Announcements

Date and time: January 30, 2025, 3:00–4:00 pm ET

This virtual training will feature a facilitated discussion with school and district leaders on their experiences with managing anonymous threats—such as hoax calls, threats received on social media or via email, and notes found on school grounds—and maintaining the safety of their communities. The discussion will explore anonymous threat trends affecting K–12 schools, the criticality of early awareness and deterrence of future threats, key partners in addressing threats, and appropriate response actions that schools and local law enforcement partners can take when threats are received.

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Date and time: January 21, 2025, 2:00–3:00 pm ET

This webinar will discuss the NIJ FY 2025 Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics Funding Opportunity, which seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice in the following four topics: 

1. Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice System Prosecution
2. Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Defense Delivery Systems
3. Evaluation of Youth Reentry Practices
4. Resubmissions of Youth Justice Reinvestment Studies

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Closing date for applications: April 17, 2025, 11:59 pm ET

This funding opportunity supports communities in leveraging the expertise and experience of youth and young adult leaders, technical assistance, guidance from federal agencies, and importantly, significant financial investment in developing their local coordinated community plans to prevent and end youth homelessness.

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This report highlights important trends and changes in three key behaviors among U.S. high school students: nutrition, physical activity, and sleep. These activities are essential for improving students' mental and physical health and for preventing chronic health conditions.

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This microsite provides an overview of the youth justice system, explaining why and how it differs from adult court, and a history of how it has changed over the years. Site resources provide access to the latest data on youth crime and effective strategies that communities have employed to hold young people accountable while advancing community safety. 

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These resources help teach young people how to deal with stress in healthy ways so they can feel good without turning to substances.

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This guide is designed to be a reliable resource on the most commonly used and misused drugs in the United States. The guide provides important information about the harms and consequences of drug use by describing a drug’s effects on the body and mind, overdose potential, origin, legal status, and other key facts.

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This guide provides key considerations for guiding people in the appropriate use of 988 and 911. It offers practical steps for integrating crisis care into daily practice, real world scenarios, sample scripts, and de-escalation techniques.

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These exchange programs are designed for young Americans wishing to go abroad for cultural, educational, or professional exchange. Learn more.

The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention published two reports on the Council’s activities and accomplishments to date related to federal delinquency programs as well as recommendations to Congress on youth justice priorities and strategy. The reports are titled: 

• Report to Congress and the White House 2023-2024 (PDF, 25 pages) 
• Independent Report of the Practitioner Members on Youth Justice (PDF, 16 pages) 

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This brief (PDF, 4 pages) focuses on child welfare-related prevention by highlighting initiatives from case studies that used service integration and agency collaboration to: increase protective factors prevent child maltreatment and reduce substantiated reports, and prevent homelessness among youth aging out of foster care. Learn more.

This brief (PDF, 9 pages) highlights the efforts nine case study sites made to identify and center families’ strengths and needs while coordinating access to resources and services—such as housing, physical and mental health care, food and nutrition, workforce development, and economic supports. The brief explores how sites integrated services to be responsive to participants’ needs. Learn more.

This brief (PDF, 17 pages) summarizes case study findings from nine sites that integrate human services with a prevention lens. The brief describes how case study sites integrated services; what helped and challenged sites during the ongoing implementation of their integrated prevention initiatives; and ideas and strategies for improving implementation to sustain programs and services in the future. Learn more.

This webpage contains tips and resources for helping prevent and stop human trafficking. Learn more.

Submission deadline: January 31, 2025 

NSF is seeking entries for the 2025 NSF Game Maker Awards. This competition is an opportunity for students in grades K-12 to showcase their creativity, technical skills and passion for game design. Learn more and apply.

This interactive map provides a snapshot of the 59 states and jurisdictions based on their Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Application/Annual Report. One of the five domains reported on for this grant is adolescent health. Learn more.

Grants.gov Deadline: March 20, 2025, 11:59 pm ET 
JustGrants Deadline: April 3, 2025, 8:59 pm ET 

This opportunity seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice in the following four topics: 

1. Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice System Prosecution 
2. Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Defense Delivery Systems 
3. Evaluation of Youth Reentry Practices 
4. Resubmissions of Youth Justice Reinvestment Studies 

Learn more and apply (PDF, 43 pages).

NASEM has convened a committee to help build and sustain an infrastructure for delivering prevention interventions that target risk factors for behavioral health disorders. The committee will: 

• Identify best practices for creating a sustainable behavioral health prevention infrastructure develop a blueprint 
• Identify funding needs and strategies 
• Identify specific research gaps on the adoption of evidence-based behavioral health prevention interventions 
• Make actionable recommendations 

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Date: January 30, 2025, 2:00 pm ET 

This webinar will highlight national service in Kentucky. The webinar will share how the Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky (HCCK) leverages national service across the commonwealth to address homelessness, housing insecurity, and affordable housing. The event will also highlight a newly released Return on Investment study that demonstrates Homes for All AmeriCorps’ cost savings and benefits to communities across Kentucky and the federal government. Learn more and register.

This report describes delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases handled between 2005 and 2022 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. National estimates of juvenile court delinquency caseloads in 2022 were based on analyses of 347,884 automated case records and court-level statistics summarizing an additional 40,348 cases. Estimates of status offense cases formally processed by juvenile courts in 2022 were based on analyses of 39,192 automated case-level records and court-level summary statistics on an additional 2,502 cases.

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