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Safe Start Center logoGuide Seeks To Heal the Wounds of Children Exposed to Violence

OJJDP's Safe Start Center has published “Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence.” The guide, available in English and Spanish, offers tips on how to recognize the signs of children's exposure to violence and advice on helping children thus exposed. Exposure to violence is a pervasive problem that crosses all ages, and the guide provides specific information pertaining to children of various ages, as well as a list of useful resources. More icon
 Manual Provides Assistance on Disproportionate Minority Contact
OJJDP has released a new edition of its Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual. The updated fourth edition presents methods for calculating and analyzing disproportionate minority contact and describes how jurisdictions may use data to facilitate informed decision making, multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches and partnerships, promising intervention strategies, and performance measurement and evaluation. More icon

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OJJDP News @ a Glance, May/June 2009

The latest issue of OJJDP News @ a Glance features the Department of Justice's commemoration of Missing Children's Day. The issue also reports on training for law enforcement, AMBER Alert operations in Indian country, OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book, and an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force training course. More icon
 National EUDL Leadership Conference To Be Held in Dallas

On August 13–14, OJJDP will hold its annual National Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Leadership Conference in Dallas, TX. The conference will feature innovative workshops covering critical topics related to the effective prevention and enforcement of underage drinking. Early registration is recommended. More icon

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