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Summary

The Administrator must create and run training and technical help for people who work with youth in the justice system — like police, judges, probation officers, court staff, corrections staff, schools, and others. The agency must run projects and can give grants or contracts so staff know how to run programs funded under this law, follow the core rules, and use best practices and evidence-based programs. The Administrator must also give regular state training on how to follow the core requirements and monitor compliance, and must help states meet changes made by the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, including pilot projects about “sight and sound separation” for youth in facilities open to the public (which may or may not include a jail or lock-up). The Administrator must also train mental health workers and law enforcement to test or use promising models for status offenders and youth placed in secure or nonsecure settings, share and help states use best practices for lawyers who represent children, and share research-based practices for treating status offenders to lower reoffending. Training must promote safer, less isolating confinement and culturally responsive, positive behavior approaches, and help officials decide appropriate placements and treatment for youth with mental health or substance use needs (including intake staff, probation, judges, prosecutors and defense, and families). The Attorney General, through OJJDP and OJP and with expert input, must provide or fund training to strengthen juvenile courts and judges. The Attorney General, with the Secretary of Agriculture, must guide states on applying for school lunch reimbursements under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) for incarcerated youth who would otherwise qualify.

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(a)Training

The Administrator— (1)

(2)may make grants to and contracts with public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations for the purpose of training representatives and personnel of public and private agencies, including practitioners in juvenile justice, law enforcement, courts (including model juvenile and family courts), corrections, schools, and related services, to carry out the purposes specified in section 11102 of this title; and

(3)shall provide periodic training for States regarding implementation of the core requirements, current protocols and best practices for achieving and monitoring compliance, and information sharing regarding relevant Office resources on evidence-based and promising programs or practices that promote the purposes of this chapter.

(b)Technical assistance

The Administrator— (1)

(2)may make grants to and contracts with public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations, for the purpose of providing technical assistance to representatives and personnel of public and private agencies, including practitioners in juvenile justice, law enforcement, courts (including model juvenile and family courts), corrections, schools, and related services, in the establishment, implementation, and operation of programs, projects, and activities for which financial assistance is provided under this subchapter;

(3)shall provide technical assistance to States and units of local government on achieving compliance with the amendments to the core requirements and State Plans made by the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, including training and technical assistance and, when appropriate, pilot or demonstration projects intended to develop and replicate best practices for achieving sight and sound separation in facilities or portions of facilities that are open and available to the general public and that may or may not contain a jail or a lock-up; and

(4)shall provide technical assistance to States in support of efforts to establish partnerships between a State and a university, institution of higher education, or research center designed to improve the recruitment, selection, training, and retention of professional personnel in the fields of medicine, law enforcement, the judiciary, juvenile justice, social work and child protection, education, and other relevant fields who are engaged in, or intend to work in, the field of prevention, identification, and treatment of delinquency.

(c)Training and technical assistance to mental health professionals and law enforcement personnel

The Administrator shall provide training and technical assistance to mental health professionals and law enforcement personnel (including public defenders, prosecutors, police officers, probation officers, judges, parole officials, and correctional officers) to address or to promote the development, testing, or demonstration of promising or innovative models (including model juvenile and family courts), programs, or delivery systems that address the needs of status offenders and juveniles who are alleged or adjudicated delinquent and who, as a result of such status, are placed in secure detention or confinement or in nonsecure residential placements.

(d)Best practices regarding legal representation of children

In consultation with experts in the field of juvenile defense, the Administrator shall—

(1)share best practices that may include sharing standards of practice developed by recognized entities in the profession, for attorneys representing children; and

(2)provide a State, if it so requests, technical assistance to implement any of the best practices shared under paragraph (1).

(e)Best practices for status offenders

Based on the available research and State practices, the Administrator shall—

(1)disseminate best practices for the treatment of status offenders with a focus on reduced recidivism, improved long-term outcomes, and limited usage of valid court orders to place status offenders in secure detention; and

(2)provide a State, on request, technical assistance to implement any of the best practices shared under paragraph (1).

(f)Training and technical assistance for local and State juvenile detention and corrections personnel

The Administrator shall coordinate training and technical assistance programs with juvenile detention and corrections personnel of States and units of local government—

(1)to promote methods for improving conditions of juvenile confinement, including methods that are designed to minimize the use of dangerous practices, unreasonable restraints, and isolation and methods responsive to cultural differences; and

(2)to encourage alternative behavior management techniques based on positive youth development approaches that may include methods responsive to cultural differences.

(g)Training and technical assistance to support mental health or substance abuse treatment including home-based or community-based care

The Administrator shall provide training and technical assistance, in conjunction with the appropriate public agencies, to individuals involved in making decisions regarding the disposition and management of cases for youth who enter the juvenile justice system about the appropriate services and placement for youth with mental health or substance abuse needs, including—

(1)juvenile justice intake personnel;

(2)probation officers;

(3)juvenile court judges and court services personnel;

(4)prosecutors and court-appointed counsel; and

(5)family members of juveniles and family advocates.

(h)Training and technical assistance to support juvenile court judges and personnel

The Attorney General, acting through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Justice Programs in consultation with entities in the profession, shall provide directly, or through grants or contracts, training and technical assistance to enhance the capacity of State and local courts, judges, and related judicial personnel to—

(1)improve the lives of children currently involved in or at risk of being involved in the juvenile court system; and

(2)carry out the requirements of this chapter.

(i)Free and reduced price school lunches for incarcerated juveniles

The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall provide guidance to States relating to existing options for school food authorities in the States to apply for reimbursement for free or reduced price lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) for juveniles who are incarcerated and would, if not incarcerated, be eligible for free or reduced price lunches under that Act.

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This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a)(3) and (h)(2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–415, Sept. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1109, known as the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 1974 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. The Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), is Pub. L. 115–385, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5123. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 2018 Amendment note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, referred to in subsec. (i), is act June 4, 1946, ch. 281, 60 Stat. 230, which is classified generally to chapter 13 (§ 1751 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1751 of Title 42 and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 5662 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(1)(A), struck out “may” after “Administrator” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(1)(B), inserted “shall” before “develop and carry out projects” and struck out “and” at end. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(1)(C), inserted “may” before “make grants to and contracts with” and substituted “; and” for period at end. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(1)(D), added par. (3). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(2)(A), struck out “may” after “Administrator” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(2)(B), inserted “shall” before “develop and implement projects” and “, including compliance with the core requirements” after “this subchapter” and struck out “and” at end. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(2)(C), inserted “may” before “make grants to and contracts with” and substituted semicolon for period at end. Subsec. (b)(3), (4). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(2)(D), added pars. (3) and (4). Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(3), inserted “prosecutors,” after “public defenders,” and “status offenders and” after “needs of”. Subsecs. (d) to (i). Pub. L. 115–385, § 208(4), added subsecs. (d) to (i).

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of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–385 not applicable with respect to funds appropriated for any fiscal year that begins before Dec. 21, 2018, see section 3 of Pub. L. 115–385, set out as a note under section 11102 of this title.

§11162 Training and Technical Assistance

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