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OJJDP Accepting Nominations for
National Missing Children's Day Awards

The U.S. Department of Justice, through OJJDP, recognizes individuals, organizations, and agencies that have made a difference in recovering missing and abducted children and protecting children from exploitation. The deadline for nominations is January 20, 2017.
Interested in working at OJJDP?

We are hiring a Social Science Analyst as part of the Innovation and Research Division. Applications are due by December 7, 2016. Learn More and apply.

Changing Minds About Children's Exposure to Violence and Trauma

Changing Minds, a new national education campaign, seeks to raise awareness, teach skills, and inspire public action to address children's exposure to violence and trauma.

OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2016
The September-October newsletter highlights National Youth Justice Awareness Month and OJJDP's efforts to reform the juvenile justice system to better serve system-involved youth.

The Role of Technology in Youth Harassment Victimization
This bulletin discusses key findings from the National Institute of Justice-sponsored Technology Harassment Victimization study and is a follow-up study to OJJDP's second National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV II).

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White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable Releases First Annual Report

The White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (WH-LAIR) has released "Expanding Access to Justice, Strengthening Federal Programs." This first annual report to the President, funded by the Department of Justice's Office for Access to Justice, highlights steps that 22 federal agency members of WH-LAIR have taken to integrate civil legal aid into programs serving low-income and vulnerable individuals. Among the programs highlighted in the report are the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and OJJDP's Juvenile Reentry Assistance Program and OJJDP's Smart on Juvenile Justice reentry legal services fellowship program run by the National Juvenile Defender Center. View and download the report.