Resources

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

Statistical Information:

• Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice
• Correctional Populations in the Unided States, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice

For additional materials or contacts:

Building blocks for Youth (202) 637-0377 www.buildingblocksforyouth.org

The Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community

The University of California California Santa Cruz

(831) 459-5743

www.cjtc.ucsc.edu

NATIONAL RESOURCES

• Office of juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Get information on the latest challenges facing American youth and trends in the juvenile justice system. An arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, the office fills its website with facts and figures, information about grants and funding oppertunities, and other resources.

ojjdp.ncjrs.org/

• STATE RESOURCES California Attorney General's Crime & Violence Prevention Center Find recources here about violence prevention, safe schools and youth gang prevention in the state. www.caag.state.ca.us/cvpc

• State Board of Corrections

This California correctional oversight body works with cities and countries to develop standards for the construction and operation of jails and juvenile halls. Fiel representatives are assigned to various regions to inspect and evaluate facilities and oversee new plans. Bay Area representatives include Susan King and Barbara Baker. The Website has the latest California figures on detained youth and information about new construction projects.

www.bdcorr.ca.gov

LOCAL RESOURCES

• Volunteer Centers of the Bay Area Get connected to volunteer centers in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, San Francisco and San Mateo County. www.volunteerbayarea.org

• Bay Area Volunteer Information Cente Learn how to find and help out at your nearest Head Start location for younger children, or how to apply to be a court-appointed child advocate, or how to become a big sister or big brother of troubled youth in your community. www.volunteerinfo.org

LOCAL RESOURCES--SAN FRANCISCO

• San Francisco's Promise

San Francisco's Promise, part of the national America's Promise network, provides volunteer opportunities, for both individuals and businesses, to serve youth. Promise works primarily with after-school programs, such as Beacon Centers and Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, and engages youth in service projects that enable them to give back to their communities. National Days of service provide youth the chance to job-shadow and participate in communitiy service.

• San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department

Chief Juvenile Probation Officer: Jesse E. Williams www.ci.sf.ca.us/juvprobation/

• Justice Policy Institute report: An analysis of San Francisco Juvenile Justice Reforms During the Brown Administration.

Review a report requested by the San Francisco board of Supervisors evaluating the city and county's reform efforts and conditions at San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center. www.ci.sf.ca.us/mcjc/sfjj.htm

• The San Francisco Mayor's Criminal Justice Council

The council oversees juvenile reform initiatives and manages the city's replacement plan.

www.ci.sf.ca.us.mcjc/about.htm

LOCAL RESOURCES-- ALAMEDA COUNTY

• Alameda County Probation Department - Juvenile Services

Chief Probation Officer: Sylvia Johnson

Learn More about the county's facilities and probation department, and changing trends in local youth delinquency.

www.co.alameda.ca.us/probation/index.shtml

• Alameda County Juvenile Hall Homepage

Stay updated on Alameda County's plan to build a new juvenile hall on public land in Dublin. frequently asked questions and contact information for county supervisors are also listed.

projects.vanir.com/ajjf/html/homepage.htm

• PARC's High School Curriculum on the Criminalization of Youth

http://prisonactivist.org/curriculum

• Homies Unidos

A nonpolitical, nonreligious, autonomous organization of youth from different gangs who are no longer actice in violence. Offers youth and communities to diminish and prevent violence.

http://www.homiesunidos.net

• Actice Element Foundation

Builds relationships between grassroots youth organizers, donors, professionals and artists through grant making, technical assistance and hip hop culture.

http://www.activeelement.org

• Prison Moratorium Project - NY

A multiracial grassroots organization of young activists working to strategize, resist and fight the Prison Industrial Complex through political education, community based partnerships, youth organizing, prison activist trainings, campaigns and direct action.

http://nomoreprisons.org

• Youth Empowerment Center

School of Unity and Liberation, C-beyond, YouthForce, Underground Railroad

http://www.youthec.org

• The No War on Youth Online Resources Page

http://www.colorlines.com/waronyouth

• Books Not Bars

Works to expose and to end the over-incarceration of youth and build a "bottom-up" movement to transform the entire criminal justice system

http://booksnotbars.org

• Schools Not Jails

News, Forums, Events and more

http://schoolsnotjails.com

• Teen Violence: The Myths and Realities by Randolph T. Holhut

http://www.mdle.com.writtenword/rholhut/holhut25.htm

• The Beat Within: A Weekly Newsletter of Writing and Art from the Inside

http://www.pacificnews.org/yo/beat/

• Youth Outlook: The World Through Young People's Eyes

http://www.pacificnews.org/yo

• Progressive Directory youth page: SF Bay Area groups working on youth issues

http://www.emf.net/~cheetham/kyouth-1.html

• Rethinking Schools on the criminalization of Youth

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archives/12 02/kids.htm

• Juvenile Justice Center of the American Bar Association

http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/home.html

• Peer Justice and Youth Empowerment - from the Justice Information Center

http://www.ncjrs.org/peerhome.htm

• Speak Out! speakers on youth

http://www.speakersandartists.org

• The International Student Activism Alliance

http://www.studentactivism.org

• Fighting against Pete Wilsons Draconian proposition 21

http://www.noprop21.org

• Just Act

A national, non profit organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color. Training and resources that promote and sustain direct action organizing in communities of color.

http://www.ctwo.org

• AYPAL

The Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) is a collaboration project of seven agencies in the Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Network in the East Bay.

http://www.oases.org/programs/aypal.html

• Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice

http://www.cjcj.org