National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition (NJJDPC)

CCLP is a member organization of the National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition (NJJDPC), a collaborative array of youth- and family- serving, social justice, law enforcement, corrections, and faith-based organizations, working to ensure healthy families, build strong communities and improve public safety by promoting fair and effective policies, practices and programs for youth involved or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. CCLP staff serve on the NJJDPC Steering Committee. The NJJDPC meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 1:30 p.m. in Washington, D.C., and meetings are open to the public.

Priorities for the Obama Administration and the 112th Congress

On February 15, 2011, NJJDPC released strong recommendations addressing much-needed policy and administrative advances to President Obama’s Administration and Members of the 112th Congress. This call for action prioritizes juvenile justice system reform and urges:

• Swift appointment of a permanent administrator for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
  Prevention (OJJDP);
• Reauthorizing the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA);
• Ensuring that implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) meets the needs of
  detained youth.

Click here to download the recommendations for Congress, and follow this link to download the recommendations for the Obama Administration. You can download a press release regarding the recommendations here.

The NJJDP Coalition’s recommendations are based on the consensus of more than 50 national organizations working on youth development, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, including a broad range of practitioners and advocates from faith-based groups, education organizations, research organizations, and prevention-oriented law enforcement organizations.