in developing programs.

Juvenile Justice Action Plan, first published by the Council in 1996.  Tenents of comprehensive framework/graduated sanctions remains approach to delinquency prevention.
Reaffirmed in 1999, 2001, 2006. 
Copy is on disk of full plan and summary.

A broad framework for addressing delinquency.

Emphasis on prevention strategies and graduated sanctions with a continuum of treatment alternatives.

Final Report of White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth
October 2003: Final WHTF report issued.
March 2004: Council adopted 13 recommendations from WHTF report to guide its work and undertaken activities in support, i.e. Federal Mentoring Council, SMART, Shared Youth Vision; others have been undertaken by individual agencies, i.e., incorporating performance measures into grantee work plans, solicitations; FYSB solicited family input.

## WHTF Recommendations Adopted by Council

- Mentoring programs
- Local planning process
- Unified protocol for “What Works”
- Unified disadvantaged youth research agenda
- Data collection on families
- Grantee performance measurements
- Grantee-level performance guidelines

## WHTF Recommendations Adopted by Council

- Oversight of earmarked grantees
- Parents’ involvement in youth programs
- Youth involvement in grant review panels
- Youth in public care
- Youth with many risk factors
- Special target groups

## Overview of Council Activities, 2001-2008

- 2001, 2006: Reaffirmed JJ Action Plan
- 2003: Created 5 subcommittees
- 2004: Adopted 13 WHDY recommendations
- 2004: Established Council Planning Team
- 2004: GIS planning and program tools: HAY, SMART

**Notes:**
2001, 2006: Reaffirmed JJ Action Plan.

2003: Created 5 subcommittees to advance work:
Tribal Youth.
Drugs and Alcohol.
Family Health.
Education.
Technology.

2004: Adopted 13 recommendations from WHTF.

2004: Established Council Planning Team to help plan meetings and coordinate Council activities.

2004: Began support for GIS planning and program tools.

Community Guide to Helping America’s Youth.

SMART (Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography) system.

## Council Activities, 2001-2008

- 2006: 4 Interagency Agreements (IAAs)
- 2006: Hosted First National Conference
- 2007: Initiated Federal Partnership Project
- 2008: Round Two IAAs
- 2001-2008: Quarterly meetings

**Notes:**
2006: Supported coordination through 4 Interagency Agreements (IAAs):

Through OJJDP, Council provided $100,000 to DOL, HUD, HHS, and CNCS to enable them to coordinate their work and leverage Federal resources.

2006: Hosted First National Conference.

	Attended by more than 2,000 people.

	Featured First Lady Laura Bush as keynote speaker.

	Each of the Council’s member agencies sponsored, organized, and facilitated one or more sessions.

2007: Initiated Federal Partnership Project to increase knowledge about Federal collaboration and comprehensive community initiatives.

2008: Supported 4 new IAAs.

2001-2008: Sponsored quarterly meetings in which member agencies
Shared information on programs and research efforts.
Identified opportunities to collaborate.

All the Council’s work supports one or more of its goals:

Strengthen collaboration.

Emphasize evidence-based programs.

Promote a comprehensive JJ agenda at the Federal level.

## Achievements: Strengthening Collaboration

- Shared Youth Vision: Led by DOL and supported by the Council
- Federal Partnership Project (CCI toolkit, compilation report/update of DDS)
- GIS Planning and Program Tools: HAY, SMART

**Notes:**
Shared Youth Vision: Led by DOL and supported by the Council.

Serves as a catalyst at national, State, and local levels to strengthen coordination, communication, and collaboration among youth-serving agencies.

In 2007, 16 communities were selected for targeted support and funding to demonstrate partnerships and integration strategies to target disadvantaged youth.

Federal Partnership Project:

Goals: (1) Increase knowledge about Federal collaboration and CCIs. (2) Enhance Federal coordination of assistance to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families.

Products: Web-based tools and practice guidelines for Federal program and policy staff; compilation report of federal youth-related activities as foundation for future planning.

GIS Planning and Program Tools gave rise to two initiatives:

Community Guide to Helping America’s Youth.
Jointly developed by 9 federal agencies.
 Web-based tool to help communities build partnerships, assess needs and resources, and select programs.

Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography Tool (SMART).
Web-based tool that pinpoints local areas of crime and delinquency and nearby resources to prevent and control it.
Helps Federal, State, and local decisionmakers target areas of greatest need and allocate resources accordingly.

## Achievements: Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs

- Federal Mentoring Council:
- Supported by Coordinating Council and led by CNCS and HHS
- Coordinates Federal mentoring work and develop new Federal initiatives
- Identified gaps in mentoring services and develops and disseminates best practices

**Notes:**
Federal Mentoring Council:
Interagency council supported by Coordinating Council and led by CNCS and HHS.
Established in 2006 to coordinate Federal mentoring work and develop new Federal initiatives to increase mentoring for disadvantaged youth.
FMC identified gaps in mentoring services and assessed current knowledge about what works and how to identify and disseminate best practices.

## Achievements: Promoting a Comprehensive JJDP Agenda

*Interagency Agreements – 2 Rounds*
- CNCS (2)
- DOL (2)
- HUD
- CSAT/SAMHSA
- NEA
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau

**Notes:**
Interagency Agreements. Through OJJDP, the Council has entered into IAAs to leverage member agencies’ resources. For example:

IAAs with CNCS to help establish the Federal Mentoring Council and to support its Web presence.

IAAs with DOL to support Shared Youth Vision with regional workshops and to support enhanced coordination of Federal resources for disadvantaged youth.

IAA with HUD to support and document coordination on local youth development projects.

IAA with SAMHSA to coordinate and enhance substance abuse and mental health treatment services for youth in JJ system

IAA with NEA to expand model Shakespeare theater programming for youth at risk of gang involvement.  

IAA with Maternal and Child Health Bureau to maintain Interactive Best Practices for Prevention of Child and Adolescent Injuries Web site; to train State/territorial Child Death Review practitioners; and to implement prevention practices/programs aimed at reducing deaths of infants, children, and adolescents. 

## Achievements: Special Projects

- Federal Coordination in the Gulf Coast:
- Assessment of the needs & facilitation of local resource identification
- DOL’s $15 M National Emergency Grant Program
- Variety of joint, coordinated efforts by member agencies (refer September update report)

**Notes:**
Federal Coordination in the Gulf Coast:

After Hurricane Katrina, the Council helped coordinate Federal resources for at-risk youth and bring attention to the needs.  Activities undertaken were:
Extensive staff assessment of the needs of juvenile court and youth-serving agencies followed by consultation to US Attorney, state and local agencies in coordination with Federal Ofc of Gulf Coast rebuilding.
DOL’s $15 M National Emergency Grant Program focusing on out-of-school youth and supported by the Shared Youth Vision approach to strengthening Federal collaboration in the region.
Variety of activities – see September report, attached. 

## Conclusions

- Strengthened habits and practices of youth-focused interagency coordination
- Increased leveraging of resources
- Infrastructure for joint planning and coordinated expenditures
- Improved programs through joint initiatives and coordinated resource deployment

## Conclusions

- Ultimately, at-risk youth benefit from pooling of resources and expertise in:
- Youth development
- Child maltreatment
- Mental health
- Substance abuse
- Family strengthening
- Education
- Service learning
- Delinquency prevention