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Action Alliance for Children
The Action Alliance for Children website features information about current trends, policies, and other issues affecting children. The site also contains details about Child Advocate, the organization's news magazine and links to resources for children and families.
Alliance for Children and Families
Site provides information for youth advocates including public policy updates, a newsletter publications, and programming. The public policy and advocacy section includes fact sheet alerts, policy statements, and updates on legislative news.
American Bar Association - Juvenile Justice
The American Bar Association offers a multitude of information on the juvenile justice system, providing trainings, articles, listservs and links to various organizations around the country.
Building Blocks for Youth
Building Blocks for Youth, a partnership of child advocates, researchers, law enforcement professionals, and community organizers, focuses on minorities in the juvenile justice system. The alliance works together to ensure that policies affecting minority youth are both rational and effective. Building Blocks for Youth publishes its own newsletter containing recent policy research, and provides its website users with the opportunity to subscribe to the newsletter on-line. In addition, the site offers users the ability to research recent as well as past developments in the area of juvenile law.
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
The Center focuses on decreasing incarceration as a solution to juvenile crime. The Center also provides technical assistance to state and local governments interested in alternatives to incarceration.
Childhelp USA
Information, reporting, and hotline regarding child abuse.
Child Welfare League of America
Information, publications, and legislative updates on child welfare issues.
Children's Defense Fund
Contains articles, action alerts, and publications on children's issues.
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Massachusetts based organization that educates the public on juvenile justice issues and for juvenile justice policy.
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) represents governor-appointed advisory groups within the juvenile court system. The non-profit organization provides the public with training and technical assistance related to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. In addition, CJJ produces a bimonthly newsletter and presents an annual report to the President and Congress. The CJJ website provides information on upcoming conferences concerning juvenile justice issues, a resource page including fact sheets, and a listing of contact information of juvenile justice specialists.
Illinois Juvenile Justice Initiative
"MISSION: The Juvenile JusticeInitiative is a statewide advocacy coalition to transform the juvenile justice system. The JJI advocates to reduce reliance on detention, to enhance fairness for children and to develop adequate community based resources throughout the state.
Just Youth Project
This legal clinic for adolescents and young adults provides support, referrals to community services (Legal Aid, Public Defender, social services) and a resource library. The project serves youth under 18 who commit petty delinquencies, violate school policies, violate civil ordinances, or are in a conflict at school, in their neighborhood, or in the community.
Juvenile Justice Information Center
The Juvenile Justice Information Center provides comprehensive information and statistics on juvenile justice in California. The website serves as a wonderful source for gathering information on a variety of juvenile justice issues, ranging from the highly debated Proposition 21 to the role ace plays in the juvenile justice system. The site also includes a section comparing the myths and facts about juvenile justice, and a section entitled �Legal Rights Yo Should Know.� Designed to improve the public�s understanding of t juvenile justice system and promote better public policy, this website does an excellent job of making information accessible and easy to understand.
Juvenile Law Center
The Center is a non-profit law firm located in Pennsylvania. It works to reform the juvenile system, child welfare, and mental health care for youth. The site provides information on it and tactics as well as its newsletter and other publications.
Kids Peace
Kids Peace advocates programs that help children and adolescents avoid crises before they begin. The website offers a comprehensive magazine that highlights current juvenile issues and opportunities to help this organization.
Kidz Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established the Kidz Privacy website to help implement the 1998 Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act. In accordance with the Act. The FTC promulgates rules to ensure that website operators protect children's privacy while kids are on-line. The Kidz Privacy site offers information about the FTC rules as well as the text of the 1998 act. The site's "Adults Only" section gives parents advice for protecting their children when children are on-line. The site's "Just for Kidz" section gives children tailor-made guidance on cautiously surfing the Internet.
LLI: Legal Information Institute
The Legal Information Institute�s website gives a comprehensiv overview of juvenile law and the federal government�s role in th area. The site has a menu of sources which includes federal and state laws and cases. The site also includes a discussion of cases that the New York Court of Appeals decided during the past decade. The LII site also provides a list of references for juvenile law issues, including links to The Juvenile Justice homepage, The National Youth Gang Center, and the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Program.
National Association of Child Advocates
National organization devoted to creation and sustenance of community-based child advocacy organizations.
National Association of Counsel for Children
A non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of representation of children in the legal system. Programs range from national conferences and trainings to research and referral information.
National Center for Youth Law
A private, non-profit law office serving the legal needs of children and their families. This site offers information, articles and some publications on various children's issues.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers a support system for families who have lost their children. The website proves beneficial and helpful by posting pictures of missing children, providing a toll-free crisis helpline, sharing methods for reporting child sexual exploitation, and detailing news and events. The site also features success stories to give hope to individuals in crisis, and can be accessed in both English and Spanish.
The National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice
The national Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice seeks to address the needs of children with disabilities in the juvenile justice system. The organization?s website contains information on the Center?s research, training opportunities, and resources for parents.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Permanency Planning for Children
The Permanency Planning for Children Department provides educational and technical assistance to courts in hopes of improving practice in child abuse and neglect cases. The group's website details the organization?s current projects, including the Permanent Families Initiative, the Child Victims Model Courts Initiative, and the Expedited Adoption Initiative. The site also provides links to other juvenile law sites, and offers information on publications concerning adoption and court practice in child abuse and neglect cases. The website allows visitors to view chapters of the publications and provides an order form for on-line purchasing.
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A federally sponsored site, National Criminal Justice Reference Service bills itself as an "information clearinghouse" for people involved with criminal and juvenile justice research, practice, and policy. The website provides a variety of links leading to information on courts, drugs, and law enforcement. The site also details a number of issues relating to juveniles, including adolescent pregnancy, crime in schools, strengthening families, missing and exploited children.
The National Law Center for Children and Families
The National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC) is a non-profit organization committed to enforcing the laws against illegal pornography. The Center strives to reach its goals by encouraging the protection of children and families from the harmful effect of illegal pornography, and assisting in law enforcement and law improvement. The NLC site provides court brief of cases relating to federal and state obscenity and child exploitation laws. The website also contains amicus curiae briefs filed by NLC and information on legislation, law enforcement, and filtering.
Northwestern Law Legal Clinic: Children & Family Justice Center
Information on juvenile justice cases, law clinic programs, cases in the news.
Self-Help Center
Organized by the Judicial Council of California, the Self-Help Center offers many unique services designed mainly for people preparing for court. The Center's website offers self-help search capabilities to help guide individual research projects. Additionally, the site provides free and low cost legal service, helpful links to other sites, and an on-line activity book to prepare children for court proceedings in California.
Youth Law Center
Youthlink provides youth an online forum for their ideas and solutions to today's social problems.
