Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

1. Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention  Background Information on the Council  Current Membership Information  Council Activities and Decisions  2007 Meeting Calendar June 8, 2007

2. Background Information on the Council • The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act established the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Council) as an independent body within the executive branch of the federal government. The Council's primary functions are to coordinate federal juvenile delinquency prevention programs, federal programs and activities that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles, and federal programs relating to missing and exploited children. • The Council, which is chaired by the Attorney General, meets quarterly and at the call of its Chair. The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) serves as the Council's Vice Chair. • The Council, as restructured by the 1992 amendments to the JJDP Act, is composed of nine ex officio members and nine nonfederal members who are juvenile justice practitioners. The ex officio members are the Attorney General; the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Housing and Urban Development; the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security. The President may designate other key federal officials with significant decisionmaking authority to serve on the Council. • For more information, visit the Council Web site at www.juvenilecouncil.gov.

3. Current Membership Information Coordinating Council Members and Designees

4. Current Membership InformationTwo practitioner member vacancies exist on the Coordinating Council. • Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Council must have a Designated Federal Official (DFO) responsible for the operation of the Council. The DFO is: • Robin Delany-Shabazz • Director, Concentration of Federal Efforts • Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention • 810 7th Street NW, Room 3327 • Washington, DC 20531 • 202–307–9963 • 202–354–4063 (fax) • Robin.Delany-Shabazz@usdoj.gov

5. Recent Action Items - Summary Council Activities and Decisions • Two Priority Areas Moved Forward at 2006 Council Planning Meeting 1. Pilot project. Continued work on identifying geographic area(s) where member agencies can work together in support of state and local efforts and evaluate the impact of this federal collaboration on local outcomes to develop model for federal collaboration. Pilot project work group and Shared Youth Vision Initiative team have been meeting on frequent basis to discuss alignment of these two efforts, given the overlap in purpose, staffing. 2. Inventory. Intent is to compile information on comprehensive community/systems change initiatives and associated technical assistance to identify opportunities to share resources and facilitate work across agencies, increase effectiveness of federal support to states and locals, and facilitate diffusion of best practices. Initial inventory complete and agency points of contact identified. Finalizing statement of work for contractor support. • WHTFDY recommendations are basis for Council activities. Pertinent recommendations from the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth and how to best coordinate among member agencies in fulfillment of the Council’s mandate were discussed at the November-December 2006 planning session. The Council continues to use these as points of reference for its work. The recommendations follow on the next slide.

6. Council Activities and Decisions White House Task Force Recommendations Applicable to Council Work INTERAGENCY COORDINATION • Improve coordination of mentoring programs. (Federal Mentoring Council) • Support state and local community planning process. (Shared Vision for Youth) UNDERSTANDING WHAT WORKS • Develop a unified protocol for federal “What Works” clearinghouses. • Build a rigorous and unified disadvantaged youth research agenda. • Improve data collected on the well-being of families. ENGAGING YOUTH AND FAMILIES • Increase parent involvement in federal youth programs. • Recruit youth for federal grant review panels. HOLDING PROGRAMS ACCOUNTABLE FOR RESULTS • Develop standards for measuring grantee performance. (Implementation on Agency-specific basis) • Implement grantee-level performance measurement guidelines. (Agency-specific) • Conduct rigorous oversight of earmarked grantees. (Agency-specific) CARING FOR SPECIAL TARGET POPULATIONS • Expand mentoring programs to special target groups such as foster care and migrant youth. (FMC) • Target youth who are in public care, such as foster care homes and juvenile justice institutions. (SVY) • Target youth with a high number of factors putting them at risk, such as children of incarcerated parents and migrant youth. (SVY)

7. 2007 Meeting Calendar Council Members Sponsoring Meetings in 2007

8. 2007 Meeting Calendar The Council will hold its quarterly meetings on the following dates in 2007 (subject to meeting space availability). Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Meetings (9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ET) and afternoon staff/practitioner post-meetings (1:30–3 p.m. ET) Council Planning Team Conference Calls at 2 p.m. ET Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) Annual Report Committee Meeting FACJJ Spring 2007 Meeting FACJJ Fall 2007 Meeting