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January Is National Mentoring Month

January marks the eighth annual National Mentoring Month, a large-scale public service campaign held each year to recruit volunteer mentors to help young people achieve their full potential. The theme for this year's observance is “Expand Your Universe: Mentor a Child.” The campaign's chief sponsors have launched a new Web site to help people learn more about mentoring and join in related activities.

Toolkit Features Court Performance Measures

The OJJDP toolkit Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases, which provides detailed guidance, is available online or in print copies. Consisting of five volumes, it may be ordered as a whole or individually as follows:

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Technical Guide

Implementation Guide

User's Guide

Guide to Judicial Workload Assessment

Key Measures.


OJJDP works to prevent gang involvement and girls' delinquency. OJJDP assists victims of child abduction and commercial sexual exploitation. OJJDP supports faith-based and community initiatives. SMART tracks local issues and maps community resources.	Subscribe Now to OJJDP's News @ a Glance Published every two months, OJJDP's electronic newsletter “News @ a Glance” highlights OJJDP and other juvenile justice related activities, publications, funding opportunities, and upcoming events. To keep informed, you are encouraged to subscribe to OJJDP News @ a Glance and to watch for our March/April 2009 issue coming soon.	Bulletin Describes Protective Factors in Girls' Delinquency Part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Girls Study Group bulletin series, “Resilient Girls—Factors that Protect Against Delinquency” describes how four factors (the presence of a caring adult, school connectedness, school success, and religiosity) influence girls' propensity for delinquent behavior.