NCJ Number
158629
Date Published
1994
Length
387 pages
Annotation
This volume supplies information resources for training modules designed to provide trainers with all the material needed to educate State Advisory Groups (SAG's) on their roles and responsibilities regarding the implementation of the Formula Grants Program under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDP) of 1974.
Abstract
Training for SAG members has several purposes, including giving new members a basic knowledge of the JJDP Act and associated regulations, enhancing the knowledge of tenured SAG members as to their responsibilities under the act, helping improve leadership skills, enhancing SAG members' effectiveness as youth advocates and designers of State juvenile justice policy, and helping ensure proper implementation of the JJDP Act at the local level. Each of the 19 training modules is a lesson plan that describes the function and goals of the module, the time required to present the module and use training activities, content information, action steps for the SAG to take in applying their knowledge, a section on what to expect as a result of SAG action, and follow-up suggestions and resource materials for reference following the training. This volume provides 20 information resources for the training modules. They include the JJDP Act as amended in 1992; a formula grants application kit; a formula grants review checklist; the draft of a State monitoring report; a summary of State compliance; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention regulations as amended August 8, 1989; myths and realities; obligation of funds; passthrough instructions; and an overview of advocacy. Other information resources are an audit of compliance monitoring systems, a juvenile crime analysis outline, a fact sheet on the JJDP Act, JJDP Act overview, and a summary of substantive amendments of 1992. Remaining information resources are a force field analysis simulation, a continuum of care diagram, methods of systems change, and objections to jail removal. For other volumes in the curriculum, see NCJ-158627-28.