CJJA News

Dear Members, CJJA is pleased to announce the new Deputy Directors Training, funded by OJJDP. This training will be presented in a combination of self-paced distance-learning and live discussions. The Opening Session is scheduled for October 8,...

CJJA is inviting you to apply for the Facility Director/Superintendent Training to be held August 2021 (provisional approval). A preview of the agenda includes: Best Practice and Evidence-Based Approaches in Detention and Commitment Strategies to...

CJJA has received provisional approval to release applications to invite you to apply for the Superintendent’s Training tentatively scheduled on January 12-15, 2021 in Columbus, Ohio.   A preview of the agenda includes: Best Practice and...

Once again, it is an honor to open the nomination field for the CJJA Outstanding Leadership in Juvenile Justice. Since 1994, the Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators has been nationally known for connecting juvenile correctional CEO’s and...

The Pew Charitable Trusts, Issue Brief, November 2019 Agency leaders share the history and potential of research-driven policy change Overview Since 2012, a growing number of states have used data and research to inform sweeping policy changes that...

The January 2020 CJJA Winter Business Meeting was held in San Diego, CA.  The two and a half days of rich content, presentations, think tanks and networking began on Friday with an informative start from MaryLee Underwood, JD Executive...

Teams from Bexar County, Texas; New York City, New York; and the states of Idaho, Oklahoma, and Maryland were selected to be part of Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators’ first-ever Length of Stay Policy Academy, a partnership with the Pew...

In 2013 South Dakota had the second highest juvenile commitment rate in the country, despite our juvenile violent crime rate being 1/3 the national average. We were spending a significant amount of the state’s juvenile justice budget on out of home...

In response to the field’s growing need for a juvenile focused training for facility directors/ superintendents, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and...

CJCA is pleased to partner with the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform to release a Request for Applications for a new Length of Stay Policy Academy. The goal of the Policy Academy is to guide and support teams from...

CJCA was very glad to welcome participants in the Pilot Program for the first CJCA Superintendent Training Program that was held on August 3-6 during the CJCA Summer Meeting. The program was created in response to field’s growing need for a...

 Since 1994, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators has been nationally known for connecting juvenile correctional CEO’s and advancing juvenile justice reform efforts across the country focusing on improving conditions of confinement,...

RFP Announcement: Regions - Secure Juvenile Residential Treatment Program - Qualified organizations to provide a limited-secure residential facility to serve male adolescents Pre-Proposal Conference: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 1:30 pm at 90...

  Written by Mike Dempsey, CJCA Executive Director A New Resource from Stop Solitary for Kids (SSK) Campaign How to Reduce Room Confinement While Increasing Safety in Facilities has been released.  Now more than ever, room confinement is a...

CJCA Awards for Outstanding Leadership in Juvenile Justice   About the Awards:   Since 1994, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators has been nationally known for connecting juvenile correctional CEO’s and advancing juvenile justice...

Here is Arkansas’s posting of Medical Services, which is posted on the Arkansas DFA web site.  http://www.arkansas.gov/dfa/procurement/bids/index.php          

CJCA Awards for Outstanding Leadership in Juvenile Justice   About the Awards:   Since 1994, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators has been nationally known for connecting juvenile correctional CEO’s and advancing juvenile justice...

Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis appointed the former First District Court of Appeal judge and former secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation Simone Marstiller as the new secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice...

  CJCA’s Winter Meeting was held in New Orleans on Jan. 11-13, 2019 in advance of the ACA Winter Conference where we had over 40 CJCA members and designees participating in the meeting along with over 50 associate members and guests, making...

JUVJUST an OJJDP News Service The JUVJUST listserv posts information on current juvenile justice issues, resources, and events of interest to subscribers. OJJDP did not fund the resource or activity described in this announcement and its posting...

CJCA has recently published the CJCA Toolkit: Recruiting, Hiring and Retaining Qualified Staff. Click here for the link to the new toolkit. During the past two decades, the issue of hiring and retaining juvenile justice staff has received increased...

CJCA would like to share this article on the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) reducing isolation published in the Portland Tribune  Click here for the link to the article.                       ...

Engaging the Families of Youth in Custody: An Essential Goal for Juvenile Justice Practitioners By Hannah Oppermann, Michael Umpierre, and Shay Bilchik | January 9, 2019 click here for the link to this article posted on the Juvenile Justice...

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Reauthorized In December, President Trump signed into law the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, reauthorizing and substantially amending the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974...

Commentary The Recidivism Trap Counting failure is no way to encourage success.  Written by Jeffrey A. Butts and  Vincent Schiraldi Any discussion of criminal justice policy inevitably includes the word “recidivism.” Usually more than once....

Following two years of vigorous study and debate, Kansas passed comprehensive juvenile justice reforms in 2016. More than two years later, state officials examining performance measures see indicators of success across the system, as the narrower...

  Written By  Linda Satter November 24, 2018 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A jury trial for two former juvenile detention center officers accused of conspiring to abuse jailed teenagers at the White River Juvenile Detention Center in Batesville...

Applications due by January 11, 2019 Apply Now for the Youth in Custody Practice Model Initiative CJJR, in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), is currently accepting applications for the third round of the...

The Pew Charitable Trusts published a new interactive tool that highlights the extent to which states are removing youth from their homes and sending them to juvenile residential facilities for noncriminal infractions like probation violations,...

by Susan Lockwood (Author) Walk into any kindergarten classroom and choose six students. Would you be surprised to learn that one of those young students will drop out before finishing high school? Somewhere along the way, young students are losing...